GamesCom 2009

[sacka]

http://www.ea.com/blogs/gamescom

 

[sacka]

Battlefield B/C 2 out March 5

 

[Conan Troutman]

http://www.ea.com/blogs/gamescom

nice one! cheers

 

[Juddy88]

Holy shit, that's awesome.

 

[Juddy88]

Need for Speed Shift - Sept 17th in Europe.

Looks ****ing awesome.

 

[sacka]

Need for Speed Shift - Sept 17th in Europe.

Looks ****ing awesome.

It did look good, like the what sort of driver are you feature

 

[Juddy88]

http://www.ea.com/blogs/gamescom/packed-schedule#more-1510

All Points Bulletin, Army of TwoTM: The 40th Day, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Br*tal Legend, Command & Conquer 4 (working title), Dante's Inferno, Dead Space Extraction, Dragon Age: Origins, EA SPORTS ActiveTM: Personal Trainer, FIFA 10, FIFA Manager 10, HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT 2, Mass Effect 2, Need for Speed Nitro, Need for Speed Shift, NHL 10, Rage, RockBandTM: The Beatles, The Sims 3TM World Adventures, MySimsTM Agents, The SaboteurTM, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR Online.

Add to that the other games that we're featuring on the EA Booth in Hall 6.1 (GI JOETM The Rise of the CobraTM, LITTLEST PET SHOPTM NBA Live 10, SimAnimalsTM Africa, SporeTM Hero, plus many more mobile and iPhone games) plus the various community events that our German colleagues have lined up and the task ahead of us looks absolutely massive!

^^^ Saw a few of those mentioned. Dante's Inferno looked pretty sweet. Same with Dragon Age: Origons.

Not sure if I missed FIFA 10, hopefully not.

Anyway, can't wait for the PS3 slim (if true). Any news on the Australian release?

 

[Kerrby]

EAs press conference is finished, now the stream doesn't work .

 

[Kerrby]

Anyway, can't wait for the PS3 slim (if true). Any news on the Australian release?

Obviously not seeing it hasn't been announced officially yet.

But if RUMOURS are correct, September.

 

[Conan Troutman]

Need for Speed Shift - Sept 17th in Europe.

Looks ****ing awesome.

Yeah NFS looked great with the movement in cockpit view. Gonna have to check that one out.

 

[HBK619]

HOLY ****ING YES BATMAN!!!!!!!!!

LBP Gets the ability to ADD WATER.

Source: http://www.mediamolecule.com/2009/08/18/just-add-water/

That’s right folks. Water is coming to LittleBigPlanet as part of a future Downloadable Addon Kit.

WATER. \o/

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Awesome feature that has been sorely needed. Changes the complete dynamic of the game.

 

[Juddy88]

Obviously not seeing it hasn't been announced officially yet.

But if RUMOURS are correct, September.

Obviously meant rumours.

 

[Kerrby]

Didn't realise news meant rumours . My bad.

Anyway, it's starting.

 

[sacka]

not sure what blogs people are using but this has pics and all
http://www.vg247.com/2009/08/18/gamescom-sony-press-event-liveblog/

 

[Kerrby]

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/08/18/playstation-3-firmware-v3-00-update/

Firmware 3.0 update.

 

[sacka]

Heavy Rain sounds geat to me, cant wait for this one.

 

[Kerrby]

PS Slim announced for the first week in September.

 

[sacka]

WOW didn't see that coming lol

 

[Kerrby]

Okay so they announced the price:
$299 US, $299 EU and $299 YEN.
So around $500 here?

And....it's over?

Oh...what a waste of time.

PS3 slim and price cut, nothing else?

 

[sacka]

32% smaller, 36% lighter, 34% less power consumption

 

[Conan Troutman]

299 euro, and 299 US - big difference converting to Australian dollars - Euro converts to $512, US converts to $362. I'm guessing it'll be $500 here.

 

[sacka]

 

[Kerrby]

Shame really. I'd imagine it getting more sales if it were $362 here.

Anyway, looks like those old photos were right:

 

[HBK619]

299 euro, and 299 US - big difference converting to Australian dollars - Euro converts to $512, US converts to $362. I'm guessing it'll be $500 here.

That's a massive price drop regardless of what it ends up. Potentially $200+ cut right there. HUGE.

If we get a GT5 release date announcement soon then I'll be very happy (And no doubt Sony will too as sales are about to increase).

Like to hear what Midori thinks, surely a $200 price cut will please him?

 

[midorigreenwood]

What is wrong with Sony and keeping secrets?

good points: reasonable price at last!!! and it does look mighty slim.

bad points: pretty fugly