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Arc vs Natal This Autumn

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Microsoft and Sony’s competitors to the Wii remote will now be going head to head at the end of the year after the news today that Sony have delayed the release of their motion controller from March to Autumn.

The device, which is rumoured to be called ‘Arc’, has been delayed so that there will be more games available at launch. Hopefully they will also work out a better way to use the controller with more traditional titles. The Resident Evil demonstration with a Dual Shock in one hand and an Arc in the other looked fiddly and uncomfortable for long playthroughs.

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Thoughtful Preview: Final Fantasy XIII

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Release date: 9th March, 2010.

To call Final Fantasy XIII hotly anticipated is something of an understatement. “The reason thousands of people bought a PS3 before discovering it was no longer a Sony-exclusive” might be a more appropriate tag – if the wind is right you can just about hear the sound of a million eager fanfiction authors sharpening  their quills in anticipation. It’s going to be massive, it’s going to sell millions. At worst it’s going to be passable, at best it could be genre-defining.

Not many games are really afforded the luxury of selling fantastically well despite how good they actually are. A bad game can be made to sell via a major PR effort, (a la Kane and Lynch) but it’s hard to begrudge Square Enix their inevitable success, because Read More »

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