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http://pc.ign.com/articles/768/768012p1.html

While not EXACTLY alike, I'm surprised the makers haven't been sued by the makers of X-Com.

No keyboard/mouse combo yet for real FPS players?

Oh, and this thing sucks.
http://gear.ign.com/articles/753/753779p2.html

I've even heard the argument made that they wont ever support kb/mouse for FPS because it would put the regular controller users at such a disadvantage. I think that's complete crap.

Microsoft would slap together a MS XBOX360 branded kb/mouse combo and sell it for $150, and you can buy it or suck, show them the money or go home with your broke ass no halo playing self.

That's pretty much their attitude.

http://digg.com/gaming_news/Unreal_3_Engine_on_PS3_Confirmed

And:

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/188/Sony-Super-Engineers-Optimizing-Unreal-3

Looks to me like there were some significant efforts to optimize the engine for the PS3... Heck, it's even been licensed by Sony.

I thought it was more widely known that the PS3 version will support keyboard and mouse play. One of the reasons I finally bought a console for gaming.

http://xbox360.ign.com/index/release.html

Apparently...

Halo3
Beautiful Katamari
Need For Speed Prostreet
Bladestorm
Assassin's Creed
Beowulf
Mass Effect
Devil May Cry 4
Heist
Lost Odyssey
Fallout 3
Alone in the Dark
Burnout Paradise
Culdept Saga
Dark Sector
Legendary: The Box
GTA4
Lego Indiana Jones
Prototype
Alan Wake
Dynasty Warriors 6 ...

Oh, I give up. There's a lot, okay?

"This is regrettable, too, because there really are a number of strong titles coming out for the console this year."

Really? In 2007? Like What? Looking at the release dates, I don't see a decent exclusive before LittleBigPlanet or Killzone, both of which are in February.

PC games:
[77,374] Bioshock - 2K Games
[49,126] World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack - Vivendi

Consoles:
[896,592] Madden NFL 08 - Xbox 360 - Electronic Arts
[643,617] Madden NFL 08 - Playstation 2 - Electronic Arts
[490,910] BioShock - Xbox 360 - 2K Games
[336,189] Madden NFL 08 - Playstation 3 - Electronic Arts
[256,781] Play With Remote - Wii - Nintendo of America

Well, you could point that out, but you'd be lying.

The Wii's attach rate is actually higher than the PS3's, and comparable to the 360's at the same time in its lifespan. This and are two of the newer links I could find.

When Half-Life 2: The Orange Box ships later this year, it promises to deliver an impressively wide range of gameplay. First, there's Half-Life 2: Episode Two, the second part of the trilogy follow-up to 2004's blockbuster Half-Life 2. (The Orange Box will also include Half-Life 2 as well as Episode One to get newcomers up to speed.) Next is Team Fortress 2, the stylized, team-based multiplayer action game that's been in development off and on over the past decade. Finally, The Orange Box will also include Portal, the innovative first-person action puzzle game.

The Orange Box is a menagerie of Valve Software's most recent and forthcoming titles, including Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 and Portal.

I disagree, the graphics of Halo 3 use brilliant colors instead of the usual dull green / brown monotone games out there. Judge for yourself: http://blogs.ign.com/ShishouMatt/2007/08/07/62622/ It is clear that when the colors on Halo 3 are desaturated the graphics look much better.

Your link is brok-ed :(

Try this: Tron is On.

Ah yes, racetrack memory... just in time for the parimutuel betting scene in the new Tron movie. See: http://movies.ign.com/articles/819/819271p1.html/

I'm not quite sure that I completely agree with your assessment that "The best games are M." As an example, are games that are rated E or T not capable of being considered as the best? Games such as The Sims, Civilization, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, etc. are not rated M, but are considered among some of the best games of all time. If you look at IGN's Top 100 games list I don't think there are any games in the top 10 that would be rated as Mature. The first M-rated game I could find on the list was Metal Gear Solid which was ranked #19.

It could be possible that you enjoy FPS games, which are generally given a mature rating because they involve death and blood in most cases. It happens that the genre you prefer happens to be tagged as Mature in a vast majority of cases. An interesting question springs to mind though. If you were given an FPS game featuring the best controls, storyline, gameplay, multiplayer, graphics, and game balance (in your opinion) would it still be good if it didn't have enough violence (or other content) to warrent an M rating? If you don't enjoy FPS games, then simply apply the question to a different genre.

"Sony remains unfazed."

As of right now, the link points to the Metroid Prime 3 comic rather than the lair comic. This took me a while to figure out what was going on.

