In a positive spin over Valve’s controversial stance of publically refusing to support the PlayStation platform, calling PS3 development as difficult and complex, the studio has now taken a u-turn and hinted at providing future PS3 software support.
Development on Heavy Rain is complete and is off to manufacturing. This psychological thriller will be available at retail on February 23rd, 2010 in North America and February 24th, 2010 in Europe. Don’t forget to pre-order your copy now so you will receive the first chapter of Heavy Rain Chronicles at no cost.
The voice behing Nathan Drake, Nolan North, has spilled the beans on the third entry to the Uncharted series. North has apparently revealed he’s to reprise his role as Nathan Drake this year, suggesting that Uncharted 3 will be in production this year. A third title is clearly nothing to be surprised about as the series has been selling incredibly well.
Earlier this week we reported that GT5 was being delayed in Japan, with a new release date to be announced. Well, it turns out that the game isn’t completely finished yet. Speaking in an interview with USA Today at CES earlier this month, Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi said: “About 90% of the game is done. We are just working on the last 10% and polishing up everything.”
In a message posted on the official UK Final Fantasy XIII website, Motomu Toriyama has stated that the International version of the upcoming Square Enix title is “finally complete.” Unfortunately, the game won’t be available to purchase until March 2010, when the game is officially released in Europe and North America. Currently, the developers are waiting for approval on the final version of the game before the disc goes into production.
Gamers seem to be reluctant in support Sony’s upcoming motion controller, but the development community is excited as ever. According to MVC, EA is working on a few games which will launch alongside the motion controller. So far, 13 games have been confirmed for launch but other developers including David Cage, the boss at Quantic Dream, said the studio is interested in experimenting with the PS3 motion controller, especially in with more mature games.
Speaking with Joystiq in Japan last week, Kazunori Yamauchi, CEO of Polyphony Digital, admitted that development of Gran Turismo 6 will not be as maddeningly long as Gran Turismo 5’s. Yamauchi said :”GT5 is a title that was pretty much remade from scratch, but because we did that, the next version is actually going to be faster — the time period it’s going to be released.”
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Sony is extending their support for schools and universities with courses geared towards computer engineering and programming. At the Develop Conference 2009, Sarah Lemarie, SCEE R&D’s education contact and support infrastructure development manager, revealed that a PS3 dev kit designed for academic use is in the works and is currently in the closed beta phase. The PS3 dev kit includes a consumer-sized PS3 and a full SDK. Sony’s cross-platform game engine PhyreEngine will also be made available as part of the program.
