I've been unwittingly preparing for this review for eight months, since I joined Pottermore on the day it launched for the public. Pottermore is an official, browser-based supplement to the Harry Potter series, inspired by social networks. Each member has a profile and travels through the Harry Potter books in a series of active illustrations, collecting trinkets, ...
Wonderbook's 'Diggs Nightcrawler' due this holiday [update: May 29 in EU]
To date, the library for the PS3's augmented reality Wonderbook is one game deep: just Book of Spells. Wonderbook owners will have a second game to play "this Holiday," roughly a year after the first, when Diggs Nightcrawler arrives. [Update: May 29 in Europe!] The PlayStation Blog posted a ...
Sony's 'Play Days' sale discounts PS3 accessories, Move bundles
Starting tomorrow, PlayStation 3 accessories (and even two actual games) will be discounted by up to 60 percent at participating retailers. The "Play Days" promotion, as Sony calls it, knocks dollar-dollar-bills-y'all off the MSRP of pretty much anything that plugs into a PlayStation 3, from Dual ...
Wonderbook: Book of Spells review: Inter-house unity
I've been unwittingly preparing for this review for eight months, since I joined Pottermore on the day it launched for the public. Pottermore is an official, browser-based supplement to the Harry Potter series, inspired by social networks. Each member has a profile and travels through the Harry ...
Wonderbook: Book of Spells hits November 13, Move bundle spelled out
Wonderbook: Book of Spells, the PS3's latest branch of Move wizardry, has a release date of November 13. Sony announced a price of $39.99 for the game and Wonderbook peripheral, and a $79.99 bundle which also includes the PlayStation Eye camera and Move motion-control wand. The Wonderbook, ...
Wonderbook: Book of Spells trailer casts an angry letter
To Whom it May Concern, I am shocked and appalled by the recent advertisement I witnessed for Wonderbook: Book of Spells. To begin, I'd like to point out that there are cryptic symbols inside the book and it is against the natural order that a television should decipher such peculiar things for ...
Diggs Nightcrawler solves the mystery of a great fall
Adam Volker from developer Moonbot spoke to the European PlayStation Blog about the new Wonderbook game Diggs Nightcrawler, revealing that while the concept is in place, the gameplay isn't quite yet. Humpty Dumpty is murdered, Volker explained. "And you know his story – someone pushed him ...
Diggs Nightcrawler, Walking with Dinosaurs are two new chapters in Sony's Wonderbook
Sony's augmented-reality Move accessory, Wonderbook, has two new, official stories to tell: Diggs Nightcrawler and BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs. We heard the Diggs Nightcrawler name at E3 this year, but today at its Gamescom press conference Sony showed a video, featuring a multi-armed insect ...
Augmented story time: A closer look at Wonderbook: Book of Spells
If you're going to demonstrate Wonderbook, it really should be done in a living room. Or, in Sony's case, in a fake living room set up on the second story of an E3 booth. We joined Sony senior producer George Weising – sitting cross-legged on our fake living room rug, naturally – and ...
Harry Potter Wonderbook trailer brings childlike joy to your E3 week
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is contributing to Sony's Wonderbook franchise, an AR system that uses the PS Eye, an oversized book and, at times, Move. The trailer above introduces Book of Spells and the one below has an overview of Wonderbook itself. ...
Sony's 'Wonderbook' makes reading more like TV with PlayStation Eye, includes J.K. Rowling's magic
The Wonderbook uses augmented reality to turn a physical book into a 3D pop-up book, Sony announced today at its E3 presser. Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling has contributed Book of Spells to Sony's Wonderbook endeavor, using the Move controller as a wand. Sony demoed Book of Spells, showing off a ...
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