The team at Sony Santa Monica is adding a new range of co-op weapons to God of War: Ascension multiplayer in the form of the Mythological Heroes Weapons Pack. A post on the PlayStation Blog on Tuesday from Santa Monica Studio’s Aaron Kaufman details four new weapons, optimized for you and a pal to sling each other into enemies in the arena.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
Michael Angeli is a television screenwriter best-known for his work on Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, and Monk. But according to a story on Polygon, Angeli is about to move into the realm of writing video games.
At San Diego Comic Con’s Battlestar Galactica panel, Angeli noted that he’s working with Sony Santa Monica on a video game. Santa Monica is best-known for its God of War games, but Angeli stated that the project he’s working on isn’t God of War.
Angeli told Polygon that he’s been working on the game for over two years, and that the team that worked on God of War: Ascension – a team of about 150 people – has fully “transitioned” to his game.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
An “investor note” from massive financial services firm The Cowen Group (as reported by GamesIndustry International) indicates that the newest entries in PlayStation’s God of War franchise and Microsoft’s Gears of War franchise may have both underperformed “significantly.”
The Cowen Group’s investment note predicts that Gears of War: Judgment may have only sold 425,000 copies in the United States, a far cry from the 2+ million Gears of War 3 sold in its first month in 2011. Likewise, God of War: Ascension is predicted to have sold only 360,000 copies, far short of the 1.1 million copies God of War 3 sold when it launched in early 2010. This is especially distressing news for Sony and Microsoft considering the ever-expanding install base of both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
From: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/16/did-god-of-war-and-gears-of-war-significantly-underperform
God of War has always been one of those franchises that gets just enough right for me to want to play and just enough wrong to frustrate and disappoint me. God of War: Ascension is no exception.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