I eventually found a review site at http://ps3.ign.com/articles/817/817117p3.html - it states clearly why the reviewer doesn't like the game. While the user reviews are slightly higher, it doesn't change the fact that the game wasn't that well received (with the people who voted.)

As most games on the PS3 tend to be ports of other games on other systems, if you have any of these already, you can probably skip the PS3 version.

The most recent addition to my titles has been Elder Scrolls Oblivion. This game is absolutely beautiful, and translated really well to the PS3. The game of the year addition is due out soon

Ninja Gaidan Sigma is beautiful and fun. Spent many hours with this one. The demo is available for download from the online store.

Super Rub-a-Dub is highly addictive, and I think its only $6 or something through the online store.

Resistance Fall of Man is AWSOME if you like playing FPS without the use of Keyboard or mouse.

The Need For Speed games are always good.

The Gran Turismo HD Concepts demo is available for download from the online store.

Stay away from Sonic The Hedgehog. REALLY slow to get started, REALLY buggy, LONG load waits.

Download Lemmings and Soduku from the online store. Both are cheap, and while they do not really show off the power of the PS3, are highly addictive. Lemmings is the traditional side scroller (not a 3d remake), but with updated graphics, so its beautiful and fun.

FEAR is good, but not as good as the PC version.

Little Big World is due out soon. The previews of this game (available from the online store) look awsome!

Ratchet and Clank comes out in October.

While there is not a ton of games out now, the next few months look exciting for the PS3.
http://ps3.ign.com/index/release.html

The PS3 upconverts PS1 and PS2 games. I should point out though that this simply takes the 480i game, and upconverts the graphics and runs a smoother on it, it does NOT rerender 3D graphics at a higher resolution, which is a pity, FF9 for the PSX looks amazing at 1024x768 on PC Playstation emulators. Hopefully a future firmware update will fix this, its not as if the Cell Processor does not have the speed to do it, and the newer PS3s run all legacy games in software emulation mode anyways.

Also, remember that the PS3 is still a fairly cheap BluRay player. While I could not justify the price of a PS3 for just a game system or a movie player, I felt it was worth the price to get the two. Plus, it makes a great Windows Media device. Just load up TVersity (http://tversity.com/home) on the PC, and the PS3 now will play most of the movies I have on my PC (although I do have some issues with some XVid and TS streams)

Wii games cost less because they don't make the game as big, as long, or as in depth as they would for another console. I'm absolutely sure that the difference in costs between HD graphic development and regular is far less than 50%.

I suppose that depends on where you put your money. You can have an HD presentation and some of the best facial animations ever seen in a game, and yet end up with a 6 hour game.

They're saving money because they're making simpler games designed for your grandmother or your 5 year old.

Hopefully both. :-) Over Memorial Day weekend 3 generations of my family were playing WiiSports together. This would not have happened with any other system to date.

Haven't Playstations always been the same? Sony isn't a software company and can't provide as much support as MS have done with the Xbox 360. Considering also the year lead of the 360, it's fairly safe to assume the PS3 would be about 18 months behind on software. Developers from all corners have been complaining of the difficulty or working with the PS3, which is the same as was true for PS1 and PS2.

The Xbox came with standard Direct-X programming tools that PC developers were already familiar with. On the Xbox, first gen games looked pretty similar to what was coming out later on. On PS2 by comparison, the bar was raised every year - it still is even now. E.g. Red Faction looked great in 2001, but it's rubbish by the standards of God of War 2.

Unfortunately everyone concentrates on getting the graphics bit right for the first year. In that sense the Wii did a great favour to it's buyers by pretty much being a statement that graphics weren't important - developers from the start just made some fun games. PS3 developers feel they at least have to outdo PS2 and Xbox graphics before they can look at gameplay. It'll work out over the next year.

Haven't Playstations always been the same? Sony isn't a software company and can't provide as much support as MS have done with the Xbox 360. Considering also the year lead of the 360, it's fairly safe to assume the PS3 would be about 18 months behind on software. Developers from all corners have been complaining of the difficulty or working with the PS3, which is the same as was true for PS1 and PS2.

The Xbox came with standard Direct-X programming tools that PC developers were already familiar with. On the Xbox, first gen games looked pretty similar to what was coming out later on. On PS2 by comparison, the bar was raised every year - it still is even now. E.g. Red Faction looked great in 2001, but it's rubbish by the standards of God of War 2.

Unfortunately everyone concentrates on getting the graphics bit right for the first year. In that sense the Wii did a great favour to it's buyers by pretty much being a statement that graphics weren't important - developers from the start just made some fun games. PS3 developers feel they at least have to outdo PS2 and Xbox graphics before they can look at gameplay. It'll work out over the next year.

This is since they dropped support for hardware-accelerated soundcards and did everything on your CPU?

