Polyphony Digital, GT5’s developer, promised over 1k vehicles to race. There will be around 20 main tracks available in it and the variation of such tracks will bring the total number to 70.

Already in development for about 5 years, Gran-Turismo-5 is one of the most promising racing games we are waiting for.

Image via Forums Forza Motorsport

After some delays, Polyphony Digital is pushing to release Gran Turismo 5. The PS3 fans have to wait till this fall.

Gran Turismo 5 New Trailer

Sony is going to really push new technologies with their 3D gaming and their motion controller in 2010. Sony’s 3D-enabled Bravia HDTVs will also hit the market in summer 2010.

Polyphony Digital  was waiting for Sony to give the green light. Do you remember when Yamauchi said the game was all ready to go and they could “release it whenever they wished.

BTW “…the fifth installment will include visual damage as well as NASCAR racing.“

With Flash 10.1 for the Android around the corner (hopefully), it’s worthwhile to look into some of the flash games you’d be able to play on your Android.

Thanks to PlayedOnline for this post and the images “Best Nintendo games remade in flash”

Meet Roboni-i: The unique fusion of interactive gameplay and real world robotics.

Complete your own missions or compete against friends. Program and customize your Roboni-i. You can even create your own games to share with friends! Join the vibrant Roboni-i online world and guide your customized avatar through a virtual lunar world where you can run missions, play intense games, set up tournaments and meet other Roboni-i users.

Robonica, the owner of Roboni-i, is based in Beverly, Massachusetts. Their second office is at Centurion, South Africa. This is what the company says about its project.

Say hi to Roboni-i, the world’s first programmable gaming robot. With nimble 360º movement, 16 sensors and 4 processors, Roboni-i can navigate on its own, avoid obstacles, play games, do tricks – and interact with its environment. It’s easy to customize and loaded with games; play on your own or against friends with similar robots. You can even create your own games, or download games others have created.

• Shoot, scoop, capture and maneuver through single and multiplayer games
• Use the same remote controller offline and online
• Infrared sensors to detect obstacles and interact with other robots
• ZigBee (RF) technology allows different robots to participate in team games.

Watch the Roboni-i move autonomously. See the amazing technology that allows one robot to follow the other. See them dance in perfect choreographed style!

Roboni-i Christmas

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3D Games and Graphics on Android So Far

For the longest time, the vast majority of games available on mobile phones were as basic as can be. With only two dimensional, low bit graphics, they were sometimes not even playable or enjoyable. These limits were usually set due to the small processing power available on a mobile phone. Even though phones have seen a fair amount of technological advances, often the phones would be limited to two dimensional graphics, limiting their appeal more than a few times. The Google Android in particular did not see enough of an advance in technology until recently. Now a few three dimensional games are beginning to pop up that can be played on the Android, which is a great breakthrough for the mobile gamer who just needed to have Google’s phone.

G1? Here are two videos from the next Android generation

Christmas present for the motorsport enthusiast – The racing simulator

The F1-style rig costs £120,000. It brings another degree of reality to virtual racing.

via Telegraph

Are you an addictive online multiplayer gamer?

Today we will present eight games for the Android smartphone and start with

Cestos

Cestos is one of the first and only multiplayer games for Android.  During its first week on the Android Market, this new release from ChickenBrick Studios has already been downloaded over 10,000 times.

Cestos’ multiplayer functions are more well-integrated than I’ve seen in any other app. (Best multiplayer settings available)

Screenshots and a good review you will find via “Cestos Brings Multiplayer Gaming To Android”

GANG WARS and Gang Wars Lite

Gang Wars for the Google Android Phone is a very popular and well known multiplayer game check out the Facebook page.

Gang Wars  is a Mafia Don game. The goal of this game is to purchase additional respect points from your God Father!

On several Gang Wars forum entries you will read

“We Recruit !
Drop your Friend’s Code”

Gang Wars lite is free. The paid version gives you points that are used in the game

Screenshots

Parallel Kingdom

Parallel Kingdom brings new meaning to Role Playing Games by using GPS to place the virtual world on top of the real world.
Wherever you are, you can open your phone and play, whether you’re on the… Read the rest

The average user rating on Metacritic is low at 1.3 points out of 10

IGN reports “IGN’s own reader review section features over twelve pages of negative scores for the PC version, …”

IGN Reader Review

Metacritic.com provides thousands of reviews to help consumers make decisions about spending money on games.

