Sony may have dropped a few details about Gran Turismo 5 (like a release date) at its E3 presentation, but it was saving the real news for an even bigger event: Cue random interview on the UK PlayStation site with Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida.
In this interview, Yoshida casually confirms the existence of unannounced elements in the racing sim, including a track editor and go-karts. For every individual driver, Yoshida says there is
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a driving experience to suit, whether that is taking on the Top Gear test track, chucking cars around stunt arenas, go-karting, creating and sharing your own track or intense head-to-head races."
Elsewhere in the interview (and just as nonchalantly), Yoshida references some "
new game-enhancing graphical effects, such as damage, night racing and weather." Damage has already been confirmed and weather rumored.
Of course, we aren't totally sure Gran Turismo 5 is a real game yet, and if it is as imaginary as it seems to be, you can say pretty much anything is in it, like: "Gran Turismo 5 will feature Crocodile Mile racing." See? There's as much proof for that feature that we just made up as there is for anything else, and that will be the case until the game is released.
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This is it, folks, Xav's last Fancast episode. Join us as we wrap up our E3 coverage and wish a fond farewell to our resident Canadian. Stick around for a special guest from Fancasts past. Appropriately enough, we're also visited by another special guest: Horrible Internet Connection. Enjoy.
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After a highly-successful run on Xbox Live Arcade, the collectible card game craze visits Steam with the PC version of Magic: the Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers. More »
Just before E3 2010, we asked Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe to confirm that he wasn't working on a new entry in the long-dormant car combat franchise, per a series of messages he released via Twitter. And confirm that he did. Unfortunately for us -- though perhaps not for gamers -- it turns out that his words to us were actually part of a larger plan of "misdirection," as he told us in an interview one day after last week's big reveal.
Aside from our initial harassment about what he told us in the past, we spoke with him about what he wants out of E3, what he's most excited about in his forthcoming game, the current trend of series reboots in the game industry, and what else is going on at Eat Sleep Play (the studio he co-heads with Scott Campbell) -- among many other things. And though we were initially hurt by his "misdirection," the fact that he was a perfect gentleman during the interview helped to mend those wounds. Continue after the break for our conversation.
When Nintendo of Japan made its first terse, cryptic announcement of the 3DS in March, it offered a vague release window: "during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011." At the time, we assumed that this time frame applied to the Japanese launch only.
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime kicked that assumption in an interview with IndustryGamers. "The one thing, for sure," Fils-Aime said about the 3DS release plan, "is that we will launch in all of our major markets by March 31, 2011." As for the specific release dates, Nintendo is still "making individual market decisions in terms of what's happening in Japan, what's happening in the Americas [and] what's happening in Europe." It's worth noting that the last two DS systems launched in the spring in North America: DSi on April 5 (2009) and DSi XL on March 28 (2010).
Fils-Aime also reiterated that the design of the device seen at E3 is not final, so don't get married to the analog stick placement or those shiny paint jobs just yet.
#hollywood
Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto has apparently given his blessing to the movie adaptation of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, based on the heavily video game-influenced comic of the same name, specifically for its use of video game music. More »
#madden
Madden NFL Arcade, the downloadable football shootout that released last Thanksgiving, won't be getting a second version this year. Instead, EA Sports today pushed out a comprehensive roster update tracking more than 100 player moves, roster promotions and draft choices. More »
Leader in survival horror genre partners with Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures to launch Saw videogame sequel with one of cinema's most terrifying villains.
Sooooo close -- so very close to winning the Sony E3 Bingo card! If it hadn't been for cross-game chat being not quite announced (so, still unconfirmed), we'd have won at least one Bingo this E3. Check out the final Sony results after the break.