Pretty sure that it's just a wishful thinking from a PS3 fanboy. A quick search on IGN shows nothing for the PS3.

http://search.ign.com/products?query=bioshock

Even Nintendo don't know.

Not before April, 2008. And it may get held up even longer since they want to release simultaneously for PC and DS even though the two versions will be different and incompatible.

My method was to go to IGN and count the 8s and 9s in their review section. I did notice there were many duplicates for AU and UK and tried to skip them but honestly I wasn't very careful and I have had [hic] a beer or two.

Here for the 8-9 for example.

Being more careful this time I get 16 at 8-9 and 3 at 9+. So 19, not 22. Whoops. But still, anybody who says "my PS3 collects dust because there are no good games" has their head firmly up their ass.

I'm not a PS3 hater, I just wanted to see the games that are 8+. I went to IGN and I saw these:
(here's the URL: http://ps3.ign.com/index/reviews.html?constraint.n ot_null.article.overall_rating=is_true&ordering.or der=desc&ordering.attribute=article.review_date&co nstraint.max_rows=40&constraint.locale=us&sort.att ribute=article.overall_rating&sort.order=desc)

Ninja Gaiden Sigma Action 9.3 Jun 29, 2007
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The RPG 9.2 Mar 26, 2007
MotorStorm [AU] Racing 8.9 Mar 22, 2007
Ninja Gaiden Sigma [AU] Action 8.8 Jul 4, 2007
Super Stardust HD Shooter 8.7 Jul 2, 2007
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas Shooter 8.7 Jun 27, 2007
Super Stardust HD [UK] Shooter 8.5 Jun 21, 2007
Super Stardust HD [AU] Shooter 8.5 Jun 20, 2007
Calling All Cars! Action 8.5 Apr 25, 2007
Resistance: Fall of Man [AU] Shooter 8.4 Mar 27, 2007
F.E.A.R. Shooter 8.1 Apr 20, 2007
Bigs, The Sports 8.0 Jun 26, 2007
Resistance: Fall of Man [UK] Shooter 8.0 Mar 22, 2007

There are only 13 lines there, and there are multiple lines for one game. So if you eliminate the multiple listings, you get:

Ninja Gaiden Sigma Action 9.3 Jun 29, 2007
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The RPG 9.2 Mar 26, 2007
MotorStorm [AU] Racing 8.9 Mar 22, 2007
Super Stardust HD Shooter 8.7 Jul 2, 2007
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas Shooter 8.7 Jun 27, 2007
Calling All Cars! Action 8.5 Apr 25, 2007
Resistance: Fall of Man [AU] Shooter 8.4 Mar 27, 2007
F.E.A.R. Shooter 8.1 Apr 20, 2007
Bigs, The Sports 8.0 Jun 26, 2007

So down to 9. Which is actually cool, 9 good games on a platform in the first year is a great thing. I'm just wondering about the 22 thing. Is this URL wrong, or lacking games that you found elsewhere?

That's funny because if you look in the early screens and graphics for that game that were put out in previews before its release, you will notice that after a certain point they started making her more "xtreme", they gave her green lipstick, made her slimmer, etc...

Sony is selling some 400k new PS2+PS3s every month just in the US alone

Should be noted that 270k of that is PS2 sales, the PS3 is moving at below 100k a month. For a comparison the Wii is doing 380k that month and the DS 560k while the 360 sells 198k, still twice the sales of the PS3.

The challenge is making a game where everyone can "start a merchant empire, overthrow a king, or build a village".

One thing is the point of view. You can look at how the larger guilds do things - build guild towns, share major raiding areas, declare a hierarchy within both their own guild and amongst others, etc. You could easily compare this to merchant empires, kings and villages, but for some reason, people choose to not look at it that way unless the game tells you that's how to look at it.

MMORPG Discussion Board is worth reading and contributing to. Lots of great ideas, both recent and ancient, are on that board.

My idea (never thought you'd ask): A true resource system where everything is related. Kill too many deer herds, not only do the wolves start coming to your farms, but you won't have any meat in your local stores to feed your heroes. You have to defend your farms from orc/wolf raids or food lacks there also. You want arrows for your bow? Go hunt some pheasants for the local fletcher (who may be a PC, an NPC, or an NPC hireling of PC). Your guild builds a city but if it gets invaded, it won't be razed because a city is valuable in and of itself...you need to convince the NPC populace to follow you (so the town guard, local bakers, shopkeepers, etc stay in the city).

