Well, maybe it’s not the first but heck, it’s rare that a respectable gaming site would give perfect 10 to a game. So Grand Theft Auto IV started off with wobbly last years’ graphics and had loads of potty mouth running around shooting and ramming things over in town. It’s a story about a gangster and it’s gangs, whaddaya expect? The game let you have up to 16 players at a time, what is not to love?
This paragraph alone makes me want to go out and get the game:
One of the many things that set GTAIV apart from its predecessors is Liberty City, which is more convincing as a living, breathing urban environment than anything that you’ve seen in a game before, and bears little resemblance to its namesake in 2001’s GTAIII. Liberty’s diverse population believably attempts to go about its daily business, seemingly unaware that several criminal factions are at war in the city. Niko has no such luck. He’s compelled to start working for one of the factions shortly after arriving, when he learns that his cousin Roman has some potentially fatal gambling debts. Niko’s military experience makes him a useful freelancer for employers in the business of killing each other, and though his reluctance to carry out their orders is often apparent, he does whatever is asked of him in the hope that completing missions for other people will ultimately give him the means to complete his own
Grand Turismo 5 is on its way and Yamauchi, the creator of GT speaks up of what goodies are to come:
Talking about the two vaporware titles, Yamauchi confirmed they’re both still on the radar. He said, “Gran Turismo for Boys will most likely become a service within Gran Turismo 5, and for the PSP I don’t think we’ll be able to make this year.”
When asked what’s next for the Gran Turismo following GT5 Prologue’s European launch, Yamauchi said that, “first off, GT5 prologue is only at the halfway point to its completion. So in the next update there will be many more features added to the game. From that point to Gran Turismo 5, there’s just going to be a lot more quantity in terms of cars and of the tracks as well.”
GameSpot asked if the development of GT5 Prologue meant a longer wait for the eventual Gran Turismo 5, and Yamauchi answered, “This is true, but creating games on the PS3 is so much more difficult than we imagined at first and it took us three years to get here, and I hope our fans understand that we’re trying our best and will be moving forward [on GT5] from here on.”
Yamauchi also stated that his team at Polyphony Digital is and will be completely engrossed in Gran Turismo for the foreseeable future. He said, “We want to do other things, and I have some ideas but we don’t have any resources and time to do anything else right now, we’re focusing on getting Gran Turismo evolved and moving forward and also [Gran Turismo] for the PSP as well.”
When I first saw this game previewed, it reminded me so much of the Tomb Raider series. I guess it’s been a while since anyone came up with a Tomb-raider kind of games but still - it is sort of a rip off, but in a good way.
The game looks pretty impressive in the trailer and being only a PS3 games, I feel that they are limiting their market by doing so because of PS3’s poorer sales in relative to the other consoles.
Anyway, check out the trailer and tell me if you don’t think it looks like Tomb Raider’s chronicles.
For MONTHS after it’s been delayed, over and over again Rockstar Games released another trailer of the game - probably to tease. I think we’ve been teased enough, we want to play.
If you like racing games, you’re going to love Burnout Paradise. Check out their trailer:
It is going to hit stores in Jan 22 of 2008 so be prepared. Console of choice is, yet again the XBox 360. Geez, the XBox360 is churning out a lot of good games lately. Sony better pick up their pace - it’s pointless to be all egoistical about their blu-ray if it won’t sell. I know Burnout Paradise is coming out on PS3 too but I am talking about generally. XBox360 beats PS3 in popularity, hands down. Okay, maybe I am bit harsh - but maybe Sony PS3 came out a little too early. I am glad they lowered their price for a start though.
Just as I was writing about how Sony was giving a little incentives, today I got wind that the console i sold out! Well, since they hacked $100 off the original price of $599 for the 60Gg, i guess it made it all more appealing to the mass. Hey, you can buy a lot of things with $100 bucks - you can have at least 2 more games to play on your PS3 :)
On the eve of this year’s E3 Media and Business Summit, Sony announced that it would be dropping the price on its flagship 60GB PlayStation 3 to $499, a $100 break over the console’s original $599 price point. Initially heralded as a positive and necessary step in spurring lackluster sales of the console, the price cut received one significant caveat several days later. Speaking to a Norwegian gaming news site, Sony Computer Entertainment America president Kaz Harai noted that a $499 PS3 would only be temporary, as once the current supply of 60GB PS3s had run its course, Sony would be offering only its $599 80GB PS3.
The price drop was quickly interpreted as a fire sale of sorts, as Sony cleared out its inventory of 60GB PlayStation 3s to make room for its new line of larger hard drive consoles. The strategy has also proved to be successful for Sony in North America. In July, the first month after announcing the price drop, the PS3 for the first time outsold archrival Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console by 2,000 units in Canada and nearly doubled its preceding month’s performance in the US, spiking to 159,000 units sold from 98,000 the month before.
A very important tool in marketing strategy is how you make your customers think that their buy is worth while. Why, throw in a few Blu-Ray movies in for free!
That’s exactly what PS3 is offering. Buying a set of new PS3 and you will get 8 Blu-Ray movies for free. So i guess they are not selling just games now, they’re selling the PS3 as a DVD player.
Now if you buy a 60 GB Sony PS3 or 80GB Sony PS3 on Amazon.com you get all-in-all 8 Blu-ray movies for free!. This is a nice and quick start on your Blu-ray movie collection.
The 8 free Blu-ray movies are comprised of the already running mail-in promotion of 5 Blu-ray movies and between August 28, 2007 and September 23rd Amazon throws in three more Blu-ray movies.
In July Amazon offered 6 Blu-ray movies and a Blu-ray remote with the $499.99 60GB Sony PS3. I thought that was a great deal.
Oh No…i am sure some of you fans out there must be disappointed. The game, Grand Theft Auto IV has been delayed to 2008 due to some technical improvements they’re doing to the game.
The overcrowded monkey house that was the 2007 holiday release schedule lost one of its 800-pound gorillas today. Without warning, this afternoon Take-Two Interactive stunned the game industry by announcing it was delaying Grand Theft Auto IV to the second quarter of its 2008 fiscal year, which begins on February 1, 2008. Published by Take-Two subsidiary Rockstar Games, the crime-action title had been slated to ship for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America on October 16, 2007.
“Certain elements of development proved to be more time-intensive than expected, especially given the commitment for a simultaneous release on two very different platforms,” said Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick in a statement.
Unsurprisingly, not having GTA IV in its 2007 fiscal-year lineup has put a serious dent in Take-Two’s earnings expectations. The company’s guidance is now for net revenue of $950 million to $1.0 billion for the 12 months ending October 31, and a loss of $1.25 to $1.35 per share. That figure is over $200 million lower than prior estimates of $1.2 billion to $1.25 billion in annual revenue–which would have been “break even results” according to the company’s second-quarter earnings statement. With the AO-rated Manhunt 2 on indefinite hold, Take-Two now expects net revenue between $275 million to $300 million for its fourth fiscal quarter, with a net loss of $0.05 to $0.10 per share.
Resident Evil 5, the forthcoming installment that is set to be out in 2009 has it official trailer out! OMG OMG, it’s just that i have been playing Resident Evil SINCE the first one came out in PS! And now it’s going to be on XBOX360 too..that is like out of the world!
But only in 2009. 2 years from now is rather nuts. If I have to wait so long for that game, it better come out good.
Let’s check out the trailer now:
Does it look it it’s somewhere in the middle east or along the Mediterranean coast line? Cos that scene just looks like somewhere in Morocco or something.
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