Category: PS3

The PlayStation 3

Ubisoft tells us more about Vegas

Ubisoft has coughed up the details about the new Rainbow 6 (it’s actually #5) game, Vegas. The game will combine Xbox Live Vision to allow users to face map themselves on characters. Ubisoft also gave out details about a feature called tag using tag you can assign a CPU to a enemy thus making it easier to take out someone. The game will feature new gadgets (as always), and a new emphasis on Observe-Plan-Assault (OPA) tactics.

Enemy AI will be upgraded making the enemies alot smarter, which Ubisoft claims is needed for the newer consoles (really, so older systems get dumber enemies), enemies will also start to work in groups more often.

As stated before, you can customize your character a ton. Every thing from body armour to weapons, sights, to physical attributes (face textures is a big one).

As of now it will be getting an M rating and it is being devoloped by the Montreal Studio (who we haven’t heard from in a while [last game they made was Rainbow Six 3]). The game comes out next month for the Xbox 360 and PS3 only.

PC to PS3? Oh yeah.

This just in from Sony, Xfire will be allow users to communicate between PS3s..but you already knew that right? Well Sony says that it will also allow users of the PS3 to communicate to gamers on the PC

This is something that the Xbox 360 lacks, which is cross platform communications. Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom will be the first title to incorperate the PC to PS3 communication function.

Sony says that more titles will support PS3 to PC communication as the PS3 comes near launch date.
What Sony didn’t say is if the games actually allow players to play PC gamers and vice versa. Which is something gamers want. Not just cross platform communications…it’s no fun when you aren’t playing each other. I guess we will see when the PS3 comes out.

PS3 Dev Kit Released

Before we had a post on the original dev kit which was a big huge box that weighed nothing less of 60 pounds. And that box was huge. Turns out that Sony has been tweaking the dev kit to make it near the size of a old VCR set. The Kit contains a Blu-ray drive and a 80GB hard drive which contains an alpha build of Full Auto 2 as well as other apps. You were able to build Full Auto 2 using the dev kit and play it. People who have played it say that it was lag free and the menus were awesome.

PS3 will be able to use save data from older PS systems….

..but here is the catch. You need to buy a PS/2 to PS3 adapter. Like something you need if you were to move data from a Xbox card to the new Xbox 360 by using 3rd party devices. The PS3 will have the same thing but you have to buy it from Sony.

Sony says that in order to use saved data on a PlayStation 2 memory card, you must copy data onto a virtual memory card that is mounted on the HD by default.

But does that mean you have to buy new memory cards so they would work with a PS3? The answer is no. Because the memory card adapter can edit, move data from memory cards.

Ciphering the next gen Splinter Cell

Edge of Reality Games, the maker of the console versions of The Sims, announced that it is stepping in a new direction.

The studio is going to self-fund its latest project, Cipher Complex, which it plans to ship in 2007 for the PS 3 and Xbox360.

Details are very vague on this project.

In Cipher Complex, US government officials respond to a downed recon satellite by calling in the mysterious John Cipher, a secret operative.

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