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PlayStation Move Price, Features and Release Date

Zawad Iftikhar — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:08:25 +0000

We have seen what Microsoft motion sensing control system, Kinect is all about, makes you wonder what will Sony do. Well, they are going to release their own motion sensing control system compatible with PlayStation, called PlayStation Move.

Sony is expected to release PlayStation Move Controller, on Sept. 19, in North America before Kinect. The controller alone will cost $49.99, and in bundle with PlayStation Eye, it will cost $99.99. Bundle will also include the game Sports Champions, and if paired with PlayStation 3, the whole offering will cost around $399.99.

Like 15 Move enabled games will be available at launch and more then 40 will be made available till holiday season with each game priced at $39.99, said Sony’s Peter Dillie.

PlayStation Move Features

Perform as the player performs, use PlayStation Move, as your weapon in the game. You will feel yourself immersed in the game as your every movement will be registered by PlayStation Move motion sensors and PlayStation Eye USB camera.

PlayStation Move’s color changing and ability to react to your motions, works as feedback engine to all your movements. Movements of both of your hands count as you feel the realtime in game experience.

Key Features of PlayStation Move

PlayStation®Move motion controller works with PlayStation®Eye USB Camera to accurately track player position.
Advanced motion sensors precisely track both fast and subtle movements.
Motion controller’s sphere uses internal RGB LED to provide visual feedback.
Vibration feedback is felt during specific actions.
Includes DUALSHOCK®3 action buttons for advanced gaming.
Utilizes Bluetooth® technology for wireless gaming.
Built-in rechargeable Li-ion battery.
Charge the controller and automatically pair with the PS3™ system via a USB cable.
Up to four motion controllers can be connected at once to the PS3™ system.

PlayStation Move Enabled Games at Launch

The Sly Collection™
EyePet™
The Shoot™
Brunswick Pro Bowling
SingStar® Dance
Heroes On The Move™
Sorcery™
Start The Party!™
Sports Champions™
echochrome™ ii

Are you really excited about it ? I am not. Going through all the fuss of moving my hands while I can do the same sitting on my couch, why bother really?.

Kinect For Xbox 360, Price, Features and Games

Zawad Iftikhar — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:14:57 +0000

Microsoft’s much anticipated motion sensing technology code named Project Natal has been officially given a name “Kinect” during E3 2010 on its World Premier. Kinect motion sensing technology will let you play fun games without any controller required, actually you are the controller.

Kinect is supported for every Xbox 360, including the just released Xbox 360 Slim. Microsoft is expected to release Kinect on November 4 to the mass market in North America, and as far as pricing is concerned, it will be around $100 to $150.

Microsoft hasn’t talked specifically about its features but has revealed the first few launch titles, some of which are being developed by Microsoft itself, and some by third party developers.

Kinect For Xbox 360 Launch Titles

Dance Central
Kinectimals
Kinect Sports
Kinect Joy Ride
Your Shape:Fitness Evolved
Kinect Adventures
Zumba Fitness
Sonic Free Riders

Kinect if you don’t know, is a motion control system, that is placed between users, their Xbox 360, and TV. It can detect users motion in 3D by 3D depth sensors, and also can acknowledge users speech my multi array microphone.

That way it can react to what a user does with any part of its body and to their spoken commands. As a result, users can easily activate Kinect by waving their hands, stop, pause, play, movie playback just by voice commands.

Kinect also features an RGB camera, with motorized tilt in its base. These two elements allow you to do video chat using Kinect, and the camera follows your movement within small space so that the chat can be continued without interruptions even when one party moves a bit.

Microsoft is trying to win Wii market share with this move, we will see more and more about Kinect in coming months as more developers jump in to make Kinect supported Video Games.

New Slim Xbox 360 Price, Features, and Availability

Zawad Iftikhar — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:35:46 +0000

Seems like everyone is excited about New Xbox 360, which is Slim, has Wi-Fi has 250GB hard drive, and supports Kinect as was shown at E3 2010 Microsoft press conference.
Microsoft revealed that this new slimmer Xbox 360 is on its way to stores already and will cost around $299. If you are into knowing the exact date, and is most probably Friday June, 18 or Sunday June, 20 at the earliest.
When it comes to features they are lot, among the most noticed, it has a custom Kinect port, an upgraded fan which is as good as one in PS3, wooed Microsoft.

