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Sony Patents New Game Controller[/h3]
14 Comments Posted Yesterday 9:04 AM - By
Stephen Johnson
The image you see above is from a patent application dug up by
Silicon Era filed by Sony for a game controller. There is very little information on the application: The thing is described as a "hand held game controller" and seems to be in development here in the States. Could it be the motion-controller Sony unveiled at E3 this year??!??... probably not.
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Honestly, I doubt it's the new motion controller. The lack of an analog stick makes me think this can't be the accompanying "nunchuk" to Sony's control system. After all, if there was a stick on the tip, you could put those buttons on the side and have a full-on controller that would work perfectly with a "magic wand" of some type. Of course, if motion of the entire unit was monitored, it could, essentially
be a control stick in and of itself...
But, honestly, If I had to guess, (and this is total speculation) I'd say that it's some kind of controller for a quiz game of some kind, where the idea is to buzz in really quickly... but it could be, literally, anything. Time will, as they say, tell -- that is, if this thing ever sees any kind of release.
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God of War III Will Not Have Multiplayer, But Probably Will Have DLC[/h3]
44 Comments Posted 2 days ago - By
Stephen Johnson
To say
God of War III is an eagerly awaited game amongPlayStation 3 owners is a huge understatement. Kratos' first foray into the current generation had better be
epic to meet expectations, and, atthis early date, it's looking like "epic" is the right word -- DLC is being discussed, and the game's creators seem to be taking the artisticchallenges of making a truly godlike game seriously.
According to game's director, Stig Asmussen, in an interview with
GamePro,multiplayer will not be included in the game because of the story-telling problems it creates --
GOW III's developers are not willing to sacrificethe core experience players expect in order to jump on the multiplayer bandwagon.
"With
God of War 3, there's a story we want to tell and an experience we want to deliver, and multiplayer doesn't fit into that,"Asmussen said. "Imagine two Kratos characters running around at the same time. Once you do that, the story becomes something more about an experiencebetween two players and less about something that we're scripting. So, you have something like
Left 4 Dead, which is sweet, but we just decided with this game, there's a certainway that we want to tell it. And staying with what we've done in the past, we want to complete the story in a way that was familiar to everybody."
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When asked about
GOW III challenge rooms, Asmussen said:
"It would make a lot of sense to be able to download them. That's something we might see in the future. So, maybeyou'll see the game ship with a certain amount of challenges on it, then later on, we might put a download pack out with new challenges. It's a goodway to keep the series going."
What do you think: Is
God of War III going to be as great as everyone says, or is the whole "God who hacks and slashes other gods" thingplayed out after all these years?