Gamescom 2010: MAG To Get Patched MOVE Support

It was announced today at Sony's Gamescom press conference that Zipper Interactive's MAG will be updated with PlayStation MOVE support.

Gamescom 2010: Virtua Tennis 4 Gets Both MOVE & 3D Support

Sony's has announced  today that Virtua Tennis 4 will have both MOVE and 3D functionality.

Virtua Tennis now joins the likes of Gran Turismo 5, Crysis 2, Killzone 3, Mortal Kombat and Motorstorm: Apocalypse in the 3D stakes.

Sony: Kinect & EyeToy Both 'Limited'

Sony design guru Dr Richard Marks has claimed that both Microsoft's Kinect and Sony's own EyeToy are 'limited' in comparison to PlayStation MOVE.

Marks, who created the EyeToy, is convinced that gamers - and games designers - can achieve more with a controller in their hands.
Although he admitted EyeToy was "really neat" he said it faced limits on its own that the addition of MOVE has overcome - and suggested Kinect would suffer the same problems.

"I think it depends if you believe that controller-less is necessarily better which I don't believe," he told T3.

"I created the technology for EyeToy which we made a controller-less device and it was really neat and it enabled new things but it is not the end-all, be-all in control, we entered limits with that and I think without a controller you run into limits of what you can enable".

He added: "You can do things like track the whole body, you can have dancing and exercise but a lot of the core gameplay ideas that we want to see happen and want to enable just weren't possible with only a camera. We would have done that, we look at as much as we could do with just a camera but it wasn't the right choice we felt".

PlaySation MOVE will be released in the EU on September 15, the US on September 19 and Japan on September 25.

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PlayStation MOVE Handholding Coming To US Stores On Sept 11th

Don't worry about walking into your local Best Buy or Walmart this fall and not being able to figure out how to use the PlayStation MOVE game kiosk.

According to www.destructoid.com -- Sony is hiring and training representatives for a nationwide in-store retail campaign.

Sources that wish to remain anonymous have passed along details of employment opportunities for representatives to assist in what is referred to as "the second largest product launch in PlayStations' history".

The demo program will have trainees working kiosks in retailers like Best Buy and Walmart, assisting potential customers with the usage of  MOVE, showing off features, and answering questions about the product which ships on September 19. The demos -- scheduled for peak retail traffic hours -- are said to start on September 11 and last through 2011, ending in late January.

Sony Computer Entertainment America will be dispatching specialist to provide some seven hours of Move training to candidates it hopes will already have a base knowledge of Sony's consoles, as well as its competition.

Think you've got what it takes? Keep you ear to the ground in your area -- local sales and marketing teams are hiring now, with training beginning in late August.

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The PlayStation MOVE Car Is Probably The Best Thing You'll See Today

Sony’s taking the PlayStation MOVE hatchback around Taiwan to promote their upcoming motion controller. The car comes accompanied with a slew of pretty ladies, but as attractive as they are, the vehicle’s the real highlight here. Look at it — it’s even got the glowing bulb!

EA Bright Lights Announce 'Create' For PlayStation 3 With MOVE Support

It had to happen at some point. In fact, we’re amazed it didn’t happen sooner. LittleBigPlanet was such a run-away success in 2008, another developer was always going to take the idea; seems like Guildford’s EA Bright Light are the first though. Interesting that it should be the team up the road from Media Molecule though, eh?

Create, actually sounds rather interesting though — even if it does have all the personality of a cardboard box. The game will encourage players to create "imaginative gameplay challenges where the solutions are fuelled by the creativity of the player".

"Create uses families’ imaginations to develop new ways to play together that are both fun and challenging," notes EA Play’s Harvey Elliott in the press release.

"We wanted to design a game where the entire family can explore, decorate, and solve challenges where no solution is wrong and the only limit is the imagination".

Interestingly, the PlayStation 3 version of the game will support the PlayStation MOVE controller. Chalk that up as another game that’s getting optional support for Sony’s motion controller.

We’re not really sure what to think of Create yet. It does sound like LittleBigPlanet, but the trailer gives the impression it’s more like a video game adaptation of the Honda advert.

Create is coming to a PS3, 360, Wii & PC this November.