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Microsoft Shows Off The Xbox One’s Assorted Prototypes
Posted on July 12, 2013 at 2:12 pm
At the 2013 Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft showed off some of the Xbox One’s abandoned prototypes.
Polygon posted the pictures seen above and in our gallery online. Microsoft’s Carl Ledbetter presented the Xbox One’s assorted prototypes on the conference. When the Xbox One was in its initial creative stages, a team of 30 started sketching and crafting possible looks for the device and testing their aesthetics by placing them in living rooms.
Ledbetter said that while the Xbox One hardware saw many iterations, greater than 200 prototypes were created for the console’s controller. Ledbetter said, “We found that, when people put these of their hands, could tell the variation between a tenth of a millimeter in size,”
[Source: Polygon]
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Rambo: The Online game Looks just a little Dated
Posted on July 12, 2013 at 7:36 am
In the online game industry, striking while the iron is hot is nowhere near as important because the strike being considered one of quality. Don’t tell that to those that oversee the decision of Duty franchise, mind you. With that during mind, the premise of game devoted to the violent undertakings of John Rambo is fertile ground waiting to be plowed, and that’s what just what Reef Entertainment is attempting to do with Rambo: The Online game. a few days ago, they released a gameplay trailer, which supplies us a good idea of the way things are progressing.
Presented within the familiar first person shooter format, the Rambo game certainly has a whole lot of ground it will probably cover, that is apparently the goal of the publishers. The trailer shows our hero in locations from all of the theatrical installments. The question is, why do the cutscenes look so, well, dated? Have a look for yourself:
While the graphics at the gameplay look fine-an awesome FPS doesn’t need vast, detailed open worlds if the action delivers-however the quality of the cutscene-based action just isn’t as much as par with modern console/PC capabilities. Again, it’s quite possible, if not common, for a game to conquer graphical shortcomings, however the cartoon-like quality inside the Rambo trailer was a bit unexpected. Maybe the developers are focusing on giving us a game that effectively puts the player within the shoes of John Rambo when he’s going up against a team of Spetsnaz, or a redneck police officer who doesn’t like drifters.
That seems to be Reef Entertainment’s goal:
According to publisher Reef Entertainment, the sport may be “triple-A” quality and intends to “capture the gritty atmosphere and whole-on action which made the Rambo movies such a success.” To take action, Rambo: The Online game would be in response to the 3 original movies and have “shoot-outs, stealth killings, demolition, knife-play and more.”
It ought to be noted the publishers’ track record includes games like Liquidator 2 for the computer and Sniper Elite for the Wii. Does that improve the outlook for Rambo: The Online game ?
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Bayonetta dev’s next game is Max Anarchy
Posted on July 11, 2013 at 1:19 pm
Platinum Games has announced its new game, Max Anarchy, during this week’s Famitsu, and producer Atsushi Inaba sat all the way down to dish out first details at the upcoming 360/PS3 action title.
Described as an “online combat game,” Inaba says that the sport will let large numbers of players fight in close combat melees. From the outline it appears like a web character action game. Bayonetta meets FPS deathmatch modes?
Possible events inside the game range from co-op to free-for-all fighting. The sport may even include a single-player story mode. Inaba didn’t elaborate at the story an excessive amount of, but he did say that Jack from the company’s Wii title MadWorld would be playable, though the fiction of the 2 games isn’t related in any respect.
Once someone describes an internet melee action game it’s hard to not wonder why no person has made one like this before. It sort of feels rather obvious. Inaba told Famitsu that tech and synchronization problems have held the genre back for years.
No details on release date got. Because the interview was only a small piece of a bigger feature on Platinum, we’re willing to bet that we cannot see this game until sometime next year, on the earliest.
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Game of Thrones coming to consoles, PCs, and browsers in 2012
Posted on July 11, 2013 at 11:51 am
A Game of Throne fans will soon have upwards of 3 new how one can play George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book epic. Based on reports, the series is currently being adapted into an RPG for consoles, a free-to-play MMO for browsers, and a social networking game for release in 2012.
Cyanide Studio, developers of the recently released Game of Thrones: Genesis strategy title for the computer, may be healming the role-playing project. Martin himself is asserted to be hands-on with the sport, that may tell a brand new chapter in Westeros’s history and star, amongst others, a Red priest and a member of the Night’s Watch. The unnamed project may be published for PS3, Xbox and PC care of Atlus.
For Thronites (Throneese? Throneheads?) preferring to play their videogames with friends, Bigpoint Games, maker of Battlestar Galactica Online, is developing a no-charge browser-based MMO in accordance with the sport of Thrones world. Before anyone gets too upset in regards to the browser-based-ness of this MMO they must have a look at some videos of Battlestar Galactica Online – Bigpoint could make browsers sing. The third game will let players kill for the Iron Throne in a social networking game, however no developer or platform has yet been attached to this actual title (though it certainly seems like it’ll be tied to Facebook).
The Song of Ice and Fire series has had a devout following for years, but it’s fair to mention the sport of Thrones HBO show has helped it achieve mainstream popularity. Reflecting at the pressure this has wear him to wrap up the book series, Martin told USA Today, “[I’m] facing many more years of writing. Hopefully i’m able to stay prior to the HBO series… That creates a certain quantity of pressure, having a freight train arising behind me. Right away it’s long ago, but it’s moving faster than i’m.”
There’s no release date given for any of the games, but there’s one for the second one season of the HBO show: Game of Thrones season 2 begins April 2012, so prepare. Winter, we’ve heard, is coming.
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Welcome to PS2 Games!
Posted on July 9, 2013 at 1:50 pm
Welcome to PS2 Games! Find reviews, new games, games to buy or rent and more for ps2.
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