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A minute’s silence, please.

Sony has decided to discontinue online support for 2007 PlayStation 3 title Eye of Judgement.

The PlayStation Eye/trading card hybrid will see its last online game on 30th September this year.

Offline play will, of course, remain available.

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But is proud of Heavy Rain Move Edition.

Heavy rain creator David Cage has told Eurogamer that he doubts further downloadable content for superb PS3 exclusive Heavy Rain will ever be made.

Chronicle Taxidermist, released alongside the special edition of the game in March, is likely the first and last Heavy Rain downloadable content, Cage said.

Incorporating PlayStation Move support into Heavy Rain would have compromised the quality of future Chronicles, Cage explained.

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Insists Frontier.

The Milo & Kate merry-go-round continued this afternoon after it emerged that the tech used to create the Lionhead-developed Kinect game isn’t being used to create Kinectimals as well.

Quotes attributed to VP of Microsoft Game Studios Phil Spencer in Official Xbox Magazine suggested Kinectimals, which is being developed by UK studio Frontier, incorporates Milo & Kate’s clever relationship tech in some way.

Today, Frontier chairman David Braben got in touch with OXM to let the magazine know Spencer was incorrect.

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First batch: swarm-based Protector Trials.

BioShock 2 will welcome new single-player add-on the Protector Trials on 3rd August, 2K Games has announced.

This has been developed by 2K Marin’s core team and will be the first in a series of single-player BioShock 2 elongations.

In the Protector Trials you, as a Big Daddy, must repel swarms of splicers from laying their murderous mitts on your ADAM-gathering Little Sister.

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Would Woods, or wouldn’t he?

Here’s a curious nugget of Hollywood lore: when someone is called in to polish up an existing script, they only get an on-screen credit if they replace at least half of what is already on the page. The result? Lots of writers making sweeping changes to scripts that may only need a small tweak, and lots of expensive blockbusters that don’t make a lick of sense.

Each year, it seems that the team responsible for the Tiger Woods series is placed in a similar situation. The laws of marketing demand that an annual product needs nice, clear … Continue Reading

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Magazine advert spills beans.

Wii action game Metroid: Other M will be out in the UK in September, Nintendo has confirmed.

The news was first reported by MCV, which spotted the release window in an advert in its own magazine. Fancy that.

Nintendo told us the September release window is accurate, which makes it all official like.

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Infamous games-as-art critic back-tracks.

Roger Ebert, the infamous film critic who claimed videogames weren’t and could never be art, has rethought his position after thousands of people argued otherwise.

“I was a fool for mentioning videogames in the first place,” he wrote on his blog. “I would never express an opinion on a movie I hadn’t seen. Yet I declared as an axiom that videogames can never be Art [sic]. I still believe this, but I should never have said so. Some opinions are best kept to yourself.”

Ebert admitted that he never provided a definition of art against which to compare videogames. … Continue Reading