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Surfer girl nonsense, resistance and killzone fans go away please
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You'd be surprised by what people know in magazines. It's really almost sickening how much stuff they are sitting on until they are allowed to publish it.FirewalkR said:
Also it's a very small world where everyone knows everyone, so juicy (non)rumors spread like wild fire, even if they never (until now that is) went out of this small circle of people.
And sometimes one interview or studio visit is enough to get one good contact at a company that will trust you enough to talk of stuff he's not supposed to months if not years after you first met him. Believe me, and I'm supposed to be one of these untrustworthy online journos who'd kill their own mother to get a few more page hits.
Randy Lanzarote
Member
She does seem to know (or pretend to know, depending on your point of view) a lot about what goes on inside of Ubisoft. She doesn't seem to have much love for their inner-workings either judging from some of her posts concerning them.
Maybe a pissed off employee (Patrice....is it you?!), could be a freelancer which could explain her ties across the industry.
Maybe a pissed off employee (Patrice....is it you?!), could be a freelancer which could explain her ties across the industry.
1) Activision hopes you like Spider-Man, the company is producing two further web-slinging titles in addition to this fall's ultimate Red vs. Black, one follows our wall-crawling friend as he teams up with Wolverine for amazing some reason and the other I don't know about but has to be spectacular. Originality! Excelsior!
2) Raven Software is working on some action-RPG sequel set in the Marvel universe. Originality! Excelsior!
3) Treyarch's second non-franchise, non-license title since being acquired by Activision, a very cool epic and unique PS360 action-adventure affair titled Black Lotus that was about two years away, has been canceled like Treyarch's first non-franchise, non-license title since being acquired by Activision, which was the original and very cool Dead Rush. Originality! Excelsior!
4) Infinity Ward has begun working on Call of Duty 6. Originality! Excelsior!
5) Crytek is overseeing, but not developing the console versions of Crysis.
6) What can one expect from Ubidays?
Darkworks' Alive (which I have heard described as "extraordinary"), AC2 confirmation, GRAW3, Ancel, Raynal, the new Prince of Persia, casual stuff, Heroes, a few other things, and possibly Soma.
7) 2 Days to Vegas looks really bad, the premise of Eight Days with the gameplay of The Getaway (the gameplay was certainly not the reason I played through that), except with inferior versions of both.
http://softrockhallelujah.blogspot.com/2008/01/face-front-true-believer.html
2) Raven Software is working on some action-RPG sequel set in the Marvel universe. Originality! Excelsior!
3) Treyarch's second non-franchise, non-license title since being acquired by Activision, a very cool epic and unique PS360 action-adventure affair titled Black Lotus that was about two years away, has been canceled like Treyarch's first non-franchise, non-license title since being acquired by Activision, which was the original and very cool Dead Rush. Originality! Excelsior!
4) Infinity Ward has begun working on Call of Duty 6. Originality! Excelsior!
5) Crytek is overseeing, but not developing the console versions of Crysis.
6) What can one expect from Ubidays?
Darkworks' Alive (which I have heard described as "extraordinary"), AC2 confirmation, GRAW3, Ancel, Raynal, the new Prince of Persia, casual stuff, Heroes, a few other things, and possibly Soma.
7) 2 Days to Vegas looks really bad, the premise of Eight Days with the gameplay of The Getaway (the gameplay was certainly not the reason I played through that), except with inferior versions of both.
http://softrockhallelujah.blogspot.com/2008/01/face-front-true-believer.html
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Hmm, as if I didn't say most of that over the past couple weeks.
Harker sufergirl confirmed
Harker sufergirl confirmed
SolidSnakex
Member
Wow something positive about a game UBI has involvement in?
Dead Prince
Banned
she must have been reading PSU :lol
I don't think they will announce/unveil all of their upcoming titles at Ubidays (not that I've heard about all the games listed here), but we can expect new games to be announced in the next weeks until the event, and some more at the event itself. After all except Vegas 2 it's been a long time since Ubisoft announced something new.harSon said:
I'm actually starting to believe her but:
No shit.
That's new and hard to fact check.
Obtaining info about cancelled stuff is easier than obtaining info about current, NDA-ed stuff.
No shit.
She is bouncing from one "fact" to the another. One week she says one thing about Crysis, second week something different.
Not buying it.
No shit. Heroes of Might and Magic 6 makes my day, though.
First GAF posts a thread about 2DtV, day later SurferGirls posts about the same thing. Like a clockwork.
So for this update I give her 1/10.
The 1 point is for Heroes 6 info.
Nothing unexpected, nothing really worth leaking.
Sean said:
No shit.
That's new and hard to fact check.
Obtaining info about cancelled stuff is easier than obtaining info about current, NDA-ed stuff.
No shit.
She is bouncing from one "fact" to the another. One week she says one thing about Crysis, second week something different.
Not buying it.
No shit. Heroes of Might and Magic 6 makes my day, though.
First GAF posts a thread about 2DtV, day later SurferGirls posts about the same thing. Like a clockwork.
So for this update I give her 1/10.
The 1 point is for Heroes 6 info.
Nothing unexpected, nothing really worth leaking.
underfooter
Banned
It just hit me!
It makes perfect sense for Factor5 to do the next Starfox.
....like, perfect.
It makes perfect sense for Factor5 to do the next Starfox.
