It’s been a while since we heard anything from the developers of Metal Gear Solid: Rising. A teaser image from the game has been displayed on TGS and Konami has said that the game will be released for the PlayStation Vita sometime next year.

Metal Gear Solid: Rising will also be the first game that makes use of Kojima Production’s new graphics engine FOX Engine, which can also be the reason why we have not heard so much about the game.

Metal Gear Solid: Rising to be released next year for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC and Playstation Vita. Moreover, it seems that the mysterious Demon project that Kojima talked about on twitter also is scheduled for release next year.

Nintendo announced its upcoming Wii U console during this year’s E3, and it is hoped to be able to make up for lost ground in both gaming enthusiasts and casual gamers. The focus was for the most part on its innovative controller, and the actual console was left out of the limelight.

Since then, however, more more and more information has found its way online. Last out is the website Inside Games, which has released a series of photos of the console from different angles. The pictures show a clean design with a few ventilation holes and connectors, including HDMI and dual USB.

Exactly what is under the hood is also shrouded in mystery, although some information is available . The hardware includes a processor from IBM along with graphics from AMD that can deliver video at up to 1920 x 1080 pixels and 5.1 audio via HDMI.

Anyone hoping for a full-featured video machine will however be disappointed. Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata confirms fears that the console’s proprietary optical drive is not capable of either DVD or Blu-ray, a conscious choice because of the high patent costs.

Codemasters has departed from its successful X-Games concept and instead returned to Colin McRae Rally Series. Colin McRae is dead. His name is so removed picked from the title,, but his spirit lives on. Not least because Codemasters partially reverted to its old recipe where coarse gravel rally based forest dominated the studio’s rally game, and not X Games rally cross.  Continue reading “News in Dirt 3” »

Following the success of Left 4 Dead Capcom realized that they should have been the first night of zombie-dripping co-op party. Better late than never.  After trips to both the Spanish countryside that African swamps, it is finally time for a dear old series to come home again. The upcoming Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is a spin-off, which builds on familiar landmarks and characters, but lands in some untrodden terrain. Continue reading “A Return Visit to Raccoon City” »

Sony has announced two new tablets that bears the Playstation mark. One tablet, S1, has a Touch-screen at nine inches, while the other called S2, has two screens, each of which is five inches.

Both tablets run Andriod 3.0 and supports both WiFi and 3G and 4G. S1 and S2 will have access to a lot of Sony’s online services, including Playstation Suite, Qriocity and its own digital book store.

Via TabletSquad