It looks like SEGA is giving yet another one of their franchises a next-gen sequel. A few days ago they announced Virtua Tennis 3, today SEGA Rally is announced for Xbox 360, PC and Playstation 3. No word of a Wii version.
Apparently they are taking some sort of MotorStorm-like approach to terrain-deforming:
Set to redefine the rally genre with vibrant next generation graphics, intuitive controls, competitive bumper-to-bumper racing and fully reactive environments. SEGA Rally will once again be leading the rest of the pack with a wonderfully vivacious and realistic graphical world that is every gamers driving fantasy.
SEGA Rally offers a vast variety of fully deformable environments and surfaces, from littered gravel tracks, all weather tarmac roads, to snow driven trails - no two laps let alone a race will ever be the same!
And something that I find a bit more interesting; they promised to keep it ‘entertaining’ (read: arcade) instead of making it into an uber-realistic racing-simulator.
Based on the best-selling Top Cow comic book, The Darkness casts players as Jackie Estacado, a fearless Mafia hitman for the Franchetti crime family who is suddenly possessed by the terrifying and spectacular powers of The Darkness. Throughout the game, players must learn to control and harness The Darkness power in order to overthrow the vicious mob boss and fulfill their destiny. The Darkness features a seamless and unique blend of modern crime drama and supernatural horror through first and third-person, non-linear gameplay. Utilizing the Starbreeze engine for next generation consoles, The Darkness features single and online multi-player action across highly realistic environments.
Finally a bunch of screenshots have been released from the comic first person shooter ‘The Darkness‘. They feature some good old-fashioned decapitation, freaky demons from hell and a couple of nice atmospheric shots of what looks like a very cosy neighbourhood. The game is set for a release somewhere this year and is pretty much R-rated I think.
Fearless Mafia hitman Jackie Estacado is part of the Franchetti crime family helmed by vicious cousin Paulie. On the eve of his 21st birthday, Jackie is suddenly possessed by the terrifying and spectacular powers of the Darkness.
Nothing major, just a little heads-up. According to this post by Major Nelson on the Xbox Live forums the Xbox Live service, Xbox.com and the Xbox Live forums will be unavailable this Tuesday from 02:00 until 15:00 Pacific Time. Check this link to find out how those times translate to your timezone.
Please don't cry, it was just a scheduled maintenance
On Tuesday May 2th from 0200-1500 PT Xbox Live, Xbox.com and the forums will be offline for maintenance. During this time, Xbox.com, the forums and Xbox Live will not be accessible. Click this link to find out what time the maintenance will begin in your time zone
Bizarre announced today that the PGR3 Online Career leaderboard will be reset. Here is the official word:
To compensate for recent changes to the way PGR3 online matchmaking works, we're resetting the Online Career leaderboards this Friday 28th April, at 8am GMT. This means that everybody will start again with a clean slate... but fret not! The TrueSkill system will once again accurately measure your skill within five or six races... so you'll be back to where you were within a few minutes.
The plus side of this reset is that everybody will be able to find a lot more opponents to race against in Online Career. It'll also provide a better gaming experience, matching you against people of the same skill much more efficiently than before.
It's not exactly a revelation, but Microsoft tells Next-Gen.Biz that the Xbox 360's recently announced CPU switch from 90nm to 65nm technology won't have any effect on the system's performance; main advantage is cost reduction.
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