Thursday, June 16, 2011

On arrival, a Harry Potter MMO?

At a distance of only a few hours after the launch of the site pottermore. com, where you can see only a logo accompanied by the signature of JK Rowling and the words "Coming Soon", is already beginning to talk about what could be the next company announcement of Warner Bros. owns the domain in question.

At the moment it is uncertain whether it will be a video game or a book - or anything else in the world of Harry Potter inspired to tell the truth - but the project according to the most likely could be an MMO ... why? Simple, the suffix "-more". According to what reported by Massively, this suffix may be in fact an acronym for "Multiplayer Online Role-playing Experience." This is certainly a fanciful theory, but no one can predict whether or not you turn into reality.

U detuned Wii development kit for developers?

It seems that the current development kits are set to the power of PS3 and Xbox 360 According to a report of Hit Detection, developers working on Wii would enjoy a U underpowered version of the console dev kits, set the level of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It is unclear why Nintendo does not yet make it possible to exploit the advanced resources of its new machine.

Even the videos they showed at E3 of the technical potential far from exciting, despite all the industry swear that Nintendo is able to outperform the Xbox 360 and PS3. That there is some surprise coming? What Nintendo does not want to leak anything before being able to show something really amazing? Source: Destructoid

Donkey Kong nell'eShop bursts of 3DS

Nintendo today released 3DS sull'eShop of the old classic Game Boy, Donkey Kong. The title, revived in its original form, can be purchased for € 4. For those who still do not know, the eShop of 3DS was launched last week via a firmware upgrade that, among other things, has unlocked the functionality of "Web-browsing" of the platform.

John Carpenter and Steve Niles to talk F.3.AR

The two directors have collaborated on the game's release in June 24 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, F3. AR offers a fascinating mix of the classical dynamics of the FPS genre and many key elements of adventure in horror. At the completion of the game was attended by some of the most eminent experts in this film genre, including John Carpenter (director of films like "The Thing", "The Lord of Evil," "The Fog", etc..) And Steve Niles (director of "30 Days of Night"), who speak in the video shown at the end of their experience with F3.

360 characters exclusive to SFxT?

The PlayStation 3 and PS versions of Street Fighter x Tekken Life will have the exclusive character of Cole MacGrath, star of inFamous. But Xbox 360 gamers can rest assured ... will not be no surprises! "It all depends on Microsoft," said the producer of Street Fighter, Yoshinori Ono. "Sony has asked us to put that character in the game and we were happy to do so.

Now let's see if Microsoft will launch initiatives in the same direction." We want to bet that once again comes out the name of Marcus?

The Wii controller for a single U will not push up costs

Nintendo does not want to drive up the overall cost of the console to the end user. Many have wondered why the Wii will come with support for U one controller. Nintendo has finally revealed the mystery: it is a problem of costs. In reality, the console could handle four controllers simultaneously (as with the Wii remote controls), but the single controller to be purchased separately would have a high price, which in fact would increase too much the total price for the end user.

Record attendance for PlayStation Home

According to VentureBeat about half a million people is connected to PlayStation Home at E3 2011, According To. The space dedicated to the California Fair was a huge success and thousands of avatars have spent time together with their "masters" watching the conference and trade fair. "It was a real record.

We watched the numbers and we could not believe our eyes," said a Sony representative.