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@Mal F4cti0n Agreed, and I'm personally not putting down a judgement either way, but I'd also caution strongly against believing the internet or Joystiq spin machine (because the 'Stiq, which once had considerably more integrity, most definitely spins things for hits these days).

@Joysticker I'm not sure where you get the idea that the Vitas for Europe/US are packaged and ready for release. Releasing them a week and a half before Christmas is guaranteed better launch sales than in Feb - and say what you like about big corporations, but there's very few that don't like to make money! Less conspiracy theory, more common sense, and the world makes a lot more sense ;).

@jefft Aye - sounds like more Joystiq 'trendy negativity'. Calling Sports Champion and The Shoot tech demos is trolling. Nice work, 'Stiq. The complaint about the concept of cover was the strangest. I was unaware (and the article makes no effort to change this) that Sorcery was a Gears-style cover shooter, and that the concept of cover should in any way relate to this game! Way to either manufacture of complaint, or really poorly report a legitimate issue.

@kcswanko

Depends what you mean - there are already a number of quality Move games, and I've got stacks of value and entertainment out of the peripheral (and calling Sports Champions and The Shoot 'tech demos' is trolling - Joystiq, that's you I'm talking about - it's like calling Forza or GT tech demos for racing wheels!)

On the other hand, if people are waiting to 'Skyward Sword' with Move, don't forget it took Ninty six years to get motion controlled games to that point (and LoZ:SS is the only game on Wii that could arguably be said to be better than most Move titles when it comes to this kind of thing).

The thing about Move that no-one seems to get is that it's _not_ for every kind of game - just like a racing wheel it suits some kind of gameplay and not others. Beyond using the Sharpshooter for FPS (which I'm personally not a fan of - gamepad all the way for me with shooters), there will never be a great Move (or Kinect) traditional FPS, or RPG, or Adventure game because a pad does it better, and because even if you'll have Move Sharpshooter as an option, it would be stupid to exclude pad players. It'd be like making a PC web browser without mouse support.

@Scuffles

This is clearly anti-piracy Scuffles, and I'm guessing the reason it's more than just a firmware recode is to try and prevent the thing getting cracked and, more importantly, making sure that even if it is cracked, it's too finickity to be worth pirating.

Would be surprised if we don't eventually get licensed third-party cards as well - all the 'price gouging' arguments neglect that fact that Sony license pretty heavily to third parties for most of their kit.

Doesn't need a publisher for PSN or Steam, just for XBL - come on Joystiq, stay sharp ;). Game looks great as well :)

@Ehker

I'd say it's been a long day for the author, and he's got the BF3 and Skyrim patches confused. It is a funny thing to confuse in a SP-only game, but long days can do that to ya :).

@mywhitenoise

That d'ain't make any sense. If they wanted controversial publicity, they'd have launched as planned and ran with it, and got plenty more!

@(Unverified)

lol - I didn't like the cheap shot at flight games either, and really hope we get another one soon (Darkstar One on PC/360 ain't too bad, well worth a look) - but agree with many others that I'm not sure the Dead Space universe is the place to put it! How about a Mass Effect space flight game? I'm sure blasting Reaper ships and their lackies would go down nicely :).

More broadly, it sounds like EA are designing games by boardroom. It could work, if the dev teams are up to it, but it's a dangerous path.

"Perhaps that's hypocritical, given how often shooters traipse through the gardens of other cultures' political unrest and how little it's ever discussed. But here, it's impossible for me to ignore."

This says it best - I think it's great that Ubisoft are tackling such a current and potentially divisive issue. Just another sign of gaming as a medium growing up. Vegas was fun and all, but it was clearly make-believe. This sounds like a much grittier, harrowing affair - which, lets face it, any game wanting to tackle the issue of terrorism (and Rainbow is an elite anti-terror organisation) should be if it wants to be credible. Of course, I hope they're not exploitative, but the Rainbow games have generally been pretty solid in that regard.