The decision must be clear when you read the User Comments (‘review’) section at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 by PC Games on

Metacritic

Amazon Customer Reviews

The results at Amazon’s Customer Reviews aren’t looking much better there is the average is at 1.5 stars out of 5

Please tell us in the comment section how you would vote and what would write into the review about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 ( PC-Games)

Is IGN right with their opionion that this rvolt hast to do with “… PC owners still haven’t been able to forgive publisher Activision and Infinity Ward for removing key features in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.”

latest about ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2′ via @AndroGeek ‘Android and Gadget Blog’

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sells 1.23m units in one day http://twitter.com/AndroGeek/status/5633085466

Infinity Ward On What’s Next After ‘Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2′ http://twitter.com/AndroGeek/status/5633080440

Now four Images of Modern Warfare 2 PRESTIGE not unboxed

via Modern Warfare 2 PRESTIGE arrived!!! enjoy the forum posts.

read this forum entry

“[…] The game has an engrossing storey line that flows perfectly. Very few games make you feel more part of the action then Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. There are times when you forget that you are sat in your living room, it is that good. […] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the new benchmark. The original was very good and quite simply this is better. If you buy any game this Christmas make it this one.[…]

by Vicious89x

Conclusions Modern Warfare 2 PRESTIGE – CNet review

Jeff Bakalar

“While it can be overwhelming at times, the online multiplayer experience in Modern Warfare 2 is simply in a class by itself. The $60 price tag would be well spent on this mode alone, but there also happens to be a thrilling triple-A single player campaign packed in as well.”

Dan Ackerman

“Thanks to Hollywood-level production values, breakneck pacing, and great controls that just “feel” right, even in the very crowded first-person shooter genre, Modern Warfare 2 stands out as a best-of-breed.”

9 more images Gallery

via CNet

Then:

The first official look at the Prestige… Read the rest

All DirectX 11 Graphics Cards reviewed plus two ATI HD 5850 videos

“And the winner is Sapphire Radeon 5850…”

“… because of great price/performance ratio”

via All DirectX 11 Graphics Cards by

All 57XX graphics cards support DX11

• Shader model 5,
• hardware tessellation
• ATI Eyefinity technologies

Sapphire XFX Gigabyte Radeon ATI HD 5850 Roundup Review

Sapphire + Gigabyte ATI RADEON HD 5850 Crossfire Benchmarks (HD)

Electronic Arts has bought socialmedia games firmPlayfish for $250 million.

“Both company’s are remaining quiet on the matter, but a report by Inside Social Games suggests the deal was sealed a number of week’s ago, with an official announcement expected this month.”

via gamesindustry.biz

Is this a solution for the fight against product piracy.

‘Trials 2’ is the name of the game created by RedLynx. It looks like resignation that The Game Developper put their ‘hacked’ copies  on various BitTorrent sites also Torrentfreak reports that RedLynx

“… has no way of knowing whether the free marketing on torrent sites has paid off. Thus far RedLynx has sold almost 150,000 copies of the game, but unlike the CEO claims, it is also available on torrent sites in a version where the leaderboard functionality is hacked.”

No chance against product piracy

This is not only a good way of promoting aproduct, it is also a very cheap way by giving away a demo version for free download via bittorrent.

What do you think about this scenario?

The game companies give away their games for free via Bittorrent.The money for deveolopment and Marketing will come from selling, additional software, tools, hacks, merchandising, etc.

Give us your opinion

via Game Developer Promotes Game on Torrent Sites

1998 saw the releases of Metal Gear Solid, Tenchu: Stealth Assassins and Thief: The Dark Project, three games which revolutionised the stealth genre, laying the foundations for all future stealth releases. Prior to 1998, we had 2D stealth games like Castle Wolfenstein and Metal Gear, which due to technical constraints, could never match up to more recent 3D titles, despite being highly imaginative.

The stealth genre has spawned relatively few releases. Slow-burning, tactical games, in which players must avoid confrontation rather than actively seeking it out, are certainly not to everyone’s taste. However, the genre can lay claim to some of the best games ever released, most notable among them those of the Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell series.

Choosing which games to include in this list wasn’t difficult, choosing in which order they deserve to appear was decidedly more tricky. But here goes!

1. Metal Gear Solid

Image: Wikimedia

When it comes to stealth games, you’re either a Metal Gear Solid or Splinter Cell fan, there’s really very little middle ground on the issue! Fans of Metal Gear Solid point to its superior gameplay, characterisation and storylines; while others argue that super-realistic graphics and tactical gameplay make Splinter Cell the greatest stealth game ever released.

For me, Metal Gear Solid is the original and still the best. Released on the PlayStation in 1998, it popularised the stealth genre, setting the standard for… Read the rest

Lazy, laziness!

Any other ideas to make everything easier?

Top 10 upcoming DirectX 11 games

Battlefield

Crysis 2

Supreme Commander 2

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat

Alan Wake

Aliens vs. Predator

F1 2010

Dirt 2

The Lord of The Rings Online

BattleForge

Enjoy this top list and post your favorites here in the comment area.

Pimped the list which I found here via digitalbattle

Guitar Hero 5’s evolution goes on

“We’ve already noted drum alterations and turntable possibilities for Guitar Hero 5, …”

Engadget