Visceral Games, that is studio of Electronic Arts, informs that the demonstration version of horror style Dead Space 2 will be let out on December, 21st. Players should investigate Church of Junitology and help main hero Isaac to stop intrusion of necromorphes, participating in bloody battle at space station "Megacity". Dead Space 2 will be in sale on January, 26th and becomes the first blockbuster of 2011.
Players should go together with engineer Isaac Clark to a terrible travel on Church of Junitology in demonstration version Dead Space 2. Station "Megacity" which nowadays has turned to a killing trap. Players will get access to new tools for battles with terrible monsters, including the new pistol Javelin, improved stasis equipment, ability to telekinesis, and also the modified suit with jet engines with which Isaac can move in any direction in zones with zero gravitation.
«Holidays is excellent time for any entertainments, and we would not like give a chance to see game Dead Space 2, - Steve Papoutsis, the executive producer of game series Dead Space speaks, - Letting out the demonstration version five weeks before to the basic game will not only accelerate a new meeting of players with Isaac Clark, but also will give the chance to them to estimate personally tremendous episodes of our new project. It will be improbable!».
Dead Space 2 moves apart borders of a genre of actions in a horror style. Isaac Clark is in epicentre of ruthless intrusion of necromorphes again. Isaac should make the way through very big rooms of station "Megacity" under shouts of immortal monsters and cacophony of not clear sounds.
Demonstration version of Dead Space 2 will be accessible for loading on December, 21st in Xbox LIVE Marketplace in all regions and in PlayStationNetwork in the North America. In European PlayStationNetwork the demonstration version will come up on December, 22nd. Dead Space 2 will be released on January, 26th year for PC, PlayStation3 and Xbox 360. The additional information about game is accessible on official site.
The following game of racing series Forza Motorsport will be released in the autumn of 2011. 1UP informed about it. Terms of game release have been declared at ceremony Spike Video Game Awards (passed on December, 11th, 2010).
Any details about new Forza Motorsport 4 has not been informed. It is known that game is developed for console Xbox 360. Representatives of Microsoft have confirmed that support of sensor control Kinect will be built in game.
The first part of Forza Motorsport has been released in May, 2005 with console Xbox support. The second and third games released with console Xbox 360 support in 2007 and 2009 accordingly. Forza Motorsport works with studio Turn 10 which belongs to Microsoft.
All series of a game have received an appreciation of critics. Rating of Forza Motorsport 3 on GameRankings is 92 percent. Within the first month of sales game has beeen sold in number of more than one million copies.
There were successful start of sales of the game system Microsoft Kinect intended for interaction with console Xbox 360. For example, for first ten days since the beginning of sales of Kinect that started in the North America on fourth of November, there were sold one million copies of such “the controller without the controller”. Thus, plans of corporation seem quite real to sell five millions devices till the end of current year.
The data which comes up in the World wide web about possibility of increasing of functionality of this game system can become one more stimulus for purchase Microsoft Kinect. According to the resulted data, infra-red camera of Kinect is capable to realise higher resolution, than supports actually console Xbox 360. Under initial information of Microsoft, the resolution in this case makes 320 х 240 pixels, however the colour camera and the depth camera in Kinect are capable to show the image with the resolution 640 х 480 pixels while connected to the personal computer.
Moreover, according to Eurogamer referring to an anonymous source, Microsoft plan to realise the same resolution on Xbox 360, and existing artificial restrictions are used to leave possibility for synchronous work with other remote terminal units with USB interface. However if experts find a way to bypass the specified restriction, the updating of soft that raise sensitivity of Kinect will surely be and allow to trace even a movement of fingers of the user that should lead to realisation of hand managements.
Strange business - developers of excellent Painkiller sign the contract with Epic, show a shooter which looks like and is perceived as Duke Nukem. And, though the previous project People Can Fly also has done a heap of noise, it has been warmly accepted by players, problems have begun at studio . We have not received a high-grade sequel, only mediocre add-ons from other developers.
In the meantime People Can Fly has ported Gears of War on PC, and it became known one year later that EA will publish not announced shooter which poles were creating together with Epic. Kliff Blezhinski should stage this new project on Jimmy Fellona's Show in the spring of this year , but something was incorrect and presentation have cancelled. Certainly, all thought about Gears of War 3.
The first information has flowed away in the Internet the same week. There is one more project of Epic except GoW3 - the real bad-ass shooter which we did not see very long time. It became a little close for the Duke in this niche after the first video of Bulletstorm.
The real hell is created - the hero uses almost each element of an environment for murder of enemies, scatters them as dolls the electric whip-collar, he draws to himself delayed opponents, simultaneously shooting them or pushing on the nearest iron stick. Blow under back sends to a long flight one more opponent, the face hit forced another enemy to tarry on a few seconds. We distribute kicks for each opponent literally. A foot, certainly.
