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Sony nails down music peripheral compatbility with upcoming titles

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 by admin

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With all the incompatibility out there surrounded by Guitar Hero / Rock Band instruments, it is a true treat to see somewhat want this. The Director of Publisher Relations at SCEA has requested an update such a promises compatibility between instruments and service for following titles; for instance, Guitar Hero: World Tour’s guitars and drums ought to try amid Rock Band 2 and Konami’s Rock Revolution software, and Rock Band 2’s guitar and drum set is planning to job investing in Guitar Hero: World Tour and providing Rock Revolution. Furthermore, the bunch is even “working hard to ensure compatibility between the Guitar Hero and Rock Band titles by now on the market,” even though we are imparted upon the an announcement on the would surface “shortly.” Rock ‘n roll harmony, baby.

New Silent Hill: Homecoming screenshots be freaky, foggy

Monday, April 28th, 2008 by admin

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the characters in Wes Craven’s magnum opus would be an obvious exception, we’re pretty sure that protagonists in horror movies have never seen horror movies — looking at the Silent Hill series, it’s clear this rule applies to video games as well. Not that we’re complaining, as if the characters in Konami’s beloved horror series would collectively realize that abandoned, fog-filled towns are abandoned and fog-filled for a reason, they would probably stop going to them in search of deceased or missing wives/offspring/brothers — and we wouldn’t have these gorgeous screenshots from the upcoming Silent Hill: Homecoming to drool over.
So thanks, horror genre characters. Your obvious ineptitude for danger avoidance may deliver you into the jaws of certain doom, but it provides us with near-limitless entertainment — and really, isn’t that more important in the long run?
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Silent Hill V now ‘Homecoming,’ dated for September

Monday, April 21st, 2008 by admin

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When you’re a blogger and you don’t have a lot of facts to go on, one of your greatest tools is hypothesizing, or as it’s more commonly known, guessing. For example: Konami has announced that Silent Hill V has been retitled Silent Hill: Homecoming. Now, we don’t know the reason for the change, but we’re going to hypothesize that people were uncomfortable with an American-developed game that appears to be a departure from previous Silent Hills being one of the main, numbered series. See what we did there? That was just guessing.

They also say that the game will be out in Europe at the end of September. We’re going to hypothesize that it will also arrive in America around that same time, but honestly we have no idea. [Update: Hypothesis correct!] Feel free to offer your slightly less authoritative hypotheses about the name change below.

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Metal Gear Online beta delayed, more info tomorrow

Monday, April 21st, 2008 by admin

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On the eve of its debut, the Metal Gear Online US public beta has gone AWOL. More accurately, Konami has announced that the beta has been delayed due to “extraordinary levels of traffic from all around the globe” causing service problems.

Konami did not give a new starting date for the beta, only to say that more information will be coming tomorrow, April 22. The end date, however, has been pushed back from May 5 to May 11. (Update: fixed date.) For those who need a fix desperately can peep the online manual for the game, including a listing of the 16 skills you can choose from to enhance your stealth killer.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

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