This seemed like only a matter of time. Bungie has become a juggernaut in the game development world. Seattlepi reports that Bungie and Microsoft are no longer a famiy. A confidential news source sent this email to the news site:

“Apparently MS just wants Bungie to make Halo for the rest of their natural days, and Bungie doesn’t like how MS is constantly trying to “handle” everything they do; the way they market their games, the way they interact with their fans (basically the fact that they do appreciate their fans), and how stingie they are with the profits (comparable to the rest of the industry). So as of today they are their own independent entity. They’ll probably make Halo 4 for Microsoft, however hey are also free to create new intellectual properties for whatever system they want. (Even though they prefer the xbox platform)”

You know what this means. Halo 4 is inevitable. Since Microsoft is no longer bounded to the Master Chief, could we see him come to the PS3?? That would be the ultimate way to stick it to the man. Again, this is not confirmed true yet, but it may be a reality. More to come.

Spore sounds to be one of the upcoming great titles for PC gamers. I recently spoke to a product manager at EA who had a chance to get his hands on with the early build and he expressed nothing but joy for playing through the first level. You start off as a single celled animal that needs to grow and evolve, soon enough you are big enough to begin eating other smaller creatures and so SPore goes on. Having this for the consoles would be great, come on Will Wright show us some console love?

The wheels of vibration are again turning, which rumors resurfacing of a rumble-enabled PS3 controller being announced at the Tokyo Game Show.

According to the latest 1Up Yours podcast, Shane states that the DualShock 3 is “confirmed” for TGS, along with the release of firmware v2.0 which brings in-game XMB access.

While this rumor has been going on for a while, it does seem logical to release this new controller before the Holiday season and before Home is released to the public. I can only hope some of the recent and upcoming huge titles will support rumble if it is ultimately announced later this week.

Rumors are flying about the intarwebs right now about the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty 4 possibly getting an online co-op mode via a premium content download.

Speaking at the Activate Asia Pacific conference, Infinity Ward’s Grant Collier was asked if a co-op mode would be added to the game. His response:

“Uh, no, I’m not really supposed to say anything about that… but I’m a big fan of Xbox Live and downloadable content.”

When directly asked whether an online co-op would be made available as Downloadable Content through Xbox Live, Collier grinned nervously, practically beaming as he said nothing more.

No word has been spoken on other versions of the game, but I doubt Activision would develop a co-op mode and restrict it to the Xbox 360 only. Co-op is all the rage these days, so I’d venture to say this rumor is true and we’ll see co-op coming to all versions of Call of Duty 4.

There are a lot of rumors flying around now that all games on the PS3 will support remote play some day, this is especially heightened by the new release of Lair and everyone jumping on their PSP to play. Some Sony spokesperson’s have already been quoted as stating that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Although the PSP does not have the exact same control setup as the PS3 I think remote play is a great feature and is right up there with game sharing on the PS3. I can’t wait to get my copy of Lair on the PS3 to check this out in depth and look forward to seeing more titles including this. Just think if the new Killzone or MGS had remote play?

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Jak and Daxter might see a reunion on the PS3 soon, if EGM has it right. A user on the PS3 Forums received his issue early. In the “Q-Tips” section of the magazine, EGM states:

“Bummed developer Naughty Dog’s first PS3 title isn’t a Jak and Daxter game? Well, you shouldn’t be, my spies say they’re making it next.”

Hopefully the do it justice like Ratchet and Clank is seeing in it’s PS3 debut. These sequels are great, but I’m think some new IP would work even better.

Yes, the demo at Leipzig ran at 60fps. No, the final game will not. Speaking with Gamers Creed, Mark Rein shared that the final code for the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 will run at 30fps.

in the final game they’re going to lock frame rate at 30fps and you’ll be so happy playing the game, so thrilled with how amazingly it all comes together

Boo on that. UT3 is better the faster it plays, and 60fps would be amazing for the console version of the game. Maybe they’ll change their minds, but somehow I doubt it.

We have all speculated that a game of BioShock’s caliber and not guaranteed to be exclusive had to come out for PS3. Here is a clue discovered in the PC demo:

Program Files/2k Game/Bioshock demo/Content/config.ini

You will find this message:

Console]

;; Console (XBox360, PS3) specific settings

;; StreamingDynamicFloatingLimit:
;; If this is a positive number, then instead of using the fixed per-level
;; limits, the StreamingDynamic resource will use as much memory as is
;; available as long as the total memory allocated by the game is less than
;; the specified number. In other words, StreamingDynamic will grow and
;; shrink to fit to the available memory instead of being locked to a fixed
;; budget
StreamingDynamicFloatingLimit=500

Weird… what do you guys think?

It’s been long desired by PS3 users to be able to access the XMB in game. If the rumors are true, the wait may soon be over. According to some users on the official EU PlayStation forums (here and here), there’s a lot of cool new stuff coming in v2.0.

Presently, 64MB of XDR RAM, 32MB of GDDR3 VRAM, and the entire 7th SPU are always reserved for the XMB even during games. Firmware 2.0 will reduce the memory usage to 32MB of XDR and NO GDDR3. XMB will still run on the 7th SPU but the 7th SPU wont be reserved, other things can be run on the SPU besides the XMB.

That’s a LOT of memory being freed up if this is true. 32MB is a good number for the XMB to run with, so this could prove to be useful for future games running better.

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There have been a few reports about size limitations with the upcoming PGR4 title and the format that Bizarre Creations has to work with. Bizarre has issued a statement dis-crediting these statements and assures all of their users that PGR4 environments and content is not limited DVD9 size and actually gives them more than enough space.

So Xbox 360 fans can breath a sigh of relief and know that DVD9 still has juice left.

From Bizarre Creations:

As I’m sure you’ve seen, some of the comments made on our forum have been blown out of all proportion. This has been reported on certain web sites. It seems that a number of fanboys have jumped on the topic… sigh. So it’s time we cleared this one up…

When we started designing PGR4 our primary goals were to create a great and unique experience over and above PGR3, to push the hardware as far as we could, and obviously to ensure that we give great value for money. DVD size is absolutely not a factor that we consider when designing our games… and PGR4 is no exception. DVD9 gives us more than we need to create a fabulous experience for you guys.

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