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“Huzzah!”
Crystal Dynamics has finally enabled online co-operative play for the PlayStation 3 version of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light nearly a month after it turned the feature on for the Xbox 360 version.
“PS3 online co-op title update is now live! Huzzah!” reads a Tweet from the developer.
Last month Crystal Dynamics said it would hand the first of five planned DLC packs out for free for 30 days by way of saying sorry for the delay to Xbox 360 owners.
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Need for Speed DLC cuts corners.
Thank goodness we don’t have to unlock all of the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit cars ourselves; thank goodness for the new corner-cutting downloadable content.
The Racer Timesaver Pack and the SPCD Timesaver pack unlock all of the cars on each side of the law. Hence the name. Each Timesaver pack costs 320 Microsoft Points.
If you haven’t got that kind money then you can gradually uncover these delicious motorcars in career and multiplayer modes.
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USB “technicalities” blamed.
Blitz Games founder Phillip Oliver says that the “technicalities of the Xbox” are holding back Kinect from providing higher resolution images. Talking about Blitz’s new game, Yoostar, with Gamesindustry.biz, Oliver describes how Microsoft added a digital zoom to the Kinect feature-set as the full high resolution image was not available for the developers to access themselves.
“So what we wanted to do was, instead of asking the player to get closer to the camera, was zoom the camera into where they were,” Oliver explains, talking about how Yoostar handles close-up shots of the player.
“The Kinect camera is quite a high res camera, so we actually asked that we have access to the higher res picture. But they can’t give the full resolution picture, at the full frame-rate, because of the USB 2.0 connection. It’s just the technicalities of the Xbox.
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Irrational Games addresses concerns over the porting process for its multiformat title. -
New entries from Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit can’t topple Activision’s shooter in the latest chart.Call Of Duty: Black Ops remains at the top of the UK multiformat software chart for the week ending November 20.
Activision recently announced that the game had broken previous sales records in its first five days of release.
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Phil Harrison and Peter Molyneux join an international cast of speakers in Rome next month.The programme for this year’s Italian Videogame Developers Conference, held at the LUISS University in Rome on December 3-4, has been confirmed.
Highlights of this year’s roster include Phil Harrison, former president of Sony Worldwide Studios, Avni Yerli, managing director of Crytek and Peter Molyneux, founder of Lionhead Studios.
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Social game platform manages to co-exist with Apple’s Game Center on iOS devices.Peter Relan, chairman of mobile social game platform OpenFeint, says the platform is still going strong with 50 million users, despite the launch of Apple’s own platform in September.
OpenFeint, which was established in February last year, has seen its user base double in the past seven months and had more than 125 million game downloads to date.
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Hit the road in January.
Mindjack, the third-person online action shooter from Japanese developer feelplus, will be released in Europe on 21st January next year.
The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 science fiction shooter lets players hack into a host game as an ally or enemy then hack into the mind of any soldier, civilian, mechanical bionic creature or weaponry.
There are experience points up for grabs abilities to be upgraded.
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Broussard: “It wasn’t a quest for perfection.”
Duke Nukem Forever will finally release next year after a decade of development, but why has it taken so long?
According to original designer George Broussard, the answer is simple: developer 3D Realms spent too long trying to change game engines it licensed to help build the bloody FPS.
In an interview with Maximum PC, Broussard denied the accusation from some quarters that DNF was a “quest for perfection”, but did admit to a string of development “issues”.
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Need for Speed in hot pursuit.
Call of Duty: Black Ops has denied Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit a top spot in the UK all-formats chart.
Activision’s record-breaking game is top (54 per cent on Xbox 360, 40 per cent on PS3); Ubisoft’s celebrated action game second (55 per cent on Xbox 360, 45 per cent on PS3); and EA’s fantastic racing title third (48 per cent on Xbox 360, 47 per cent on PS3).
Call of Duty: Black Ops sales dipped 85 per cent from last week, but Treyarch’s shooter still managed to sell 63,000 copies more than AC: Brotherhood. The latter has enjoyed the biggest UK launch of the Assassin’s Creed series.