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CES10: Heavy Rain Gameplay Footage

Chad Lakkis — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:34:53 +0000

A proud member of the Ripten extended family and fellow Ripcaster, Beau Baxter Rosser, was nice enough to share some offscreen footage of Heavy Rain gameplay he captured at CES a few days ago. Have a look at the three videos below and let us know what you think in the comments section.

Leaked Microsoft CES Interview Reveals Xbox Game Room and 2010 Project Natal Launch

Rangebar Merani — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:39:03 +0000

Microsoft’s Channel 9 community site has accidentally posted a video interview with Robbie Bach, President of the Entertainment & Devices Division, before Microsoft’s annual CES press conference set for 6:30pm PST tonight.

According to Joystiq, the pulled video (which can be found here) confirms a 2010 Project Natal launch, which shouldn’t be that much of a surprise, and also discusses the “Xbox Game Room”.

Here’s what the Joystiq source had to say:

“Go to the 11:53 mark in the video to hear them start discussing Game Room. They aren’t totally concrete on the details, but they talk about how this is supposed to bring back that retro fun to gaming. In the video they confirm Natal is on for this year.”

And here’s what was said about the game room, according to the video and transcription from Joystiq:

Well, Game Room in some ways is sort of a retro approach. And it’s interesting, there’s a generation of people — sort of my advanced, mature age [laughs] — who grew up with a set of games like Centipede. They look almost like casual, fun games today — at the time they were high-end, edgy games — and so Game Room is the idea of bringing that back to the market. And bringing that to a very broad audience. And I think what we’re gonna find is that when people can get 30 or more of these games, they’re gonna love it for the experience. And it’s not just you and I who are gonna love it, even the people who would call themselves “hardcore gamers” are gonna say “Oh wow this is fun!” In a retro way. It’s sort of like my daughter going to watch Journey. I’m like, this is a band that was playing when I was growing up. And she thinks it’s a cool band and I like the music. And I think you’re gonna have the same phenomenon with Game Room. We’re gonna enjoy the games and they’re gonna think it’s cool. I think that’s very powerful.

While all of this is speculation for now, it’s bound to be confirmed once Microsoft’s press conference at CES in Las Vegas is underway. I’m hoping the “Xbox Game Room” is legit because that would just be dope, in a retro way of course.

CES Stage Presentation of inFamous features electricity and awesomeness

Sam Naylor — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:32:04 +0000

I nearly featured the word “shockingly” in the title of this post. Nearly. Just count yourself lucky that I didn’t. Anyway, watch this video. I’d known about inFamous, the latest from the Sly Cooper team, for a while before watching this, but I wasn’t half as excited for the game back then. What the game looks like, and what I hope it turns out to be, is Crackdown plus the climbing from the likes of Uncharted. Run, jump, climb, smash some cars, climb more, do a massive diving leap off of the highest building in the city. Maybe I’m enthusing a little too much, but it does look like pure fun.

Via PS3 Fanboy.

Gizmoron Runs Amok At CES

Dylan Duarte — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:17:14 +0000

While I don’t think anger and writing mix well, I’m going to take my chances here. In an act of childishness and just outright douchebaggery, Richard Blakeley from Gizmodo got his hands on a TV-B-Gone remote and caused chaos at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The TV-B-Gone remote will turn off just about any TV with an active LED port, and that’s basically what Blakeley did. He made his way through CES, turning off televisions and ruining presentations and exhibits left and right. The Motorola Press Conference in particular suffered from his actions, as the representative on stage had to apologize and improvise when the monitors continuously shut off during his presentation.

The internet is already ablaze with opinions on the situation and I’m firmly in the “it was stupid and immature” crowd. I’ll freely admit that the idea is funny – I do have a sophomoric sense of humor – but not nearly funny enough to justify the hassle that the Motorola rep or any of the other victims were put through.

A lot of people view bloggers as amateurish and unprofessional when compared to “real” journalists and it’s garbage like this that gives them that impression. CES only recently started granting access to bloggers – and it’s still limited – so the timing on this couldn’t be worse. Even if CES still allows bloggers in the future, it still hurts us all in the public eye.

This was a real step back for everyone involved.

Via FiringSquad

UPDATE: According to Webware, the CEA (which runs CES) had this to say about the situation:

“We have been informed of inappropriate behavior on the show floor by a credentialed media attendee from the Web site Gizmodo, owned by Gawker Media. Specifically, the Gizmodo staffer interfered with the exhibitor booth operations of numerous companies, including disrupting at least one press event. The Gizmodo staffer violated the terms of CES media credentials and caused harm to CES exhibitors. This Gizmodo staffer has been identified and will be barred from attending any future CES events. Additional sanctions against Gizmodo and Gawker Media are under discussion.”

So it looks like the guy is banned for life. A fitting punishment, if you ask me.

Over 70 Weapons in MGS4: New English Demo Footage

Patrick Steen — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:52:19 +0000

Kojima revealed at TGS that there would be over 70 weapons in Metal Gear Solid 4, and what’s more they would be customisable. With CES going on right now, we are getting new footage of some of these weapons. Watching these five new videos from the MGS4 English demo, it’s almost safe to say that Kojima has done it again.

Kojima continues to announce new features, such as being able to play the game in First Person Mode, suggesting that there isn’t anything Snake can’t do. Furthermore, with over 70 weapons, MGS4 is going to be one of the most feature full games to come out in 2008.

In this following video from youtube user Konrad52, you can see the epic weapon shown in the title image – the rocket launcher, “Javelin”.

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MGS4 will have the most diverse array of weapons yet seen in a Metal Gear game, not only because of the sheer amount, but that you can modify each weapon extensively.

As you get hold of new gear, you can add scopes, flashlights, shotguns, grenade launchers and more. This gear can be added to your weapons on pre-determined mounts to create something that will help you get through your diverse enemy encounters.

The enemy animation and hit reactions continue to impress, as can be seen in this recent captured video:

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We only wish they would let all PS3 owners get hold of this demo, but at the moment this looks unlikely.

Credit Goes to Ploid 2.0 of Neogaf

Here you can watch Parts 1, 2 and 3 of Konrad52’s footage of the MGS4 English demo at CES.

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[youtube width="425" height="335"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hydi1ZLXo4Y [/youtube]