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Thought it was a little strange. Turns out the Dante’s Inferno protest was staged by EA.

Dante’s Inferno Protest at E3 Was Staged by EA | GamePolitics.

Gamepolitics is reporting on a protest held at E3 over the upcoming game, Dante’s Inferno. Protesters could be seen carrying signs such as “EA = Anti-Christ”, and “Hell is NOT a game”.

The Los Angeles Times states:

Matthew Francis, one of the protesters, said he and his fellow church members were particularly upset that Dante’s Inferno features a character who fights his way out of Hell and uses a cross as a weapon against demons.

“We think this game should never come out,” he said, before asking a reporter to convey his message to executives at Electronic Arts inside the show, where non-industry professionals are not allowed.

Strikes me as rather odd. You would think the religious nuts would be behind a game featuring a character fighting demons with a cross in an attempt to escape Hell. 

Dante’s Inferno Ignites E3 Protest | GamePolitics.

Yves Guillemot (Ubisoft):

We wanted to be in advance of other publishers in understanding what that technology would bring, when Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo came out with one,” he said. “We worked a lot with the manufacturers of those types of cameras to learn what to do with them.

Seems such a waste of time when we all know your going to churn out yet another fitness game, then retool your party games to work with cameras.

I await with breath that is baited.

Well, I guess now Nintendo have printed so much money with motion control fluff, it was inevitable MS and Sony would attempt to cash in on it.

MS already boarded that train earlier announcing Project Natal and now Sony have also announced a new form of motion control for the PS3. I’ve not had a chance to watch the video yet but from screenshots it looks like a purple ball on the end of a stick.

Well, at least it will be cheaper than MS’s motion tracking camera at a guess. More to follow once I watch the footage.

Sony Motion Controller for PS3 unveiled - SlashGear.

Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi is a funny guy.

Waaaay back at E3 2004, GT4:Portable was announced for the PSP. Box art was shown, video footage was shown… lots of people were hyped for it. Myself included. The GT4 stuff was one of the reasons I went out and imported a PSP to the UK very early on.

After E3, GT4 saw a few delays. First pushed back to 2005, then E3 2005 came and went and little was said about the title. After E3 2005 it gets pushed back to 2006. Two Tokyo game shows pass with no info. Meanwhile, Polyphony Digital are busy making/shipping games like Tourist Trophy, Gran Turismo HD.

In April 2006, Kazunori Yamauchi (GT4 Producer) was asked by 1UP what was going on with the title. Yamauchi’s answer inspired very little optimism in GT fans.

We are in the works. It is going forward. It does exist. We’re working on it. We don’t have a release date, of course. A question for you is do people out there really have high hopes for a GT version on PSP?

I find the return question amusing. Do people have high hopes for a PSP GT title? I would say so… after you teased us with all the details, the box art, video of the game running. Yeah I reckon.

He then goes on to say.

Another question. Which do you think would you or the users would like to have first: a PS3 version of Gran Turismo or PSP version of Gran Turismo?

At this point I would have more respect for the guy if he was just honest. Yes we intended to make it. No its not done. No its not going to be done, Sony pulled us onto development for the PS3 version of Gran Turismo. End of Story.

Three years later at E3 2009, a full 5 years after its initial announcement and Kazunori Yamauchi is back with another GT announcement. This time we can definitly expect to see GT portable come to the new, re-designed PSP Go.

…a “full-scale” Gran Turismo game. Thirty-five courses, 800 cars. Time trial, drift trial and a mission challenge mode with the “legacy license mode” of Gran Turismo.

Yeah… I’m sure we will this time Mr. Yamauchi. Perhaps in 2014 we might see GT announced again for the PSP 2.0, or the PS4. The skys the limit when it comes to fake game info. Mindst you, this time Sony have no new console to drag devs to so perhaps it will get made. Who knows, if were really lucky it might even get released this decade.

Didnt really see this coming to be honest. Not sure what to think of it either.

I dont use Facebook, I only just started using Twitter (and even then, only so I could post small updates here with it), last.fm I love and use daily… although I rarely listen to music through the Xbox.

I guess its good for the people who use this stuff. Saying that, whatever happened to MSN integration? Didnt that vanish with the NXE update?

E3: 360 getting Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm News // Xbox 360 /// Eurogamer - Games Reviews, News and More.

This should have been done years ago!

Of course, it doesnt really matter because;

…even if successful, it is likely to install fibre only to new-build sites and developments. It has no plans to engage in the widespread replacement of existing copper cables.

Ahh great. So the rest of the country get the shaft then? Thanks BT!

BT to trial fibre-to-the-home • The Register.

Has anyone actually thought about this for longer than the time it takes to calculate how much money Nintendo has made from party games?

I own a Wii and I’m yet to see it get a game that actually uses motion control in an innovative way. Lots of waggles, lots of ‘party games’, very little content of worth. Why does MS think this will be any different?

I do like the dash navigation with Natal. Very Minority Report indeed. The rest? No thanks. The final product has a long way to go before I’m convinced that this is something more than a gimmick to compete with the slow crawl of shit coming from Nintendo lately.

From what I have seen so far, there appears to be some delay between the users actions and the onscreen response. Not a problem for the types of games shown so far but I can already guarantee that this thing will not be used for any online twitch gaming. I already get some unavoidable internet lagg (not close enough to the exchange) without adding a laggy control system into the equation. I just cant see it working well enough for games that require fast responses like CoD4 for example.

If this is the case,  my opinion is this thing is going to go the way of the PS2 Eyetoy and the Wii. Lots of party games, nothing of real substance or innovation. 

As always, I reserve full judgement till I can get hold of one and try it out, but for what its worth, if done well I can see a lot of potential for single player games with this tech but no practical use for competitive, twitch gaming unless the delay is fixed.

Yeah, around 3,000 of the damn things!

My privates must belong in a museum for miniatures judging by the amount of penis enlargement emails sitting in my inbox now!

This what happens when you try to pretend an email account doesn’t exist. First your boss asks for a copy of some email sent a year ago, then you get hit with 3,000 spam-mails when you go to check for it.

Its not like I can even do a mass delete and purge the account because somewhere in that sea of bratwurst enlargement, discounted drugs, and requests for my bank details, lies about 5 emails I need to recover.

So it goes..

Testing out Amazon links….

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