Sony announced during its GDC 2010 press conference that the upcoming US release of EyePet will feature support for its motion controller, PlayStation Move . The game will allow players to manipulate toys and also play games with their EyePets. Furthermore, it’s even possible to create new toys.
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EyePet to support PlayStation Move, hits North America holiday 2010
During its GDC press conference , Sony announced that the PlayStation motion controller — newly dubbed PlayStation Move — will launch in several different packages to accommodate the various gamers out there. Sony is planning an “aggressive” marketing campaign around the new peripheral when it launches later this year and — similar to Microsoft’s launch plans for Project Natal — it will treat the launch of the PlayStation Move as a separate “platform launch.” There will be multiple bundles, including a bundle that includes a PlayStation 3 console, the PlayStation Move and the PlayStation Eye.
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PlayStation Move bundles announced, starter kit under $100
Brett Favre is one of the all-time greats. Still, he throws one untimely interception, and that’s all people talk about.
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EA Sports mines your football data, and makes example out of Favre
[I F1 2009; Wii] Having dominated the rally track with DiRT and DiRT 2 , and taken a lap around the street-racing arena with GRiD , Codemasters has announced it’s now tossing its hat into the Formula One ring with F1 2010 . Yeah, we kind of expected some weird capitalization, too.
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Codemasters hits the track this September with F1 2010 for PC, Xbox 360 & PS3
Game developer David Jaffe has posted on his personal blog what appears to be a dismissal notice of a 2008 lawsuit against him and Sony over God of War .
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God of War copyright suit dismissed, Jaffe reveals document
Sweet Shiva, the Final Fantasy XIII reviews are all over the place . What has been clear over the past couple years is that the Japanese RPG has been going through some seriously violent flux. The genre is trying to find a new path, and even as Japanese developers seem to search for a balance that’ll please several markets, they’re freaking out western reviewers and audiences, who have a certain expectation going into these games — a fault of fans, as much as decades of ingrained convention by those developers
Rebellion has allegedly let go approximately 20 staff from its main studio in Oxford, UK, while its Derby location has been shut down, reports Develop . Rebellion, which most-recently released Aliens vs Predator , has yet to confirm the details As is typical with these types of stories, it’s hard to tell if the layoffs were part of the natural game development cycle after a major release, or if there’s an actual “issue” going on. As for the Derby studio, which once upon a time was Core Design ( Tomb Raider ), has been on the chopping block for months
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Report: Rebellion cuts 20 staff, Derby studio shuts down
Three delays later, Mafia II looks like it’s finally (finally!) getting ready to launch.
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Interview: Mafia II producer Denby Grace
Sorry, it’s not a sequel to King of Kong , the documentary that showed the battle between ruthless Billy Mitchell and nice guy Steve Wiebe to become the world’s best Donkey Kong player. This is a new guy on the scene, 35-year-old plastic surgeon Hank Chien, who’s just taken the world record in the game according to Twin Galaxies with 1,061,700 points after a two-and-a-half-hour session. Chien says he expects that the honor will keep him “pelvis-deep in cocaine and highly desirable to sexual partners for all of my days.” Or at least we bet he was thinking that.
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There is a new King of Kong
Here’s a bit of backstory for those of you who don’t follow the hot Baltimore news scoops: Sheila Dixon, once mayor of Baltimore , became the former mayor Baltimore after being indicted for embezzlement earlier this year. One of the main pieces of evidence in her trial was an Xbox 360 prosecutors claimed she purchased with gift cards given to her by local developers, which were supposed to be given to various charities.
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Former Baltimore mayor’s telltale Xbox 360 now on eBay
