Katherine Marlowe Uncharted 3D Villain?

The Uncharted series for the PS3 has always been an epic non-stop action joy ride. Naughty Dog's third entry Uncharted:Drake's Deception 3-D is turning out to be Sony's PS3 next must have game.

In the new cutscene, Sony PS3 owners are introduced for the very first time to Katherine Marlowe, an aging British woman. According to Naughty Dog, Marlowe is the current head of a 400-year-old cabal associated with none other than Queen Elizabeth and her sea-faring explorer Sir Francis Drake, Nathan's long-dead relative. At the outset of the cutscene, Drake and Sully are thrown out into an alleyway somewhere in urban England, where they're roughed-up by some of Marlowe's goons. It's only after the two men are adequately subdued that Marlowe herself shows up.

New Uncharted: Drake's Deception Video:
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception


Video Source:[IGN]

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NanoGeekTechTV presents: Ninja Gaiden 3 Teaser Trailer

To kick off GDC, Tecmo Koei has released a short teaser trailer:



Source:[Youtube]

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NanoGeekTechTV presents:Dead Island Trailer

It's alive, DeepSilver’s formally confirmed it’s to publish Techland’s Dead Island with a release in 2011. The publisher also confirmed that a PS3 version was in the works. The game was previously a PC and 360 exclusive.

The game is set in a first-person perspective on a tropical island. It’ll have a heavy focus on “character development and customisation” as well as a “vast array of weapons” with melee being a heavy focus due to “firearms and ammunition being scarce.”

Dead Island will have four-player co-op as well.

Dead Island Announcement Trailer:

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Killzone 3 Trophies revealed

Trophies hunter's unit, Killzone 3 trophies has been revealed. I do find trophies a little more satisfying than achievements. Please note the list may contain spoilers.

Killzone 3 Story trailer

Bronze Trophies

Ready for Battle - Complete weapons training in Prologue
In Your Face - First Brutal Melee
No Witnesses - Destroy all dropships in Broken Highway
Mopping Up - Kill 40 or more Helghast foot soldiers in Senlin Beach
Sawn Off - Destroy all chasing APCs in Senlin Beach
Smoking Wrecks - Destroy all tanks in Senlin Beach
Turn the Tables - Kill a Capture Trooper using melee
Spiky Personality - Kill a Helghast by shooting a Burster Plant in Jungle Valley
Minigunned - Destroy all targets while on the Intruder in Frozen Shores
Quick Exit - Escape the oil rig quickly in Frozen Shores
Shattered - Destroy all glass in the labs in Stahl Arms South
Pinpoint - Kill the Heavy with an StA-14 in Blind Yards
Evening the Odds - Kill 500 Helghast
Cagefighter - Kill 10 Helghast using Brutal Melee
Frag Out - Kill 3 Helghast with 1 Frag Grenade
One Each - Kill 3 Helghast with the Shotgun Pistol – no reloads
Eagle Eye - Every Sniper Rifle bullet is a kill – no reloads
Power Spike - Nail a Helghast to an exploding object
Up Close & Personal - Brutal Melee another player
Team Player - Play a match as a part of a squad
Medic! - Revive another player
Handy Man - Repair an object
Now You See Me - Kill using Cloak
Spy Game - Kill using Disguise
Turf War - Capture a Tactical Spawn Point

Silver Trophies

Now it’s Personal - Kill 1,000 Helghast
Fight to the Last - Kill 1,500 Helghast
Close Quarters Killer - Kill 25 Helghast with Brutal Melee
Hand to Hand Master - Kill 50 Helghast with Brutal Melee

Gold Trophies

Victory - Complete Campaign on Elite
Grand Slam - Win a match in 3 multiplayer modes

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Epic New Killzone 3 Footage

Some new gameplay footage has emerged online for Killzone 3 and Sony was quick to have it yanked. So check out and enjoy the video before it disappears.

Video is in Russian so I advised you watch with the volume down.
Spoiler Alert: Please be warned.

