Probably one of the most prominent features on the PSPgo is the ability to transfer UMD games onto the digital-only system. However, according a SCEA spokesperson, owners of PSPgo will NOT be able to transfer the UMD disc-based titles onto the system on its launch date – as previously thought.

“We were evaluating a UMD conversion program, but due to legal and technical reasons we will not be offering the program at this time,” the SCEA spokesman reported Kotaku. If you go back to this year’s E3 Expo, Sony did state that they were hoping to allow UMD games to be transferred over to the PSPgo by its launch. But, that didn’t turn out as we hoped.

It’s hard to get that “solid frame-rate”. However, BioWare seems to have found the prefect FPS to make all the little interruptions go away. When being interviewed by VG247, BioWare’s Jesse Houston confirmed that Mass Effect 2 will run at a solid 30FPS.

“If you look at most good shooters, they lock down frame-rate at 30FPS: we’ve done the same thing. Bam. Everything’s 30FPS, streaming is fixed up,” said the associate producer for the game. ”If you remember in Mass 1, if you took a step backwards and you hit a weird stream and it’d pause for a moment. We’ve done a away with that. What you’re seeing here is pulled straight from the game.”

In an ongoing discussion with Naughty Dog, co-president, Evan Wells stated that fans should expect to sample the games multiplayer once more before Uncharted 2’s historical release – which hasn’t been announced yet.

“Yes, we’re going to have another multiplayer demo before the game hits shelves. The exact timing isn’t finalized yet, but it should be available to an even wider group this time, so if you missed the last one I don’t think you’ll have any problem getting in this one.”

Developed by Naughty Dog, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the highly-anticipated follow up to Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, will feature up to 10 players in 5-versus-5 competitive gameplay. Cooperative multiplayer modes allow up-to-3 players to progress through a variety of environments by working together to accomplish set objectives.

Using a robust party system, groups of players will remain together in ranked and custom matches while earning currency, which used in combination with currency earned in single player missions, will unlock additional content and upgrades.

Yes!!! Mark Rein has confirmed to Eurogamer that Epic Games, the developers behind the Gears of War series, does indeed have “something new to announce at [this years] E3″.

“Yes we will have something new to announce at E3,” said Rein, before apologising that he couldn’t say anything more until the event. “And I’m looking forward to seeing the show back to its former glory.”

The developer is currently finishing up work on the Gears of War 2 expansion Dark Corners, which set to release worldwide on 28th of July.

A little while ago, fans of the series found clues left by its developer hinting at its development. Now, it seems that Eidos Montreal have helped us finish the puzzle and it’s spelt LHI4F.

Today, it was announced by Eidos-Montreal that they are currently in the early stages of developing Thief 4.

“We’re in the early development stages for Thief 4, but this is an incredibly ambitious and exciting project for Eidos,” said Stéphane D’Astous, General Manager at Eidos-Montréal. “While it’s too early for us to offer any specific game details, right now we are focused on recruiting the very best talent to join the core team at the studio and help us make what we believe will be one of the most exciting games on the market.”

After Guerilla Games announced that Killzone 2 would be getting DLC, rumors popped up on the web stating that the downloadable content would feature a co-op mutli-player mode, which was missing from within the game when it released.

But, however, when GameInformer interviewed Co-founder and Managing Director of Guerrilla Games, Hermen Hulst, he revealed that Killzone 2 will not be receiving co-op as downloadable content.

“We looked at all the different flavors of co-op early on, but decided our first priority would have to be the single-player experience and the multiplayer,” Hulst informed. “Rather than just tack on co-op, it would have to be integrated and done to a similar standard as the single and multiplayer.”

“Having looked at it again now. I do not think we would want to add it as DLC,” he added.

[Guerilla Games: no downloadable co-op for Killzone 2 via PSU]

When you head over to your local GameStop, or the GameStop website, and pre-order the X-Men Origins: Wolverine video game you’ll recieve an exclusive DLC code for the game.

The downloadable content code will give you the ability to take your opponents out in the ‘The Dismemberment Room’ along with other ‘exclusive’ in-game rooms (listed below)- only at GameStop. And to access these rooms players will be loaded into a hallway which acts like a doorway to each room.

• The Dismemberment Room: “Using a control panel, this room lets players select various limbs and body parts on a holographic soldier. Once the selections are locked in, the soldier appears in a tiled room viewed through a glass wall. The selected limbs are severed with spectacular results.”
• The Environmental Kill Room: “This large room features small set-ups of each of the various environments found within the main game. All of these environments contain sharp objects on which Wolverine can impale his enemies. By pushing a red button, players can teleport in a group of soldiers and hurl them against the sharp objects to see them creatively skewered.”
• The Ladder Challenge Room: “Pushing a red button will cause a group of enemies to beam into the room. Each time the red button is pushed, the enemies get tougher and more numerous, laddering up the challenge for Wolverine.”
• The Custom Combat Arena: “This huge space lets players select any combination of enemies from within the game, beam them into the arena, and attempt to defeat them. Face ten hulking Leviathans or a blend of towering W.E.N.D.I.G.O. Prototypes, Machete Champions, and Machine gunners.”

