More on Why Dust is on the PS3

CCP Halldor Fannar had this to say while at E3 which confirms that it was Microsoft that held back Dust on the Xbox:

Let's just say that with Sony at least they have policies that allow us to build the game the way we want. - Source 

If Dust514 is hugely popular this might bring a change to the way Microsoft look at 3rd parties using live but I feel Dust will be gone 3 months after release. Such is the nature of the console gamers attention span.

Neverwinter

Not sure why the Atari logo's are still there but still a first look at the Neverwinter MMO by Cryptic.



I am still interested in this as Cryptic do things differently. I hope they follow the D&D Rules closer than D&D Online.

Terraria 1.0.4 Soon

How soon ?

Could be tomorrow or the weekend. They are promising a huge update with new bosses and many new items ..... Yay.

Skyrim - Consoles first PC last

Skyrim is once again is being developed on the consoles first then ported back to the PC. I have a feeling that every one of their games has been like this since Morrowind.

I am fine with this so long as:

a) PC gets mod tools.
b) PC gets higher textures.
c) PC gets its own menu system desgined for a mouse.

What worries me is this quote from the same guy saying that its all about ' accessibility ' which means dumbing things down.

I am not going to really judge the game until its released. Oblivion was more dumbed down than Morrowind but it had enough new stuff to make it stand apart. Oblivion would have been awesome if they had all the complexity of Morrorwind but they cut it out.

As we were saying last night in chat:

' Whats the bet that Skyrim only has one armor slot. '

Battlefield 3

I know this is oldish and theres way more coming out of E3 but it shows why you should be excited about the game.



In the past people would ask me if I was going to get x shooter ( modern warfare ) and I would respond, na, I have Arma who needs anything else but even with Arma 3 looming, I am more exctied about playing Battlefield 3.

EA Origin

This is EA's second try at doing steam, this time it looks ok but there is no incentive to use it over getting a boxed retail game.

Example is Battlefield 3, which is priced as $89 NZD ( 73 USD ), this is the same as boxed retail but more than what it would be if I got it via steam.

EA are cunning though and it doesn't look like Battlefield 3 is coming to steam it will only be on Origin.

Still its better than Activision who inisit on charging console prices for their PC games $119 NZD ( 97 USD ) for call of duty at retail.

Dust 514 - PS3 Excuslive

The rumors from yesterday are true, Dust is only coming to the PS3.

I still rather get a PC version but at least its now something I will look at.

This is supprising as I thought for sure it would be on both or only on the Xbox and not the otherway around.