"Sony Corporation today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2008. The Japanese conglomerate posted a 95 percent decline in profits, with year-on-year sales falling 32.2 percent during the quarter. Sony is blaming the slowdown of the global economy and the appreciation of the yen as the causes of these bad financials. The Game Division said overall hardware sales decreased as a result of the appreciation of the yen against the U.S. dollar and euro, in addition to a decrease in unit sales of all its video game systems. Despite an increase in PS3 software sales, overall software sales decreased as a result of a decline in PS2 and PSP game sales."
"The game's subdued gray color palette certainly didn't help matters, but the issue goes deeper than that. "Been there, done that" crept in pretty quickly, and the strict, linear progression in this play session only emphasized that. We almost got the feeling that the developers programmed every action we took: take cover here, shoot guy to right, shoot guy who comes through doorway to left, slide right.... And infinite respawn spots -- seriously? Killzone 2 definitely proved its technical ability; now the question becomes whether it finds a way to distinguish itself from the crowd."
"It may have taken a little while longer than the rest of the pack, but Epic Games' other franchise is on its way to Xbox 360 soon. A release date hasn't yet been announced, but you can be sure that the extra time is going to good use. The Xbox 360 release will contain five new exclusive maps those other platforms didn't get, two new characters and will include two player splitscreen action. All that and it also sports all of the downloadable content that Epic has created for the PS3 and PC."
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