The Day (or 4) in General – 2/3/09
Now the news has been a little slow this week, we’ve been trying so hard to get the reviews pushed out (Golden Axe still to come) so we’re going to try and bring you up to speed on the week in one little report.
PS2 price drop announced – Everybody thought it would be a PS3 price cut and it was announced untrue. It was partly correct though. The 9 year old Playstation 2 has recieved a price cut. Cutting down to just $99 or £67 GBP. It seems Sony are desperate to keep up in all the 7th gen consoles but will the price drop be enough?
Xbox Live update has no features – This afternoon the Xbox Live team launched a new system update for the Xbox 360 console. Major Nelson stated today that it brings “no new features” and is in fact to cut out lag on a few games. Check out the ck out out the full article on his blog here
Konami gain SAW license – Industry giant Konami have announced that they will be getting a license to make a SAW video game. It’s expected to hit one the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC this Autumn alongside SAW VI.
Activision has high hopes for MW2 – Activision have said that they have high hopes for the upcoming game Modern Warfare 2. The company hopes that it will be the “Biggest selling video game of all time” beating both Call of Duty 4 and Call of Duty: World at War.
Mass Effect 2 cuts loading times – Bioware have announced that their upcoming game Mass Effect 2 will have much shorter loading times as it will utilise a new system. They say that elevator loading will now become “part of the game experience”. Anyway, shorter loading times can only be a good thing.
PS3 to get 16 player text chat – Sony have announced that in firmware update 2.70 you will be able to use a whole new 16 player text chat system. You can also sort your friends into either time last online, online status or alphabetically. You will also be able to send files upto 3MB in size to your friends now!
Well, we covered what we could, come back for more news, hopefully tomorrow!
