Alice has never been so twisted as she is in the upcoming Alice: Madness Returns. Everything will be called into question in Wonderland.
All of the rumors are true and Ninja Theory is making the next Devil May Cry game. DmC is definitely going to be a departure from the franchise, both in style and in certain gameplay mechanics.
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A lot of live-action adaptations of children’s cartoons look darker and grittier just look at He-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe or Transformers. So appropriately, this fan trailer for a Pokémon film has a similar hard edge.
Peter Dille, senior vice president of marketing at Sony Computer Entertainment America, has been with Sony since before the first PlayStation launched so he’s intimately familiar with the company’s game offerings. [a]listdaily had the opportunity to talk with him about the company’s key marketing initiatives going forward.
There will be, and that’s part and parcel with the strategy as you go longer into the lifecycle. With quality game experiences for $9.99, we’re talking in a way that none of our competitors can on all of our platforms. On the PS3, the PlayStation Move lets us talk to more casual gamers and at the same time we’re introducing 3D games. On the PSP, we’re pitching something that appeals to a younger audience, and we’re also putting out something that appeals to core gamers with titles like Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep.
If you look at what Sony WWS does, we have titles ranging from Killzone to EyePet. PlayStation is a very big tent and we’ve never been reliant on one product genre like one of our competitors and it’s helped us sell 377 million PlayStation hardware products and two billion software products in 15 years.
That’s the beauty of Gran Turismo and what Kazunori Yamauchi has looked to build. The great thing about racing is that it’s accessible and Gran Turismo 5 is a great product to show off your PS3. I remember looking at one of the games from previous generations and thinking ‘how can it get better ‘ It’s amazing how life-like they’ve rendered the cars.
It’s very accessible and you can play its more basic modes without much difficultly, but it’s the deepest experience in the genre. We joke how we can sell it for three times its price. Gamers will lose themselves in it for a month or more and, by contrast, my daughter can have a good time playing against me.
When you’re marketing Gran Turismo, part of the objective is get out of the way and let the game sell itself. We’ll try to make sure people are taking in the right things and not just becoming overwhelmed, but it’s a fun product to market.
Well, it’s going to have a long tail. It’s virtually a platform launch, not entirely because it uses the PS3 OS, but much of the same mechanics are in place – you have to talk to developers, the press, consumers, and retail and to support and it has to have a big campaign.
We’ve got a major partnership that’s been running with Subway to promote Move and we’ve got something on 100 million Coke packages and it’s looking to introduce [the PS3] to a new audience in a different way. Motion gaming is here to stay and there’s going to be some great creativity in the years to come; we look at EyePet as our version of a revolutionary motion game, and it skews pretty young. Then there’s Sorcery – people didn’t think it would be like that, a ‘thoughtful’ motion game. We’ve see some great demand out of the gate, with pre-sales ramping up and retail is asking for more.
We have a number of those that will be available on day one, like Move echocrome and Tumble, so you’ll find them at retail and on the PSN Store.
Halo: Reach is the biggest title for Microsoft this holiday, and its success will both lift the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. Having just launched, it’s become clear what many of the new Halo: Reach owners did: went and logged onto Xbox Live.
Reach already surpassed the all-time highest record for Halo 3 concurrent unique users on LIVE, indicated Bungie. Woot!
They did not give word on how many people that was exactly, but it’s certainly a good early sign for the game.
Source: twitter.com/bungietweets
DeNA has announced that it has purchased Gameview for an undisclosed price. The Japanese mobile publisher behind the mobile social gaming portal Mobage-Town is set to generate $1 billion in revenue in 2010 and has over 20 million subscribers.
Gameview has made titles like Tap Fish: Sharks and Tap Birds and has seen 10 million downloads on iPhone and Android. The company should fit with DeNA’s plans to expand in the U.S. and to have titles that can release in any region in the world.
Source: Venture Beat
Plenty of good games released over the summer, but only a handful like Red Dead Redemption have been truly successful. Speaking at the Kaufman Brothers, L.P. Investor Conference in New York City, Take-Two CEO Ben Feder said that the bar has been raised for the quality of games.
“Our industry more than ever is driven by hit products,” said Feder. “Today, consumers are very careful with the way they spend their dollars. It’s a worldwide challenging environment, and yet they still come out to spend for great entertainment as we’ve shown with the phenomenal success of Red Dead Redemption. Good games don’t make it anymore, in fact, good is the new bad. Games have to be great, and there’s no company like Take-Two to make the best games in the industry.”
Feder then gave an illustration with his son who received a Wii, but now is too embarrassed to play it in front of his friends as an example about how the PS3 and Xbox 360 are now arresting some of Nintendo’s mojo. “What Sony and Microsoft have really done with Kinect and Move, especially Move, is provide a bridge for guys that are used to playing the Wii system with the wand and bringing them over to a HD system,” Feder explained. “The PS3 with Move, in my view, is the Wii HD system. I think maybe Mom isn’t playing, but the kids are ‘graduating,’ and Microsoft and Sony have both provided a bridge to bring them over.
“I do believe Nintendo did widen the audience; I can’t tell you how many people are going to ‘graduate,’ but I do believe they raised a generation of kids to play videogames that are now growing up and wanting a true HD experience, he added.
Source: IGN
The name and details for the collaboration between Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil 4, Vanquish) and Goichi Suda (Killer7, No More Heroes) has been revealed. Called Shadows of the Damned, it is being described as some combination of a stylish action game with horror elements, along with Suda’s patented humor and punk rock attitude.
The game stars a demon hunter named Garcia Hotspur, who is literally traveling to Hell to rescue the woman he loves. Contributing to the ominous atmosphere will be Silent Hill music director Akira Yamaoka.
Shadows of the Damned is set for release on PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2011.
HTC has announced two more Android powered mobile phones. One, the HTC Desire HD, is basically an EVO 4G in GSM form, with the 4.3-inch LCD display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 8 mega-pixel camera with 720p video recording all included.
The other is called the Desire Z, with a sliding QWERTY keyboard and 512MB of RAM. Both phones have HSPA+ that supports a really fast theoretical 14.4Mbps download speed and the regular Wi-fi 802.11n too. Support is also given for HTC’s Sense UI along with a dedicated HTCSense.com website, where users can upload and backup data, or erase it should the need arise.
Source: TechTree
When Walmart started taking pre-orders for a collection of the two Team Ico titles (Ico, Shadow of the Colossus) remastered for PS3, it seemed like a definite. Now, Sony has made an official confirmation via Famitsu.
No release date details were released and details other than its existence were light. Still, more details should come to light sometime during Tokyo Game Show.
Source: Kotaku
