GamesCom 2009

[Kerrby]

Lets start an official thread, only two days to go.

Official website: http://www.gamescom-cologne.com/auswahl.php
IGNs website: http://au.ign.com/gamescom/

NEWS:
Microsoft:
Lionhead studios to announce new game.
Gearbox NOT Developing Halo 4. Possible new announcement at GC.
Remedy: Alan Wake "Done".

Sony:
New PSP game "Dead Nation" to be announced.
SSHD Developers to announce new PS3/PSN exclusive.
Major LBP announcement coming tomorrow.
Sony Readying New Firmware for Tomorrow?
IGNs Sony Live Blog Coverage
K-Mart confirm Price Cut and Slim PS3 before Sonys conference
French Dealers are ready to welcome "NEW PS3"
Slimline PS3 and Price Cut announced
PS3 Motion Controller Trailer

Other:
Crytek STILL predict new consoles in 2012
CryEngine 3 PS3 Off-Screen Demonstration
CCP Announce Console FPSMMO
Dantes Inferno Release Date: 9th February 2010

Will update when more news arrives.
If you have a news article, post it and I'll stick it up in the OP.

 

[KENT2008]

cmon ps3 price drop!

 

[Kerrby]

cmon ps3 price drop!

Rumours are that we are getting a price drop and reveiling of the new PS3 slim.

 

[sacka]

Doesn't it start in 9 hours? not 2 days

 

[Toshowyouwhy]

Mostly interested in the FIFA 10 announcements.

And anything about MW2.

 

[Kerrby]

Doesn't it start in 9 hours? not 2 days

August 19th. How far ahead are we in time difference?

 

[scooterb]

Yeah.

19-23 August 2009

I couldn't care less about anything other than a GT5 release date.

 

[sacka]

We are about 8 hours ahead but i was thinking it started on the 18th sorry lol my bad,
EDIT.
Sony's press conference is on the 18th lol getting a little mixed up.

 

[Kerrby]

First posted updated with IGNS live blog: http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/101/1014844p1.html

Okay so tonight at 2am Sonys press conference begins. Anyone wanna get up at 2am with me like I did with HBK for E3?

 

[RoosterLad]

Some of us have to work in the morning, pal.

 

[Kerrby]

Some of us have to work in the morning, pal.

Some of us have school and SACs tomorrow as well you know .

 

[scooterb]

CryEngine3 PS3 Off-Screen Demonstration

The environment (apart from the fire and the ocean) look unbelievable.

It even has the insane destructible environments.

edit: Here's a side by side comparison of the 360 and the PS3.

 

[Kerrby]

FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

There's no live streaming for GamesCom, only live blogging.

Oh well, won't stop me. Hbn00b, you staying up with me again ?

Use this link live blogging: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/sony-gamescom-conference-live-report

It automatically updates without you having to refresh.

 

[scooterb]

Famitsu scan that was just released.

Bottom left corner.

People are saying that it states that GT5 will be playable at GamesCom.
I seriously doubt it, though.

 

[Kerrby]

K-Mart confirm Price Cut and Slim PS3.
http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2009/08/18/kmart-confirm-price-cut-and-slim/

 

[sacka]

http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/TopCategoriesDisplay?storeId=10151&catalogId=10104
says nothing about a slim sorry Kerrbs, just old stock imo

 

[scooterb]

Just Cause 2 trailer.

I know a few of us around here are excited about this game.

 

[Kerrby]

http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/TopCategoriesDisplay?storeId=10151&catalogId=10104
says nothing about a slim sorry Kerrbs, just old stock imo

"A new low price and new exciting PS3".
Not old stock.

A NEW LOW PRICE. - The Price Cut that was rumoured.
NEW EXCITING PS3. - The Slim that was rumoured.

 

[Kerrby]

Crytek STILL predict new consoles by 2012.
Cevat Yerli, Crytek's president and co-founder, gave a talk on where graphics have come from and where they're going at GDC Europe. Following much the same format as last year, he traced the evolution of Crytek's engines, from Far Cry and the first CryEngine through to Crysis 2 and the CryEngine 3. While no video was shown of the in-development, multiplatform shooter and follow-up to the CryEngine 2 powered, PC-only Crysis, Yerli again affirmed he believed a new console cycle would arrive sometime around 2012.

Until then, he believes Crytek will be ready to power games with its CryEngine 3, which is claimed to be "next-gen ready," and which will likely stay very relevant until Crytek releases another engine specifically designed for that next generation of hardware. Until the graphical renaissance Yerli sees occurring around 2013, games will have to rely on art style and use of physics to distinguish themselves in the coming years instead of sheer graphical muscle.

He also touched on the criticism of Crysis that it required too powerful a machine to run when it was first released. In Yerli's view, he thinks it to be more valuable to have a game that actually looks better when you buy new hardware instead of looking as good as possible right when you purchase it, since then you can grow with your game. Ideally he'd want his the engine following CryEngine 3 to have 3 to 5 times the quality and quantity of output of Crysis, so that games look like the most recent Ice Age movie.

So will we see new consoles in 2012? Or do you think that's too soon? Yerli seemed to doubt for a second that there'd even be a next-generation at all at one point during his talk, and in an off-hand manner cited the Wii's sales dominance and relative lack of processing power, which raises an interesting point – might we really not see a generation of consoles in the next cycle that are really that far ahead of what's currently available, and might that be because of what Nintendo has been able to achieve with the Wii?

http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/101/1014376p1.html

 

[Kerrby]

French dealers ready to welcome NEW PS3:
http://translate.google.fr/translat...nouvelle-ps3.html&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0=

Sacka, there's going to be a Price Cut and Slim revealed .

 

[sacka]

Price cut yes, Slim ?

 

[HBK619]

CCP (Developers of EVE Online) have announced a new console FPS MMO called DUST 514.

Source: http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/101/1014849p1.html

CCP ANNOUNCE CONSOLE FPS MMO
At GDC Europe 2009, CCP's Hilmar Veigar Petursson announced a new product called DUST 514, and it's not at all what we expected.

DUST 514 is a first-person shooter that's being incorporated into the EVE universe, acting essentially an MMO for consoles. It's a mix of first-person shooting and real-time strategy gameplay where you play as a marine with a rifle running around on the ground. It's not only set in the EVE universe, it's actually connected to EVE. The DUST battlefields will determine who controls territory within EVE's world. The EVE Online players will have to contract players of DUST to go in and destabilize territory. CCP's hope is that the first-person shooter crowd on consoles and the PC EVE Online crowd will eventually form alliances together.

The game is being handled by CCP's Shanghai office.

More will be shown off at CCP's Fanfest in October of this year.

 

[scooterb]

Gran Turismo 5 will be playable.

Surely a release date will be announced. Sony looks like they've gone all out with this one.

Look at all of the racing wheel set ups around the joint.

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[HBK619]

If it's playable then there is NO DOUBT that a release date will be announced.

This is gonna be a MASSIVE moment for Sony, make or break conference just a few hours away.

 

[Conan Troutman]

Price cut yes, Slim ?

K-mart have updated their site. No pics, but definitely Slim...

http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/ProductD...r=018W014436760001P&adCell=W2&catalogId=10104

24th August release, $299 USD

PS3, SLIM High-Definition Blu-ray player for the best movie experience. Free PLAYSTATION Network membership. 120GB HDD for downloading games, music, videos, and photos. Includes DUAL SHOCK 3 controller. HDMI output for 1080p resolution.