Xbox 360 Slim Detailed Features

Touch Sensitive Buttons – Turn the Xbox 360 on or off and eject a disc with the swipe of a finger.

Whisper Quiet – Whether you’re playing a DVD disc or from the hard drive or navigating the dashboard, with the all-new and much quieter Xbox 360, the only noise you’ll hear is your own laughing, cheering and playing.

Wi-Fi – Built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi for fast, easy connection to your friends and entertainment on Xbox LIVE.

Hard Drive – 250GB internal, swappable hard drive for even more storage. To access, remove the bottom panel by pushing the small tab toward the front of the console.

Kinect-ready – Custom Kinect port on the back of the console that directly hooks up to the Kinect sensor for controller-free fun.

USB Slots – Five USB ports, three in the back and two in the front.

AV Connections

AV Cable included for standard TV connections.
HDMI port for high definition TV connections.
Optical Audio out port integrated on the back of console for AV system connection.

Power Supply – Smaller and more efficient. Xbox 360 250GB and Xbox 360 Original power supplies are not interchangeable.

Wireless Controller – The award-winning Xbox 360 Wireless Controller matches the console in all black with color-matched thumbsticks and directional pad with a touch of gloss and chrome to complete the look.

Backward Compatible – Your favorite accessories and games will work with Xbox 360 250GB. Xbox 360 external hard drives and Memory Units are not compatible.

Key Upgrades

Fan – Upgraded from two small fans to one larger fan for improved acoustics.
Chipset – 45 nanometer and integrated CPU and GPU.
Wi-Fi – Integrated Wireless capability.

So Whats your say about this slimmer hardware upgrade by Microsoft ?

Red Faction Armageddon Gets a Release Date

Farhan — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:34:16 +0000

After a great success of the Red Faction Guerilla, THQ announced a new number in the Red Faction Series named Red Faction Armageddon. The game will be released in March 2011 for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Here is the brief THQ’s announcement:

“Leveraging Volition’s groundbreaking Geo-Mod 2.0 technology, Red Faction(R): Armageddon offers never-before-seen physics-based weaponry that redefines gameplay in the shooter genre. Utilizing Darius’ Nano Forge abilities, players are presented with a wealth of new strategic options including reconstruction technology and the Magnet Gun in their battle to save humanity. From lava tubes to ice caves, gamers will discover a new playground for epic battles in both the single-player campaign and multiplayer co-operative modes.”
Red Faction Armageddon’s story is being continued from the Red Faction Guerilla, but we are now a half century ahead and the red planet again becomes a battlefield. Colonist are struggling for their survival in the underground mines while Darius Mason, grandson of Alec Mason and samanya, brings a dominant force of evil upon them. And now only Red Faction can save mankind.

A trailer and some screenshots were also released with the announcement at and we are still expecting more from next week’s E3 2010.

New Red Faction is a Survival Horror Action Game ?

Zawad Iftikhar — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:07:53 +0000

Everyone in the game industry was surprised by the success of Red Faction Guerilla, an open World action thriller, which scored great reviews across the web and also was greatly appreciated by the fans of the series. Everyone may be, expecting the same thing after the huge success Guerilla got, are in it for a surprise as Volition, the game developer behind Red Faction series is of a different opinion.

Yes! Red Faction Armageddon will be a survival horror action game, and yeah you won’t be roaming around like much, instead you will search every corner of the darkness to ensure there is no one there. This Pre E3 trailer illustrates the quest for survival in the darkness of mines you have been taking shelter for years. You are not the only one’s living in there…

Everyone likes a change, and quite frankly, I don’t really agree with the general rule of sticking with what has been successful for you. Anyway the Red Faction Armageddon’s gameplay again would be the key to its success, the story is another factor, which seems interesting. The initial info about the game shows its only coming for PS3 which will be sad, but lets see how much is revealed about the game at E3 2010 before we conclude.

What’s Hot in Left4dead 2 ?

