Sony’s been showing off a lot of stuff at Gamescom this week. They announced Ratchet & Clank All 4 One, a four player co-op action game, and knowing Insomniac it’s sure to be boring and sell horribly. Here’s the trailer:
Sony showed off one of their Move titles, The Fight, at Gamescom this week. This trailer features Danny Trejo, better known as Machete. The game isn’t looking to hot right now hopefully Sony can come up with something a bit more robust for the core gamer by the time the Move is released.
It seems Bioware isn’t changing strategies when it comes to advertising Dragon Age games. Present a God of War style we’re so hardcore attitude, and then cover it in blood. Dissappointing that they continue to treat the most traditional franchise they have, and the fans of classic western style RPG’s with so little respect.
Sony released a Multiplayer trailer for Gamescom this week. Clearly they’re pleadingly trying to win over the Call Of Duty crowd with their “that’s mine” “nice” teamspeak garbage. In my day you talked to people using your keyboard, and you had to stand still in a safe place while doing it too. Damn kids and their gimped console aiming.
Sony dropped some screenshots from the upcoming Move edition of Heavy Rain. It looks like these will just be the equivalent of waggle instead of a button press, it doesn’t seem like they’ll be using the full range of motion the Move is supposed to offer, but that’s to be expected for a patch to an already released game.
Also, a small tidbit, but this is the first I’ve seen the trigger button on the Move controller referred to as the T button.
For those of you into the goofy, and impotent DC Comics characters, here’s the goofy DC Universe Online trailer you’ve been waiting for.
Superman falls for that kryptonite trick every time.
EA finally released some media for the Alice sequel Alice: Madeness Returns. It looks like the real deal, the same atmosphere and style with a modern graphical upgrade. The teaser trailer is short, but shows us that they won’t be holding back on the weird for the sake of grabbing the mainstream audience, This is a true sequel to a flawed classic of PC gaming.
SquareEnix Eidos have released some concept poster art for the next Hitman game (Hitman 5). It seems Agent 47 will get burned, or god puts a contract on Satan or something. Agent 47 looks a little to movie game friendly in this picture, but it is just a little promotional concept art.
The image also confirms that IO Interactive will continue to be the ones developing Hitman, so there should be no need to worry.
Here’s the full twelve minute extended trailer of Another Century’s Episode R (ACE:R) for Playstation 3. It’s not going to be the most graphically impressive PS3 game ever made, but it looks damn fun.
Trailer Part 1
Trailer Part 2
NPD for June changes things up a little bit with the Xbox 360 just barely taking the number 2 spot thanks to stock clearing sales on the old model 360′s and the release of the 360 short. Red Dead and Galaxy 2 continue to hold the first 3 software slots, while Toy Story 3 for DS and Lego Harry Potter Wii make a strong showing for licensed titles. Being beaten in the portable space by Toy Story 3 must be painful for Hideo Kojima whose Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker failed to chart on that unlovable loser the PSP. Alpha Protocol, Singularity, and Transformers should also commit seppuku for their horrible sales this month.
Nintendo DS 510,700
Xbox 360 451,700
Wii 422,500
PlayStation 3 304,800
PSP 121,000
Top 10 Games Sales
Red Dead Redemption 360 (Take 2) - 582,900
Super Mario Galaxy 2 Wii (Nintendo) - 548,400
Red Dead Redemption PS3 (Take 2) - 380,300
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) - 200,900
Just Dance Wii (Ubisoft) – 174,800
Wii Fit Plus With Balance Board Wii (Nintendo)
Toy Story3 NDS (Disney Interactive Studios
UFC 2010: Undisputed 360 (THQ)
Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Wii (Warner Bros. Interactive)
UFC 2010: Undisputed PS3 (THQ)
Updating with the rest of the top 20:
11. Pokemon SoulSilver DS
12. Transformers War For Cybertron 360
13. New Super Mario Bros. DS
14. Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 360
15. FIFA World Cup 360
16. FIFA World Cup PS3
17. Mario Kart Wii
18. Pokemon HeartGold DS
19. Toy Story 3 Wii
20. Wii Sports Resort
Also some numbers for specific games were released.
Transformers 360 did 132,000, and Wii Sports Resort in the 20 position sold less than 100,000 which should give you an idea of how bad some of this month’s other releases did. Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker failed to even crack the top 20 selling only 52,000 copies. Even worse numbers for Green Day Rock Band which sold only 83,000 copies between ALL 3 of the console releases. Skate 3 only sold 253,000 copies in it’s first 2 months down forty percent from Skate 2, and Tiger Woods 11 dropped 68 percent from last year’s release, due entirely to Tiger’s unquenchable love of white meat being made public this year.
According to the twitter account of an IGN employee some bombs of the month are in this order:
Naughty Bear > Singularity > Sin and Punishment
Perhaps if Singularity, or Sin and Punishment had had any promotion whatsoever they might have had at least a remote chance of beating out Naughty Bear!