Opponents are not creating direct horror at the player, frighten it, but their each occurrence forces to be nervous in this game. Developers want, that we were glad to each new enemy, after all process of murder is so well developed that each time would be desirable to try the new kick, the new weapon, a new combination an environment-player-enemy.
It seems, it is the real sandbox in a usual linear shooter - so much various possibilities of killing we did not see for a long time. To jostle the opponent in a mouth to a predatory flower, and to kill the plant which has distracted for a dinner. Beat out a door, to crush it to one of the bad guys, push a second guy on an electric guard.
For each beautiful murder, everyone headshot, each kick or simply successful using of an environment with the subsequent death of opponents, we are given out by points and inform the name of reception which we have just made. Headshot - 25 points; the Voodoo doll pushes the enemy on a sharp pole, - 25; a flying opponent headshot - 50. Murder of several enemies without tearing off a finger from a trigger - 100. And so on.
Skilful players awarded additional points, game stimulates to beautiful completing, forces to include imagination and to think up the next way of murder, the next combination.
We receive points, we receive perks, we open new, even more entertainment ways of murder. It reminds old kind os slashers, like Devil May Cry or God of War - more beautifully you kill enemies, more points will be given for upgrading the character.
Except kicks and an electric whip, tens types of weapon which can be improved are accessible to us. Hunk (main hero's name), can carry two guns simultaneously. It is said that it is made for very fast switching between them, for their convenient combination in fight.
It is recollected Painkiller - the same fast rate, crowds of enemies snatched in the portions between which we are allowed to take rest and take pleasure of seeing excellent landscapes.
Game is constructed on last version Unreal Engine 3. It has bothered with domination of projects which look monotonously, are grey and are inexpressive. Every second is similar on Gears of War, but without a highlight.
But unlike many of them, designers of People Can Fly, have so successfully applied technology that it is very difficult to make out that engine in Bulletstorm. The distructed world have its own life, it looks very unusually and pleasantly. The palm trees which have sprouted among one of streets of a megacity, the skyscrapers fitted by greens, the lianas hooked for a column. Excellent details, fine landscapes. Something similar can be seen in recent Enslaved.
The main hero covers with a floor-mat all and everything, constantly makes comments on an event and urges on enemies in the middle of fight. He exchanges caustic phrases with partners who will not fail to recollect someone's mother too. It is more cheerful with partners , there are many elements of game process constructed on interaction with them. And here about co-operative society developers are silent, though they say that consider possibility of its realisation.
Even grandmothers can pass game - there will be some variants of complexity, from valid very easy, to hardcore which will satisfy the most skilful gamers.
The scenario writes Rik Remender who has worked on Dead Space. Besides, he is the gamer himself that should affect positively. They promise dramatic situations in the middle of general lightness. It is created a lawlessness only outside, we are expected by the serious scene, but nobody opens details.
Our main hero, is a mercenary from group Dead Echo in the past, trades in a piracy with the partner a cyborg. He has come to such life not simply so - he has learnt any over the classified information on one of tasks and then has been betrayed by the commander.
They manage to run away, Hunk lies down some years. And, once, having come across the ship of the former commander, partners engage at once, which comes to an end with their crash landing on a planet of Stigija where game action take place.
Abundance of enthusiasm, fresh ideas and black humour overflowing the project. We will see Hunk in the first time, but not last time. Having got tired of an abundance of military shooters and having see Epic Games logo on a box with game, players will provide Bulletstorm excellent sales.
Important that kicking enemies with a boots and sufficing a lash must be rather cheerful.
Bulletstorm leaves on February, 22nd, 2011 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.
For those fans of PC who has already started to search the first-aid set for validol, we will make a reservation - it is only a plans. But to tragical (or joyful?) news you should prepare in advance. So, journalists of site CVG have managed to interview representative of Blizzard Jane Wilson at an exhibition "Gamescom" .
First of all, he has assured that now their company is completely concentrated on PC games, but thinks of expansion on console market. Diablo 3 approaches for this purpose better than other games: «I would lie, if have told that we never thought of it. Simply now we are occupied by other things. I agree that from all of our games Diablo will be most easier to port - mainly because of controls», - Wilson has declared.
Therefore Blizzard does not exclude possibility of release of a game on Xbox 360 and PS3. Though it is not too anxious by to make the release appointed to the future year multiplatform. However similar speeches almost for certain mean that after release on PC the game port on the console can follow.
There were messages in a network that corporation Microsoft develops own television system which will compete with such products as Apple TV and Google TV. The system will be based on new service of a subscription, and the content will be broadcast through popular games console Xbox 360.
