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Friday, August 5, 2011

New, fascinating dev diary for Forza Motorsport 4

I Turn 10 visiting the Swiss Alps According to information released to date about the development of Forza Motorsport 4, it is clear the enormous research work done by the guys at Turn 10. Dev diary in which we report below, developers documenting a journey that took them to visit the Swiss Alps (eye, the second part will be set in Italy ...) to get an idea of these wonderful locations and take a huge amount of high resolution photos.

Quick Controls on consoles for RAGE

id Software is now in the final phase of the development of Rage. The team claimed to have done a great job to try to get quick checks on both the PC on the home console Sony and Microsoft. According to Tim Willits, the greatest challenge was combating the latency on PS3 and Xbox 360, but eventually after many tests and changes the results are almost identical to the PC version controls.

"Compared to the control via keyboard and mouse pads were much slower in responding to commands," said Willits, "but in the end we managed to solve the problem.

"If Halo fails, the Xbox will also fail"

The more or less rosy future of the Xbox 360 will depend largely on the Halo series. It is more than convinced Phil Spencer, Microsoft Game Studios boss. "Our first-party AAA titles are the key element for the current and future success of our platform and between the Halo is the most important." "If the series were lost, which of course we hope not, then the fate Xbox'd be indelibly marked." After this semi-apocalyptic vision, however, Spencer wanted to point out that the team is doing a great job 343 with Halo 4.

FFXIII-2 will be released at the beginning of 2012 in Europe

During the last financial report, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be released in Europe "early 2012". In Japan, the game will be released in December while in the U.S. next January, which makes sense that we should wait until at least February or early spring. Squenix other two products do not have a date instead of Western, or the Dragon Quest 25th Anniversary Collection for Wii and Final Fantasy for PSP Type-0.

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A date for the Disney Universe

Disney Universe will reach store shelves on October 28th, as announced a few hours ago by Disney Interactive. In this colorful action-adventure heroes end up at home most of the Disney star with the addition of many of the Pixar movies. The adventure will be playable in co-op up to four players and will be available simultaneously on PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and PC.

NBA 2K12 - Pictures and video of how Big NBA Champions

A mode dedicated to the legends 2K Sports has announced, with a video and 5 images, how "Big NBA Champions" for NBA 2K12. In the new incarnation of the series so we can relive the history of basketball and the NBA using 15 historical teams that made them great champions. In the trailer and the images are obviously the most famous, or Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Julius "Dr. J" Erving.

FIFA 12: All the news

The holidays loom geniacci and marketing at Electronic Arts have one concern: to make sure that the hype for FIFA 12 remains high even when we're on the beach under an umbrella. It must, therefore, for this opportunity you have seen fit to create a new FIFA 12 video summary of all the news of the game, some of which are now known, others less.

It only remains to wish you good vision and good vecanze, especially your thumbs: to return, with all games that will be tested, will be put to the test.

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Catherine sells 200,000 copies

After announcing that that Catherine was the largest launch in the twenty years history of Atlus, the publisher has also released the first numbers for the company. According to reports, Catherine would have placed the beauty of 200,000 copies in one week of sales in the U.S. We admit it: among those 200,000 pieces is also our collector's edition.

In this way we can give a given a precise meaning to the declaration of Atlus, who said that the results of Catherine to have "exceeded our most optimistic expectations."

Codemasters confirms F1 on Wii U

Codemasters has confirmed that the F1 series will arrive on Nintendo Wii U, probably with the 2012 edition of the game. With this output the series confirms its presence on all next-generation platforms submitted so far: 3DS, Wii and PlayStation U Life. At E3 last year the English publisher had confirmed that the series Dirt was coming home on new hardware Nintendo.

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Iwata fears reactions "after-cut" of 3DS

The Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, is concerned about the reactions of the first buyers may have 3DS after the announcement of the price cut. Recall that from August 12 the new Nintendo handheld console will be sold around the world with a price reduction of about 30%.

In Japan, a customer of three said he was sorry that he bought the 3DS before cutting while 49.4% are not satisfied with the quantity and quality of games out so far. 30% remained negative, then surprised by the announcement of the price cut and believes that the games announced as a gift for the Ambassador Program are not sufficient compensation.