April’s upcoming Splinter Cell: Conviction will, thanks to a deal with Microsoft, be exclusive to Xbox 360 – but don’t assume that the same can be said of its eventual successor.
“I don’t see why it wouldn’t,” Ubisoft Montreal’s Max Beland stated when asked by Edge Online if the next game could appear on PS3.
“I’m not [...]
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March 4th, 2010
Splinter Cell heading back to PS3?
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March 4th, 2010
PlayStation 3 Worldwide Glitch Mysteriously ‘Fixed’
The glitch that nerfed my old-style “fat” PlayStation 3 and temporarily ‘bricked’ millions of others worldwide appears to have vanished as mysteriously as it appeared.
At approximately 3:45pm PT, reports began flooding gaming boards suggesting units were coming back to life after a time-date error that left them unable to connect to Sony’s PlayStation Network or [...]
February 25th, 2010
Heavy Rain Players Encountering Some Technical Issues
Honestly, we can categorically state we played through Heavy Rain without any noticeable glitches. Sadly, that doesn’t appear to be the case for everyone though, as it appears some people are having technical issues with the game. From freezing, to out-of-sync audio, you can guarantee there’s someone complaining about it right now – most likely [...]
February 25th, 2010
Metro 2033 not coming to PS3 because of business
4A Game’s Hew Beynon has commented on the reason Metro 2033 is not coming to the Playstation 3. In an interview with VG247 he cites “business reasons” for the decision, but explains that there is no reason why the game couldn’t come to PS3.
He said:
“That’s probably more of a business decision, and one that I [...]
February 25th, 2010
Bungie Refuses To Comment On PS3 Development
Bungie, the developers of the Halo game series, aren’t confirming or denying the possibility of developing a game for the Playstation 3.
Brian Jarrard, community lead at Bungie, told CVG that Bungie has had an internal team “working on the genesis of what will become our next big thing.” Jarrard also said that Bungie’s “whole future’s [...]
February 25th, 2010
Sony PS3, Now With 70MB More RAM
Remember when Sony unlocked the clock speed on its PSP half way through the handheld’s life? Well, the company has found a way to increase the performance of its PS3 console, opening up 70 MB of additional RAM for game developers. This was done by reducing the footprint of the system firmware from 120MB to [...]
February 25th, 2010
God Of War III Demo – Lands on PS3 Europe
For those members across the sea (or those with a European login) you’ll find that the much anticipated game God of War III is available for download according to the European PlayStation Blog.
While I haven’t had the chance to play it firsthand (2671MB and currently downloading) some of the buzz surrounding reports on the Euro [...]
February 22nd, 2010
NBA Jam Coming To Playstation 3
NBA Jam will be coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, according to the CV of an EA software engineer.
Superannuation reports that Andrea Schiel’s LinkedIn profile had the next edition of the series down as coming to HD consoles as well as Wii.
The profile’s since been edited to remove the mention. However, a screengrab exists [...]
February 18th, 2010
Sony: Wii Sends Third-Party Developers to PS3
Following up on Sony’s bash of Microsoft yesterday, SCEA Senior Vice President of Publisher Relations Rob Dyer evidently also had a few words to say about Nintendo’s current offerings. Dyer believes that the domination of first-party videogame sales on the Wii turns third-parties off to the system and has brought them over to Sony’s PlayStation [...]
February 10th, 2010
PS3 3D gaming due Summer 2010
Remember how we told you the Sony PS3 was compatible with the Blu-ray Disc Associations finalized 3D specification back in December 2009? If you’ve been wondering when exactly that 3D technology would actually arrive on the console, the answer is sometime this summer. Pocket-lint grabbed John Koller, director of hardware marketing for SCEA, and pestered [...]
