Category — Playstation News and Games

Activision announced that the next game in the popular first-person shooter series will launch on most popular gaming consoles like the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, and PC, and it will be out before the end of this fiscal year during a conference call with investors this week.

Of course, since 5 won’t be developed by Infinity Ward, who produced the award-winning, critically acclaimed fourth game in the series, we can’t be sure that this year’s entry will be as good.

The fifth game in the series will not be produced anymore by Infinity Ward, the company that produced the award-winning and critically acclaimed Call of Duty 4 so this is something every Call of Duty fans have to watch out for.

What war or era will this new game cover? Will it spawned on the Call of Duty 4’s Modern Warfare genre or will be much more advanced? Will the 5th edition be better or worse? That’s the million dollar question my friend.

And that is something to keep us glued for the release this year.

Microsoft has finally announced that two more titles will be added to the Xbox Originals service today May 19th.

The two titles will be Aspyr’s Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel without a Pulse and Midway’s Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows. The Xbox Originals service allows gamers to purchase original Xbox games online and play them through the Xbox 360.

Stubbs the Zombie is a third-person zombie game which released on the Xbox in October 2005 in North America and February 2006 in Europe. Unlike most zombie games, Stubbs the Zombie lets the player take control of a zombie who is unable to use weapons such as guns due to his zombie state and is instead armed with improvised weapons like his hand, pancreas, and even his head.

Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows is a resurrection of the old arcade classic Gauntlet that came out on Microsoft’s first console in December 2005. The game combines the elements of fantasy fighting action and strategic role playing and customization that gives players the choice of teaming up with their friends for some multiplayer action.

Both games can be downloaded for 1200 Microsoft points.

It’s in the news that Sony has been ordered this week by a US court to stop selling its PlayStation game consoles in the American market and to pay around £48 million in damages to technology company Immersion.

Immersion, a California-based developer of digital touch products, claimed that Sony infringed on their technology that makes game controllers vibrate simultaneously with the actions in gaming consoles. But Sony’s gaming division, Sony Computer Entertainment, quickly responded and said it would appeal this decision by a California federal court in the patent infringement case.

For now, Sony will keep selling PlayStations, which covers the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 consoles, two game controllers and 47 software titles, while they take the order on appeal. Sony is said to be paying compulsory license fees to Immersion.

The Gaming Division has been Sony’s profit driver in recent years, gaining around 44 per cent of Sony’s operating profits in last year. Sony has been struggling in its bottom line with dropping prices of its electronics division from stiff competition and declining market share.

The amount ordered to be paid by Sony is more than triple Immersion’s total revenues in 2004 and confirmed a ruling by a California jury last year that ordered Sony to pay around the same amount.

What would you do if Sony is stopped from selling its Playstations? I am sure you will not be happy about it like me.

Ubisoft has announced that a new Prince of Persia game is scheduled to be released towards the end of 2008 on PC, Xbox and PS3 platforms.

The next installment will mark the popular series’ debut on next-generation consoles and is now being developed by Ubisoft’s Montreal studio - the same team that created the Prince of Persia Sands of Time trilogy.

With the new chapter in the Prince of Persia franchise, the game will feature new game play, a new art style and is expected to to rejuvenate the action-adventure gaming genre.

Furthermore, Ubisoft is also set to release a new Prince of Persia game designed specifically for the Nintendo DS. This version will feature a new storyline and new characters with Ubisoft promising to deliver more details in the future.

Grand Theft Auto IV finally went on sale last Tuesday, with a huge line up of fans as early as midnight to grab the first copies of the criminal action game hailed as the most significant release in the video game history to break all records. GTA 4 is also expected to be the biggest entertainment event of the year for Sony PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360.

The fourth installment to the Grant Theft auto series, it is a lucrative franchise that already enjoys an impressive history with sales totaling more than 66 million worldwide. The new game, however, is expected to reset and break all previous sales records to a staggering $400 million in just one week beating last year’s feat by Halo 3 from Microsoft!

Retailers took advance orders for the game (some even have oversold even before the launch date) and are forced opened their doors to customers at midnight to quench the thirst of gamers who wanted to be the first to play. The anticipation has grown to unprecedented heights that game temperatures started to rise as Tuesday approaches.

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