Sony clarifies PS3 game dates

By Robert Purchese Published 10 April, 2007

Semi-official blog not quite right.

Sony has cleared up some issues surrounding PlayStation 3 release dates on semi-official blog ThreeSpeech this afternoon, by pointing out that they're not all entirely correct.

The site lists five big titles due to appear in September, including Heavenly Sword, Lair, Ratchet & Clank and WarHawk. However, it seems it overstepped the mark with its Killzone prediction, as Sony recently informed us.

"The release date on ThreeSpeech for Killzone PS3 is a mistake," a spokesperson for Sony told Eurogamer this afternoon. "We haven't made any announcements for a date yet, as it's still TBC."

Which is good news for us, as it seems to suggest the other four will be appearing in September.

We'd previously heard that Lair and Heavenly Sword were due sometime this year, after they were accidentally listed as May on the UK PlayStation site, but secretly we'd feared they may have slipped to 2008.

Head over to ThreeSpeech for a closer look.

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Comments (27) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • SeesThroughAll #1 5 years ago

    (subsidized) fansite ThreeSpeech overreacts shocker.

  • JediMasterMalik #2 5 years ago

    Looking forward to all these games, with mild excitement for Killzone. (mainly due to the issues with the first one)

  • SeesThroughAll #3 5 years ago

    Yeah, the first one is very average predictable stuff, I fished it out of a bargain bin just to come to terms with FPS'ing on a console pad.

    In the end, I still prefer keyboard+mouse any day.
    Edited by 1 at 10/04/07 @ 15:26

  • spongebob #4 5 years ago

    I don't get it how people can be excited about games like KillZone or Halo. Technologically they're nice, but their sci-fi premise is way too overdone and cliche.

  • penhalion #5 5 years ago

    @Spongebob

    Welcome to the Meh! club. Been saying this for years now. I guess we're just becoming hype immune.

  • Machetazo #6 5 years ago

    Spongebob: The Helghast sell that thing, and unlike Halo, there are actually characters to be found amongst your squaddies. (Think Brute Force for a depth comparison.) I also join the meh club for Halo, although it is fun playing through the campaign. It's shallow. I can get my action rush from UT. I consider Killzone to have been a competent FPS, with a more involving campaign structure (story was meh, though) Hamstrung from being shoe-horned into the PS2.

    I'm supporting Guerilla, pending how I feel after they've publically shown the game. I can't say that the first game delivered on all accounts (and I didn't play in multi) but outside of the technical limitation, it offered distinct, and engaging firefights.
    Edited by 1 at 10/04/07 @ 16:02

  • JediMasterMalik #7 5 years ago

    Killzone was not shit, it was merely OK. It wasn't painful to play, but it had some major issues.

  • lennon #8 5 years ago

    @The meh club - There really arent many FPS genres that havent been overdone or cliche are there?

    Half Life springs to mind but thats mainly due to how well the games are put together. Halo for me was a gaming change experience being a mainly PC gamer before. Played on a suitably hard level it was an immense challenge and on co-op was a joy to play. Halo 2 was a let down story wise but still great fun to play online although being lucky (or unlucky) enough to be able to get enough people together for 8 player living room halo still hasnt been surpassed.

    Killzone on the other hand was totally forgettable. Hyped beyond belief in fact the first I heard of it was as the Halo killer. Way to add pressure! The difference for me is the hype for killzone was started before the game was really even a twinkle in the gamers eye where as I like many others knew very little about Halo prior to its launch and its success was mainly based on word of mouth.

  • Rushy #9 5 years ago

    From the threespeech article:

    "Another hotly anticipated title from 2K Games (also appearing on Xbox 360) is BioShock. BioShock’s lineage can be traced back to the revered System Shock 2. Essentially an RPG, although it majors on shooting, BioShock will certainly be one of the most visually stunning games ever – it’s set in an abandoned underwater city built by a billionaire in the Art Deco style."

    Isn't this 360/PC only. I can't find any information about a PS3 version on the official website - [link url=http://www.2kgames.c om/bioshock/
    ]http://www.2kgames.c om/bioshock/
    [/link]

    Can anybody clarify?

  • lennon #10 5 years ago

    I believe MS announced at X06 that Bioshock was console exclusive to the 360 but I may be wrong.

