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Older readers out there might think that the 3D gaming revolution began with the advent of consoles like the PlayStation, N64 and the Sega Saturn, but the real 3D gaming revolution is just beginning, according to Ubisoft. 3D gaming doesn’t refer to three dimensional graphics anymore; nowadays it means that the game jumps out of the screen and into your eye holes. Beginning with the game adaptation of James Cameron’s Avatar, Ubisoft Montreal’s Yannis Mallat tells the Financial Post that he sees the company becoming a “360-degree entertainment content provider.”

As the wording suggests, Ubisoft’s future won’t necessarily be restricted to games. Mallat hopes that future game consoles will be able to render photorealistic graphics, enabling Ubisoft to create games and films using the same assets — similar to what the company did with the Assassin’s Creed: Lineage short films.

Of course, enjoying this “360-degree entertainment” will require a special television set. Still, Mallat is firmly behind the technology, saying that it does for images what Dolby did for sound. “No one wants to go back to mono,” says Mallat. That’s all well and good, but a huge number of gamers have yet to even upgrade to an HDTV at all, let alone one that can take advantage of 3D technology.

[Via VideoGamer]

Ubisoft envisions a future of 3-D movies, games originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Sony has revealed that the Playstation 3 has sold more than 440,000 units during the Thankgiving week with the PSP also seeing a significant sa…

Sony moves nearly half a million consoles in one week.

Just a few hours after Nintendo, Sony has prepared a Black Friday sales statement of its own. SCEA’s Patrick Seybold wrote in a press release: “PlayStation 3 demand was at an all time high with the system selling more than 440,000 units for the week ending 11/29/09.” While shy of Wii’s numbers, the figure is quite impressive, considering that’s more than the number of systems sold in the entire month of October — the same month that the PS3-exclusive Uncharted 2 came out.

Retailers offered a number of PS3 bundles during the holiday weekend, adding a number of free games and movies to the system’s standard $299 price tag. That, coupled with an ad campaign that totally doesn’t creep us out, certainly helped Sony’s fortunes this year.

Sony thanks 440,000 customers for giving it money during Black Friday week originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Activision has finally announced that Infinity Ward’s re-release of the original Call of Duty, titled Call of Duty: Classic, is finally heading to PSN…

The original Call of Duty is set to hit Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network this week. Major Nelson confirmed it will hit XBLA this Wednesday for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15). TVGB reports that Activision has confirmed it for PSN as well, coming on Thursday for $14.99. We weren’t sure if the marketing partnership with Microsoft might make it hit XBLA first, but that apparently isn’t the case.

If you balk at paying the fifteen bucks for an old game, keep in mind that if you picked up the Hardened or Prestige editions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the downloadable title is free. Just check for a download code somewhere among the remains of the box you hastily ripped open after the midnight release.

With the scheduled demo release right around the corner, Sega and Platinum Games has decided to show off a brand new gameplay video of their upcoming …

Hold on to your helmets, soldiers, because SOCOM: Fire Team Bravo 3 is breaching stores on January 12, 2010, and the game’s dev team is excited. How excited? Excited enough to sit in front of a camera and talk about the PSP title’s action-packed story and “authentic” gameplay. SOCOM: Fire Team Bravo 3 is set to continue the series’ (sadly forgettable) storyline and includes online co-op and over 70 weapons to show terrorist scum who’s boss.

Stack ‘em up and watch this Socom: Fire Team Bravo 3 dev diary originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cut your own path in this unique but repetitive samurai adventure.

Score: 5.5 / mediocre

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2K Marin’s Jordan Thomas talks about how this weird underwater world is changing.