– Joystiq has “hands on” impressions about the Nintendo Revolution prototype:
The CD just fell into the box.
Hilarious :)
– Lum would define this “not professional”. From Kazuo Hirai, president and CEO of Sony:
We want to pack everything in today and future-proof this as much as possible. It’s a box made of future technology as opposed to Xbox 1.5, which seems to be a combination of things available today.
Microsoft counterattacks by flaunting “software update services” to keep the hardware up to date, a better “online strategy” and by seducing “top software companies” (and the partnership with Squaresoft has been a good start as Kitsune commented on this thread).
– The insane Killzone 2 video for the PSX3 has been somewhat confirmed as fake:
Yeah, it’s basically a representation of the look and feel of the game we’re trying to make.
“Basically”? A “representation of the look and feel”? How exactly is this tolerable in a commercial show? From GamesIndustryBiz:
Virtually everything used in-game assets; some things were rendered.
Come on, WHAT THE FUCK?!
– X-Box 360 backward-compatible? Yes, if you buy a new copy of the game. Way to go with the cryptic declaration of the last days about the console running only “top-selling” games. Yeah. After you repurchase them.
EDIT – Well, it seems Microsoft denied the rumor.
– Will Wright’s “Spore” has now a website (with a wonderful introduction movie). It won’t launch before fall 06. There isn’t much to see but I’m starting to like a lot the design style.
An interview with the designer is here. A preview of the game here.
– Speaking of absurd game concepts, On Joystiq there’s the announce of a “pinball wargame”. No, really. There’s even an image.
– Two movies from the most hyped games: Quake 4 and Quake Wars.
– Two more movies from the big: TES4- Oblivion and Killzone.
This second one is truly mindblowing.
– An update and a precisation about the Final Fantasy XI (Online) port to the X-box 360 (covered here). This version WON’T have any graphical update. It’s just a direct port of the PC version without any change at all. The fancy movie that was shown at the presentation (downloadable here) was just a tech demo to show the potential of the hardware.
– Two short gameplay videos (here and here) from Serious Sam 2. Well, the game definitely mantained its “seriousness”. The same good old mess that only this shooter is able to deliver. It doesn’t show lots of change from the last episode but it isn’t really a bad thing. The only quirk that left me perplexed is the absence of actual death animations. The monsters just seem to blow up and vanish… Odd.
All for now. (News In Progress till there isn’t something major to cover)