While the news that more video footage of Sony’s videogame Afrika might be a happy thing for some it’s a snub at the Europeans. Why is because Sony has decided that Europe is not worth publishing this title in and we are unsure why to be honest.
In response European gamers have been posting on gaming news sites like VG247 that they just don’t care about the game since no real details apart from “it looks pretty” have come out. To their credit though Sony do have an incredible number of really good PS3 only exclusives coming out so one less odd game isn’t really going to effect the average user.
For those who are interested in seeing 8 minutes of footage from Afrika on PS3 Gamersyde has it:
http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_8450_fr.html
After EA’s witchhunt and banning of Spore Porn, you’d think Will Wright would think the same. Looks like he doesn’t. Will is not only unoffended by Spore Porn (as tastefully pictured above), but also appreciated how accurately the creators hit what they were aiming for (pun? Must investigate).
“When you give players creative control, you have to expect they’re going to do the unexpected,” says the Procedural Generation lord. Not surprising. I mean, you give an easy-to-use content creation application to Internet inhabitants: you’d have to be whacked not to expect porn.
“It’s amazingly explicit, especially when those creations are animated. We just have to make sure those people aren’t messing up the experience for others.” he says, confirming some things perverts had in mind. The game will have a system now that will allow you to ban certain species from your universe, apparently. Also expect EA to bring in the BANHAMMER whenever you upload an image or video of your porntastic creature.
Wright also hints at a sequel for Spore there, saying that he’s looking at Spore as a brand. He says, however, that it will only happen after they’ve analysed crowd reaction. And besides, it would be too early to start charting out a sequel to what already is a semi-experimental game.
In a sign that shows EA are considering their Boogie franchise as important as their soccer titles they have announced that Natasha Bedingfield a UK singer will be the face of Boogie SuperStar on the Wii. Bedingfield, who recently came to the attention of the US with her song Love Like This said that “Boogie SuperStar brings to life all the fun and excitement of performing”. So she’s got down the spokesperson part of the job and added that “Being on stage is such a thrill and it’s great to be a part of an EA video game that lets girls experience how much fun it is to express themselves and explore their own creativity by performing.”
Full previews and reviews of the title should be around on the net soon and we think this could be a good partnership for all involved. There is only the concern on the part of games players that if smaller publishers decide to spend money on a high profile spokesperson like the mammoth that is EA, then they would have less to spend on the actual game’s quality and bug testing.
Image source: Gary King
The US Playstation blog has posted that the cards will be stocked in Blockbuster, 7-Eleven and Riteaid stores next month. This means for all those who have wanted to buy games or tv episodes on the PS3 can simply go into a local store and buy a pre-paid card. While not news to most adults to kids who want to buy things without a credit card on the PS3 now just have to go into a store and buy them. Thus removing the credit card security on a console issue.
We can be sure that the Playstation Network is going to see a huge number of purchases as soon as the cards existence begins to circulate more. There is one recommendable PSN game from Sony which is recommendable. It’s their Asteroids arcade shooter.
Feel free to go nuts about this in the comments section. Disclaimer: We do not condone any person “going nuts” where gaming, money, credit cards or children are concerned. It’s a legal thing.
Whenever there’s an interview with Maggie Q released she comes off as one of the nicest people ever to walk the earth, even nicer than Assassin’s Creed’s Jade Raymond. We now have video out of Maggie Q in Need for Speed Undercover this years NFS release from EA which can be found on Gametrailers.com (copyright’s a bummer).
For those who don’t know the name Maggie Q had key roles in Mission Impossible 3 (as a good guy) and in Die Hard 4 (as a very bad girl). In Undercover she once again returns to the good guy side. As the title suggests as the main character in the game you go undercover and get chased by the cops. So it’s very similar to NFS Most Wanted and that cannot be a bad thing in the slightest.
Image author: Caroline Bonarde
