Dragon’s Dogma is a new IP from CAPCOM and is set to arrive some time in early 2012. The game is no small production,
with over three years of planning it is currently in its second year of
development, and CAPCOM will be hoping that it will stand up to their other
large franchises such as Resident Evil
and Devil May Cry.
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 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.
Sucker Punch have given fans a lot more to talk
about with a new trailer for the upcoming PS3 exclusive InFamous 2. The
trailer reveals that this time around Cole will be able to harness more than just electricity.
Ubisoft’s
PR Coordinator Alex Monney has confirmed that for the last few months
they have been working to bring the first three Splinter
Cell titles to the PS3. This
includes the original Splinter Cell (2002),
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
(2004), and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
(2005). The package will hold the title Tom Clancy’s
Splinter Cell Trilogy and will
feature HD graphics complemented by stereoscopic 3D. The rehashes
will also feature some exiting and challenging trophies. The games
will be available on Blu-Ray as the trilogy or individually
downloadable through PSN. No pricing details, or special deals for
Playstation Plus members, has been released and a launch date has not
yet been specified.
An internet hacker gang, only known as ‘Anonymous’, has declared war on Sony
Computer Entertainment, launching a series of distributed denial of service
(DDoS) attacks against the company, resulting in customers not being allowed
access to any of Playstation’s online services for a short period of time,
including the Playstation blog and the Playstation store. This attack is said
to be retaliation against the legal action that Sony made against George
“GeoHot” Hotz earlier this year, who has been accused of writing and
distributing software to hack PS3 system’s to run unauthorised software,
including Linux and pirate copies of videogames. The distribution of what is
known as “Jailbreaker” software led to Sony sending out emails to all PS3
user’s who were found to use the software, and to stop using it immediately.
Failure to adhere their warning would lead to being permanently banned from the
Playstation Network.
Following the online attacks against Sony, referred to as “Operation
Payback”, it is now apparent that the dirty tactics are taken to a much more
personal level, as a splinter group of Anonymous, called ‘SonyRecon’, now aims
to collect personal information on employees of Sony, including the marital
status and home addresses of Sony Executives, and lawyers who are involved in
the Hotz court case. The hackers claimed that the individuals that they would
attack are “useful targets”.
The first store and online PS3 releases arrive for a new
month, but after the last few weeks of excellent new games April starts off
slowly. There are no new major store releases this week, and only two new games
arriving on the PlayStation Network.
Electronic
Arts has been known for teasing fans of the Burnout
franchise for some time, and now it seems that another game could
be in the works at Criterion. In a database entry, The Australian
Classification Review Board, which is the country’s equivalent of
ESRB in the US, has rated a title dubbed “Burnout Crash” with its
origins being in the UK. The author and publisher are noted as EA but
the production company is “not shown.” The game is also listed as
a multi-platform release and is rated PG (Teen) for mild violence.
There is no information on a release date or summary of the title but
one can only speculate to either a mainstream or portable release to
be announced in the coming months. Other sources indicate that the
game is most likely to be released on PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles.
