The people have spoken. No, they’ve screamed, shouted, harangued and threatened.
And, it seems, Microsoft has listened. Colour me 360 shades of shocked.
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E3 2013: The Last Guardian still alive
Never have so many questions been asked of so many people about a single game’s status. So let’s add another piece of wood to the fire.
Notably absent from E3 this year is The Last Guardian, an upcoming (or is it?) game from the creators of the modern classic PS2 titles ICO and Shadow of the Colossus. It seems every interview with a Sony executive includes a question about the game. Is it cancelled? On indefinite hiatus? Is it going to be for the PS3 or the PS4? There have been conflicting messages.
So at the end of an interview today with Andrew House, president and group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, I simply asked him if The Last Guardian is still something we can look forward to.
“I think The Last Guardian is something we can look forward to,” House said with a smile. Which doesn’t really clear a whole lot up, other than the game isn’t yet dead. Or maybe he just meant we can look forward to it the same way we look forward to winning the lottery. Doesn’t mean either will ever happen.
No, I’m gonna go with the “will come out some day” interpretation of that remark. Trico lives!
Xbox cancels, Twitter explodes
Now how are we supposed to find out what makes Xbox One levitate?
I haven’t been retweeted this much since that whole Justin Bieber thing.
Earlier today I mentioned in passing on Twitter that Microsoft had cancelled the Q&A roundtable that was going to follow their Xbox One-focused E3 press conference on Monday morning. It was a disappointing turn of events, but since actually having a roundtable after an E3 press conference is fairly unusual, I saw it more as an easy come, easy go type of thing.
The Internet at large, however, had other opinions.
Xbox One first impressions
One Xbox. Many questions.
Earlier this week, Microsoft finally took the wraps off Xbox One, the company’s next-generation successor to the eight-year-old Xbox 360 game console. Now that the initial fanfare is over – at least until the E3 Expo gets under way in a little over two weeks – I’ve had a day or two to mull over what I heard, saw and touched this week. Here are my early impressions of Xbox One.
Sony teases PS4 in new trailer
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After a fake teaser made the rounds last week for the PlayStation 4, Sony has finally released a real teaser for its next-generation console. Read more…
Is this the PlayStation 4 controller?
Destructoid has posted an image of what looks like a (prototype?) PlayStation 4 controller, plugged into a development kit. That, or clever mock-up designed to fool suckers like us.
The source of the image isn’t immediately clear, but it actually looks pretty legit. Thus, time for some observations and wild speculation!
Where’s the God of War movie?
Get off your knees and make a movie, Kratos!
You can’t swing an old-school wired joystick without hitting a video game that’s currently being turned into a movie. Assassin’s Creed, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Splinter Cell and World of Warcraft are all headed to the big screen sooner rather than later.
And now Paul Walker (from the Fast & Furious flicks) will be scraping a razor across his noggin for a cinematic reboot of Hitman, this time simply called Agent 47. Which sounds like the worst game-to-movie casting choice since Mark Wahlberg played Max Payne.
But where’s Kratos?
PS4 to cost over $400?
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Rumour has it that the new PlayStation 4, which most people expect will be unveiled on Feb. 20, will cost over $400.
Killzone: Mercenary – two sticks, 100 guns
Remember when Sony first unveiled the PlayStation Vita, and we all rejoiced? “It’s got two thumbsticks! Finally, we can play proper first-person shooters on a handheld!” And then: crickets. And then: Resistance: Burning Skies, which was very bad. And then: crickets. And then: Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified, which was even worse. Maybe this is a dream that just needs to die.
Killzone: Mercenary is Sony’s next attempt to bring a full-fledged, big-boy console shooter experience to the Vita. Will it work? Should it work? Can it work?
Maybe. Yes. And I’m not entirely sure.
Playstation launches new online store design Oct. 23
A screenshot of Playstation Store’s new user interface. (SONY)
The Playstation crew announced via their blog today that the online store will be getting a facelift.
Sony gathered feedback from users and applied it to the new interface set for launch, Oct. 23.
The revamp addresses search issues, and a lack of information on the products available through the store. Playstation has over 20,000 game-related downloads available through their online portal.
