Per Grace Chen (Senior Manager, PLAYSTATION Store) today:
Hi again! The weekend’s here – time for your weekly update of new movie & TV shows on the PLAYSTATION Network.
This week we’ve added new video content from the following television series:
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Star Trek VIII: First Contact
• Superjail!, Season 1
• Watchmen Motion Comic, Chapter One & Two
We’ve also added the following feature films:
• Charlotte’s Web 2
• Cobra
• Con Air
• Crocodile Dundee II
• Curly Sue
• Date Movie (Unrated)
• Doctor Zhivago
• Domestic Disturbance
• Extreme Ops
• Grandma’s Boy
• He Said, She Said
• High Crimes
• Joy Ride
• Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead
• Keeping Up with the Steins
• King Kong
• Mean Girls
• Open Water ... More »
If you have paid attention to any of our editorials here at Blend Games since late 2006, you would have noticed a consistent disdain for a particular section of Sony’s business model: their video game marketing section.
Sadly, these guys and gals have done very little to properly promote many of their own first-party games, and in result have managed to create a very sub-par community outside the initial fan-boy hype.
Like everyone else out on the net who have seen viral marketing videos for some of Sony’s exclusives, you sort of wonder why they stop there. In comparison, Microsoft has all sorts of ridiculous marketing ploys surrounding many of their first-party titles, leading up to the game’s release.
In some cases MS will even continue to schedule events, make announcements and continue the viral marketing just past the game’s release, like what they did with Gears of War and Halo 3.
It seems that Capcom has announced a lot of games for this-gen consoles such as:
- Resident Evil 5
- Street Fighter 4
- MotoGP 08
- Lost Planet Extreme Condition Colonel
- Dark Void
- Devil May Cry 4
- Lost Planet Extreme Condition
- Dead Rising
- Bionic Commando
- Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
- 1942: Joint Strike
- Mega Man 9
- Rocketmen: Axis Of Evil
- Age of Booty
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
- Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3
- Street Fighter 2: Hyper Fighting
- Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts
A lot of games are there that Capcom announced for the XBox 360 and the PS3, but there are 2 games that Capcom haven't announced for this generation since day one.
Those games are Onimusha and Dino Crisis... has Capcom forgot about those two titles? Well, the last time both of those games where released was on the PS2 and XBox. Does any... More »
The first bit of “Fusion” that AMD is releasing today is an in-house designed software utility that was described to us as being able to “turn a mainstream PC into a lean, mean gaming machine.”
Essentially, this Fusion Gaming tool is a utility that automates many of the tweaks that hardcore enthusiasts carry out in order to free up system resources for the purpose of maximizing gaming performance. The utility works by temporarily disabling background services and processes, freeing up memory and CPU cycles in an effort to make games run more smoothly.
AMD demonstrated the application to us clicking the gigantic “Fusion” button on a Windows Vista desktop, which immediately shut down usually active applications such as Skype, Google Talk, as well as many other background services. The utility will not, however, override any applications that have a shutdown or save dialog, meaning that clicking the button will still allow Microsoft Word to prompt if ... More »
We had a chance to check in with MotorStorm: Pacific Rift once again. An "80% complete" demo we played gave us access to four different levels: two single player and two split-screen races. Easily the most impressive level we played had to be the Wildfire level.
This level takes everything that's good about MotorStorm and amplifies it to the extreme. Pacific Rift's play on hot versus cold goes into full effect here, in this dark volcanic level. It's unlike anything we've seen from the game so far, and it's a terrific contrast to the usual lush greens of the game.
With deadly lava and fire everywhere, this is quite possibly the most dramatic level in the MotorStorm series so far. Of course, with the heat so high, your vehicle will have a rather easy disposition to overheat whilst boosting -- we even went so far as to explode our bike. Ouch!
Thankfully, there are numerous showering stations scattered throughout the branching course, which will coo... More »
According to Gamer.tm, SEGA's latest PS3 exclusive Initial D: Extreme Stage which launched in Japan not only looks bad but also plays bad.
They note that the game looks like little more than a high-res PS2 title, and the game play sucks with "floaty handling and iffy collision detection aplenty."
To quote: Unfortunately, it seems that SEGA’s usual top form has deserted it on this occasion, as our exclusive screenshot gallery shows.
Although there are no obvious faults with the game’s graphics, it must be said that – between the flat textures, the lack of detail and the primitive special effects – there’s not a lot right with it, either.
Indeed, we’d go so far as to say it looks like little more than a high-res PS2 title.
Unfortunately, the gameplay doesn’t help much either, with ‘floaty’ handling and iffy collision detection aplenty.
Those of you who frequent the rumor mill will remember reports earlier in the year that PC hardware specialists Acer were going to release a console to compete with the likes of the Xbox 360 and PS3.
Of course it all turned out to be a load of horse shit, but even this outlandish rumour had an element of truth to it. Acer were working on a game specific machine, although it is actually a highly specialized PC and God damn it’s a sexy looking thing!
In Sydney this week, we were given a chance to rub its sunset orange Lamborghini-inspired exterior, poke about in its innards and give Call of Duty 4 a hammering and we have to say, it was hard not to be impressed.
Aimed specifically at the extreme gamer category, three tiers of the Acer Aspire Predator are in stores right now, ranging from around $4,000 - $8,000, depending on just how big you want your e-peen to be. This is the top end of the spectrum, pushing the latest and greatest tech – from 4... More »
Codemasters has today officially announced FUEL. Set to revolutionise multi-terrain racing with the largest environment ever created in race gaming, FUEL will present players with an astonishing no-boundaries playfield that's over 5,000 square miles (14,000+ km²) in size.
Creating the ultimate competitive go-anywhere racing experience, FUEL will have players competing across wildly different terrain and executing spectacular death-defying stunts as they race dozens of varied two and four-wheeled rides and explore this epic world on an unprecedented scale.
FUEL is set in an alternate present in which whole swathes of the globe have been ravaged by the effects of climate change brought on by decades of environmental abuse. Here oil prices have rocketed and yet a new breed of racing junkie takes to the wastelands, pitting their grungy home-tuned vehicles against each other in an all-new extreme sport as they compete ... More »
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