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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Gamescom 2010: Gran Turismo 5: Go Kart Confirmed

Gamescom 2010: Mass Effect 2 PS3 Bonus Content Detailed

Bioware has detailed some of the 'hours of bonus content' that PS3 Mass Effect 2 players can look forward to.

The PS3 version will include pre-game content to serve as an introduction to the Mass Effect universe and story for new players - as well as DLC from the 360 game on-disc.

And that's not all - there will also be PS3-customised access to the Cerberus Network, although details on that one are sketchier.

Gran Turismo 5 - Monza Gameplay

UK Ad Watchdog Criticises 360 Advert For Using PS3 Footage In Promotion

The Advertisting Standards Authority this week upheld a viewer's complaint as it found Square-Enix guilty of misleading gamers by using images from the PlayStation 3 version of Final Fantasy XIII in an advert for the 360 version.

The investigation came as one single viewer complained that a sequence of images was from the supposedly superior PS3 version. ASA officials were sent both consoles and games and determined that PS3 screen quality to be sharper than the Xbox version and ordered the offending advert to be removed from circulation.

A spokesman for the ASA said the viewer's objections had been upheld, adding: "The ASA noted that the viewer, who saw the ad in HD, was concerned that the images from the PS3 version of the game were sharper than those on the 360".

"We tested the two games, on screens with an identical set up, and ran them alongside one another".

"We noted that there was a discernible difference in the picture quality of the two - the PS3 image in video sequences appeared sharper and colours were more vivid than those of the 360".

"We considered that, because the ad promoted the game on the 360 platform, it should have featured footage derived from that console".

"Because it did not, and because we considered that the use of PS3 footage in the ad exaggerated the quality of the footage available on the XBOX 360, albeit marginally, we concluded the ad was misleading".

Square-Enix later confirmed that the advert actually contained no in-game footage and was instead mostly composed of full motion video. The difference in quality comes from the fact that due to 360 DVDs having a lower storage capacity than the PlayStation 3's Blu-Ray disks, the footage had to be compressed on the 360 version, thus slightly degrading the image quality.

The publisher added that there was 'no substantive difference' in the output of the game and that most people, even avid gamers wouldn't notice the difference.

Gamescom 2010: Dead Space 2 Has MOVE Support

Dead Space 2: Limited Edition will support PlayStation MOVE, EA has announced at Gamescom.

The support for MOVE has so far only been confirmed for Dead Space: Extraction, a PS3 version of previously Wii-exclusive game, which will come packaged with the Limited Edition.

“Dead Space 2: Limited Edition has been confirmed for Europe”

EA has so far not commented on MOVE support for Dead Space 2, but we suspect that it will at some point during Gamescom.

Dead Space 2 is set for release in the UK 20th Jan 2011.