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The Who's "Who's Next" was confirmed as the first complete album. Singles confirmed in addition to last week's announced tracks were Metallica's "Enter Sandman", Rush's "Tom Sawyer," Ramones' "Rockaway Beach," STP's "Vaseline," Foo Fighters' "Learn to Fly," Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive," The Strokes' "Reptilia," and Queens of the Stone Age "Go With the Flow."
The company will form an advisory committee to select existing and upcoming music for inclusion in the game. The committee will be chaired by Steven "Little Steven" Van Zant, former actor from The Sopranos and a one-time guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
Kuju Entertainment's tactical arcade warfighter Battalion Wars 2 will hit stores along with Arika's diving adventure title Endless Ocean on October 29, followed by Intelligent Systems' medieval strategy game Fire Emblem on November 5.
Previously known as Forever Blue, Endless Ocean is the spiritual successor to the Everblue titles developed by Arika for the PlayStation 2. The games had players diving for treasure and taking photographs of ... Read more
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Specific titles were not announced, and the scope of the deal was limited to "several games." NCsoft officials did note that existing properties will be ported to the systems, in addition to original IP developed specifically for the platforms.
"[The PS3] a truly versatile online platform that gives NCsoft the potential to create massively multiplayer environments," said NCsoft Europe CEO Geoff Heath. "Together with the Internet-enabled PSP, we're confident that SCEI and NCsoft can develop unique and compelling online experiences that will be found on no other platform."
Today's news lays rest to ongoing rumors that the game will be brought to Xbox 360; most recently, Konami's CEO strongly hinted at a potential multiplatform strategy for the game.
Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima came to the stage to show a new real-time trailer running on PlayStation 3 and speak on the game. "The story for Snake will end, and also, for me as a game creator, this will be my last involvement in the series," said Kojima. He noted that all of the series' plotlines and mysteries will be resolved. Gameplay remains stealth-based, but is set within battlefields this time around. Kojima promised to pour his 20 years of experience on the series into MGS4.
During Sony's E3 press event this morning, the company announced that both Epic's Unreal Tournament 3 (PC, PS3, X360) and Free Radical Design's shooter Haze will be console exclusives on the PlayStation 3 this year. The two titles will be debuting on the system this November. The exclusivity does not apply to the PC, as Unreal Tournament 3 will be released concurrently on the PS3 and PC.
In regards to the deal, Epic's Mark Rein was adamant that no back-alley deals were stuck with Sony to secure the release of Unreal Tournament 3 the PS3 ahead of the Xbox 360 version.
"There's nothing sinister about it. It's just the PS3 and PC version of the games are compatible, because Sony has an open-source platform," Rein said, according to Gamespot.
SCEA also announced a deal with both Midway and Epic to optimize the Unreal Engine 3 for use on the PlayStation 3. The agreement will affect all games in development that use the engine.
The version boasts a 33% lighter frame, as well as a 19% slimmer profile. While video output was stated as being compatible with Sony Bravia televisions, it is unknown at this time whether other televisions will be supported.
The system--which comes colored in either piano black or ice silver--will be offered in the PSP Entertainment Pack, which includes an ice silver PSP, Ready At Dawn's action-platformer Daxter, a 1GB memory stick, a collection of UMDs, and Family Guy Frickin' Sweet collection. The package will hit stores in September for a retail price of $199.99.
Also revealed was a white, Star Wars-themed PSP in promotion of Rebellion's PSP-exclusive Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron. The Darth Vader-branded handhelds will be sold in a package for $199.99.
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The game will consist of 40 different activities from four categories: aerobics, balance, Yoga, and muscle condition. Activities include pushups, balancing, simulation of a hula hoop, a rhythm game serving as step aerobics, a balance-based soccer goalie mini-game, a Marble Madness-like rolling ball game controlled by shifting weight on the pad, and more.
Wii Fit is being developed under the supervision of Nintendo design head Shigeru Miyamoto, and will include the Wii Balance Board. No release date information was announced.
Nintendo also announced that the EA Sports titles Madden NFL 08 and FIFA 08 will feature online play on Wii when they ship this fall. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime pointed to features such as FIFA 08's online interactive leagues, and exclusive mini-games utilizing Mii avatars.
Additionally, Nintendo confirmed that the Wii version of Neversoft's Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock will feature online play.
Wii Ware, Nintendo's nascent download service for original, non-Virtual Console games on Wii, will launch next year, according to Fils-Aime.
Speaking on the game, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said, "I don't know how else to put it. This game is over the top. This is the first worthy successor to Mario 64. We believe this sets a new gold standard for player interface--not just for platformers, but for any game."
The company also divulged the release date for its upcoming Wii fighter Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The game will ship in North America on December 3, 2007. No mention was made as to whether or not the game will support online play.
Nintendo pointed to a variety of games designed for use with the Wii Zapper, including Capcom's Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, Sega's Ghost Squad, and a new Medal of Honor game from EA.
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Past and future films from studios Walt Disney, Touchstone, Paramount, and Miramax are included in the deal. The movies will be available in both SD and HD formats, according to a trailer shown at Microsoft's E3 press event. The standard HD price of 360 ($4.50) Microsoft Points for older titles and 480 points ($6) for new releases will apply.
Microsoft also revealed that the Video Marketplace will be launched in Europe and Canada this fall.
In 2006, Microsoft announced that Rockstar would be releasing "exclusive episodic content for Xbox Live" on its system, but was unclear as to whether other veroins might have separate exclusive content. Rumors later surfaced that GTA4 on PS3 would be exclusive downloadable content as well.
"Where the GTA4 experience stops on other platforms, it continues on Xbox 360," said Moore. "This will make Xbox 360 the only console where you can get the complete Grand Theft Auto IV experience."
This week's comments by Moore seem to snuff those earlier PS3... Read more
While discussing the publishers forthcoming Xbox 360 titles, Microsoft VP Peter Moore mentioned Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation and the tri-Crescendo-developed Eternal Sonata as examples of the company's exclusive Xbox 360 offerings, but failed to apply that same label to Beautiful Katamari.
Beautiful Katamari was originally slated for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but the PlayStation 3 version has not been referenced by Namco Bandai since the initial announcement. Rumors of Xbox 360 exclusivity have persisted--including a report in this week's issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu--but have yet to be confirmed.
The black, HDMI-enabled Xbox 360 Elite that launched in North America earlier this year will be coming to Europe August 24, Microsoft also announced.
Though the Halo 3 Special Edition bundle will feature the HDMI port of the Xbox 360 Elite, it will come with the smaller 20GB hard drive of the premium Xbox 360. The special edition console will not include... Read more
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