With Fable 2 due out this October, Lionhead lead designer Peter Molyneaux revealed that the company plans on creating three more titles in the action-RPG series.
“We’ve got plans for Fable 3, 4, and 5,” he told GameTrailers. “It’s a big story arc, and you can see—if you play Fable 2, you can recognize things from Fable 1, so that’s pretty exciting.”
When asked about the studio’s other unannounced project,he declined to comment, but noted that it is the result of an “experiment that went incredibly well.”
Hideo Kojima’s interview with Variety isn’t exactly full of information on the director’s upcoming games, but he does say some interesting things.
Talking about Snake, he noted that the “final story of Snake equals closure for these fans… Therefore, the Snake that has existed over the past 10 years could have only existed during this time.”
He adds that he doesn’t know if he will be working on a new Solid Snake game anymore, but did say that “if there ever were to be a new Snake [game], he will be a Snake for a new era.” Whatever that means.
As much as we would like to speculate just how much the guys at Penny Arcade hate the PS3, it wasn’t the reason why Penny Arcade Adventures was late to the PlayStation Network. It was technology, who is to blame.
Vlad Ceraldi, president and CEO of Hothead Games, revealed that they had to redo the entire engine of the game for the PS3 release.
“At that point we were fully committed to getting the game done as soon as we could,” Ceraldi said. “So we focused on PC, linux and what we had already announced, the Xbox.”
“As soon as we finished and got approved we moved those developers to the playstation and they started working on it for the Playstation Network,” he said. “Until we got it running the way we wanted to look, we weren’t going to announce anything.”
“As soon as we did a full play through of the game we announced.”
He notes that future episodes of the game will be released on all the aforementioned platforms within weeks of one another.
The Too Human demo has been doing the rounds on many Xbox 360 consoles, but many gamers were saddened to know that it had only one of five player classes from the full game.
Apparently, it does include the other four classes which are unlocked through a time release code. In fact, the second class – Berserker – became unlocked last Friday, and Commando, the third class, is expected to be unlocked August 12.
However, there is a way to unlock all classes in the game. This includes changing your console’s internal clock, and doing some controller mumbo jumbo. Be sure to check out this post for the nitty gritty details.
Telltale Games has announced Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures as its second episodic adventure game featuring yet another awesome duo.
Adapted from the popular claymation series, the game will feature adventure gameplay similar to studio stalwarts Sam & Max and Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People.
No platforms or release dates were given. A PC release is expected, with a Wii version being a high possibility.
Following word that Ghostbusters, Brutal Legend and many other Sierra games may be getting canceled, Sierra sent out word assuring fans that Ghostbusters is not in danger.
“It is not cancelled and will not be cancelled,” wrote a Sierra representative to Destructoid. He, however, would not give any further details.
Ghostbusters was in development at Terminal Reality for release on PC, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and DS this Fall.
Valve’s marketing VP Doug Lombardi has expressed interest in releasing the studio’s back catalog on Xbox 360 as downloads. This includes shooters Half-Life and Counter-Strike; the studio is gearing up to release an enhanced edition of Portal on Xbox Live Arcade this Fall.
“We’ll certainly consider [bringing old games like Counter-Strike to XBLA],” he said. “If you look at what we’ve done on Steam, we try to make all our games available and we’re always reviewing the prices to keep them current. We’d love to do that, but this is our first step at doing that beyond the PC.”
He also talked about the free Team Fortress 2 content, disclosing that the company was still discussing the specifics of pricing and that once a lot of content has accumulated, they might release them on consoles.
According to the company’s latest financial documents, Sony Computer Entertainment has sold over 14.41 million units of the PS3 since its launch back in 2006.
The company sold 1.56 million PS3 consoles during the first quarter of its 2008 fiscal year, which ran from April 1 to June 30. By the end of its 2007 fiscal year, over 12.85 million PS3 units had been sold worldwide.
In comparison, the Wii has sold over 24 million units and the Xbox 360 19 million units worldwide. Both companies have yet to offer updated figures.
Sony’s games division posted a $51 million profit, stating that it was an “improvement” over the $237 million it lost in Q1 2007.
Following the indefinite hold of the PS3 version of Red Alert 3, EA today revealed that the PS3 version was cancelled due to development issues on the platform.
“We actually announced a PS3 version early on but that was when we were still doing a lot of technical exploration of the architecture,” said EALA producer Amer Ajami. “PS3 is a very powerful system but as you guys know it’s very exotic and tough to develop for and our engine really at the time wasn’t designed for PS3.”
He noted that the studio “might go back and do something with the PS3 later on.”
When EA put the PS3 version on indefinite hold early last month, the company only said that it was “refocusing resources” towards the other version of the game.
Red Alert 3 is due out on PC and Xbox 360 this October.
Namco Bandai has announced that anime adaptation Afro Samurai will hit stores on January 27, 2009 for PS3 and Xbox 360.
The game was previously slated for a vague Fall 2008 release, marking a delay for the hack-and-slash title.
Based on the short, but stylish and violent anime of the same name, the game features action gameplay focusing on strategic swordplay and dodging. The protagonist will be voiced by veteran actor Samuel L. Jackson.