The only two new PS3 games
arriving in stores this week are both family orientated. The first is the singing
and dancing Move game Michael Jackson: The Experience, and the
second is a multi-player party game based on the new animated film
The Apocalypse is nigh, and in reality, the last thing you
would think of doing is grabbing yourself the most powerful vehicle you can get
your oil-liquored mitts on and blast through the most devastated metropolis on
the planet. However, despite how outrageous this premise may seem, Motorstorm:
Apocalypse goes with it anyway, and with it, delivers some of the most intense
and chaotic racing to ever grace the Playstation 3.
Motorstorm: Apocalypse is the first in the series to pry
away from natural environments of the previous titles. With the first
Motorstorm in the large-scaled desert environments, and Pacific Rift on an
exotic island, Motorstorm: Apocalypse drops you into an urban location, whilst still
maintaining all the breathtaking beauty and visuals of a typical Motorstorm game.
However, with this beauty lies utter anarchy and jaw dropping destruction,
something that Motorstorm obviously takes a lot of pride in.
There’s
no doubt that the dedicated staff of Sucker Punch studios have been
hard at work putting the finishing touches on Infamous
2 and preparing the game
for launch this June. This week, the team has rearranged their
Bellevue offices and tidied up in preparation for the 60+ press
members who will be attending their Media Day for the game. During
this event, the guests will be given a studio tour and be shown the
latest Infamous 2
media and content. If the weather permits, the staff and development
team hope to arrange an outdoor interview session and an evening
event that will showcase a few of the game’s highlights. As for
public eyes, the company has released a virtual version of the day’s
spoils in a series of new videos and screenshots.
With so
many fighting games out there throughout the years of the industry; It’s safe
to say that Mortal Kombat is arguably the most iconic in the genre, for many
reasons; Unique and iconic immortal/mortal characters, the combination of
weapons with physically impossible special moves, a dark and almost hellish
universe that is unrivalled by any other Beat-em’-up, Sonya Blade (mmmmm), and,
of course, the Fatalities, ALWAYS the Fatalities. It’s these aspects that have
led Mortal Kombat to be the genre-defining franchise it is known to be now. So
knowing that Mortal Kombat is making a mighty comeback, a lot hangs in the
balance.
2008’s
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was surprisingly… decent. But it was the lack of
ultra-violence within the game that prevented it from receiving any more
respect, particularly from hardcore MK fans that will see the violence being
just as important as the gameplay itself. Well, fans can rejoice. 2011’s Mortal
Kombat returns to what it does best, overly-unnecessary and gruesome ways of
disposing your rival, even after you have beaten them into a great big bloody
pulp.
The controversial court battle between Sony Computer
Entertainment America and George Hotz has reached a somewhat conclusion, after
both parties reached a settlement in a lawsuit that was filed against Hotz
earlier this year.
SCEA filed the lawsuit against Hotz back in January, after
it was alleged that he hacked the Playstation 3’s security system, before
releasing the information online, which allowed anyone to install homebrew
applications to their own Playstation 3’s, including the ability to play pirate
copies of video games. Sony stated that the lawsuit was made against
21-year-old Hotz, as his actions were under violation of numerous copyright
infringements, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
For all of you PlayStation Plus users out there, you will be happy that you signed up as it has just been announced that early access to a multiplayer beta of the upcoming alien shooter, Resistance 3, is coming exclusively to PlayStation Plus.
For US gamers, however, they can also get in on the action at exactly the same time as EU PS+ users via the purchase of specially marked standard copies of SOCOM 4: Special Forces, as well as copies of the Full Deployment Edition, which comes out in North America on April 19th 2011.
Playstation’s favourite psycho thrill-ride, Twisted Metal, will be making its debut on
the Playstation 3, called… well… Twisted
Metal. Last night, lead co-developer,
David Jaffe, announced via a video on the Playstation Blog that it will hit the
shelves later this year on October 4th, exclusively to the
Playstation 3.
Despite being one of Playstation’s oldest franchises, it
has been notably absent in recent years, with the last game in the series Twisted Metal Head-On, released in 2008,
and even that was only a port of the 2005 title of the same name, released for
the Playstation Portable.
