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UK games association issues warning about forthcoming government plans.TIGA, a trade association which represents the UK games industry, has today expressed concerns regarding a forthcoming announcement by the UK government on immigration policy.
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If you say no to 6.4GB one-off.
You don’t have to wait the best part of an hour for Gran Turismo 5 to install – you can opt for the game to unpack chunks as you play, Sony explained this afternoon.
“GT5 gives users the option of an install,” Sony pointed out. “This makes loading times throughout much faster but is not a requirement when first playing.
“If users choose not to install the data straight away it will do it in stages as news areas, tracks, etc. are accessed during normal gameplay.”
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Join the dots.
Here’s what we were picking from: Out This Week.
Surprise!
I’ll leave it to the EG historians among you to determine if this is the first time in the site’s 11-year history that we’ve awarded two 10/10s in a single week. It seems likely. What’s probably more relevant is the unexpected way in which it happened.
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UK developers target Bizarre Creations employees following rumours of an uncertain future for the studio.Online game company Jagex, and producer and developer Codemasters, have announced that they will each be hosting a recruitment event in Liverpool next week.
The news follows rumours of the possible closure of Liverpool-based studio Bizarre Creations. No official statement has yet been issued by the studio or parent company Activision.
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Shooting has been tweaked, too.
PES 2011 will be better next week when Konami adds a few nips and tucks and tweaks.
An update is scheduled for 24th November that will improve defender AI, balance Rainbow Flicks and polish-up shooting.
Players taking throw-ins can have the ball passed back to them, cursor switching will be better when a ball is crossed and transfer fees in Master League have been reworked.
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“Xbox 2” game coming Q4 2011.
Who remembers WarDevil? Well, apparently it’s not dead – despite reports from October that claimed otherwise.
According to UTV Ignition the project – announced in 2004 for “Xbox 2” – will live on under the name Project Kane, company chairman Hassan Sadiq told Develop.
Project Kane is expected to launch at the end of 2011. The report didn’t mention any platforms.
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Blizzard-appointed distributor gearing up for possible 2011 release as earnings are boosted by WarCraft.GamePolitics reports that China-based internet company NetEase has submitted StarCraft II for approval to the Chinese government.
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Orthanc: a tower wizard walls.
Earlier this week, Eurogamer revealed that The Lord of the Rings Online will soon take you to Isengard and to a face-off with treacherous wizard Saruman. Today, Turbine and Warner Bros. have officially unveiled new expansion Rise of Isengard.
Rise of Isengard will arrive next autumn and bring with it an increased level cap of 70 as well as a revamp for the PVP Monster Play part of the MMO. And with a nudged-up level cap comes new skills, class quests, traits and virtues.
The story involves leading the Grey Company of Rangers – Aragorn’s chums – into Isengard, while picking up any allies who dare to stand against the ferocious army being formed there.
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“Hundreds of thousands” of players needed to help shape developer’s unannounced project.In a post on Halo developer Bungie’s website yesterday, the company called for testers on a forthcoming title: “Making great games is no small endeavor. Today we ask you, our community, to officially put your name on the list of those willing to lend a helping hand.”
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Analysts also predict a 74m 360 base.
Do analysts believe Kinect can do the business for Microsoft? Yes – by the end of 2014 they say Kinect will have sold 25 million units.
Another way of looking at that is one in three Xbox 360 owners will have bought Kinect by then, because they also believe the total console installed base will be 74 million.
That forecast was made to Eurogamer by Screen Digest analyst Piers Harding-Rolls, and his peer Colin Sebastian from Lazard Capital Markets reckons that makes sense.