Insomniac Games New IP To Be Multi-Platform

Insomniac Games, creator of Ratchet & Clank and the original Spyro The Dragon games, has announced that its new IP is going to be published by EA and will be coming out on Xbox 360 and PS3.

Fable 3 Comes With Out Of Albion With A Collectors Edition

I'm a sucker for a special edition of a game I'm looking forward too, give me a making of DVD or some artcards and I am happy to pay a little bit more. Give me some special DLC as well, and we might have a deal. Fable III is coming out later this year and comes complete with some nice treasures for you to paw over. Full details inside.

Some Japanese Music Finally On The Way To Rock Band?

Anyone who knows me personally knows that I'm a huge fan of Rock Band, I don't hide that. I also have a soft spot for some Japanese music.

With it looking seriously unlikely that the Rock Band Japan project that was announced last year, Harmonix contacted JRock fansite JRockRevolution's readers to list the bands that they wanted to see in Rock Band. The results were maybe a little surprising or unsurprising how you look at it.

ModNation Racers Just Got A Little More Awesome

Sony's new tag of "Play, Create, Share" needed some help from the VP of Artistic Modification, Kevin Butler, and SCEA SCO Jack Tretton to really drive home that ModNation Racers will try to do to kart racer what LittleBigPlanet did to platforming games, though it's not just platforming for the sequel.

Seriously though, why does Sony not show the brilliance of Kevin Butler in the UK? It has to be better than some of Sony Europe's previous adverts.

ModNation Racers comes to the UK this Friday.

E3: Microsoft

Have you got E3 fever yet? The biggest gaming event of the year (arguably) is just around the corner with the Big Three showing off their goods to the world. I'm going to take a guess at some things that will happen in each developers conference.

Microsoft

This Christmas season is an important one for Microsoft. With Project Natal coming out they're hoping to get their tendrils into the rich vein of money that Nintendo opened with the Wii and DS called "the casual market". Sony is doing the same thing with the Playstation dildo backmassager Move and expect both Sony and Microsoft to follow the Wii with its minigame collections using their motion technology.

The Microsoft press conference is going to feature the Cirque du Soleil for their "World premiere of project natal". Now wasn't Natal shown last year? I think what they mean is that they're going to show actual games and not just some mini-games. This conference is also being shown on Spike TV and MTV in the USA at least. Handy for the Americans out there, but it should mean that the new Rock Band 3 is going to have some prescence. Hopefully it'll be a better demo than 2008 when they let Peter Moore loose on The Hives.

Also expect to see: Fable III and Peter Molyneux make some wild accusations that doesn't actually happen in the game, Microsoft announces Natal Sportz that comes onstage to rapturous tumbleweed, Activision shows off Call of Duty: Black Ops that will feature "exclusive" DLC featuring your favourite maps from Modern Warfare 2 and cost 1600 MS points for 5 maps.

Crackdown 2, Halo Reach, Gears of War 3 and Bulletstorm should all see demos or trailers too.

I'll do my expectations on Sony and Nintendos press conferences over the coming days.

The dawn of a new blog

Hello,

Welcome to my gaming blog, Use X With Y.

What does that mean, well if you've ever played any adventure games you should be able to think of some things to replace X and Y with.

So what will this blog contain? Well it'll have news, reviews, some features, that kind of thing.

I hope you enjoy the blog as much as I'll enjoy writing and gaming.