Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but according to Playstation fan-site, Playstaion Universe (PSU) SQEnix have announced that we will not be sampling the playable delights that their up and coming sequel, Final Fantasy XIII will have to offer.
Back in April, C&VG reported on an article in EGM which implied that a demo was on its way to PS3 owners this year. However, PSU have transcribed an article in Famitsu where they cite Square Enix's Shinji Hasimoto as saying that we won't be seeing a anything on the sort. This not only includes FFXIII but the spin-off Versus, too.
What will happen however, is that in-game footage will be shown "later this year", most presumably at the up and coming Tokyo Games Show. So 2008 it is then. Sorry.
Here, have a consolatory screenshot:
Saturday, July 21, 2007
FFXIII: No Playable Demo This Year
Crackdown Devs Want You To Help make Crackdown 2
There's gonna be another one!Although busy on their forthcoming title, APB, those lovely chaps down at Reatime want you to pitch in with your ideas as to what they could include in the next instalment of the game.
If this sounds like the thing for you then head over to Destructoid.com, post your idea in their comments section and they'll deliver the goods to Realtime "when the thread goes limp" as they themselves salaciously suggest.
If it was me, I'd want birds flying around that I could shoot down and of course helicopters, planes and /\/\070Rb1k3z!
Source: Digg
Capcom Defends Going Multi-platfrom with Devil May Cry 4
Kieiji Inafune, Capcom's Head of R&D has recently talked about with the company chose take their forthcoming title Devil May Cry 4 multi-platform instead of following tradition and maintaining its exclusivity to the Playstation brand.
In an interview with Spong.com, Inafune remarked, "Until now it’s been hard for us to develop multi-platform games, but recently we have developed this development engine that allows us to develop a game in the engine and then put it on to PS3 and 360." (He likes the word develop - or the translator does more like!)
“Developing Dead Rising and Lost Planet helped flush out everything in the development tool system – which is now pretty much complete, aside from the usual upgrades – so we decided to use that engine, make it for the 360 and the PS3 with Devil May Cry 4”, he added.
The series has been with Sony since 2001 and when Capcom first announced their were going multi', hardcore fans of the series went nuts polling Capcom saying say were planning to boycot the company amongst other really pathetic things.
As of yet DMC4 as it's commonly known, has no official release date but some sites have it down Q4. However, screenshots are available. Here, have one!
