Author: Adam

Three Developers Explain LittleBigPlanet Level Design to a 7-Year-Old

Three Developers Explain LittleBigPlanet Level Design to a 7-Year-Old– Kotaku shows why LittleBigPlanet will open the PLAYSTATION brand to such a wide audience, and why the rest of the gaming industry should be afraid.  There’s also some neat level design tips for the rest of us!

MTV Multiplayer interviews John Smedley

MTV Multiplayer interviews John Smedley– If you like your news thick and fast then this interview certainly provides that.  For anyone with a passing interest in Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), this is essential reading. Whilst SOE aren’t the darlings of the MMO industry, what they’re upto deserves attention.

Coming Out of the Shadows: Rusty Buchert Talks Latest Project

Coming Out of the Shadows: Rusty Buchert Talks Latest Project– Sure, when it comes to games consoles, I’m quite biased.  But if this is not innovation of the art form, I don’t know what is.  Innovation these days seems to be on the PS3 and the Wii.

Joe Flanigan should play Nathan Drake

This is my response to the news that Avi Arad will be producing an Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune film.

Immediately after playing Uncharted for the first time, I had always thought that Nathan Drake more or less looked like, and sounded exactly like Joe Flanigan.  It looks like I’m not the only one who thinks this.  Joe Flanigan is perhaps best known (in my mind anyway) for his portrayal of Lt. Colonel John Sheppard on Stargate Atlantis.  I was initially going to provide side-by-side comparisons of them, but why bother?  If you ‘Google’ both names, you’ll soon see the similarity.  Also, if you hop on to YouTube, there might some clips of them both ‘in action’ so to speak.

Even if you’ve never played Uncharted or never watched Stargate Atlantis, then this is still relevant to you.  Whilst many videogame-to-film translations haven’t gone particularly well, this one should be a fantastic film.  Why?  Well Uncharted happens to have a particularly strong plot with plenty of twists and turns.  You could call it Tomb Raider-esque, but with way more substance.  The truly crucial factor though, is that the writers don’t deviate too far from the source material.  The source material is already gold.

If anyone knows what I’m on about, then please let me know what you think.  I’d love to have a chat about this!

GTA IV gets Trophy patch

GTA IV gets Trophy patch– I must admit, this news really took me by surprise.  Considering such games as Race Driver: GRID and Resistance: Fall of Man were not going to be patched, I had resigned myself to the fact that GTA IV would also not be patched.  Sooo….. this is great!

UK PS3 install base over three times what it was a year ago

UK PS3 install base over three times what it was a year ago– This is good news, but the Xbox 360 remains very strong in the UK (Microsoft: Xbox 360 outselling PS3 two-to-one).  The PS3’s strong games lineup is in no doubt- I think this all has to do with price point at this stage.  The Xbox 360’s cheapest price is now as low as £129.99 whilst the cheapest PS3 is currently £299.99.  That’s some difference.

Make your PlayStation Eye work on Windows

Make your PLAYSTATION Eye work on Windows– Now this is cool, props off to the very talented guy who made this work; some great backwards-engineering.  Obviously the camera will work on any computer potentially, but Sony has not made any drivers for anything apart from the PLAYSTATION 3.  The question is, will any computer users be interested in using the PS Eye?

Buzz!: Quiz TV Special Edition arrives for the holidays

Buzz!: Quiz TV Special Edition arrives for the holidays– Looks sweet!  Has everything I’d want and need: wireless Buzz! controllers, some extra content, and PLAYSTATION Eye compatibility.  I just need it at the right price, then I might get it this Christmas.