....like, perfect.
Borys said:
Sorry to disappoint you but I'm pretty sure the Heroes she was referring to is not what you think, but a licensed game based on the NBC TV series: http://www.ubi.com/US/News/Info.aspx?nId=4695
Visualante
Member
No way Ubidays will have that much stuff.
You've never seen the industry without an E3 or equivalent either (unless you're like 50). Publishers will be coming up with new ideas in the years to come. This might be one of them.harSon said:
I do believe more in BlimBlim's idea of Ubi having their own little E3 with the weeks before it being announcathon, but that could also be what she means. This far in advance, the weeks preceding the event would count as "Ubidays" because it's the same ad campaign.
What? GAF having a "THERE WILL BE PICS ON MONDAY OMG I WONDER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE OMG BULLSHOTS" thread is the same as her posting about having seen it? You're really reaching to find a connection in this thread, Borys. It's rather silly.Borys said:
SolidSnakex
Member
TTP said:Wait until we see the PS3 version?
Well thankfully its not being developed internally at UBI, so there's a chance it won't be like UBI's second rate PS3 efforts.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Judging from the newly released screens, she's right about this one.
MickeyKnox
Member
There's a thread with actual screens of the game on here.aku:jiki said:
There sure is a thread about the screenshot announcement, yes, which is the thread Borys was talking about. SG's post is from yesterday. The threads with actual screens was made today.MickeyKnox said:
SolidSnakex
Member
Borys said:
This is what's bothering you most about her rumors isn't it? She's never said Crytek was developing Crysis for consoles. All she's said that it's coming to consoles. So she isn't going back and forth.
MickeyKnox
Member
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=230377aku:jiki said:
I took a look at the non-game posts, it stikes me that she has alot of free time to post stuff. i wouldn't be surprised the blog are being run by two or more "writers."
Although I can't figure out the motive. Has any magazine besides the blogs run surfergirl's rumor? Maybe its a way for the magazine to leak some rumor in their favorite without pissing off the publishers?
Although I can't figure out the motive. Has any magazine besides the blogs run surfergirl's rumor? Maybe its a way for the magazine to leak some rumor in their favorite without pissing off the publishers?
1) That EA Wii Balance Board title is Boogie II, which is not as bad as Boogie.
2) Mad Doc Software is working on a new entry in the SWAT series for PS360 and computing machines.
3) Have you ever seen millions of dollars used to market console DLC? Something called GTAIV will change that.
4) GRIN's AAA science-fiction film tie-in coming this year is about this journey in the stars.
http://softrockhallelujah.blogspot.com/2008/01/steve-forrest.html
2) Mad Doc Software is working on a new entry in the SWAT series for PS360 and computing machines.
3) Have you ever seen millions of dollars used to market console DLC? Something called GTAIV will change that.
4) GRIN's AAA science-fiction film tie-in coming this year is about this journey in the stars.
http://softrockhallelujah.blogspot.com/2008/01/steve-forrest.html
MWS Natural
Member
Sean said:
Glad to see that 50mil put to use, I'm sure every possible GTA customer will know about the additional DLC on the 360.
Visualante
Member
I don't think the exclusive DLC puts Microsoft at an advantage. It's coming out 3-6 months after the game launches and after the huge Worldwide marketing campaign.
What are they going to do? "GTA IV on PS3, GTA IV with bonus content on XBOX 360 in the future" Under the assumption that some money is spent on advertising when the 360 exclusive version comes out- it's still going to remind PS3 owners that the game is out. Word of mouth is the most powerful tool GTA has IMO.
Even then the only people who will care are people who read blogs.
What are they going to do? "GTA IV on PS3, GTA IV with bonus content on XBOX 360 in the future" Under the assumption that some money is spent on advertising when the 360 exclusive version comes out- it's still going to remind PS3 owners that the game is out. Word of mouth is the most powerful tool GTA has IMO.
Even then the only people who will care are people who read blogs.
Visualante
Member
I'm one of the few who really questions the value of these adverts. Simpsons ones were PlayStation branded and none of them did especially well. Even the PS2 version.Blimblim said:
I don't think PS3 owners have selective eye sight. Even if it's heavily 360 branded the only thing that will give MS the clear edge is some kind of exclusive bundle like PES was.
That would really kill Sony's hardware sales pre and post launch.
Mr_Furious
Member
I don't understand this logic. Such a move could obviously sabotage PS3 sales. Why the hell would Rockstar want to do something like that?Blimblim said:
Absinthe (Permed)
Banned
Blimblim said:
That would be a colossal waste of money considering Grand Theft Auto is still widely recognized as a Playstation brand.
ParticleReality
Banned
Makes sense. They should stick to being Activision's "Quick make a sequel to.." studio
Spider_Jerusalem
Member
It depends on the DLC. If it's something very big in scope, let's say like adding a whole big area with a news story and so on, it could be HUGE. And obviously if it would then come out on disk exclusively on 360 as a standalone package, it would be huger.Visualante said:
I think that even a HL2 Episodes-like DLC exclusive to 360 would be a very big deal.
Hint: there are many peolple out there who still havent jumped to next-genVisualante said:
Visualante
Member
Correct, and a 360 branded advert is not going to make them go "i don't want a PS3 because the advert said 360"Spider_Jerusalem said:
A ready made boxed 360 GTA bundle would.