Late Night Consoling
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Sega Rumor-o-Rama: Sonic Revolution, Rez PSP
[ps3] [gamecube] [psp]Remember that rumor yesterday about a possible exclusive Sonic title for Revolution? I checked with my own Sega source and the chances are looking pretty good. That said, it's still a very hush hush title even internally, so it may be some time before we start hearing lots about it.
Something else came up in the discussion that was rather intriguing: a PSP port of United Game Artists' Rez. This too is sounding like a pretty sure thing. If you're unfamiliar with Rez (PS2, DC), it's a 3D floating-through-space shooter that has an incredibly clever synthesis between music and gameplay, with the electronica soundtrack building up in time with the player's actions. The game was designed by Q Entertainment founder Tetsuya Mizuguchi, who recently designed Lumines (PSP) and produced Meteos (DS). Anyway, with this upcoming port as well as the once impossible to find PS2 version of Rez being made available again, you shouldn't have any problems getting your hands on the game if you desire.
Finally, the latest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly reports that Virtua Fighter 5 will see release on PlayStation 3, "and it might be [home console] exclusive." My source didn't have any information on that particular rumor, other than assuring me that arcade version is "great."
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Has EA Gone Bonkers?! These Prices Are Low, Low, Low!
[ps2] [xbox] [gamecube]Electronic Arts this week cut prices by $10 to $20 on many of its current-gen titles, a sign of the imminent full crossover to the next generation. Such titles include the current-gen versions of Madden NFL 06, FIFA 06, NASCAR 06, NBA Live 06, Harry Potter
06and the Goblet of Fire, Need for Speed Most Wanted, and Medal of Honor: European Assault. In fact, according to analysts speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, this will be a practice EA will be applying to the rest of its current-gen titles yet to be released as well. -
Sony Pulls List of PS3 Games
[ps3]Remember earlier this week when Sony didn't announce the PS3 launch lineup? Well, possibly due to incredibly widespread misinformation that they had announced the PS3 launch lineup, the company has pulled the page in question containing games that have not been announced as PS3 launch titles. NEWS.
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Resident Evil 4 Soundtrack Available
[ps2] [gamecube]Capcom has released the official soundtrack to its acclaimed Resident Evil 4 (PS2, GCN), and it comes with a free T-shirt! It also comes with a "soundtrack book," which is 48 all-color pages of mystery as far as I'm concerned. All the website has to say about it is "This book is in Japanese."
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Tales of Legendia Website Goes Live
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Misc. Media/Previews
PS2
GameSpot checks out Bandai's Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked (PS2). IGN previews Game Arts' Grandia III (PS2) and Broadsword's Dance Factory.
Screenshots: BUZZ!: The BIG Quiz (PS2).
Xbox/X360
Shacknews goes hands on with the Xbox 360 version of Criterion's Burnout Revenge (X360, also PS2, Xbox). IGN looks at G.Rev's Senko no Rondo Rev. X (X360).
GameCube
Screenshots: Chibi Robo (GCN).
Portable
1UP previews Konami's Iron Feather (DS). IGN checks out the PSP version of EA's From Russia With Love (PSP, also PS2, Xbox, GCN).
Screenshots: Melpomene (GBA). Tales of Phantasia (GBA). Touch Dictionary (formerly known as Touch Dic) (DS).
Movies: True Swing Golf (DS). Generation of Chaos (PSP).
Console Game Of The Evening [Submit Yours!]
Virtua Cop 1 & 2 for the Sega Saturn. "Sega AM2 applied its polygonal might to the light gun genre and came up with the blueprint that every other gun game has followed since." (submitted by el_bandito)
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K1Bond007
replyYou know, personally I'm surprised sales in 2005 topped 2004. In fact 2005 is the second-highest the industry has seen. It just seems fishy to me because honestly it looked to me like the industry crapped out before the end of the year. You have EA (as well as a couple others) cutting prices and warning investors of not-so-great profits for the year and yet somehow 2005 tops 04 by a couple hundred million. It just doesn't make much sense to me especially since the top 10 sellers ... suck - there is no Halo or GTA, it's just Madden and that's on the list every fucking year. I guess portable gaming really counterbalanced the losses this year.
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My personal opinion... 2005 didn't have the blockbuster power that 2004 did, sure, but I felt it was a much more balanced year where I could find stuff I wanted to play all year long. Most of early 2004 seemed to me like this huge empty void of nothing, then finally in the end months of the year came the big names. 2005 I was picking stuff up as early as early February and pretty much through the entire year after that. There's a lot more titles than just the top 10; without a major blockbuster they do tend to be just the usual suspects...
I see that same pattern from 2005 this year, too. Already some titles I'm jazzed about that are slated for february/march and then hopefully that'll just build through the rest of the year and into (if all goes well) the launch of a couple more platforms.
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And Shadow of Colossus, and for some people Dragon Warrior. Most of every person's favorite game will fail to make the top 10 list. The top 10 list is the general audience, and it takes a different kind of game to appeal to everyone.
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Well, this particular thread was about sales, not really "good games" per se.
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