Ubisoft DRM was "attacked" at weekend
"95 per cent of players were not affected."
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Steam for Mac announced, detailed
Launching in April with all Valve's games.
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Eurogamer review God of War 3
if you want to revel in old-school pleasures decked out in the very brightest new armour, this is about as good as it gets.
eurogamer.net impressions
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Edge mag feature: NIGHTS time extend
Looking back at that freakish, flying joker
edge-online.com editorial
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Halo Reach bug prevents teabagging
If there is no teabagging there is no reason to play...
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The Last Story: in development for 2 years
Real time battle system in place
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Max and the Magic Marker impressions
I simply recommend you give it a serious look and consider supporting fantastic indie teams and games like this
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Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down
Assassin's Creed 2 becomes unplayable
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Modern Warfare 2 hits 25m unique players
"DLC details coming this week."
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Hollywood director praises Heavy Rain
LaBute wants "sophistication" to continue.
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Blizzard: console WOW still "unlikely"
A regular topic at HQ, says Brack
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MPs quizzed on videogames this month
UK's big three laying out future plans.
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HMV throwing FFXIII party today
On Oxford Street in cor blimey London.
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Civilization V's Jon Shafer and Dennis Shirk
Eurogamer Interview
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DS2 needs 'strong online functionality'
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Sony readies 3D PS3 update
So you bought your HDTV? Well now you want a 3D one
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Yakuza 3 Eurogamer review
The Western version of Yakuza 3 might have suffered a few heartbreaking cuts, but it's still intriguing at every turn and shouldn't be missed
eurogamer.net impressions
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Pachter: Infinity Ward Firings May Effect COD
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God of War III Cost $44 million.
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Tiger to Share Cover on PGA Tour 11
Elin doesn't get half, some Irish guy does.
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Heavy Rain "fuels a lot of hope"
Quantic Dream chuffed with response.
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FFXIII ships 5 million copies worldwide
Well they made their money already.
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Final Fantasy XIII 360 reviewing higher than PS3 v
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 Wii tutorial
Motionplus allows any angle
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Hanabi Festival returns to Virtual Console
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood featuring
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True Crime 3 gameplay
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Sony trying to convert Wii devs
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Will Wright talks Wii
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Sneak Peak at Warner Bros FPS
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MGS: Peace Walker gameplay footage.
I hate PSP, I hate that this is on PSP, I dont want it... damn it looks good... I want a PSP.
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Sakamoto wanted Metroid Other M to be 2.5D
Blame Kotaku for the misunderstanding
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Aragorns Quest PS3 developed by TT Fusion
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20 pics of Playstation Move
Did they get the Wii photographer or something?
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Max and the Magic Marker review
The physics engine is as rigid as World of Goo, and the concept is as orginal as Lost Winds.
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Y's Vs Legend of Heroes Date Set
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Nintendo signs deal to develop "Dr. Who" games.
Source is a crappy newspaper
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Editorial about seedy marketing of games.
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Dead or Alive Paradise: Spanking the Monkey video
Wait.... I thought it wasn't about making softcore porn?
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Gametrailers TV Nintendo blowout
4 video chapters of Iwata all over your face
gametrailers.com media
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Molyneux: Natal is bigger step than Move
C'mon Moly! Does it really matter whose is bigger?
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Uh oh.... I smell a hedgehog!
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EEDAR NPD analysis - Wii in short supply
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gonintendo.com news
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develop-online.net news
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Rumour: Infinity ward holding back royalties
To keep staff around - this sucks
kotaku.com news
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eurogamer.net editorial
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Don't expect FF to change all that much!
gamespot.com impressions
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Well thought-out points!
kotaku.com impressions
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Resistance to Ratchet and Banjo team-up?
ign.com news
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Getting rid of the Nunchuck wire is an improvement, but adding that silly-looking light bulb makes Phony's look stupid. I vote Wii Remote.
Wii HD.
The Prophecy has cometh
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileMore news both from first and third party publishers to follow in the near future…
You will be able to get involved with PlayStation Move in several ways:
We’ve also announced the Subcontroller this week, an additional peripheral for use with more hardcore titles like SOCOM, which benefit from analogue stick input.
Move is one of our big priorities for PlayStation 3 in Europe this year so look out for our ads and product updates.
Yep, most are more boring looking than Wii SD. Except for Sldier.
And I mean the graphics. Obviously all the games look like they'll suck.
I don't get it. :?
At last, we've felt Sony's long awaited motion controller, now at last officially known as "PlayStation Move," in our unworthy, sweaty hands. We have a bunch of videos on the way, along with some impressions to share, but for now you can revel in our first close-ups of the controllers in the gallery below. Here are some of our initial thoughts:
The controllers are light. Much more akin to the DualShock3 than the Wiimote in heft, and we're guessing that's due to Sony's continued love of rechargeable battery.
The main controller does have some subtle vibration (not DualShock or Wiimote level, but present), but we're not sure yet about the subcontroller.
