EA Tiburon (the EA studio in Florida), has just released a list of songs to be featured in the newest Madden NFL game that releases this August. This year’s game will be the series 18th game. A random fact about the series is that it has sold 60 million copies, which nets around $2 billion dollars for EA Tiburon Studios. The game is supposed to feature 27 songs, yet EA only gave us 15 songs in the list. Nice counting EA.
Category: PSP
PlayStation Portable
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ships today
According to EA, the newest Harry Potter game is shipping today to stores, where it will release on June 28th in Europe and the US. The game takes you through the 5th book, where you are creating an army slowly to defeat the users of the dark arts. While the game has a story line, it encourages you to explore all around the school, attending classes is mostly optional in the game.
The game releases for the PS3 and the Xbox 360 ($60 dollars), Wii ($50 dollars), PS2 and PSP ($40 dollars), and the Nintendo DS, GBA, PC, and Mac OSX ($30 dollars). There will also be a port for cell phone users as well.
Sony seeks new creativity for the PSP
Sony is begging calling for more new game development (not just sequels or ports of other games) on the PSP. Currently, the Nintendo DS has outsold the PSP by a long run, leaving Sony in the dust in the handheld market. Even after some 2 years of being sold in the American market, Sony executives state the PSP lacks “the one title that defines the product”. Normally, this “one title” would be released when the console comes out (in other words, a launch title that shows off the numerous features of the PSP) but Sony had forgotten that small little detail, and apparently are hurting because of it.
Recently, Sony issued a price drop on the PSP, however it has had almost no effect on sales (this is amazing for Sony to say considering they tend to over exaggerate their sales numbers).
So, Sony is hoping to look to expand the PSP to other users in the consumer market (in other words, they hope to look for classic gamers and have other game genres on the PSP).
Manhunt 2 inevitably “suspended”
After being banned in the UK, getting the kiss-of-death Adults Only rating in the US, getting banned in Ireland, followed up by both Sony and Nintendo saying they will not endorse anything rated AO on their systems. Manhunt 2 has been “temporarily suspended” as said by quote a Rockstar representative. They also said that they believe in creative expression, responsible marketing and will not give up hope for the game.
The only options left for Take-Two and Rockstar would be to edit the game, which will take time and money, and may come at the consumer’s (our) expense, seeing as they’ll be taking away from what they saw as Manhunt now we’ll be stuck with “The-Watered-Down-Version-So-It’s-Not-So-Gory-But-Still-Sorta-Fun-Even-Though-the-Point-was-to-be-Gruesome”…of Manhunt.
SEGA creating Sonic Rivals 2 for the PSP
Sonic Rivals, which originally was made for the PSP, is now going to have a sequel on called Sonic Rivals 2 (what a catchy title). Like the old version, it will be semi 3D, with some elements 2D others 3D. Anyways, we assume the story line is like the first one (but SEGA will probably change it to something new).
SEGA released a few screenshots for you to enjoy. Please note that the graphics are pretty much the worst ever (but we expected that being a development version). One big glitch you can see already is the magically floating building that you can see through in the first shot. Click the image in this post to see the slide show.
We will let you know more about the game as we get it from SEGA
Here are the links to the other images if you want to skip to a certain one:
Sonic attacking Knuckles
Silver and Knuckles
Sonic and Tails running through a loop
