Nintendo has proudly announced that Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl have sold over ten million copies worldwide while the game has only been out for a couple of days in Europe. We’re looking forward to seeing the final worldwide sales numbers of Pokémon D/P, we expect the game to be another Nintendo DS hotseller.
Dutch gamedeveloper Triumph Studios is recruiting a PlayStation 3 programmer to code Xbox 360 or PC code to Sony’s PlayStation 3. Since the last game Triumph developed was Overlord for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and PC we think that they are porting the action game overlord to the PS3.
Nobuyuki Oneda, head of financial services at Sony Computer Entertainment, said that he’s optimistic concercing the financial results of their PlayStation 3. They sell more consoles than they had expected, but they lose more on the machines than they thought. He expects the next-gen war to break lose when holiday seasons start and people start filling the empty spots under the christmas tree.
The PS3 version of Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent had some extra content, but now Xbox 360 users can get the extra content as well. The Secret Base and Kinshasa levels, three outfits, a female spy and four new challenges are available for download for free on Xbox Live Marketplace. Enjoy!
Test Drive Unlimited for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has been out for a while now but Atari keeps pushing fresh content on the Xbox Live Marketplace for the race game. For 350 Microsoft Points you’ll get five new cars and one motorcycle to play with. This is what the Test Drive Collection-Volume 5 Pack contains:
* Spyker C8 Spyder
* Ferrari 512 TR
* Ferrari 308 GTS Quattrovalvole
* Dodge Charger Super Bee
* Chrysler Crossfire SRT6 Coupe
* Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12R.
The new Holden Efijy Concept car is free for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace as well.
Keiji Inafune said in an interview that Capcom hasn’t a sequel on Dead Rising in the makes. He’d like to make Dead Rising the strong franchise that it could be, but currently there are no plans for Dead Rising 2 though a couple of months ago we read in Famisu that Capcom is working on a sequel.
Michael Shorrock, 3rd Party Relations director at Sony Computer Entertainment America, has announced that Rockstar Games is working on a PlayStation 3 exclusive franchise for Sony’s PS3. He wasn’t talking about LA Noire so we’re looking forward to hear an announcement from Rockstar Games!
Frank Gibeau spread the word that Electronic Arts is working on The Godfather 2, but he couldn’t tell on which platforms the game will appear. We’ll probably be seeing a PS3 and Xbox 360 version but hopefully a Wii version as well. With games like The Godfather 2, Crysis and Army of Two EA wants to reach adults who want to game.