Killzone 2 has accumulated to a great start  last week and there is nothing like coming in first place. Despite not being a top dog, Guerrilla’s First Person Shooter (FPS) became fourth fastest selling Sony title ever released in the U.K. falling right behind Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.

Halo Wars then came in at second place, which makes it the best selling Xbox 360 game this week. While the sales for Street Fighter IV where down by 49% from the previous week. Wii Fit felled to fourth place then came Professor Layton and the Curious Village at number 5.

Last week, it was reported that PS3Focus was told by Guerrilla Games that the first Killzone 2 downloadable content will be headed sometime after the games release. But, at the time the developer was camera shy about releasing any details on the games DLC, but an anonymous source has confirmed to PS3Hype the details about the upcoming DLC – the DLC itself.

According to their source. Not all the DLC for Killzone 2 will be aviable for free; The DLC is in the form of: Maps, Extra Game Modes, etc.; Guerrilla is currently working on an ingame store, much like the one in MSG4, were you can buy charcter upgrades; Retro Maps to come via DLC (maps from Killzone 1).

Jigsaw’s, the guy that we just love to hate, will finally be getting a release date after some, foolish, talk that the game would never see the light of day.

Konami today revealed that it has come to the table with a deal with, Lions Gate Entertainment is to continue the work of  Brash Entertainment, after the the studio closed it’s doors late last year. The deal would entail the movie game so that it will release around the the same time with Saw 6, which is Fall 09.

Here’s a quick question. Are you guys into the Saw franchise? If so, are you looking forward to the game? And we all know that ”The Sicko can’t be let down. Let’s play a game.”

I’m a big fan of the underwater adventure, Bioshock, but one think that really did made me think was a simple question, “who is Rosenberg?” I’m mean the character seemed as if he was way more powerful then Andrew Ryan. And right before you confront Andrew Ryan, in a sub-room, Ryan has a jumbled wall of pictures and news clippings with the words “Would you kindly?”, which shows how every one is connected.

But there was shadowy figure that is the only one that is tied to Ryan, and cut off by Ryan. So Matt of the unofficial Bioshock 2 forums did some digging into it and he found an audio diary that has the only information about Rosenberg.

“Transcript: Diane, my dear, I’m sorry but I’ll be late again tonight… Rosenberg is demanding to speak about this Fontaine business. I’m trying to build a proper financial market and this idiot keeps going on about Adam this and genetic modification that. I’ll go spend an hour pretending to pay attention to the poor fellow and be home as soon as I can.”

Rosenberg is the most likely new character for Bioshock 2, for the simple fact that rumors circulating the Bioshock 2 community state it will be both a sequel and prequel, that fits perfectly for Rosenberg.

When Disney Interactive Studios purchased Climax Development many fans didn’t know what to think, even game developer Jason Avent dreaded a Mikey or Donald racing game, so what were we expected as fans? Well, it was more then what we had hoped for. Instead of some kind of extreme kid racing game, we got a game of pure amazement simply entitled, Pure. This game really does rip books on ATV games as this game ditches the standard dirt adds stunt tracks for a world of vista free fall tracks that can make you scream from the heights.

One of the key things that made this game what it is has to be the games semi-easy control system. This system is very easy to learn from both sides and the controls very from the A button for simple tracks, the B button for more advanced tricks and the Y button for some semi out of control pro-tricks. But, this depends on how high or low you fill out your trick bar by advancing your tricks, like A then B and so on.

The game also has this system called pre-load, which helps you boost up your score in the game. Well, not really because when I was playing the game I really didn’t see any real boost in my trick bar, but it did help me gain crazy air so that we can pull off more crazy tricks gaining us more trick points.

The game has three basic gameplay modes and they are races, sprints, and freestyle, but there, really is not any difference to the game modes other then the laps and time. All these are available online along with a new mode called free-ride, which gives racers a set amount of time to bet a score. Another cool thing in this game happens to bring it to the table is the game graphics system, which according to them uses instance rendering technology, which produces the smallest parts of the games environment in every frame of the game. But, this game still has some bugs. For one thing, I don’t know how I spotted this, but there is a little delay when you hit the water for the water parities to come up.

One coolest thing we found in the game has to be its campaign mode, which is called World Tour which gives you the ability to customize for ride. The game gives you 24 different opinions to change, which are the key parts to any ATV. This is a great thing because you can build your ride for any track making the track easier for you to play. You can also unlock parts for your ATV when you win or compete a mission or track.

