There aren’t any other details about Motion Controller implementation at the moment, but the game is slated for release on June 8 — well before the Motion Controller’s projected fall release. (And before you ask, no mention has been made of support for Microsoft’s Project Natal.)

It may be less flashy, but series fans may be interested to hear the game will also feature the Ryder Cup, allowing for two 12-man teams to face off against each other.

We say 12-man, but we guess it could be 12 women against 12 men, right? Heck, maybe even 12 women against one man. Can you imagine, one guy trying to keep up with all those women? We sure can’t.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 will be available on June 8 for Wii (with MotionPlus support), Xbox 360, PS3 and iPhone.

Tiger Woods 11 to support PlayStation Motion Controller originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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GDC 2010 is the hotness this week, but according to Microsoft’s Mindy Mount (speaking at a tech conference in NYC), E3 should be fun this year, too. As you might expect, Microsoft is bringing “the full lineup” of Project Natal titles to the convention in June.

We know there are a whole bunch of developers working on Natal titles, including EA, Capcom, Forza Motorport’s Turn 10, and SpawnPoint Studios. Mount promises that Microsoft is “putting some of our best people on coming up with great game ideas for this, and we’re going to have some great stuff.” We’ll start working out now to make sure we have enough stamina to flail our limbs all week long.

Microsoft bringing ‘the full lineup’ of Natal titles to E3 originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The problem of input latency is something that keeps popping up in coverage of Microsoft’s Project Natal. It’s something we noticed when demoing Natal at TGS last year, something Microsoft promised to address before launch. Apparently, certain outlets are still noticing latency issues, which has prompted both Microsoft and Peter Molyneux to come to the peripheral’s defense. The comments come in response to reactions from a recent event held in London for non-enthusiast press.

Speaking to GI.biz (account required), Molyneux noted his “frustration” at seeing the press use a version of Natal that has since been “exceeded many times over.” Said Molyneux, “So very often you get a position that what a person’s looking at is two, three, four months, a year old and you kind of want to go, ‘no, no, it’s 10 times better than that!’” He added that there have been “countless” revisions to Natal’s camera and software since X10, which was held just weeks ago. Furthermore a Microsoft source told GI.biz that the unit demonstrated in London was “one-tenth as responsive” as the current revision.

Microsoft doesn’t have any Natal presentations planned for GDC next week, but maybe, just maybe Molyneux will show us how far the peripheral has come during his panel on intuitive game design.

Molyneux combats fear of Natal input lag originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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“I will make some original IP to fit that control system,” he said. No More Heroes was the result of experimentation with the Wii Remote, and the same will be required for the other systems. Suda said that the new IP would be designed in response to the control scheme.

Suda also spoke about Heavy Rain, saying that he approved of “designs and anything that gives new experiences to the players.” Given his history with mindbending adventure games, his interest in the title comes as little surprise.

Suda 51 wants to make new IP for Natal and PlayStation Motion Controller originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When Warren Spector’s first Junction Point Studios title, Disney Epic Mickey, was revealed, many gamers were miffed to learn that the game was exclusive to the Wii — especially after being inundated with some spectacular concept art for the game. It looks like there is still some hope that the game will hit the Xbox 360 and PS3, according to Disney’s Graham Hopper.

Hopper tells Gamasutra that one of the game’s core concepts is its “ink and paint mechanic”, making it ideal for the Wii. However, now that both Xbox 360 and PS3 will soon support motion controls of their own, things might be different. “If we started it 6 months ago we would have potentially thought differently about it,” said Hopper. He noted that Disney has “a very large audience base that has Wiis in their home” but that the company isn’t ruling out the possibility of a future port to other platforms.

Making all of this a bit stranger, as Joystiq readers will recall, is that Epic Mickey actually started out as a project for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. The game switched to Wii development in 2008 when Disney raised the possibility of a port. At the time, Spector told the company that many of the design ideas wouldn’t work on the console, noting that a Wii version would have to “be its own game.” Disney apparently agreed, deciding to make the game Wii exclusive. Here we are two years later, and the game just might come full circle.

Disney won’t rule out Epic Mickey on 360, PS3 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Want to see Natal gaming in action (as in, pantomimed by an actor)? Start watching this episode at about the 23-minute mark. The awkward product placement makes an already-awkward date scene super-awkward! “Maybe you need to look ridiculous!” the player says, trying to entice Chloe into a game of Ricochet. Could that be the tagline for the ad campaign?

If you want to watch a thrilling yarn about a cursed comic book, that’s the rest of the episode.

Project Natal makes cameo appearance on Smallville originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Greenberg remained genial even when faced with familiar questions about the ramifications of the removal of Xbox 1 Live support, and with random, odd questions generated from Joystiq’s interview brainstorming session, such as:

Joystiq: Can you make Kudo in Kodu?

Aaron Greenberg: What?

I don’t know. Don’t worry about it.

Does not compute.

Continue reading Interview: Aaron Greenberg talks Xbox 1 Live shutdown, hard drives, and Games on Demand

Interview: Aaron Greenberg talks Xbox 1 Live shutdown, hard drives, and Games on Demand originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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So that’s what they’re doing! A pair of job listings on Microsoft’s career site have revealed that the mysterious SpawnPoint Studios is currently hiring for a Project Natal launch title. The listings don’t reveal any details about the title, though they do ask specifically for someone to “work on a Natal launch title, built from the ground up in MGS / SpawnPoint Studios.” The listing notes further that potential employees will work with “a very strong team fresh off AAA titles, starting a new project in a start-up like environment.”

This is the most we’ve heard about the studio since Microsoft’s Phil Spencer first dropped its name in a Joystiq interview last year. Spencer then intimated that SpawnPoint was “really doing a lot of the Natal work.” Later in the same year, we tried to pry some SpawnPoint info from 343 Industries’ Frank O’Connor with little success.

So, SpawnPoint remains something of a mystery for now, though it sounds like we’re guaranteed to know more come the launch of Natal. Hopefully, we’ll hear something sooner.

[Via VGTribune]

Source – Software Development Engineer-Senior-MGS-Project Natal Job
Source – Software Development Engineer-MGS-Project Natal Job

Microsoft’s SpawnPoint Studios working on Natal launch title originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It doesn’t take much for Fable III designer Peter Molyneux to get going on and on about his latest project. We even managed to squeeze in a few questions for the Lionhead boss, who was on hand at yesterday’s X10 media event to unveil his studio’s next grand fable.

Of course, it just wouldn’t be polite to kick off a conversation with Molyneux without first checking in on the little one.

Joystiq: So, how’s Milo?

Continue reading Fabled interview: Peter Molyneux at X10

Fabled interview: Peter Molyneux at X10 originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In a recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Jamie MacDonald, former Vice President of Sony Worldwide Studios (the company responsible for EyeToy), gave out a few pointers to Sony and Microsoft regarding their respective motion controllers. MacDonald warned that gamers are expecting more from the 360 and PS3’s motion gaming than they do from the Wii, due to both consoles’ beefier hardware. However, he also warned about implementing “traditional long-form gameplay,” lengthy sessions of which would leave players “completely knackered.”

MacDonald’s wisest words came when speaking about pricing the two pieces of hardware. He suggested they follow Sony’s strategy with EyeToy, where the peripheral and a piece of software came bundled for the price of a normal game, which kept consumers from “paying a premium for the hardware.” That’s a sweet thought, but it’s a little presumptive — after all, we’ve yet to hear a price for the two devices. (Hell, we haven’t even heard a name for one of them.)

Former EyeToy exec warns of the difficulties facing Natal, ‘Arc’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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