Friday, March 19, 2010

Guitar Hero 6 will be provided with the participation of the leader of Kiss

The musical exemption of Guitar Hero continues unrestrainedly leaving behind millions of copies sold in the whole world. Guitar Hero 6 brings pleasant surprises as his predecessors. In this occasion, it will be provided with Gene Simmons, leader and vocalist of the band Kiss, one of the icons of the rock in the 80s.

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The title Guitar Hero 6 is prepared by the producing Network Octane, in Mountain View, the United States and it will be directed to the systems Playstation 3, Xbox-360, and Nintendo Wii, of the companies Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.

In a recent interview, the singer who recorded several topics to include in the game Guitar Hero 6 i ndicó that had informed in the video game accidentally to move forward more events. Some of them speculate that Simmons might be the central personage. In addition to Genne Simmons, others indicate artists like Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), Johhny Cash, Carlos Santana or Mathew Bellamy (Muse) between others.

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Guitar Hero has transformed the genre of the musical video games into a cultural phenomenon, giving a strong value to the industry of the video games. The series has already reached more than 25.000.000 of units sold on a global scale with an invoicing of trillion dollars and turning Activision-Blizzard into one of the biggest exemption in the electronic games. Specifically Mario and Madden NFL are the first and the second one.

Route | Gamespot

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Heavy Rain is the experience nearest to a movie

It is neither the first one nor the last occasion in which we mention the title Heavy Rain on the forum. The true thing is that Heavy Rain has surprised all this year. It is a question of something more than a mere game, it is a movie where we develop the end and the plot with our decisions.

This only interactivity allows to obtain tens possible ends, something that has happened in little games, as in the outstanding figure Blade Runner with the one that shares certain similarity.

Thrown exclusive for the console of Sony, Playstation 3, the video game Heavy Rain is a finished revolution. The game has his central element in the history, when in most of games the history serves to feed little more jugabilidad. In this game we will feel the experiences of four central personages, all interested parties in finding the same killer.

Even if our actions drive to the death of one of the personages, the action keeps on developing, with alterations based on the absence of this individual. Thanks to this experience that can be only whenever we put the game in the console, one is not satisfied with seeing an end, being able to revise several times the game in search of new routes and solutions to our protagonists. There is not known the whole of ends programmed by the team of development in Heavy Rain.

The system has the completely only control and it is provided with only one fixed key: that of walking. The game is receiving new indications where we will have to press different buttons and use the analogical command to execute the most important actions. Although the most important thing the control is not, but the argument that generates every action.

The game embarks in an adventure that grows in intensity per seconds. With a slow rhythm at first, it generates moments of big tension along our adventure.

Route | Cleveland (English)

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Space Invaders might turn into cinematographic adaptation

Nobody could imagine that an outstanding figure arcade might be the central echo of a cinematographic adaptation. As has confirmed the tabloide Los Angeles Steal, «Space Invaders« might turn into a movie on the big screen.

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The American newspaper advances that the Warner is trying to acquire the copyright on the video game to make something important and memorable for the most nostalgic of the epoch. The WB marks a model of already existing business in the industry as the Universal Pictures did with «Asteroids« or «20th Century Fox» managed with «Missile Command«.

Guymon Casady and Jason Blum, of «Paranormal Activity» (Paranormal Activity), along with Mark Gordon (tomorrow), might turn into the producers of the project that neither producer nor scriptwriter still has.

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The title will center on the creative company of popular "Space Invaders". It will develop in 1978, date in which the Japanese company Taito, intentand was showing the foreign ships to invade the ground. «Space Invaders» is one of the classic frames of the video games arcade in the 80s.

Route | Gamasutra

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Yakuza 5 is in development

Although a few days ago of the premiere of the fourth delivery of the exemption Yakuza in Japan, already a new explosion has arisen on later qualifications of the series belonging to Sega. The magazine specializing in video games Famitsu, of Japanese origin, already advances a fifth period in development.

The magazine nipónica offers a reportage where it reveals the details of the next development of which it will be the fifth title of the saga. Yakuza 5 is in an initial stage and it might be free in a little time. According to the most recent informations reported in the article about the Japanese magazine, there is a small trailer that has woken up the appetite of many Japanese.

The exemption will take the same style but with a new course, there was defining the director of the exemption, Toshiro Nagoshi. In Yakuza 5 a new personage appears before us, being still temporary to exclude from the plot the principal figure of the saga, Kazuma Kyriu.

Although there still has not been revealed the existence of other platforms that will receive this new product, one hopes that the new line of video games Yakuza should be supported like the previous ones, that is to say, exclusively for the mark Playstation.

Even if it was not possible to have tested Yakuza 4 in European territory, already the Japanese seem to be advancing in qualifications that will take some time in being savoured from here. Remain attentive to know new details on the fifth delivery of the series.

Route | Destructoid