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"Eight Days" and "The Getaway" Get Away 14

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @02:44PM from the look-for-several-rush-job-finishes-on-other-games-soon dept.

Gamespot is reporting that both The Getaway and Eight Days have hit the developmental equivalent to purgatory since the studio has suspended work on both games. Claiming the desire to "redistribute resources and budget," Sony is apparently conducting an internal review of all of their development projects in an attempt to stay competitive in the immediate future. "Announced at E3 in 2006, Eight Days was a PlayStation 3 game that combined third-person shooting with driving action. The Getaway, also for the PS3, was to continue on from the PlayStation 2 game, which was released in 2002 and spawned a sequel and a PlayStation Portable spin-off called Gangs of London. Little was known about the modern action-adventure game other than the fact that it was to be set in a photorealistic London."

PS3 Japanese Estimates Down, No 360 Price Drop 84

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 31, 2006 @12:30PM from the bad-for-both-worlds dept.

There are unhappy gamers on a couple sides of the console wars today. IGN is reporting that Japan's allotment of 100,000 PS3 units will actually be more like 80,000. From that article: "The lack of digits in that number is even more staggering when you consider that the PS2 sold out of nearly a million units when it launched back in March of 2000. Having lived through a few weeks of attempting to obtain a PS3 pre-order, we're not too surprised by the lowered shipping numbers. Allocations disappeared quickly at online retailers that were brave enough to start pre-order programs. The online arm of media retailer Tsutaya ran out of units in 6 minutes according to Nikkei (it felt more like 1 minute to us)." Meanwhile, the Seattle PI reports that Microsoft has once again denied the possibility of a 360 price drop any time soon.

Comment Re:Know for games to catch up (Score 1) 229

by nstickels on Thursday June 01, 2006 @06:03PM (#15449127) Attached to: 4x4 Chips, Opening AMD's Architecture

Where I work, we are already working on building several machines with dual opereron dual core machines to do intensive data processing in real time in a box that you can stick in a kiosk somewhere, without having to connect to some backend server, so there are definitely business applications for building boxes like this.

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