In our Special Edition celebrating the top best games from our current gen console (before we move into a next gen series), we gave you two of the most rated games of our generation, The Uncharted Trilogy and Red Dead Redemption. In this edition of Killer Games for PS3, we turn our heads away from the general horde, a little further away from blood and gore, to give you a masterpiece from an independent game developer company fostered by Santa Monica Studio, Sony Computer Entertainment Giant Sparrow. No points for guessing, in Killer Games for PS3 we bring to you Monroe and The Unfinished Swan.
Game Informer - I'm sure there were other games besides God of War shown at Sony's Santa Monica Gamer's Day in 2004. I should know; I was there. But I couldn't tell you if I tried. That was the day that Dave Jaffe unleashed Kratos on the world, and I still remember the impact it had on me.
Connecticut Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey asks leaders from Activision, Take-Two, Valve, and the ESA to end "nefarious" deals with arms manufacturers.
Connecticut's Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey (D-Hamden) has written a to industry leaders urging them to no longer use their games to promote guns.
The letter is addressed to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, Activision Blizzard CEO Robert Kotick, Valve Corporation head Gabe Newell, and Entertainment Software Association CEO Michael Gallagher.
In the letter, Sharkey calls on the industry leaders to end all licensing and product placement agreements with gun-makers. He called these deals "nefarious" and possibly a contributing factor to December's schoolhouse massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, where 20 children and six adults were killed.
"The industry practice of video game publishers entering into licensing, marketing, or other financial arrangements to feature real guns in their games blurs the lines between fiction and reality in ways that can have tragic consequences," Sharkey wrote.
Sharkey said Connecticut families know this "all too well." He pointed out that the Sandy Hook shooter was , who used a rifle manufactured by Bushmaster to conduct his act of mass violence on December 14.
Bushmaster weapons are featured in various Call of Duty games.
"We have to take steps to institute meaningful change in the way we portray, and effectively market, assault weapons to children and young adults," Sharkey said. "Games designed to recreate the experience of wartime carnage and criminal violence constitute protected speech under the provisions of the First Amendment. But there is little to be said in defense of an industry-wide practice of arranging licensing deals with gun manufacturers for the rights to use the make, model, and visual design specifications of their real-life weapons."
Sharkey noted that and urged other companies to follow suit and end their "reckless" deals with arms manufacturers.
"I write to you today to request your cooperation in ending the nefarious relationship between video game makers and gun makers," Sharkey said. "I ask that you commit to not engaging in future licensing, marketing, and financial arrangements with gun manufacturers."
Representatives for Take-Two, Activision Blizzard, Valve, and the ESA were not immediately available to comment.
Sony says 33 titles will be available for PlayStation 4 by the end of December, including Call of Duty: Ghosts and Battlefield 4.
Sony has announced the lineup of launch window retail titles for the PlayStation 4. In all, 33 games will be available for the next-generation console by the end of the year.
The list includes exclusives like .
Altogether, Sony said more than 180 games are in development for the PS4. It was also confirmed today that Naughty Dog, Media Molecule, and Sony Santa Monica are working on games for the platform.
The titles below will release between the and December 31.
"Recently, I made my way through Gearboxs latest Borderlands 2 DLC, Tiny Tinas Assault on Dragons Keep. I did this despite long ago putting the game on the proverbial shelf of my Steam account, based mostly on the overwhelming positive reactions that it has received by everyone all over the Internet. They praised its inventive references to Dungeons and Dragons, its wealth of new enemies to fight, and its character moments. After playing it, I can only agree with one of these sentiments. The normal assortment of skags and bandits have been replaced by skeletons, zombies, spiders and mages, basically the bare minimum if youre going to base a game on table top tropes. There were no Beholders or Bugbears to be found on the main quest line, and the whole thing felt like a generic fantasy setting with dice thrown everywhere. It makes me wonder how much actual DD the Gearbox crew has played." - Alex Santa Maria of Geekenstein
PlayStation Euphoria: From the games less than expected sales numbers to the handover of the game to Sony Santa Monica from the initial developers, SuperBot Entertainment, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has had a troubled past. The game, however, at this point still has an avid fanbase as 1000s of people were still playing it daily, 8 months after its release. This franchise still can be successful for Sony if handled correctly. Here are 7 Ways PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Can Recover.
On this episode of the Euphoria Cast, join Andrew Flores, James Draker Dahl, Jordan Slo and Chris Penwell in their discussions of Call of Duty: Ghosts Multiplayer, Sony Santa Monica and Do Not Fall!
Having heated up the internet over the last week, the Daily Reaction crew of Seb and Dan respond to the industry in true Bad Gamers fashion. This week we dive back into discussing proper journalism, integrity, Sony Santa Monica Studios, Uncharted 4 not being announced, cloud computing, how to win a copy of GTA V or a year of PS Plus and much, much more. - PSLS
