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GamePro magazine’s got an upcoming feature on Sony’s Killzone 3. It’s just leaked onto the Internet. Hang on – Killzone-what-now? Killzone 3! Oh – you mean the game that was going to be announced at E3 but’s now been outed early? Yeah, that Killzone 3. Oh well, there’s another surprise ruined then – but the details are no less juicy.

Perhaps the biggest deal, as per the rumours, is that the game will support full 3D (alongside Sony’s upcoming firmware update and their new Bravia televisions). But not just any 3D – oh no – this is the killer-app for Sony’s tech. We’d heard mumblings that Killzone 3’s implementation of 3D would be a game-changer, and that’s exactly what’s stated in this issue of GamePro. Exact words: the 3D implementation is “crazy”. Nice. In addition to the 3D features, the game also includes jet-packs.

Thankfully, while Sev and co are back, the game will focus much more on Helghast culture. We’re not alone when we say the Helghast are by far the most interesting part of the Killzone lore, so we hope Killzone 3 ain’t all about Rico and his “rad-ass” buddies.

We’ve included a whole list of details after the jump (via Gamespot), and screens can be found through here. Consider it an early-E3 present. Who gives magazines these exclusives? They ruin everything.

* Will show the Helghast have humanity left in them
* Will have the feeling that “of being in a place far away from home, outnumbered by people who want to kill you.”
* Will be like Inglorious Basterds.
* All of the characters in the screenshots are flying in.. jetpacks?!
* Will include arctic levels.
* One mission in the game involves rescuing ISA Captain Narville.
* Game is playable in 3D
* Have to wear 3D glasses, apparently the 3D effects are “crazy.”
* Combat is “unchanged from predecessor.”
* Or is it? Hand to hand combat involves you “Unloading a string of different (and often brutal) attacks on stunned enemies.”
* The scale is supposed to be “bigger this time.”
* The Jetpacks are “surprisingly lightweight and agile, Killzone 3’s jetpack is easier to maneuver compared to the sluggish incarnations of the gadget found in other games.”
* New weapon called the Wasp, basically shoots a “flurry of rockets” at an enemy.
* Will show off the Helghast culture.
* There is actually a Helghast language, which will be explored in the game.
* Will have “diverse locales.”
* Have to sit in the center of the 3D tv for the 3D effects to work.
* 3D in this game is called a “Game Changer.”
* Going to have “Intense Action”
* Jetpacks double as a weapon, which basically means a machine gun mounted right on top of it.
* If you shoot Helghast with jetpacks, they’ll “explode like roman candles”
* To control the jetpack, you “have to activate bursts of speed in midair, propelling yourself across further distances.”
* The Jetpack resembles something you’d do in platformers such as Super Mario Bros. Or Uncharted
* In one mission, you have to use the jetpack by “launching yourself from glacier to glacier”
You’ll see “a lot of” snow levels.
* Everything is more spread out in this game.
* The game looks very complete.


http://www.pushsquare.com/14463/killzone-3-screenshots-details-surface-its-integration-of-3d-technology-a-game-changer/

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AXL ROSE SLAMS IRVING AZOFF IN $5 MILLION COUNTERSUIT

Tue May 18, 2010 @ 12:08PM PST

By Eriq Gardner

EXCLUSIVE: Axl Rose says his former manager tried to implement a scheme to force him to reunite with the original Guns N' Roses band members and, as part of the plot, failed to properly promote the "Chinese Democracy" album, lied about a prospective Van Halen super tour and mishandled the band's tour dates.

The claims are part of a bombshell countersuit filed yesterday against Irving Azoff's Front Line Management. In March, Azoff sued Rose, claiming the rocker violated an oral agreement to pay 15% of earnings, or nearly $2 million, from a lucrative concert tour.

Not since the G'N'R song "Get in the Ring" has Rose struck back at a foe so forcefully, alleging antitrust concerns about Front Line's parent company, Ticketmaster, to drive home a major claim that his former manager is up to no good in the music business.

Azoff is CEO, director and majority shareholder of Front Line, whose roster of artists include the Eagles, Neil Diamond, Jimmy Buffett, Christina Aguilera and John Mayer. In 2008, Front Line was acquired by Ticketmaster.

Rose claims that through Azoff's control of the "trifecta" of artist management, concert and touring promotion, and ticket sales, Azoff has been able to gain wide influence and power in the music industry. Azoff allegedly decides what artists he wants to promote through favorable touring deals and uses his power to punish artists and harm their careers if they don't follow his orders.

When informed of the myriad allegations in the countersuit, Azoff's lawyer Howard King quipped to us: "He didn't accuse Irving of being on the grassy knoll in Dallas on November 22, 1963?"

The countersuit invokes the U.S. Justice Department's recent antitrust lawsuit that sought to stop a proposed merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation over concerns about the new entity having too much control over artists and venues. Afterwards, Ticketmaster entered into a consent decree with government regulators to allow the merger to continue under certain operating provisions.

Axl's counter-complaint says that Azoff is violating the consent decree by coercing and bullying artists to do what he wants.

What Azoff wanted, the rocker says, was the reunion of Guns N' Roses. To execute this, he would sabotage Rose and his new band so that Rose would have no option but to reunite.

According to the filing, "Upon realizing that he couldn't bully Rose and accomplish his scheme, Azoff resigned and abandoned Guns N' Roses on the eve of a major tour, filing suit for commissions he didn't earn and had no right to receive."

Further, Axl says the botched tour cost him money in production startup and rehearsal expenses. Claiming breach of fiduciary duty, constructive fraud and breach of contract, the singer wants at least $5 million in damages.

The cross-complaint was filed by Skip Miller and Sasha Frid at L.A.'s Miller Barondess.

http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/05/guns-n-roses-reunion-.html

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Sales has everything to do with the subject because if the Wii wasn't as successful as it is, (i.e. had it not nearly outsold both the 360 and PS3 combined), especially in comparison to its failure of a predecessor, this would not even be a story; No one imitates the loser. Both companies think they can make more money, ie. sell more stuff, by trying to ride the Wii's coattails, thus here we are with Natal and the Move.

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Casuals will not suddenly buy PS3s and 360s in droves just because of the Move and Natal. The 360 and PS3 have developed their reputations as hardcore consoles versus casual ones this generation, and a console and manufacturer's reputation will always precede the games and peripherals.

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You said that Nintendo knew they couldn't compete with Sony and Microsoft game-wise when they are in the only thing that ultimately matters, the element you ignored-- Sales.

Rem Nightfall

May 12 2010, 02:25 PM

No! why are people leavign you will be missed

Bowie

May 8 2010, 04:39 PM

Sandopolis is lookin good Neo, only think that I don't particularly like is the giant ZETABOARDS smacking into my face at the top of the page.

and Bliz, of course it's admiration, your posts are golden and shiny.. therefore "Whoa" deserving. xD

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We were treated to a First Play of the mind-blowing Little Big Planet 2 - the follow-up to Sony's smash hit which shifted 3 million units.

As well as picking up 14 game of the year awards in 2008, LBP1 has seen 2.3 million ingenious levels uploaded to the LBP community.

Zonic The Zone Cop

Apr 30 2010, 12:15 AM

8GB? I got to find a 64GB iPod Touch but why 8GB? and you should get iPhone os 4 when it releases on summer 2010 and this update is the best this lets you customize that boring homescreen! so update to iPhone os 4 as soon as possible!