In case you were still interested in Tony Hawk: RIDE, the upcoming Tony Hawk game that will use the new skateboard controller (Matt’s impressions here), will go on sale November 17th for $US120. Amazon is still showing the release for mid October. Just ignore that. [THRide]
I see how it is. Tony Hawk Ride developer Josh Tsui says that the black skateboard we almost killed ourselves on at E3 is out: “We’re going with a white board which is more consumer friendly.” Mmmmhmmmm. [GamesIndustry.biz via Joystiq]
When the largest game publisher in the world threatens to stop making games for your console, what do you do? Do you negotiate, as was their obvious goal? Or do you sarcastically poke fun at their CEO? Ah, right.
This is bad. The prisoners have grabbed the keys. Activision Blizzard, the world’s largest producer of video games, is publicly threatening to abandon Sony’s PS3 and PSP platforms.
It looks the same, but it’s not! On the inside, anyway.
Activision is the king of experiences modeled in plastic and colour-coded buttons, and DJ Hero’s turntable controller might be their best simulacrum yet.
Activision is working on a game called DJ Hero (think of it as Guitar Hero for house music). Here’s the first shot of the game’s new turntable controller.
Guitar Hero has been available on other phones for a while now, but far be it from Activision to pass up an opportunity to cash in on a big platform like Android.
This amazing story of a 14-year-old kid setting the 973,954 point record in Guitar Hero would be an example of man triumphing over technology—if only that technology could actually keep up.
