At the beginning of this digest, let’s quickly run through the new videos. Here you can find a trailer for the remake of the original RPG Persona for PSP, which is coming out in Japan on April 29.
Next is a fresh Ghostbusters video, a trailer for F.E.A.R. 2, and as many as six videos for Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, albeit in Japanese.
In this video, you can see the results of various experiments in the Killzone 2 demo—how to fall outside the map, climb onto the roof, and more.
This week, THQ announced planned layoffs and losses in the previous quarter; the company’s shareholders reacted swiftly to the information, causing THQ’s stock price to plummet by 18% right away—the last time the company’s shares dropped to the $2.45 mark was in October 1997.
At Square Enix, the situation is largely similar—its shares dropped by 11% to 1,936 yen. The last time such a low price for the company’s shares was recorded was in June 2003.
As reported, EA pays the National Football League Players Association huge sums of money for the right to annually release games in the Madden series. For instance, in 2007 the publisher paid the NFLPA $35 million.
As promised, developers from Epic Games quickly released a patch for the PC version of the shooter Gears of War, resolving the issue that prevented the game from launching due to the expiration of the protection system’s digital certificate.
According to representatives from Bungie, the shooter Halo 3: ODST, which will hit the shelves this September exclusively for Xbox 360, will include 24 multiplayer maps, namely: The Heroic Map Pack, The Legendary Map Pack, Cold Storage, and The Mythic Map Pack, as well as three yet-unannounced maps.
Finally, to wrap up our post—another topic for flame wars. The Rise of Games website compared the visuals of Killzone 2 and Halo 3, publishing .
Wondering why the outlet didn’t choose Gears of War 2 instead of Halo 3? The explanation is that many consider Killzone 2 to be a “Halo killer,” so the website’s editors decided to see how much cooler Killzone 2 looks compared to Halo 3 (gameplay was not compared). In our opinion, this is a waste of time, since even at the time of its release, Halo 3 did not look particularly modern.