Sony svela la lista di uscite "first-party" per Ps3 e PSP
Ecco svelata, direttamente da Sony, la lista di tutti i titoli “first-party” di prossima uscita, giusto per avere la situazione sott’occhio: naturalmente le date sono solo indicative e potrebbero cambiare senza preavviso, è il caso di LittleBigPlanet che vedremo quasi sicuramente più in avanti nel tempo. Segnalo inoltre, a proposito di Secret Agent Clank per PSP, che la relativa demo è in imminente uscita sul nuovo PlayStation Store. Dopo la pausa, la lista completa. Hot Shots Golf: Open
Games-News-Sony Reveals Their 2008-09 Line Up 2007 was a better year for the PS3. More games was released for the sexy black box. Now, Sony announced games coming out for 2008 and 2009 Popularity: 1% [?]
I was at the Blue Angels 60th anniversary airshow 11/11/06 in Pensacola FL. This is the Navy’s new F18 Super Hornet Fighter blowing its right rear tire on landing and crashing off the runway behind the Blue Angels F18’s. ShareThis
Attraverso una dichiarazione comparsa su un articolo di videogaming247, Sony ha annunciato che Wipeout HD non arriverà prima del secondo trimestre di quest’anno in Europa. Ricordiamo che Wipeout HD verrà rilasciato attrverso il PlayStation Store online.
PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PC MS-DOS, PC Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Network
Release date
PlayStation PAL September 29, 1995 NA November, 1995 JP March 22, 1996 PC PAL October, 1995 NA November , 1995 Sega Saturn PAL February, 1996 NA March 5, 1996 JP July 12, 1996 Amiga 1999
Genre(s)
Racing
Mode(s)
Single player, multiplayer (for PlayStation via link cable)
Rating(s)
ESRB: Kids to Adults
Wipeout (also WipEout) is a racing game developed and published by Psygnosis, which was released in 1995 for the Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PCs running MS-DOS and Amiga with ppc hardare. It was also re-released for the PSP (via the PlayStation Store) on March 8, 2007, and made PS3 compatible on May 3, 2007 in North America.
Set in the year 2052, players compete in the F3600 anti-gravity racing league, piloting one of a selection of craft in races on several different tracks. There are four different racing teams, and two pilots on each team, from which the player chooses; each ship has distinct characteristics of acceleration, top speed, mass, and turning radius. By piloting their craft over power-up pads found on the tracks, the player can pick up shields, turbo boosts, mines, shock waves, rockets, or missiles, which protect the player's craft or disrupt the competitors' craft.
Launch and development
Wipeout was launched alongside the Sony PlayStation in Europe in September 1995, and was the first non-Japanese game for the console. Two months later in November 1995, it was released in the U.S. The game went to number one in the all format charts, with over 1.5 million units of the franchise having been sold to date throughout Europe and North America. A number of marketing hooks were built into the product, including music tracks licensed from non-mainstream dance acts and the hiring of cult design agency The Designers Republic to work on the game packaging, manual, and in-game branding. The intention was to place Wipeout firmly within the context of the fashionable, club-going, music-buying audience; a somewhat older audience than what were traditional gamers at the time.
Launch activities for the game included installation of PlayStation consoles running Wipeout in popular night clubs, the release of an accompanying soundtrack music CD, and the sale of a range of Wipeout clubwear. The soundtrack of the sequel, Wipeout 2097, known as Wipeout XL in the US, featured popular electronica groups such as Orbital, Chemical Brothers and Leftfield.
An early concept video of the game was featured prominently in the 1995 film Hackers, in which the character Dade beats character Kate's high score in a Wipeout match.
The game makes frequent use of billboards along the sides of the racetracks that reference other Psygnosis games such as Krazy Ivan and G-Police. One billboard reads, "Stuff explodes in Wipeout: The Movie."
The Saturn version lacked some of the visual flair due to its more advanced but difficult to utilize multi-processor configuration. Particle effects were dropped in favor of simple sprites for weapon graphics, however, it ran slightly faster than its PlayStation counterpart, and some claim it was easier to control.
In 1996, an OEM edition of Wipeout was bundled with new Sony Vaio PC's utilizing ATI's 3D Rage chipset. This 3D accelerated edition using the ATI3DCIF API provided additional resolutions of up to 640x480 pixels as well as bilinear filtering. This version also made use of the 3D Rage's MPEG acceleration.
The original game was made available for download on the Sony PS3 store in July 2007. Once purchased it could be played on the PS3 or downloaded to a Playstation Portable's memory stick.
Teams
Each team has two pilots from which the player can choose.