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New inFAMOUS 2 Trailer

Karma moments from inFAMOUS are now represented by character-driven dialogue and 3D mocap cutscenes. Your conscience comes into play with the introduction of Kuo and Nix, two NPC characters. Kuo is a NSA agent working to help Cole defeat the Beast. Nix is a New Marais native that grew up in the swamps around New Marias, whose hatred for Bertrand stems from witnessing him kill her family. She is your hedonistic guide that coaxes Cole into not thinking about the consequences of his actions.

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Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance Trailer

After the break you'll find Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, and I suggest you check it out soon before Square pulls it from YouTube.

Video of Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

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Final Fantasy Versus XIII Trailer

Final Fantasy Versus XIII was screened today at an event in Toyko. When Final Fantasy Versus XIII was screened during the event, there was a media blackout, prohibiting the taking of photos.

Besides Final Fantasy Versus XIII, a lucky YouTuber nyaon60 also uploaded the trailers for Kingdom Hearts 3D, Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Final Fantasy Type-0. As with Final Fantasy Versus XIII, there was a media blackout when the trailers were first shown at the event today in Tokyo.

Final Fantasy Versus XIII Trailer

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops: First Strike Trailer

We all know Microsoft spent a small kings ransom for the timed exclusive DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops. The DLC, called First Strike, features four new multiplayer maps and an additional zombie mode. Of the maps, Stadium and Kowloon look the most interesting from a visual perspective.

DLC First Strike will launch sometime in February 2011 on Xbox 360 and eventually see the light on PS3 in April.

Call of Duty: Black Ops: First Strike DLC Video

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Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Video

Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada sent this latest trailer for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 out over Twitter yesterday. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (TTTT?) will release sometime in 2011.

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Viva La Resistance: Resistance 3 debut Trailer

Resistance 3
Release date: Fall 2011

Powered by InsomniacGames’ fifth-generation PlayStation 3 technology, Resistance 3 portrays Capelli’s heroic survival inside the brutal Resistance world. Featuring new upgradeable weapons, the return of the weapon wheel, two-player online or split-screen campaign co-op and a progression-based multiplayer experience, Resistance 3 delivers a heroic-yet savage first-person shooter experience for PlayStation 3

August, 1957. America is lost. Four years after the end of the critically-acclaimed Resistance 2, dishonorably discharged Sentinel Joseph Capelli has given up fighting the Chimeran menace. Now he’s in hiding with other survivors, including his wife and young son. But when Dr. Fyodor Malikov arrives with the opportunity to deliver a blow to the occupying Chimeran force, Capelli must leave his family and journey the harrowing road from Oklahoma to New York City. Along the way, he’ll encounter the remnants of humanity left in the aftermath of the brutal Chimeran invasion.

Resistance 3 Trailer:

Video Games | Resistance 3 | VGA 10: Exclusive Debut Trailer HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

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Uncharted 3 debut Trailer

Uncharted 3
Release date: 11/1/11

Drake’s Deception features the return of famed fortune hunter Nathan Drake and follows him through a gripping, action-packed storyline that will take you all over the world. In his search for the fabled “Atlantis of the Sands,” Nathan Drake and longtime friend and mentor Victor Sullivan set off on a daring trek into the heart of the Arabian Desert. But when terrible secrets of this lost city are uncovered, their journey becomes a desperate bid for survival that will force Drake to confront his deepest fears.

Throughout UNCHARTED 3, you’ll be taken to spectacular new locations around the globe that will showcase all of the work we’ve taken on to take acclaimed physics, particle and visual effects to a new level.

Competitive and co-op multiplayer will return as a key ingredient to the UNCHARTED 3 package, where all of the new features we have planned will combine with our signature single-player cinematic gameplay to create a unique action-adventure multiplayer experience that can only be found in the UNCHARTED universe.

Oh, and there’s one more thing – UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception fully supports high-resolution Stereoscopic 3D.

