What makes it better is that there has been nothing but good news streaming in over the last couple of days with regards to elements outside of the game itself. While we all want to step into Kratos shoes as soon as possible, there are always the other little niggles, like how big the install is and what the loading times will be like.
CC: Mass Effect 2 hit the States a couple of days ago now, and its reception couldn’t really be any better. The game releases tomorrow in Europe, but BioWare already knows how the next instalment, the final instalment, Mass Effect 3 will end.
For the past couple of days, a few G4 staffers have been discussing the pros and cons of Microsoft and Sony’s approaches to their respective online content offerings.
Anyway, the general consensus has consistently been that Microsoft really got its act together (eventually) in terms of Xbox Live, and thanks to Microsoft’s social media lead for Live, TriXie, they now have some rather staggering statistics to quantify just how popular the service has been since it launched back in 2002.
If you’ve ever found yourself playing one of the new PSP Minis on the morning train ride, and thinking to yourself “Oh I wish I could play this on my TV” you’re probably the only one. Through some divine miracle, your wish has been granted with firmware 3.15 for the PS3! Way to go – you had the chance to have a wish come true, and you wasted it on Minis on the PS3. If you weren’t so damned selfish we could all be enjoying world peace right now.
3.15 does more than bring small games to big screens. It also makes transferring files from one PS3 to another easy as pie. If you have a second PS3 in your home, you’ll be able to transfer all your game saves, games, and videos to the second console with ease thanks to the new transfer features in 3.15. Just connect your PS3’s with a standard ethernet cable, click a few buttons, and BAM! Your content is on two consoles! The update will be hitting shortly according to the Playstation Blog, which usually means you can expect to see the update sometime within the next couple of days.
Well over the last couple of days the PC guys have been finding all kinds of hidden code in the Modern Warfare 2 game. New gametypes mainly. There are three found so far, VIP, Global Thermonuclear War ( where one side must capture a nuke see vid below) Capture the Flag ( Single Flag, Two Teams).
Is it safe to assume that the public will unlock these new game types after a small payment is made to IW… Thoughts?
Halo 3: ODST preorders reach 1.35m the week before release as Wii Fit Plus makes a first appearance. Uncharted 2 also sees a strong increase this week.
Final Halo 3 preorders reached nearly 1.35 million this week, which should be good for an opening of nearly 2 million units in the Americas alone (over 2.5 million worldwide). VGChartz will be posting day 1 numbers when they become available in the next couple of days so stay tuned. Uncharted 2 saw a large boost this week as the marketing push begins for the game. At the current rate of preordering, the game could see an opening of 250,000 – 350,000 in the Americas in the first week. The full top 40 is listed:
Yep, The Portable Gamer pulled ouff an incredible coup a couple of days ago, and decided to share it with the Games Are Evil readers, due to it’s extreme Evil-osity. Here’s what they wrote:
“I got a chance to sit down over the phone with David Sobolov, the evil voice inside IMEvil as well as the voice of the Arbiter from Halo Wars, St. Vasquez from Call of Duty 4, and a sh*t-ton of other games and animated shows and movies (BEAST WARS FTW!!!). Listen in as we talk about how he got started in the industry, his favorite things about being “the voice of evil,” and the App itself, IMEvil, which lists Mr. Sobolov as a producer.
We’ll be announcing a contest to win a chance to write an Evil saying and have it performed in an upcoming update of IMEvil very soon, so get those evil brains a-workin.”
So, listen in right here, as Rob chats with Mr. Sobolov in a very Evil special podcast.
Capcom has been teasing their fans for the past couple of days, releasing hints here and there regarding their secret E3 game. The company is at it once again today and has dropped off another hint.
Twiggy, PushSquare.com: "I’ve been sat here pondering on a topic for today’s Opinionator for a couple of days now. While I was going to talk about Killzone’s irritating emphasis on terrible characters, I’ve decided a discussion on E3 would be ever more prevalent, particularly with Sony’s superman John Koller claiming it to be the most important conference in 11 years for Sony. I’m still yet to be convinced that blockbuster games equal mainstream hardware sales, but I am convinced that blockbuster games will equate to niche hardware sales – the niche being us, the gamers, who cannot stand to go without. And that’s exactly why I think E3 2009 could be a turning point in perception for the Playstation 3."
A balancing argument on why Sony’s E3 2009 conference could provide the turning point for gamer’s perception on the Playstation range, concluding in:
"Instead of those in the loop questioning what Sony don’t have, they’ll be questioning what THEY don’t have – a Playstation 3, PSP and access to all the quality content that Sony have in the pipeline."
Anyone who’s even vaguely interested in Final Fantasy XIII will know that in a couple of days Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete comes out in Japan, and with it comes a demo of Final Fantasy XIII. It’s been talked up for quite a while, but some of Square Enix’s recent statements really question the validity of the demo itself as to be honest, it now seems fairly redundant.
