News #1 - Diablo III New Death System

From 1Up:

A Blizzard staffer going by the username ‘Bashiok’ was quick to offer up an answer as to how death is being handled in the new Diablo title. And there’s a stark difference between the new system and the one found in Diablo 2: rather than being sent back to town and having to venture back to where you perished to recover your place (without any of your gear, mind you), you’ll now be sent back to a checkpoint. These checkpoints are scattered throughout the world and “generally” at the end of each level of a dungeon. When respawning at a checkpoint you’ll be left with a small amount of health.

News #2 - Would Fable Work on a PS3?

Fable 2 god designer Molyneux seems to think that 360’s LIVE system is better than the PS3 online system…

In his words:

What I would say, and this is not just me being the good company man, I’d say the thing I love about the 360 more than anything is nothing to do with the hardware, it’s all to do with LIVE. LIVE is still underexploited for a game mechanic. Some of the stuff in Fable II we’re doing with co-op is only possible because of the way that LIVE is structured. I love playing around with that stuff as a designer. Whereas PS3 doesn’t seem to be quite so mature on that side. They haven’t got quite the same infrastructure and service but, you know, yeah, I’d love to get games on every platform.

Jim Sterling at Destructoid does not seem to agree:

Seriously though, do you agree with Peter’s assertion that Xbox Live is what makes Fable 2 possible? Would you contest that the PlayStation Network is robust enough to support the game’s online elements? After all, with Resistance 2 and MAG promising the kind of multiplayer experiences that Xbox Live is yet to touch, I’d say that the PSN can more than easily handle 2-player co-op.

I honestly think that Molyneux was not just talking about 2 player co-op but also all the other side things that Xbox Live can offer a game designer. An example is the fact that you can download an XBLA game that has all the Fable gambling games and gamble for money. You should then be able to use the money you within the main boxed game soon on shelves…

What is your opinion?

News #3 Resident Evil 5 Update

Great cover for resident evil five on EGM this november. Kudos to whoever does PR at Capcom and to who made that render, they look gr8.

As for EGM, I just wonder what type of score this game will receive… Well, assuming they Game Informer will give RE5 maybe a 9 (who knows - I just hope) I can expect EGM to give RE5 something like 7.867

I still get a kick out of their 2nd decimal point… I get so much info out of it…