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Video

Video Games | Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception | VGA 10: Exclusive Debut Trailer HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

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CryEngine 3 Beauty Speed Interaction Trailer HD

Today Crytek released their new CryENGINE 3 all-in-one multiplatform development solution, now available for licensees along with a video of it in action below!

Video after the jump:

Video Games | CryEngine 3 | Beauty Speed Interaction Trailer HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Press Release: Frankfurt a. M. (Germany), October 14th 2009 - Crytek GmbH (“Crytek”) is excited to announce that their latest all-in-one development solution CryENGINE 3 is now available for all developers.

CryENGINE 3 is the first game development platform for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, MMO, DX9/DX10 that also is truly Next-Gen-Ready - with scalable computation and graphics for all major upcoming platforms.

It provides the complete game engine to create AAA quality next generation games, and includes the redesigned CryENGINE 3 Sandbox™ level editor, a production-proven, 3rd generation “What you see is what you play” (WYSIWYP) - tool designed by and for professional developers.

CryENGINE 3 also introduces CryENGINE 3 Live Create™. It allows developers to work with a single editor, but see and play the results in real-time on PC, PS3 and Xbox360, hooked up to a single dev PC.

The engine takes care of the conversion and optimization of assets in real-time; enables instant, cross-platform changes to any part of game creation and as a result materially increases the speed, quality and significantly reduces the risk of multiplatform development.

“With CryENGINE 3 we are releasing the best development solution available today and tomorrow. With its scalable graphics and computation it is next-gen ready and with new features like CryENGINE 3 Live Create the best choice for game developers and companies developing serious games applications alike. It is the only game engine solution that enables real-time development and can ensure teams are able to maximise their own creativity, save budget and create greater gaming experiences.” said Cevat Yerli, CEO & President of Crytek.

“We’re delighted to launch CryENGINE 3 and we look forward to seeing what developers achieve with our all-new technology. CryENGINE 3 isn’t just about providing our trademark highest-quality graphics and our out of the box AI and physics for the first time on consoles – it also delivers real benefits to all disciplines in games development.

Programmers will create awesome new effects and gameplay; art, design and audio teams can play as they create with the fastest, entirely real-time WYSIWYP pipeline ever, materially reducing development time and risk – even producers, project managers and suits will love CryENGINE 3!

Of course, our international team of more than 20 dedicated support staff are available right now to help our licensees make the most of CryENGINE 3; at their studio or at one of our support centres around the world.” added Carl Jones, Director of Business Development CryENGINE.

CryENGINE® is the underlying technology for Crytek’s critically acclaimed games Far Cry, Crysis, Crysis Warhead and NC Soft’s recently released MMORPG blockbuster AION. It has already been licensed to a number of major game companies around the globe, including several recent serious games training and simulation projects. CryENGINE®3 is the underlying technology for the highly anticipated Crysis®2.

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Dantes Inferno dev diary discusses anger

Visceral Games has released a new developer diary of Dante's Inferno (PS3, PSP, and Xbox 360). This time, the developers discusses the fifth circle of hell, anger. Dantes Inferno looks very interesting so far. I wonder how will win? Kratos or Dante in the ultimate battle for Hades. Check out the video after the jump.

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Toshiba TV uses PS3 chip Cell

Toshiba will soon put on sale in Japan the first television based on the powerful Cell multimedia processor, the same chip that's used in the PlayStation 3 (PS3). The Cell Regza TV boasts several advanced features including the ability to simultaneously record eight high-definition channels.

The TV represents more than the culmination of four years of research and development. No other company has yet talked about putting such powerful processing inside a TV and Toshiba is betting that the functions enabled by the inclusion of the Cell give it an edge in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

The 55-inch TV will go on sale in Japan in early December and will cost around ¥1 million [m] (£7,000). Toshiba expects to sell about 1,000 of the TVs per month when it first launches in Japan. It will first arrive in the US sometime in 2010, with a European release set to happen after that, but no other details on international availability were announced.

