Another PlayStation 3 exclusive is heading towards Microsoft’s Xbox 360 as well. KOEI’s Ninja Gaiden 6 will come out on the Xbox 360 end this year in Japan together with the PlayStation 3 version. The Ninja Gaiden games aren’t that popular in America and Europe, but Japanese gamers love them. Check out a new video of Ninja Gaiden 6 For PS3 and Xbox 360 here.
Fans have been waiting years for Grand Theft Auto IV, the sequel on the great Grand Theft Auto III. Everyone expected the game to come out end this year, but today Take Two Games had to disappoint us and delay the game until April 2008. Rockstar Games is going to use that extra time for developing and in the meantime they will focus on Manhunt 2 for Sony’s PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Nintendo’s Wii.
Activision has confirmed another seven songs that will be playable in Guitar Hero III. More Slayer, AFI and The Strokes songs for you to play on your Guitar Hero controller!
Miss Murder (by AFI)
3’s and 7’s (by Queens of the Stone Age)
Raining Blood (by Slayer)
Reptillia (by The Strokes)
Paranoid (as made famous by Black Sabbath)
Cities on Flame (as made famous by Blue Oyster Cult)
Mississippi Queen (as made famous by Mountain)
Jade Raymond, the hot Ubisoft producer working on Assassin’s Creed, has said in an interview that she’s already thinking about a sequel on Assassin’s Creed. If the first game gets good review scores and a lot of fans, Ubisoft will order another Assassin’s Creed game with her. Ubisoft is promoting the game hard to make it a strong franchise that goes far beyond videogames.
Two of the biggest third-party developers, Atari and Ubisoft, have released their Leipzig Games Convention line-up. From August 22th until August 26th we’ll be seeing footage of these games:
Ubisoft Leipzig GC line-up:
* Far Cry 2 (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)
* EndWar (Xbox 360, PS3)
* Haze (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
* Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (Wii, DS)
* The Settlers 6: Rise of an Empire (PC)
* Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
* Splinter Cell: Conviction (Xbox 360, PC)
* Assassin’s Creed (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
* Games for EveryoneAtari Leipzig GC line-up:
* Alone in the Dark: Near Death Investigation (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)
* The Witcher (PC)
* Eternal Sonata (Xbox 360)
* Ace Combat 6 (Xbox 360)
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (PS2, Wii)
* Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 (PS2)
* Asterix at the Olympic Games (Wii)
* My Horse and Me (PC, Wii, DS)
Head of Microsoft’s Game Studios Shane Kim talked about the currently exclusiveness of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for Sony’s PlayStation 3. He thinks that we are spending too much money on our games. He says that Konami will be earning big cash on MGS 4 and that they have to compensate this. Anyway, this his is what he had to say about Metal Gear Solid 4:
Well we’re certainly feeling bullish about third-party support in general. If you look at it from an economic standpoint, third parties have to support more than one platform. That’s their business model. Titles are just getting way too expensive. How much do you think that Konami is spending on MGS4? So economically they’ve got to leverage that the best that they can. So it’s really up to the first parties to create the content that’s going to differentiate the platforms and that’s where we think we have the competitive advantage.
Ubisoft and Sony Computer Entertainment are planning to put a demo version of Tomy Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (GRAW) 2 in the PlayStation Store so that fans can prepare for the next combat full of action on Sony’s PS3 gameconsole. Too bad we don’t know if it’s a singleplayer or multiplayer demo, or both! We’ll see when the demo comes out.
According to IMC a new first person shooter called THEY will be shown off at this year’s Leipzig Games Convention. The name is mysterious, the announcement is mysterious and the story is full of mysteries as well. We know that it will be all about using gravity to destroy the levels in the near future. THEY are huge – THEY are different – THEY are hostile! That says it all!
Sony has announced that racesimulator Gran Turismo 5 for their PlayStation 3 console will be playable at this year’s Leipzig Games Convention event. This could be a glimpse of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, but we hope that we’ll be seeing some stuff from the full version of Gran Turismo 5.
Thanks to the German USK we now know that Sony will be showing off three new PlayStation Network games at the Leipzig Games Convention end this month. We’ll be seeing Aqua Vita, Operation Creature Feature and Trials of Topoq for the PlayStation 3. Too bad we don’t have any extra information on these games, but Leipzig Games Convention is getting close!