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Will probably take 5 and a half years.
Gran Turismo 5 has been plagued by delays, and whether the game will launch this year still remains to be seen. But that hasn’t stopped creator Kazunori Yamauchi revealing that work on the next instalment, Gran Turismo 6, has already begun.
“Yeah,” Yamuchi told Autoweek – development is underway.
“It’s not something that we can talk that lightly on,” he added. “It took 2000 days to get all the ideas that went into GT5.
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The GT5 creator confirmed among list of speakers for next year’s event.
Polyphony Digital president Kazunori Yamauchi has been confirmed as a speaker at the 2011 D.I.C.E. Summit, along with Cerny Games president Mark Cerny, 5th Cell creative director Jeremiah Slaczka and general manager Joseph Tringali and Booyah CEO Keith Lee.
Taking place in Las Vegas between 9 – 11 February next year, the event will include the 14th annual Interactive Achievement Awards ceremony, Indie Games Challenge plus poker, golf and go-karting tournaments.
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Nintendo’s handheld stays on top, despite improved PSP sales in the Japanese hardware chart week ending October 31.
PSP go managed to increase its sales by more than a 300 per cent thanks to its recent price drop, but the whole DS range also saw significant sales increases – the DSi LL doubling its shifted units. PS3, too, enjoyed a significant boost.
PSP: 38,874 (32,591)
DSi LL: 32,137 (15,819)
PS3: 28,255 (20,128)
DSi: 23,614 (14,703)
Wii: 12,710 (11,971)
DS Lite: 3,375 (3,887)
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In-store demos “better show off” device.
Microsoft might compare Kinect’s arrival to that of a console, but HMV won’t open any shops at midnight to welcome it to the UK next Tuesday.
“We are focusing on in-store demo events rather than midnight launches as we feel these will better show off Kinect’s amazing capabilities to the public,” HMV explained to Eurogamer.
Those comments arrive moments after GAME confirmed overwhelming support for Kinect’s UK launch, promising to open a combined 450 shops at midnight across the country.
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Queues for three blocks, apparently.
Last night Microsoft hired out New York’s iconic Times Square to launch Kinect to North Americans. And with such an audacious event came the need to put on a bloody good show. By all accounts, that’s exactly what happened.
Kotaku took pictures of rapper/crooner Ne-Yo leading hundreds of dancers in a choreographed routine. You could say he was the controller. Those pictures also showed how not only all traffic through Times Square was blocked for the evening, but how all of Times Square’s gigantic televisions flaunted Kinect-based advertising throughout.
Xbox Live’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb shared pictures via Twitter of the Kinect stockpile moments before launch and Xbox 360 boss Don Mattrick selling his new motion-sensing camera to the first person in line.
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Publisher’s losses reduced, but revenue also down year-on-year.
Glu Mobile has posted results for its third fiscal quarter, reporting a $1.6 million loss, down from $4 million for the same quarter last year. Despite the reduced losses, however, the publisher’s revenue is also down, from $19.6 million to $15.5 million year-on-year.
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“Solid performance” of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker boosts the company’s performance.Japan-based publisher and developer Konami has issued a financial report for the first half of its financial year, taking place from April to September 2010.
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Illegal Fable III copies left unplayable.
The 1st November launch of the new Kinect-capable dash brought about an unwelcome surprise for Xbox 360 pirates: new copy protection tech is included that looks set to lock out “backup” games from Xbox Live and – for the first time – stop copied games from loading.
Hackers refer to the new checks as “AP 2.5” and while details are scarce about how it actually works, the current thinking is that specific challenges to the DVD drive’s firmware are embedded into the security sectors on the game disc. If the correct responses don’t come back from the firmware, the console is flagged for banning on Xbox Live and the game refuses to load with a “dirty disc” error. Original copies of the game continue to work fine, even once the console is flagged.
Xbox 360 firmware hacker “Commodore4Eva” claims to have already isolated the AP 2.5 checks embedded within Fable III, but in theory any number of challenges could be embedded onto new game discs, and connection to Xbox Live could see randomised changes to the codes used. Should this be the case, in a best-case scenario, his could mean an effective end to Xbox 360 piracy but in the worst case it may restrict “backups” to running offline only.
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Opening over 400 shops at midnight.
GAME will open 235 shops to welcome the midnight launch of Kinect next Tuesday while Gamestation will open 215 stores.
A spokesperson for the mega-shop-firm told Eurogamer that an official announcement about the night’s events will go out soon.
Does that mean GAME on Oxford Street has been picked as the location for Microsoft’s official UK Kinect launch?
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Atari begins retro revival for Sony.
Like a parenting bird, Atari is regurgitating nutritious PSone games for PS3 and PSP.
This brave strategy began with yesterday’s arrival of Centipede on the PlayStation Store. It costs £4.
Still to come: Pong and Missile Command, among other unnamed retro morsels. But we’re not sure which is planned for next Wednesday’s weekly PlayStation Store update.