Factor 5 fidgets with two PS3 e-distribution titles

by Ross Miller on Dec 4th 2006 5:15PM

Factor 5 is working on two games to be released via PlayStation 3's e-distribution network. According to a Gamasutra interview with company president Julian Eggebrecht, Factor 5 is excited to return to tacking on smaller projects, noting that "people who work on these two and a half year, three year projects have a chance ... to work on something small again."

The developer is currently working on the gorgeous PS3 title Lair, pictured, and has a long history of making technically gorgeous games, making the Rogue Squadron series for both Nintendo 64 and GameCube. Given Factor 5's expertise and beauty and Sony's 500MB cap on downloads, we're excited to see what they can conjure.

See Also:
Joystiq impressions -- Lair (PS3)

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Tags: e distribution, EDistribution, gama sutra, GamaSutra, lair, PS3, rogue squadron, RogueSquadron

Reader Comments (5)

Am I the only one who doesn't like the 500MB cap? Sure, 50MB is too small, but 500 is too big. It takes forever to download and just incourages developer to not optimize the space of their games. If your putting 500MB worth of assets together, then you're probably gonna charge a full retail price. In that case, why wouldn't I want a disk to go along with my game? Don't kid yourselves about them saving packaging costs and passing on the savings, that is a pipedream.

I will never forgive Factor 5 for leaving Nintendo. Never.

Good stuff. Can't wait to see what they conjure up. Maybe a baby dragon breeding game.

No.

What do you want to bet this is Rogue Squadron with dragons instead of spaceships...

Looks pretty good... but from what i've seen there's nothing extremely awesome about it...