  • Xerx3s #11 5 years ago

    It would be unwise to match killzone2 up against H3. Either release it before or some time after.

  • Xerx3s #12 5 years ago

    Welcome to the Meh! club. Been saying this for years now. I guess we're just becoming hype immune.

    Or maybe other people have other tastes than you do? Surely not.

  • Xerx3s #13 5 years ago

    I believe MS announced at X06 that Bioshock was console exclusive to the 360 but I may be wrong.

    Correctomundo.

  • kangarootoo #14 5 years ago

    "Technologically they're nice, but their sci-fi premise is way too overdone and cliche."

    I personally don't really give a hoot about the Halo back story. For me, it just really nailed skirmish FPS gameplay. If by "technologically they're nice" you mean the same thing then I guess we agree.

    I would say that if something nails an aspect of gameplay, that makes it significant as good gameplay is really at the core of the experience.

    As for Killzone. I think it was OK, but its problem was that it was pitched as a Halo beater. It simply wasn'ty anything of the sort, but unfortunately that comparison has resulted in people saying it was shite, when it was actually quite serviceable.

  • Foxclose #15 5 years ago

    There was a rumour a while back that suggested that Killzone would not be released until Sony are happy with it 100% and not before Xmas 2008 at the very least.

  • enzima #16 5 years ago

    Abou Bioshock it was an easter egg (or so they say). Its not coming to ps3, for now at least....i was wondering abou littlebigplanet and home, but it seems they were not announced for september

  • JediMasterMalik #17 5 years ago

    No, they're earlier. (And later for the full BD release of LBP)

  • Pac #18 5 years ago

    The only game I can muster any excitment for is Heavenly Sword.

    In the same way that Ninja Gaiden finally made me buy an Xbox, this could be the one game that makes me buy a PS3 (as long as it gets a 9 or 10 from EG and EDGE).

  • JediMasterMalik #19 5 years ago

    I wouldn't hold my breath Pac.

  • enzima #20 5 years ago

    Agreed, heavenly swords will be awesome (or at least i hope so, i 'm imagining something between ninja gaiden and god of war), its at the top of my ps3 must have games. I think they should really announce something about that interview harrison gave, when he said in future ps3 might be able to up-scale your dvd....now THAT would be really awesome. They really should push more that side of the system and make it a real centre for your house dvd/bluray/music hobby. anyway even if now it doesnt seem much, i think ps3 potential is huge. time will tell

  • Moz #21 5 years ago

    Bizzarly however, Killzone for PS3 is the only one of the games with a release date listed on HMV's website, where they have Killzone listed as w/c Jul 9 and the other 4 are in "more future games" section!!!!!!!

    Now I know the chances are that HMV have got it wrong, just thought it worth mentioning though

  • Machetazo #22 5 years ago

    Rushy, the PS3/Bioshock thing's so three days ago.

    We've since moved on to attempting to decrypt from an odd marketing site how Splinter Cell (the next) could be a 360 exclusive (a fact notably referenced by Chris Satchell in an interview published on CVG today) yet possibly support some multi-faceted tale of world destruction, tie-in with Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six. Oh Happy Day!

  • JYM60 #23 5 years ago

    balls I thought Warhawk was out in a few months.

  • TeamQJ #24 5 years ago

    this is quite curious. given three speech's track record. we mean they are semi-legit. sony was (or is?) being accused even of viral marketing because some believe that their blog is being funded by sony itself...

    http://ww w.qj.net/Sony-says-Three-Speech...

  • NthSimulachum #25 5 years ago

    Halo's story may have been done before (failing humanity, galactic super weapons, Orbitals, Idirans et al)but I thought the implementation and style of it all was very good.

    And Half Life's story? Original? Bollocks, it was just a much better implementation of Doom's basic premise, which in turn owes a lot to Faust and the works of HP Lovecraft.

  • NegativeZero #26 5 years ago

    So I guess we can expect Halo 3 in September rather than November then.

  • Xerx3s #27 5 years ago

    I really liked the original HL. Somehow I can't get over the feeling that they botched up HL2. It feels very much like a tech demo imo. It's not a bad game imo (I will buy that super pack that they are going to release), it's just not something that I would mention when listing why pc gaming fps games are better. There are much better games for that imo.