According to the anonymous sources familiar with plans of the company, Microsoft now is being at an initial stage of negotiations with some suppliers of a content. It is expected that the monthly payment will undertake viewing of these teleprograms and films, and it will be possible with use of console Xbox 360 to look them .
Besides, there is other variant, at which Microsoft will give a proposition for available cable networks to broadcast the content on Xbox. It is similar how some channels broadcast the content on the Internet. The software giant also will offer possibility of a separate subscription to concrete channels.
It is obvious that Microsoft has an obvious desire to compete with Apple and Google which have presented the new television products this autumn. Nevertheless, as declare the informed sources, this idea has come to the management of Microsoft not now, and was born within last 12 years.
Let's remind that Apple has presented the updated system Apple TV in September of this year. It is concentrated for broadcasting a content from cloudy servers and its price is only 99 dollars. The device possesses the limited disk space and allows to broadcast telecasts of channels Fox and ABC in the high resolution for only 99 cents.
Nevertheless, Apple has more ambitious plans concerning this product. It has made an offer to leading television networks : allowing users to look all programs, having subscribed for 30 dollars a month. However broadcasting companies as is informed, have refused this invention, and Apple has decided to advance idea with hire of telecasts for 99 cents. However and this plan has been rejected with some of the largest television networks, including CBS and NBC.
Google has faced a number of problems too, trying to start working under control of operating system Android. Though some devices with Google TV originally had access to the Internet content broadcasting, many of suppliers have undertaken efforts on blocking of translation of the content on devices Google TV.
Nowadays it is very popular to create a modified case for Xbox360. I can't find an author of this modding, but it is very interesting. He sell it on EBay.com (today I can't find this lot ) for only ... 31002$ =). Let's see:
Microsoft Company is known not only of MS Windows, MS Office and Internet Exlorer. Microsoft and Bill Gates are known for many gamers as a founders of Xbox and Xbox 360. Many children learn Xbox at first, and then get acquainted with the computer and OS Windows.
How and when Xbox has appeared ?
Xbox - a gamebox of the sixth generation from corporation Microsoft.
2000 - Sony Playstation 2 comes up to the market of consoles of the sixth generation. The history seemed went on a spiral - Sega, Sony and Nintendo struggled for fans of video games, names of gamesboxes and their technical possibilities varied only. In the same 2000 Bill Gates, the richest person of a planet has informed the game world with sensational news - Microsoft is preparing a gamebox of the sixth generation, the direct competitor Sony Playstation 2.
Sony has dethroned Nintendo and has ruined a powerful once Sega in struggle of gameboxes of the previous generation, Bill's intentions were mad. Popularity of Playstation was so high that anybody did not doubt a success of second PlayStation at all. However, Microsoft has the most serious trump in a form of huge financial assets which were going to be encloses in promotion of Xbox.
Various gamble have gone about it after the announcement . Someone named a gamebox the Death Star (by analogy to Star Wars), someone named it the Computer in the black case.
Bill at last has designated intentions of Microsoft at conference of developers of the games, passing in San Dzhos. The working name of the console was X-Box. The gamebox surpassed Playstation 2 technical characteristics in three times and has been urged to turn public representations about video games, support of DVD-Video that was another feature of Xbox give it the same attractiveness in this plan as well as Playstation 2.
However developers of games were not so optimistical. The architecture of a gamebox was represented in the form of the computer to them, presence of a hard disk and support of a DirectX has urged even more on these hearings.
Debut of Xbox at exhibition E3 has taken place on May, 13th, 2000 . The debut has left inconsistent impression. Technical demos undoubtedly were magnificent, however there was no game demonstration that suggested an idea that developers favour Bill Gates's gamebox not very much. In September of the same year in a direct transmission to London, San Francisco and Tokyo all these fears have been dispelled by demonstration of the list of the developers, gathered to develop games for Xbox. There were 156 positions in the list, among them were such bisons of the game industry as Konami, Capcom, Activision, THQ and ID. Sega and Electronic Arts was not in the list, but also such impressive list has sufficed that Sony and Nintendo have begun to worry.
For Xbox support EA was extremely necessary. The gamebox couldn't reach heights without such shock series as FIFA, NHL, Madden and NASCAR. Microsoft gets support Electronic Arts in winter of the same year .
Gamebox start was planned in the end of 2001, however while gamebox working out has just began an evil tongues confirmed that it is necessary to expect a gamebox only in 2002.
Xbox has been presented by Bill Gates personally on January, 6th, 2001 in Las Vegas for the first time . Developers have agreed that the gamebox is capable to create the beautiful worlds that are more tremendous, however not all inhabitants liked the huge black case of a prefix, and joypads seemed inconvenient.
Microsoft declared that Xbox has got support Sega in March, 2001 . 11 exclusive Sega games should appear only on Xbox, among them Jet Set Radio Future, Sega GT, Gun Valkyrie and Panzer Dragoon Orta. It was a shock for competitors. Money of Microsoft has made the business, besides Sega Dreamcast did not maintain a competition with Playstation 2 and Sega declared the termination of support of the console.