Score: A

Well, its finally here. The next installment on the Unreal franchise has hit the 360 and let me say its not one to miss. This first person shooter offers up enough to tear you away from the Call of Duty run you have been on for so long. Of course it is the same old song and dance with the usual modes, weapons and art style. What is new to the party is the maps and the odd attempt to change up some of the previous games modes to make them fresh and new to the user. Controls might not be as good as using a keyboard and mouse, but the 360 does a nice job at trying to keep the speed of the unreal games while still giving a lot of support to keep your eyes focused for frags. So yes the game runs fast and furious but not enough to make the game hard to play. The rest of the controls feel very good, with swapping weapons being just a breeze. Visually the game looks good, while not having the best visuals out there it does have a decent frame rate with no real slowdowns at all. Same can be said about the sound quality, with the only annoyance being that they AI likes to spout out one liners that are just terrible.

Fans of course will be use to the modes and game play elements of the franchise. Newcomers wont have a problem as well getting in on this. It has a lot to offer especially in the online department, however, the single player is kind of a failure in my opinion. The very odd try at a story mode, spanning four chapters with numerous missions in between. Modes consist of capture the node and capture the flag as actual events in a war style story that is just in poor taste. I know what they are doing in a sense, getting you ready to take your onslaught online. But it would of been best to just scrap a story and just make some tutorial levels. The saving grace in single player is the addition of online co-op which makes playing through the story mode more enjoyable since you actually have someone to help you out on some of the more difficult missions. Vehicles are back and in full force as well. Vehicles made their first appearance in Unreal Tournament 2004 and the roster has only grown. Of course the controls are nothing to drop your jaw at though. Meaning that you point your targeting reticule to an area, push forward on the left stick and your vehicle will try to make its way there, and hopefully not explode. It’s when doing battle in small areas that this can be a bit touchy due to the lack of movement. You also for some reason cant move the canon on the Goliath while moving which is kind of dumb, but nothing to be too concerned with. The AI throughout is very good as well, being very ruthless and cunning to keep you pushing and pushing until you finally over come them. They will flank and use all the tricks in the book to overcome you and take you down.

Online is of course where the game shines. The amount of modes and weapons is sure to keep you clutching your controller to get one more frag in before the round ends. the maps as well are a reason to keep playing. With the 360 version coming packed with all three of the maps released thus far on PS3 and PC as download able content as well as five exclusive levels. Of course they are all built for the specific mode you are playing but all have a very good feeling to them. The game runs very smooth and of course having XBL on your side your sure to get an easy connection with tons of players. Online is the major chunk of this game and it does everything right.

So this of course is a great online experience and is user to keep you away from the modernized combat zone for awhile, having you yell out MULTI KILL!! Every time you see it flash up on your screen. So go out and pick this one up and I’m sure you will enjoy. Hopefully we will be seeing some type of user created downloads to XBL for use to have another frag fest in.

Overall – A

Insomniac Games have revealed some new information on their upcoming first person shooter, Resistance 2. Basically they said that while creating the new big monster, named Leviathan, they had to think about the surrounding areas and extend the range that the engine displays. Levels are now much bigger and in scope and draw space compared to Resistance: Fall of Man.

There’s going to be new content shown at E3 that they’ve never shown before and will show 60 players online multiplayer for the first time. When they show the 60 player online mode, the players will be employee’s from both Sony and Insomniac Games from their offices, they are going to do this so they can get the numbers online.

Insomniac Games says that what you’ve already seen of Resistance 2, when the full game is released it will look a lot better.

“What you’ve seen earlier on is only gonna get better”

Cinematics are starting to be finalised and look really good. They answered a question they get asked a lot and that is; how do they do their cinematics? They build the enviroments and go down to the motion capture studios, get all the actors they need and basically act out the scene in physical space thats approximated from the enviroments they created.

Once captured they hand it over to the animators back at the Insomniac Games studio, animate their faces and hands so it works in the game. After that they add effects, enviromental effects, sound effects and export those frame by frame to make them into MPEGS, the reason they do it in MPEGS is for level load coverage. The cinematics are from the games engine but captured in MPEGs for level load coverage. To make this sound a bit simpler, it WAS in-game but is captured at the end of the day and is used as an MPEG to cover the levels loading.
“It was in-game but now its captured”
“Its the same, the user will never really tell the difference”

That’s all the information. Check out their podcast and make sure your at E3 to see brand new content in Resistance 2.

Resistance 2 will be released this fall.

[Via TalkPlaystaion]

A member of the game Maxconsole forum has posted mobile phone videos of the in-game XMB in action. There is one showing the in-game XMB being used from a game title screen and one showing it being used during gameplay. The forum member also post some pictures of trophies. The videos and shots were taken from test kits.