The Cell chip was developed by Toshiba, IBM and Sony and each chip contains a single Power PC core and eight co-processors. Together the chips make heavy-duty processing of video a breeze. Compared to one of Toshiba's current TVs the Cell Regza has 143 times the arithmetic processing capacity.

The simultaneous recording function uses two-thirds of the space on an internal 3TB hard-disk drive to provide, when run continuously, the last 26 hours of television on-demand from eight channels. Alternatively it can be switched to record fewer channels at different times to result in a longer overall library of programmes. For example, if set just to record during primetime then up to a week's programming can be stored.

The eight channels corresponds to the number of terrestrial TV stations available in metropolitan areas of Japan.

The remaining terabyte of disk space can be used to record desired programmes and keep them for longer than the simultaneous recording function allows.

Other visual tricks are also capable with the TV, such as the ability to have eight TV channels displayed on the screen at the same time. By keeping each of the TV tuners set to a different channel it's also possible to quickly step up and down through digital channels without the delay that is now common on most digital sets.

The hard-disk, Cell chip and most of the other intelligence and processing systems for the set are included in an external box, which is roughly the size of a a Blu-ray Disc player of a few years ago.

The TV is being unveiled to the public at Ceatec, Japan's biggest electronics show that kicks off on Tuesday near Tokyo. At the exhibition Toshiba is also talking about future directions for the technology including the use of the Cell chip to power a 3D television and a version with a 4k x 2k screen, which has four times as many pixels as current high-def TVs.

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PS3: LittleBigPlanet & Resident Evil - with Motion Control

Sony recently announced a full list of games that will support Sony's new motion controls. It seems some current games will be supporting Sony's new tech. At TGS09 Capcom showed off Resident Evil 5 using Sony's new motion control tech, if that was not enough Sony went off and shown LittleBigPlanet being played with Sony's motion control. Check out the video after the jump:


LittleBigPlanet PS3 Motion Controls



Resident Evil 5: Director's Cut is currently slated for a Spring release. Hopefully Sony and Capcom will release an online update to add the feature to regular copies of the game so we don't have to spring for a whole new disc.


PS3 Resident Evil Director's Cut

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Yakuza 4 TGS Japanese Trailer

It looks like Sega is showing the Yakuza series some major love. With Yakuza 3 debuting early this year, Sega is on the heels of releasing Yakuza 4 in Japan soon. With the recent leaked Sega Meeting Minutes, it looks like the US will be getting some Yakuza love from Sega hopefully.

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New Last Guardian Footage

It's not a dog, not a cat and it's not a bird so WTF is it? Sony ran a mini-press conference earlier today, just for White Knight Chronicles and Last Guardian. During that event, some new Last Guardian footage was shown.

It's at the end, past the Team Ico retrospective, I guess we will have wait until Last Guardian arrives Fall 2010. Video after the jump:

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PS3 Slim unboxed Video

The Sony PS3 Slim is officially out for only $299.00. You now get a standard 120GB HDD that is easily replaceable, if 120GB is not enough for you. The biggest feature Sony deleted from the new PS3 Slim was Linux. Sarah Ewen of SCEE’s technology group had this to say:

“The reasons are simple: The PS3 Slim is a major cost reduction involving many changes to hardware components in the PS3 design. In order to offer the OtherOS install, SCE would need to continue to maintain the OtherOS hypervisor drivers for any significant hardware changes – this costs SCE.

One of our key objectives with the new model is to pass on cost savings to the consumer with a lower retail price. Unfortunately in this case the cost of OtherOS install did not fit with the wider objective to offer a lower cost PS3.”

Following the massive Sony GamesCom press conference confirming Sony's new model, GamesRadar US takes their new prize out of the box and into our monitors.

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Behind the Scenes with SCEA Research & Development (Part 1)

During E3, Sony showcased a prototype for a new controller launching next year. I have a lot of questions, so Richard Marks and Anton Mikhailov sat down to give a recap of Sony new MoCo Technology, two of the main brains behind the new controller, to get some insight on the E3 demo, the back-story behind development, and the future of this new technology.

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