Sony has announced they are launching a new PlayStation Move Heroes bundle. Exclusive to North America and Toys ‘R’ Us, the pack will include the PlayStation Move Heroes game, a PlayStation Eye Camera and a PlayStation Move Motion Controller all for $99.
The game will release on March 22 in North America. There’s also an exclusive skin pack for those who pre-order the game.
Source: PlayStation.Blog {link no longer active}
Nintendo and Sony have made a lot of noise lately about their future mobile consoles, but Microsoft isn’t out of the mobile games market. Microsoft has a different approach with Windows Phone 7, which the company has pushed as a gaming platform with Xbox Live.
“I think that our three-screen strategy will become increasingly relevant this year, which will put our products into the hands and pockets of many more people, and give our consumers the options to access content on various different platforms,” said director of Xbox and Entertainment Stephen McGill. “We ve already seen the consumer excitement from Xbox Live integration on Windows Phone 7, and I m looking forward to this continuing to grow throughout the year and beyond.”
Source: MCV
Will Wright will see his first TV series Bar Karma launch on February 11 on Current TV. While not strictly about video games, the half-hour show clearly demonstrates Wright’s background in gaming.
“Video games were the first media to focus on growing online communities and establishing a creative outlet for fans to connect with their favorite games,” said Wright. “With Bar Karma, we’re meshing the game dynamic of not only allowing fans to get to know each other in an online community, but giving them the tools to take part in the creative process of the show, itself. The goal was to blend this interactive gaming dynamic with the established and challenging production process from Hollywood with regard to acquiring talent, building sets, and writing scripts.”
The show is set in a time-traveling bar operated by the enigmatic Karma, Inc. organization, where a new patron enters and must make a significant life decision. Users can give feedback on the show at http://current.com/shows/bar-karma on everything from the story to the music and art direction.
“I think with any show you’re in your own mind imagining the possibilities of where it might go and what might happen next in the series,” said Wright. “Traditionally, that’s where Hollywood has focused its attention with fan community sites for televisions shows.”
Wright has been shopping around his interactive show idea for the past five years. “I shopped Bar Karma at a few other television networks and I think they kind of understood what I was getting at, but the real issue with them was they didn’t even know where their Web group was,” said Wright. “To them the web group — if they knew where it was at all — was their enemy. The idea that people on the Web, or even their own Web group, could somehow intersect their programming with the creative decision making was not only alien to them, but almost distasteful.”
“Hollywood’s a different language than video games, which in some ways is very refreshing,” added Wright. “When you go into Hollywood, television especially, any pitch I give you basically have to sit alone for twenty minutes and describe your crazy idea. Maybe you have a few sheets of paper and at that point people either want to try it or not. Whereas in a game company you spend many, many months and lots of money building a prototype and you then shop around to somebody and hope that they buy your game So I love the pitching process of Hollywood.”
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
The Killzone 3: Behind The Scenes featurette in the Killzone 3 Helghast Edition will detail how Ray Winstone and Malcolm McDowell got digitized for the movie. Also included are some certifiably breathtaking action scenes.
Anarchy Reigns is a beat-’em-up/stylish action game that looks like the love child of God Hand and Bayonetta. Or to put that in simpler terms, the game has you take down opponents with big showy attacks.
Hyundai has launched a new viral ad campaign, lathered up as an Internet conspiracy for compact cars at a creatively titled website compactconspiracy.com {link no longer active}. Check out the teaser trailer below.
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