As the holiday season is rapidly approaching it is looking like 2009 is set to be another crowded year for gaming. Sony is said to currently have the biggest 2009 line-up out of any publisher and it is looking like that might actually hurt the company. Sony may need to start thinking about delaying some of the games to 2010 to ensure that the market doesn’t get too crowded.
LittleBigPlanet has been one of the success stories of the PS3. Here is a game that doesn’t sound very special but has managed to sell in great numbers and gain huge critical praise along the way. Which means news of a Game Of The Year edition and the possibility of LittleBigPlanet 2 will no doubt please a lot of people.
Most of the advertisements surrounding Modern Warfare 2 up to this point have indicated that the Call of Duty title will be dropped from the sequel. However, several months later, Activision has confirmed that the publisher will bring back the title for the game.
One of the hot topics today revolves around Microsoft’s plan to bring Silverlight ads onto Xbox Live service. This has gotten many Xbox 360 owners angry as they are already paying $50 for the service. Despite Microsoft’s reassurance that gamer experience will not be hampered by the ads, many fans from NeoGaf to the official Xbox forums have started complaining about this issue.
It’s been two weeks since Sony unveiled its effort to join the motion control battle with its PS3 wand. But in that time, most people’s attention has been aimed in the direction of Microsoft and Project Natal. Which just won’t do. So Sony has begun talking up its motion sensing controller, with executives describing it as both “stunningly accurate” and backwards compatible.
E3 2009 was full of announcements, some big, some small, some expected, some out of the blue. Overall, it was a good conference, with all three consoles having lots of new games aired and shared. But there was one thing missing and that was price cuts from any of the hardware manufacturers. Sony in particular needs to act before this generation is truly lost.
The Tony Hawk series of video games began with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater in 1999 and has most recently produced Tony Hawk’s Proving Grounds. Some of the games were good, some were bad, but with nine iterations released so far, all just slightly different from the previous game, it’s time for something new. Enter Tony Hawk: Ride, complete with its skateboard controller. I kid you not.
3D Realms, the firm behind Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein, has closed down after running out of cash. It likely marks the end for the unreleased game Duke Nukem Forever, a title which proved better suited as a description of its development schedule.
One of the biggest criticisms Sony has received is in regards to the company’s inability to play nice with itself. Sony Pictures and Sony Computer Entertainment apparently do not talk to each other well. However, it seems that the two divisions came together for once to work in harmony to bring the PS3 an exclusive game.
Sony currently has more internal studios than Microsoft and Nintendo combined. There is little doubt that Sony spends a ton of money on building its in-house development studios. However, according to an ex-Sony employee it seems like Sony may not really care about selling a lot of first party games all that much.
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