Little Birdie: In Game XMB Sooner Than We Think?

Got an email tonight from someone who has sent in dozens of tips in the last couple of months. I usually blow them off as meh since some of them seem so far fetched like the XBox 360 with HD-DVD (lol, dead in the womb). Anyway, the source sent me the above picture with information that puts the above interface in our hands before January is over.

What do you think? Believable or should we stick to serving PS3 Gamercards than following crazy rumors? ;)

Resistance 2 confirmed for 2008! with 60 Man MP and 8p Co-op!

This game is going to be epic! Wow, do the guys at insomniac ever sleep?!

[CHECK OUT RESISTANCE 2 SCANS @ THE BOTTOM]

Wollan at NeoGAF checked out the latest GameInformer and it has some huge news about Resistance 2. Check it out.

Main highlights:

-One campaign focusing on Nathan Hale across USA, 1 player
-One separate story based campaign supporting 2 players offline, 8 players Online
-Online Multiplayer (dedicated servers) supporting 60 people
-Classes for online: Heavy, Special Ops, Medic
-New vehicles including Chameleon (Stalker with cloak)
-Partial randomized geometry in level spots
-Insane stat tracking coupled with MyResistance.net

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HUGE cooperative game… EIGHT-PLAYER story-driven campaign along side single-player campaign. SIXTY-PLAYER Competitive modes… HUGE United States Landscapes as backdrops.

“It is, in short, a tour de force for the untapped might of the PlayStation 3″

Narrative stays with Hale the whole time… not Rachel. Hale shot down in Iceland, escapes to US and becomes part of program called Sentinels…

Chameleon.. Stalker with total cloaking ability

Overcoming stigma that boss encounters don’t work in FPS games..
Eight player coop over PSN, two player local

CLASSES! Unique character with one of three basic templates… tank with heavy weaponry, special ops for distance (bullseye modified with zoom), medic.

Online matching… standard difficulty discarded for scaled challenges for team skill..
Partially randomized geometry… levels are different with each play through

again… 60 players online. want sense of epic battle.. don’t want fast-furious game play to be focus, more focused on squad v squad.

Will log into smaller four-to-eight man lobbies for each squad… encouraging communication and camaraderie, squad will be tasked with a particular objective. careful level design aims to deliver intense combat zones or small team conflicts that flow within arena of larger battle.

Dedicated gaming community with stat servers for faster matchmaching than any console game of 2007. full-featured profile pages through myresistance.net will incorporate social networking concepts. open clan and party system to encourage community…no player invites needed.

Further tapped power of PS3… more enemies onscreen, better AI, better lighting and shaders (SCREENSHOTS LOOK AMAZING!!!). More compilers, normal mapping and detail mapping combine to deliver textures that look amazing from afar and at extremely close distances.

AI getting a lot more attention.. will scaled on-the-fly to players perspective and viewpoint… aka enemies closer to the player will actually have more sophisticated AI routines than those further away. assailants in your direct field of view received heightened intelligence. easily more cunning than before
Listened to complaints… working on solution to long checkpoints and health system. not positive what final solution will be.

“Our time playing was a blast”… each character class contributes in a unique way and “we loved the strategy-laden medic”… unique sense of teamwork

Mysterious “Cloven”

“Resistance 2 will be too epic to dismiss as anything but one of the biggest, boldest, and most high-reaching titles of 2008. It’s a game that won’t be ignored.”

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CES 2008: Video: LittleBigPlanet seesaw level on PS3

Sony Corp. this week demonstrated the game title LittleBigPlanet for the Playstation 3 at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV.

In a new video, a player moves across a level that includes a seesaw platform and meets a friend to join in on the action.

In LittleBigPlanet, players can create custom levels and share them online.

The title’s release date is to be determined.

Sony this week said that it sold 1.2 million PS3 units in the holiday period in the U.S.

Will Gran Turismo 5 be the best Sony PS3 driving game ever

It seems like

Sony PS3 owners have been waiting a lifetime for the release of Gran Turismo 5, however there is only just over two months to go. So far there is a range of driving games for the PlayStation 3, but most will put them aside once they get their copy of Gran Turismo 5.

If you look at the track record of this great franchise, then Gran Turismo has always won the hearts of PlayStation fans, so has this new incarnation got what it takes to become as good if not better than its predecessors.

Unreal Tournament III Review

CES 2008: Metal Gear Solid 4 Video with Commentary

Gamespot has released a Metal Gear Soild 4 video with commentary.

Worldwide hardware sales for the week ending 5th January ,2008. (Japan numbers included)

Console		Weekly	Total
DS		813,117	65,637,784
Wii		566,002	19,718,100
Playstation Portable		384,392	30,122,767
Playstation 3		3 268,895	8,963,324
Playstation 2		227,901	115,050,967
Xbox 360	206,098		16,331,957