It remains very little before start Xbox in October, 17th, 2001. The grandiose festival in Cannes , called to draw attention of Europeans to Xbox became significant event on the European continent. Many people had an impression that Microsoft will not stop Xbox don't become successful.
Official start of Xbox sale has taken place on November, 14-15th, 2001 . The first gameboxes have arrived in shops of the USA in the evening on November, 14th. Bill Gates has personally taken part in official start of a gamebox handing over the first copies of Xbox to buyers. The gamebox price made only $299. In spite of the fact that many still considered a gamebox ugly, a joypad too big, and the price too high, Microsoft sold one million gameboxes for three weeks. It was an improbable result. That fact is interesting that start of Nintendo GameCube (working name Dolphin) in the USA has taken place after only three days on November, 18th. It was the real fight between Microsoft and Nintendo, prolonged for many long years. GameCube became for Xbox the basic contender next three years, Playstation 2 remained on the first place. It is now observed about equal volume of Playstation 2 and Xbox whereas GameCube considerably concedes to them, the reason is that many use PS2 and Xbox as a DVD-player whereas the gamebox from Nintendo is not capable to reproduce DVD disks (all people know about pirate-phobia of Nintendo: gamebox Nintendo 64 was on cartridges because their copying was not profitable, GameCube used special disks on 1,5ГБ, anything good from this did not leave in both cases).
Start of Xbox in Japan has taken place on February, 22nd, 2002 . The price was 34800 Japanese yens. Bill Gates was there too.
Despite powerful advertising support, start was is impossible to name successful. It has been sold only 123 thousand of Xbox's for the first week . It was only half from initial delivery and many shops began to give discounts on Xbox by the end of month. Dead or Alive 3 was the most sold game.
Japanese are people with cardinally opposite mentality. Not without reason the thinking, outlook subdivide into the western and east type. The gamebox from the West has not been apprehended by east compulsive gamers with the passion because of errors of marketing experts of Microsoft, and because of thanks to that Xbox was simply American child.
Start of Xbox in Europe has taken place on February, 14th, 2002 . For the first week it has been sold only 50 thousand gameboxes. Such situation became because the mass buyer waited for reduction of price on Xbox. The price in 299 English pounds was too high. Four weeks later the price on Xbox has been lowered to 100 English pounds, because Nintendo planned on May, 3rd start GameCube at the price of only 129 English pounds.
Total number of sales Xbox makes about 24 million gameboxes.
Nvidia company declared the termination of release of graphic chips for Xbox in August, 2005. The same year the gamebox of seventh generation Xbox 360 has come. Under statement of Microsoft, Xbox has not paid back itself and the company has suffered losses at a rate of 4 billion dollars.
What is Xbox? Xbox really differs from PlayStation?
To understand what represents Xbox, imagine the following. Bill Gates in person addresses to you . He addresses not for borrowing thirty bucks on journey. He wants typical gamers to think about "ideal gamebox", that will have all things they need. For an embodiment of your ideas he has a command of engineers and programmers, there are money for manufacturing a "gamebox" and connections for "gamebox" release. Your problem is to tell, what, in your opinion, should be an "ideal gamebox".
When you hear such offer, you will think what to tell . You will collect friends-gamers, sit down in a circle and start to make the list of qualities which the "gamebox № 1" in the world should possess.
The gamebox should be the more powerful of the most powerful existing.
The gamebox should be as much as possible convenient, with functional joypads.
The new gamebox should be combined with all popular games, therefore it is necessary to get support of the largest manufacturers of games.
The gamebox should have connection to the Internet. Killing virtual monsters or compete with an artificial intellect is good business, but compete with live people is more interesting in one thousand times .
Bill Gates accepts the list of your requirements and transfer to his experts. They add to all you said four high-speed ports for joypads , and also possibilities of playing DVD. Designers suggest to pack dream of players into a black box with a cross on a cover. And legendary gamebox Xbox was born.
It was 2001 year. Before starting gamebox creation, Microsoft has interviewed among five thousand players from the different countries of the world. Moreover, representatives of the company have visited 130 gamers for purpose to see them playing, and look, where and in what conditions they play, where they store the gamebox.
The release of a new gamebox has been grandiosely planned too. The PR was interesting. Man that served the first buyers was Bill Gates himself. The gamebox had wide popularity in America. Now it successfully competes with company SONY production, and even it is not necessary to speak about other gameboxes. Xbox was used and in other way except direct appointment. For example, owners of Xbox are relieved of necessity to buy a DVD-player. The successor of a popular gamebox became Xbox 360 which official release has taken place in November, 2005.
