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North American PS3 and PSP owners will no longer have to go through a complicated process to access adhocParty, the once Japan-only application that lets local adHoc PSP games be played online. SCEA just announced that the PS3 app will be available in North America this month! The application works with “select online multiplayer games” for PSP, using the PS3’s internet connection. It is currently unknown whether it will support the same list of games available in Japan, but Sony specifically named Gran Turismo and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite as compatible.

We’re hoping that, some time in the next year, Sony will enhance its platforms even more with a new technology called the “space bar.” It could really work wonders for adhocParty on PSPgo.

Sony throwing an adhocParty in North America this month originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 13th, 2009 at 1:30pm by JC Fletcher
Filed Under: Gran Turismo, adhoc, adhocparty, monster-hunter-freedom-unite

At the annual SEMA car show in Las Vegas this week, Gran Turismo 5 creative lead Kazunori Yamauchi was on-hand demoing his game for showgoers and talking to the press. Amidst a torrent of questions from Autoweek, Yamauchi roughly calculated the cost of creating Gran Turismo 5: a cool $60 million. That’s what five years of development on a single game has cost Polyphony Digital thus far, an amount Yamauchi says was totally justified in order to “get it right.”

“We threw away the legacy code from GT4 and started from scratch … It’s been five years from [the release of] GT4, and that’s the same amount of time it took to develop the first GT4.” And rather than dodging the reasoning behind the lack of a solid GT5 release date anywhere outside of Japan, Yamauchi flatly offered, “That’s more depending on SCEA marketing decisions.” Allow us to venture a guess – first half of 2010, perhaps?

[Via VGChartz]

Gran Turismo 5 cost roughly $60 million to develop originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 5th, 2009 at 4:58pm by Ben Gilbert
Filed Under: Development, Gran Turismo, Money, SCEA, budget, gran-turismo-5, gt5, kazunori-yamauchi, polyphony-digital, sema, sony

The site E4G reports that Gran Turismo 5 will include a very exciting option: The ability to create your own tracks or edit the existing tracks. Eurogamer checked in with Sony to confirm this new feature, and, while Sony refused to confirm the news, the company also refused to deny it, in a carefully worded statement that makes the news suddenly seem more plausible: “We haven’t confirmed this and aren’t offering any other comment at this time,” Sony told Eurogamer.

We contacted SCEA but have yet to hear back, so this rumor is going to have to remain a rumor. Hopefully we’ll find out before the game comes out, although Sony also has yet to announce the release date beyond a possible “early 2010.” Okay, we’ll simplify the whole thing: Gran Turismo 5 is an unconfirmed rumor.

Rumor: Gran Turismo 5 to feature track editor originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 2nd, 2009 at 7:00pm by JC Fletcher
Filed Under: Gran Turismo, editor, gran-turismo-5, polyphony-digital, rumor, user-created-content

I can’t believe it’s been nine years since I stood outside in the cold to be one of the first people to get a Playstation 2. On October 26th, 2000, millions of people just like me were doing the same thing. And some of us ended up having to wait a couple extra days to get one as there were some shipping delays with certain retailers.

By the end of the current fiscal year there will be nearly 10,000 titles available for the PS2. That is one massive library! Some really great titles have been released on the system: Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter, SOCOM: Navy Seals, Final Fantasy X, XI and XII, and of course Gran Turismo 2 and 3.

So boot up those PS2s and show them some birthday love!

Posted on October 28th, 2009 at 12:06pm by Yukino
Filed Under: Final Fantasy X, Gran Turismo, News, Ratchet & Clank, Video game, jak-and-daxter, playstation-2