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Read More »EyePet returning with Friends
The EyePet series will be back on shelves later this year in the form of EyePet & Friends. As the title suggests, the fluffy creature is not alone this time, with players now training and nurturing two EyePets. PS3 owners can either look after the pair individually or team up …
Read More »Michael Jackson game hits 3m global sales milestone
Three million units of Michael Jackson: The Experience have been sold worldwide, MCV can reveal. In the UK alone the game has sold 319,000 units to date according to GfK Chart-Track. The numbers include sales on Wii, DS and PSP. Ubisoft’s dance game is now set to get a boost …
Read More »Heavy Fire Afghanistan hitting Kinect
A modern military shooter title has been confirmed for Xbox 360 Kinect. Called Heavy Fire: Afghanistan, Eurogamer reports that the game is in fact an "expanded sequel" to WiiWare pair Heavy Fire: Special Operations and Heavy Fire: Black Arms. The game is currently pencilled in for a boxed release for …
Read More »Move Heroes out this month
PlayStation Move Heroes will hit UK shelves on March 25th, Sony has confirmed. The mini-game action adventure title allows players to control characters from different platformers such as Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter and Sly Cooper. Up to two players can use the PlayStation Move motion controller in the …
Read More »GDC: PlayStation Move embraces hackers
Just days after Microsoft revealed its Kinect SDK for PC hacking, Sony has declared a similar set-up will be available for PlayStation Move. The company will launch a new application for PS3 called ‘Move Me’, which can allow researchers, students and hobbyists create new types of software applications. With the …
Read More »GDC11: Sony opens Move to hacking community
The â??Move Meâ?? app will transfer PS3 data to PC, allowing for free manipulation
Read More »Why Crysis 2 doesn’t support Move
Crysis 2 will push the console visual envelope when its released next month, but one thing it won’t do is add weight to the growing motion control movement. And developer Crytek says that’s because it simply doesn’t see motion control as the right suitor for FPS games at this moment …
Read More »Buzz dev: ‘Kinect is amazing’
The developer behind successful Sony series Buzz! has heaped praise on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect and expressed its interest in developing titles for the peripheral. "Of course I’d consider any game for Kinect. And the reason is because Kinect is amazing," Relentless co-founder and executive director Andrew Eades told Eurogamer. …
Read More »Valve denies Portal 2 claims
The PS3 version of Portal 2 will not include PlayStation Move support, developer Valve has confirmed. Yesterday a translation of a story on Eurogamer Germany claimed that the studio was planning to implement Move support as "compensation" both for the lack of a PS3 version of Left 4 Dead and …
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