In fairness, I don't think anyone saw the Wii coming or could have planned on the fact that simpler game play, with less intense graphics, that actually involved moving around would have captivated so many people

You mean nobody caught the clue train when it stopped by almost 2 years ago? Ever since they revealed the controller and the highly popular videos of people using it (not even any game footage!), I don't think anyone has had a doubt...

"PS3 Still out sold by GBA" and it would also be true. It simply depends on the spin you want to put on your article. I don't know why GBA numbers were excluded from the parent article since the "Last gen PS2" was also included... Here are some more numbers...

DS - 561,000 units

Wii - 381,000 units

PSP - 290,000 units

PS2 - 270,000 units

X-box 360 - 198,000 units

GBA - 113,000 units

PS3 - 98,000 units.

Clearly Sony can put their spin on it for "Total dollars spent" or "Combined units sold", but the numbers just don't indicate the PS3 is doing well (even if it is better than the months prior).

No :-)

These games were not remakes. None of them. Nintendo released the exact same old versions on new consoles. They didn't remake them.

Ah, true, there was a Mario remake on the GB (Super Mario Deluxe) and two on the GBA (SMB 2 and 3). I forgot about those.

Super Mario World, however, was not remade. It's the SNES version with some very small changes (Luigi controls different, and I guess the graphics were adapted to the smaller resolution).

Same applies to Mario 64 on the DS. While there are some changes to the N64 version, it's not really a remake.

No. Again, re-releasing a game on the VC does not a remake make.

No :-)

These games were not remakes. None of them. Nintendo released the exact same old versions on new consoles. They didn't remake them.

Ah, true, there was a Mario remake on the GB (Super Mario Deluxe) and two on the GBA (SMB 2 and 3). I forgot about those.

Super Mario World, however, was not remade. It's the SNES version with some very small changes (Luigi controls different, and I guess the graphics were adapted to the smaller resolution).

Same applies to Mario 64 on the DS. While there are some changes to the N64 version, it's not really a remake.

No. Again, re-releasing a game on the VC does not a remake make.

No :-)

These games were not remakes. None of them. Nintendo released the exact same old versions on new consoles. They didn't remake them.

Ah, true, there was a Mario remake on the GB (Super Mario Deluxe) and two on the GBA (SMB 2 and 3). I forgot about those.

Super Mario World, however, was not remade. It's the SNES version with some very small changes (Luigi controls different, and I guess the graphics were adapted to the smaller resolution).

Same applies to Mario 64 on the DS. While there are some changes to the N64 version, it's not really a remake.

No. Again, re-releasing a game on the VC does not a remake make.

No :-)

These games were not remakes. None of them. Nintendo released the exact same old versions on new consoles. They didn't remake them.

Ah, true, there was a Mario remake on the GB (Super Mario Deluxe) and two on the GBA (SMB 2 and 3). I forgot about those.

Super Mario World, however, was not remade. It's the SNES version with some very small changes (Luigi controls different, and I guess the graphics were adapted to the smaller resolution).

Same applies to Mario 64 on the DS. While there are some changes to the N64 version, it's not really a remake.

No. Again, re-releasing a game on the VC does not a remake make.

No :-)

These games were not remakes. None of them. Nintendo released the exact same old versions on new consoles. They didn't remake them.

Ah, true, there was a Mario remake on the GB (Super Mario Deluxe) and two on the GBA (SMB 2 and 3). I forgot about those.

Super Mario World, however, was not remade. It's the SNES version with some very small changes (Luigi controls different, and I guess the graphics were adapted to the smaller resolution).

Same applies to Mario 64 on the DS. While there are some changes to the N64 version, it's not really a remake.

No. Again, re-releasing a game on the VC does not a remake make.

No :-)

These games were not remakes. None of them. Nintendo released the exact same old versions on new consoles. They didn't remake them.

Ah, true, there was a Mario remake on the GB (Super Mario Deluxe) and two on the GBA (SMB 2 and 3). I forgot about those.

Super Mario World, however, was not remade. It's the SNES version with some very small changes (Luigi controls different, and I guess the graphics were adapted to the smaller resolution).

Same applies to Mario 64 on the DS. While there are some changes to the N64 version, it's not really a remake.

No. Again, re-releasing a game on the VC does not a remake make.

No :-)

These games were not remakes. None of them. Nintendo released the exact same old versions on new consoles. They didn't remake them.

Ah, true, there was a Mario remake on the GB (Super Mario Deluxe) and two on the GBA (SMB 2 and 3). I forgot about those.

Super Mario World, however, was not remade. It's the SNES version with some very small changes (Luigi controls different, and I guess the graphics were adapted to the smaller resolution).

Same applies to Mario 64 on the DS. While there are some changes to the N64 version, it's not really a remake.

No. Again, re-releasing a game on the VC does not a remake make.