We hate to say this about "pre-alpha" software, but we're feeling lag. An on-rails shooter we tried out, dubbed The Shoot, was discernibly inferior to shooting experiences we've had on the Wii, both in precision and refresh rate of the aiming cursor.
The gladiator game is about as fun as it looks, we'll have video after the break momentarily. Unfortunately, while it's less of a defined experience than something like the sword game on Wii Sports Resort, you're still working through a library of sensed, pre-defined actions instead of a true 1:1 fighting game with simulated physics. Not that it isn't possible with PlayStation Move, just that it's not this.
The lightness of the controllers means we might be feeling less of that Wiimote fatigue, always a good thing! There's an aspect of the controller that feels a little cheap, but at the same time we wouldn't call it fragile.
As far as we can tell, the control scheme for Socom 4 is quite similar to dual-controller shooter setups on the Wii, with the camera moving based on your aiming cursor hitting the edge. It's hard to see this as the preferred hardcore setup, but we're told it's configurable, so we'll try and see what else is on offer.
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I just played SOCOM 4 with the newly-named PlayStation Move controller. And now I know how the PlayStation 3's motion-sensitive controller is not just a me-too Wii controller.
For those who need the basics, the PlayStation Move is a remote-like motion-sensitive controller with a sphere at the end. The sub-controller is an off-hand controller being offered for some Move games. The Move controller connects to the PS3 with the help of a PlayStation Eye camera, which detects the Move's colored sphere, while tilt sensors in the move transmit their position data to the PS3.
But at first glance, the whole thing seems like just another version of the Wii Remote and Nunchuk.
Not quite. There are key differences:
-Fewer buttons: The Move controller is actually even more streamlined than the Wii Remote. Nintendo's Remote still offers/confuses a new player with a d-pad, plus, A, minus, 1 and 2 buttons as well as a home button and B trigger. The Move has its own home button and underbelly trigger, but just five other points of button input. That makes the controller actually feel a little naked and therefore likely even less daunting to a new player — unless they need their controllers to look like TV remotes.
-No wasted batteries: The Wii remote sucks up AA battery juice. The Move and its companion sub-controller are rechargeable via the same mini-USB connection used to charge the PS3's main controller.
-A smarter controller: I played SOCOM 4, a third person-shooter, with the Move pointed at the TV like a gun and the sub-controller in my left hand to command character movement. Wii games that were controlled with Remote and Nunchuk could be befuddled if the player pointed the Remote away from the screen. If you were playing a shooter and aimed just off the screen, the game's camera might start spinning or the game would pause and ask for the player to point at the TV again. The combination of camera sensors — the Sony Eyetoy on top of the TV detects the presence of the Move — and a gyroscope prevented SOCOM 4 from getting confused. When I moved my controller to point off of the TV, the gyroscopic sensors kept track of my movement. The same thing happened when a SOCOM developer blocked the Eyetoy camera. The precision of the controller diminishes in these situation. but the PS3 doesn't lose track of the device.
-No wire!: The Wii Remote and Nunchuk are tethered by a short cable. The PS3 Move and its subcontroller are not.
-No off-hand gyro: The Wii Nunchuk has a sensor that detects motion, more crudely than does the Remote. The PS3's version of the Nunchuk, does not have a motion sensor, according to a developer I was speaking to. There's a chance that is not final, but that is the case with the controllers at Sony's showcase event today. But that's why two-handed boxing-style games were shown with two Moves. On the Wii, those kinds of games are handled, with supposedly less precision, with a Remote and Nunchuk.
-The colored ball: The colorful sphere at the pointing end of the Move is the thing that the PlayStation Eye uses to detect the presence of the Move. The color changes. In the demo I played with SOCOM 4, the sphere was orange. Why? Because the software detected that there was no orange in the background. If we had been in a different room, the color would be different. The Wii's signature hue may be white, but this varying color at the end of the Move will likely prove to be the Move's visual trademark.
-The Z: Without a Wii MotionPlus, the Wii Remote cannot accurately sense depth. The Wii's sensor bar doesn't know how close the player is standing to their TV, not can it recognize movements toward or away from it. The PS3, however, can detect such movement in the Z-plane. It does this thanks to the sphere at the end of the controller. If the player moves the Move toward themselves, the PlayStation Eye camera sees the sphere shrink and therefore knows the controller has been moved in the Z-plane. Clever.
Those are the differences, all less obvious than the similarities. The PS3 Move is being shown to support shooters and table tennis, fistfighting and co-op platforming. These may be familiar templates to Wii gamers who have sampled Metroid, Wii Sports, and Super Mario Galaxy. But at the nitty-gritty level, some of the PS3 Move's difference offer some nice feature improvements — maybe a drawback or two — and something that isn't quite the Wii-too it appears to be at first glance.
And, hey, the Sony person showing me SOCOM didn't even make me wear the controller's wrist strap. A Nintendo person would never let me get away with that.
The Move is out this fall, price and launch games to be announced.
Once it has been seen, it cannot be unseen.
3. Which likely pushes it out of my impulse buy area and into the angry old gamer mode of "I could buy two full retail games for that" and "I lived through 32X -- this add-on shit won't work".