Late Night Consoling

Shadow of the Colossus is a very worthy winner of those awards. I hope to see more stuff from that studio in the future. :)

Triton has shut down and 3DRealms are trying to come up with a solution for all the online Prey customers. Wow. Just....wow. I honestly just have a big smirk on my face for doubting online authentication and this just seals it. I wonder just how long Steam will last before the same thing occurs......at least Prey has a boxed copy to fall back on.

Blue Dragon fans!

The official site was finally opened up at http://bluedragon.tv

Unfortunately, the only video they are showing right now is the same one from TGS .You can download it (another site I read supposedly grabbed a 720p version) and its apparently in 720p resolution. Atleast its directfeed!

To that joker fellow that nuked..

your simplifying all the subjects your commenting on to a ridiculous extent.

One question though, you keep mentioning that great visuals are benefit or a pro for the 360 and ps3, why is this the case? Sure they will be nice to look at, but what makes you think better graphics will make the games on the system any better? If we forgot for a moment about the different controllers and all the other factors.. surely a system that is designed from start to finish to create stunning visuals, is going to put pressure on developers to focus on that aspect of game development, as most of their customer base are expecting that. I.e putting most of your time and man power into creating fantastic visuals, and as we all know, in this "HD era" we've just entered, making the most of the new consoles is going to require such a vast team of people.

Look at the DS for an example of how this kind of thing works. The system was designed from the ground up to be easy to develop for, the simple technology inside meant developers didnt have the oppertunity to blow us away. Early on developers caught on to the fact that the people buying this system were doing so because they were looking for something unique and fun, rather than mind blowingly technically impressive. This has allowed developers not only the oppertunity to dedicate more time to game design rather than graphical design, but has allowed smaller teams and indepdant developers to make their mark on the games industry. And on top of that it means more games more quickly.

Now dont get me wrong i'm obviously not saying good visuals are a band thing. But dont pretend to yourself that graphics purely for graphics sake are in anway benefiting the industry, the customer or the games themselves. Graphics or technology in general that opens up new gameplay prospects are obviously a good thing, those videos of assasins creed look amazing, and i'm sure that kinda gameplay could never have been achieved a few generations ago, so thats a positive application of the consoles power. Similarlly GTA3 was a positive application of the PS2's power. But i ask, how many games this generation made use of the leap in technology from the previous generation to achieve something new? I cant think of many.

I'm just glad this time we have both options, i'd be really fucked off if nintendo has just released another system just like the ps3 or 360, how dull would that be. Frankly i cant afford a ps3 or a 360, or for that matter an HD tv, so it will be a wii for me. If i had the choice i'd have all three, but i'm poor.

Flash!Bang! IPTV Tech/Game Show Released (What games should we feature?)

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This is for my school's senior project and we want to feature more games in the coming weeks with Episode 2 featuring Might and Magic: Dark Messiah and then an episode or two after that Battlefield 2142. What games would you like us to buy and play and review so you don't have to this season?

Thank you for your input.

Is GRAW really that good for all the awards it's getting? Everything I read seemed to make it sound good but not great, especially if you play single-player.

Good sign that Ubi is officially attacking EA. UBI has released some shit titles but overall they don't have their head up their ass; for the most part, they do stand for quality over release dates.

As long as the consumer buys into it, we are all better off.

I have so many memories of playing that game with people I'd consider non-gamers who also loved it. It was just incredibly fun 4 player split-screen.

Marvel Alliance looks more and more fun every time I see it. Luckily the Wii version doesn't look that much worse than the 360 edition. Seems like all it is missing out on is that white light/bloom and some bump mapping.

Everyone say it together, just like the Coach:

PSYCHONAUTS!!

Remo, am I crazy or does this sentence not make any sense at all: "...Ubisoft holds the #4 slot worldwide and #5 in North America. "

is okami not out in europe yet?

Who are the #2 and #3 publishers then? Vivendi and who else? Take 2?

Sorry, Ubisoft, you'll never beat EA as long as casual gamers like their crappy games.

if we're talking C64. my poison of choice was Jumpman!

I wish Ubisoft the best of luck!

I think EA's investment in Ubisoft can be interpreted at least two ways and I don't think they are necessarily mutually exclusive.

1. EA is making a hostile move toward Ubisoft with the strategy intent to take over or at least undermine their operations.

2. EA sees Ubisoft as a solid and growing publisher in the industry and considers them a good investment that will give them some nice returns down the road.

Either way, I look at Ubisoft's intent to take EA head-on as a positive thing. I only hope they or other publishers don't end up as casualties.

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STAY FOREVER!!!!!

Congrats to the GRAW guys.. I loved the single player and the multiplayer was great when it didnt take you 20 mins just to find a good game.

Plus, the co-op missions were wonderful.

Haha.. hoping Red Steel achieves similar reception to GE007? That's a hell of a feat for any game - critically or sales wise whichever they mean by reception. Hey good luck to them though, but I hope they realize that no game for GameCube came even close to selling like GE. Not even the mighty Halo beat it.

I like their optimism though. And at least they have a goal. If it's well made game it could sell pretty well up until the next big FPS for Wii is released which is most likely Metroid Prime 3 unless there's a sleeper in there like, say, Far Cry. I guess it depends on how big the install base for the system gets to.