Naruto — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:26:14 +0000

A completely new game with hell of new things that will surely make this game different from the previous part. It has new characters, new location, with new zombies, new weapons (even melee weapons like a chain saw, axe, fry pan ), new twists, and an improved graphics engine with a much improved gameplay.
Left4dead 2 has got five completely new campaigns set in the Southern United States. This isn’t just a more maps bundled with the same engine of original game, it’s a completely new game.Details:
Left 4 Dead 2 contains five new campaigns. Each campaign will have four-player co-op, as well as Versus mode along with Survival mode. There’s a new gameplay mode that is not yet revealed.
L4D 2 has four new characters with some new weapons and entirely new melee weapons that will make game more enjoyable also there are new zombies with their BOSSES (new special zombies) like witch (the one I like the most ), boomer, hunter, smoker and TANK (I used to call him THE HULK ) , and a new gameplay(watch trailer).
The area in which we will be killing some Zombie Asses is American South. Story’s gonna start in Savannah and works its way to New Orleans; New Orleans campaign called The Parish : represents the final map, in which we have to battle through the whole city to reach the helicopter for extraction. The most surprising thing about this map is that it’s going to be in Daylight. Not every campaign is during the day, but it does make a weird and a nice change of atmosphere. Affecting the gameplay, zombies do behave differently during the day. The biggest example of that is the Witch; during the night she used to sit and cry (damn I love witch ) but during the day she likes to wander around like a homeless old woman and cry, and that’s a big recipe for trouble. Wandering Witch has a nasty habit of showing up at the worst possible times — say in the middle of a frenzied zombie horde. You might not even notice her until it’s too late.
The climax of the Parish campaign is also a change from the original game. There’s no last stand while you wait for rescue (it’s do or die scene baby) ; as an alternative you must battle your way across a lengthy highway bridge that’s jumbled with cars, trucks, and zombies. Its gonna be fun to run through, as there are all sorts of hazards, including a lack of railings that could send you dangling off the edge. Moreover, tank or charger can also be there to kick your butt.
Several different routes are also there that u can take to climb the top of the tractor trailers. One more feature about this map is that The Parish campaign is the cemetery; and if you’re familiar with New Orleans, you know that they don’t bury their dead because the water table is so high; instead, cemeteries are full of crypts. Well it all depends on you, If you’re doing poorly and need help, the route through the cemetery might be as simple as a straight line and if u are doing great the cemetery can be a maze leading you towards your death.
Talking about the most entertaining feature of the game is the intro of special zombies among them the most feared one is the charger. The first thing that comes in our mind is what can a charger be? a giant man, something very terrible like tank, or some more deadly and speedy thingy than hunter ? NOPE he’s a bull. The charger is basically designed to defeat the tactic of the human players who try to secure themselves from more damage or buying some time to heal themselves by getting into a small room or other tight space.
Doing something that is against the Charger, and you’re in trouble. He will get a good head of steam running and just slam into you; anyone he hits is knocked to the ground and helpless for few seconds. BEWARE of the charger because if he is able to grab you, you are in some real trouble, once grabbed by CHARGER: he pile drives them into the ground repeatedly; the only way for the survivor to escape is for someone to help him. But Charger is not powerful as tank he’s fast, he’s not as maneuverable, so you can dodge him like a bullfighter dodging a bull.
TOYS (weapons) that we will have to play with are silenced sub machine gun (the silencer has no game play affect; it just looks and sounds cool), a new assault rifle that is more accurate than the existing one, a new scoped assault rifle that acts like a semiautomatic sniper rifle, and more. These weapons have slightly different characteristics, so it’s not just an aesthetic change from the current arsenal. MELEE Weapons consist of an axe, a frying pan, a chainsaw and a baseball bat as well.MAIN idea behind melee weapons is that they can do one-hit kill to most of the special zombie types, but not the Tank or the Witch.
FOUR CHARACTERS that are gonna be in the 2nd part are:
1. Nick, the guy in a flashy suit.
2. Ellis, the mechanic.
3. Rochelle, the girl.
4. Coach, the big guy.
The is all the info regarding Left4dead 2. It seems interesting to me and some real difference surely gonna be there. The release date of Left4dead 2 is 17 November,2009.
ENJOY the gameplay and screenshots of different maps !

Gameplay Trailers

Axe Ownage

Dock Start with Silenced Uzi

Fire Ammo Gameplay

Frying Pan Domination

Simple Pawnage -.- I loved Frying Pan part..

Gameplay Footage of God of War III Shows New Features

Zawad Iftikhar — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:31:04 +0000

God of War III one of the most anticipated ps3 games shows some new cool features in its gameplay footage. Well apart from controlling the ogres, krotos can do all sort of things now. He can mount, ride and control these creatures to defeat larger number of his foes. Watch it yourself, seeing is believing.