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Thu, 03 Jul 2008

Kojima reveals his top 5 most influential games

Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear series, has revealed the top five most memorable and influential video games for him. - Super Mario Bros. series - Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken - Xevious - Outer World (known as Out of this World in U.S.) - Metal Gear Solid “Games are a composite art that evolves absorbing new technologies,” Kojima said in an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun. I hoped to “create a big wave” in the game world, he said. Read the full article

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Sat, 28 Jun 2008

Blizzard details Diablo III graphics, environments

Blizzard Entertainment today revealed Diablo III during its 2008 Worldwide Invitational at the Porte de Versailles Convention Centre in Paris, France, detailing some of the elements to the addition of the action role-playing-game franchise. “Diablo III will feature a custom 3D-graphics engine to render lush indoor and outdoor areas of Sanctuary with a high level of detail and vivid special effects,” Blizzard announced in a statement. “The game’s physics-enhanced environments will be interactive and destructible, offering traps and obstacles that create added danger for players and monsters alike.” “These elements, along with a new quest system and random scripted events, will be integrated into the game’s random-level generator, giving Diablo III the ultimate combination of dynamic gameplay and replayability. Cooperative and competitive play will be available online through an upgraded version of Blizzard Entertainment’s renowned online gaming service, Battle.net.” Read the full article

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Thu, 26 Jun 2008

Xbox 360 burglar caught on Justin.tv

In Austin, Texas, a gamer’s webcam, broadcasting on Justin.tv, captured video of a burglar taking a mountain bike and an Xbox 360. “I’m going to miss my bike and the Xbox. Damn it, I had so much time invested in trying to finish SKATE. I guess I’ll have to start all over. Oh well,” victim Chris Mullins wrote. Mullins left his house for a few days, but set up his webcam and began broadcasting on Justin.tv before leaving. He came back two days later to discover a broken bedroom window and some of his belongings scattered about in the hall. After sorting thorough his Justin.tv archives, Mullins came across the video he was looking for. He chronicled what happened below. - He waited about a minute and then broke out the rest of the glass. (4:42 on the video) Walked down the hall and came into my office, taking a few dollars. (4:05 on the video) - Left my office and explored the house, probably taking my Xbox, controller and games. Bastard! - Comes back down the hall and starts flipping on bedroom lights, grabs my bike. (1:44 on video) - Then he goes back into my office where he finds the change bowl and other small items. This is where you get a good look at his face. (1:22 on the video) - Leaves the office and goes back to turning on lights and checking everything out, takes my bike and then goes out the front door. “If anyone recognizes the piece of [expletive] in the video, please contact me. Thank you Justin.tv, you made my day,” he said. Read the full article

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Sony: Cost cuts, better line-up to improve PS3

Sony said Thursday it is confident of a sales recovery in the video game market due to the PSP expected to maintain its growth, with the PlayStation 3 also projected to show further improvement. According to Sony chief financial officer Nobuyuki Oneda, the company aims to “post some profit at the game business in the full year to March 2009.” “The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is likely to maintain its growth momentum, while the PS3 is also expected to show further improvement thanks to the cost cuts and rises in the titles line- up,” Oneda said. Sony said it is now relying more on “non-game content and services,” as demonstrated by Kazuo Hirai’s announcement of a PS3 movie download service coming this summer in the U.S. “Please expect more from our evolving PlayStation business,” he said. Read the full article

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Tue, 24 Jun 2008

Outrage over PlayStation.Blog calling 1080i 'almost HD'

Criterion Games’ first post on PlayStation.Blog is causing a stir among some gamers. In the Burnout Paradise announcement, designer Simon Phipps noted that a new update would include “1080i support for PlayStation 3 owners with ‘almost HD’ sets.” That one line doesn’t sit well with the PlayStation community. “We really appreciate the 1080i support. However, calling 1080i TV’s ‘almost HD’ is a good way to piss off those same people you were doing a favor for,” one poster wrote. “So let’s keep the snide comments and insults aside please.” According to David Katzmaier, Senior Editor at CNET, some of the gamers have a right to be upset. “HD is clearly defined by the CEA (on fixed-pixel displays) as anything with a vertical resolution of 720 pixels or more. So people who own 1024x768 plasmas, for example, which qualify as HD by the CEA’s definition, have a right to be upset because their sets are truly HD,” Katzmaier told GameRush Entertainment. “I believe the intent of the ‘1080i support for PlayStation 3 owners with almost HD sets’ quote is to differentiate between 1080p sets that can accept a 1080p signal and sets (of any resolution) that cannot.” “‘Almost HD’ is just more pointless confusion; a display is by definition either HD or not,” he said. Read the full article

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