Jack Tretton, CEO at Sony, has announced that the 100 dollar pricedrop of the 60 GB model of the PlayStation 3 was just meant to get rid of the stock of those 60 GB machines. They want to make some space for the 80 GB model that will replace the standard 60 GB. When all 60 GB machines are gone, we’ll have to pay 599 dollar again for a PlayStation 3.
Electronic Arts has just sent us the PAL box of Boogie for the Nintendo Wii and they added the soundtrack that was already on the internet in the mail as well. In this game you’ll be singing, dancing and making fun on new and classic pophits! (more…)
Alex Rigopulos, CEO at Harmonix, has announced during E3 that they plan to release new Rock Band content every week. There will even appear whole albums on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Shop! The Who’s ‘Who’s Next’ will be the first available song for download after the launch of the game.
Another interesting bit of info is that Metallica gets a role in this Rock Band for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii as well. Enter Sandman will be in the game and after the release of the game there will be extra downloadable songs of the band available.
Disney has announced that Altron is currently working on the filmgame of Enchanted. You’ll take the role of Giselle in this game, a girl who’s banned from the cartoonworld and now has to survive without in Manhattan New York. Each character will have his/her own abilities and magic powers to defeat the evil queen Narissa. Together with Pip we’ll be playing tons of cool mini-games in this magical Nintendo DS game!
Since today it’s possible to download the new Xbox 360 demo of the latest Stuntman: Ignition game on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The demo will take about 641,90 MB from your hard drive and it will take you through the world of a Hollywood-stuntman. Downloading the demo could take a while since XBL is being overused with all that new downloadable content.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced a PlayStation 3 Starter Pack for the European market. This pack contains the 60 GB PlayStation 3 console, two SIXAXIS controllers, one copy of Resistance: Fall of Man and one copy of Motorstorm. When the bundle will be released is still unknown, but we do know that this nice package will cost 600 euro which is a pretty damned nice deal!
During their press conference EA has announced a quizgame for the Nintendo Wii called Smarty Pants. In this trivagame you’ll have to know a lot about several subjects, from stockmarkets to world history. In total the game will contain about 20.000 questions that you’ll have to answer by moving the WiiRemote. You’ll have to do dance contests and some fighting to spin the categorywheel and to get the right answer. The game is adpoted for gamers from every age since this will be the perfect familygame for a cold Winter evening. Smarty Pants contains a familymode in which you race against the clock with friends or family.
In Boogie for the Nintendo Wii you will be singing, dancing and laughing with EA’s latest cool creation. This is part one of the demonstration.
We’ve already had a pricedrop in Europe and one in North America and now it seems that Capcom expects that by the end of this year Sony will announce another pricecut for its machine. They expect that the salesnumbers of the PlayStation 3 console will go up amazingly if Sony keeps pushing the price of the machine down.
Immersion and Sony were in a fight for the Rumble-function of the SIXAXIS controller of the PlayStation 3, but since the fight is over it’s possible that there will be a new SIXAXIS controller with rumble. We don’t have confirmation yet that there will come a rumble SIXAXIS controller on the market, but a rep from SCEA told Kotaku that the Rumble-SIXAXIS controller exists. Let’s hope they start packing those new PS3 consoles with the new SixAxis soon!