• Gran Turismo 5 Goes Gold

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    Kazunori Yamauchi,

    So finally Gran Turismo 5 goes gold 🙂

    The news came from the team Jalopnik at SEMA

    We just asked Kazunori Yamauchi, the father of Gran Turismo, in an interview here at SEMA, the question on everyone’s minds — when will GT5 finally be released? His response: “The discs are being stamped as we speak.”

    The picture above is Kazunori making a disc-stamping motion with his hands as he answered our query on the ever-shifting release date. We did talk about a number of different topics other than the release — and we’ll have more coming shortly — but for the moment, we thought we’d at least bring you that response.

  • God of War III to get a New Multiplayer Mode

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    God of War III is going Multiplayer

    A recent scan taken from the latest European Playstation Mag reveals that God of War III may get a new multiplayer mode. As reported earlier, those who were brave enough to earn the Platinum trophy received a link to a secret Website.

    The secret Website shows a countdown timer and a storm brewing in the background. As the counter ticks down, the storm seems to get worse. There has been a great deal of speculation as to what will be revealed, ranging from DLC to a new game announcement.

    The site’s URL reveals a hint to what it could be. Part of the URL has the words, “Spartans Stand Tall” in it. Many speculated that this could be a hint to some kind of multiplayer DLC.

    The latest scan taken from the European Playstation Mag is actually quite telling. The headline seems to indicate that this will be revealed in April 2010, which does coincide with when the counter on the site will expire. The scan also reveals that the multiplayer mode will be delivered via DLC.

    The pictures reveal a Mortal Kombat like versus fight screen, with health bars on both sides and a timer in the middle.

    Gods of Olympus

    Hmmm.. gods of Olympus (X-men), titans.. Kratos.. could this be the unveiling of God of War “Kombat,” with fatalities and killer combos? I’m getting Goosebumps just thinking about it. Stay tuned for more information.

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  • God of War III Spartans Stand Tall explained Theory #1

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    Cronos

    Regarding the speculations made on the recently teased website upon getting Platinum Trophy in God of War III. A lot of people out there trying to figure it out ! I’m listing below some selected points and you can head to Official GOW Forums for more info.

    http://www.godofwar.com/spartansstandtall/

    Leonidas's shield

    Leonidas's shield

    Warning Spoilers follow:

    On the modern monument to the battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas’s shield has a representation of Deimos.

    Deimos’ voice actor is listed in the credits as “Josh Keaton” (the same man who played the Young Spartan in God of War 2 and the Boat Captain you see in both God of War 1 and 2), but Deimos never appears in God of War 3 (this leads me to believe this going to be DLC, rather than a whole new game).

    To those who are unaware, Deimos is the son of Ares and Aphrodite.

    By: BJtheLegend

    But I’ll go one further by saying that perhaps the “Young Spartan” is Deimos!

    kratos changed the fate of the Spartans when he stopped Zeus from destroying Sparta, and it’s rather odd that the Young Spartan never appears again.

    Isn’t it a BIT ODD that this one spartan could put up such a fight against kratos (the battle is pretty damn hard on god mode)?

    then there’s the strange voice you hear while floating in the water in kratos’ mind, as you catch a line that wasn’t said in god of war 3: “A Spartan never lets his back touch the ground. Right brother?”

    And it sounds EXACTLY like Josh Keaton!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXkw672fUJ0 (go to about the 5:16)

    http://i43.tinypic.com/10h3fvr.png (look at the shield on the Young Spartan’s back!)

    Doesn’t it look like the SAME shield that’s on the Spartans Stand Tall website!?!

    By: BJtheLegend

    All of that stuff sounds good,but I’m thinking that kratos (now in control of the power the box gave him) can not not be killed by stabbing him self so he pulled his own body to the ocean to try to drowned himself, when he lands in the water he starts to understand more things( like Athena said she could after becoming that ghost form) and then knows he must kill her because of the evil from the box got to her before she died and is now going to stop at nothing to kill humanity. So Athena teams up with kratos`s brother who was locked away in a chamber in Hades doman to kill everything. Now kratos must kill them both for humanity to truly be free of any gods, hopefully a titan made it so we can fight him too (or maybe three titans). Anyway maybe the only weapon that can kill Athena is also the only one that can kill kratos and kratos`s brother is the only one who knows where it is because he spent his whole life trying to find it. Ive been thinking a lot about this and im prob way off, but i really don’t want a psp game to come from the website.

    Also i think the website will be done in 8 days because it only took ten days to fill half way, if it started the day the game was released.

    By: STEBO-

    I like all the ideas presented here really. But I just wonder if anybody noticed the spot where kratos lays atop. It has the form of a Phoenix Bird and as you may know The Phoenix Bird in Mythology represent a bird that burns itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new reborn one.

    Anybody can notice the bird clearly in the accompanied pic here: http://twitpic.com/1bixm9

    And about the ending, I loved it. It works as an end actually and also it can be extended to a new game again exactly like a Phoenix bird. this is called Cliffhanger in movies and games and what awesome about the idea is that he died on an actual cliff too

    Update:
    just noticed another thread discussing that !! however, worth spreading

    By: Gradly

    Going back to the whole thing about Deimos:

    1. Since all the voices in the darkness were from Kratos’ past, if Deimos is truly the voice, then Kratos already encountered him, so, with what we have now, there’s no reason to believe that we will encounter him in future DLC.

    2. The so-called “phoenix” looked more like an eagle (the bird of Zeus) to me, which is more appropriate being that it is on the top of Mount Olympus

    3. The part after the credits is an ambiguous ending. We last saw Kratos with a giant hole in him, bleeding profusely, and people think that he is alive because he dragged himself off a cliff? What’s more likely is that SSM can use that to either say “Kratos is dead, we will not make a sequel” OR “Kratos was saved by *insert name/action here* and GoW 4 is in production” depending on what the future holds.

    4. As for the cut ending, they seem to talk about it more along the lines of an alternate ending, rather than an extension of it

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  • God Of War III Media Kit Out Now !!

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    God Of War III Media Kit

    The MotorStorm: Pacific Rift press kit was our favorite until WE received the God of War III media kit. This stunning package amazed us even before opening the box and looking into it.

    The whole box is fabricated from solid wood (yes, this is real wood!) with a unique hand-painted red stripe on the front; this red painting is different on every copy. Our wooden box is 25cm long, 20cm wide and 5cm high. After removing the lid you can see a thin brochure for explaining the game’s new features along with some great artworks and screenshots.

    Under the brochure there is a containder divided into 3 parts. One holds the small-sized art cards with a God of War III logo on their back and artworks with a golden frame on the front. These cards have dimensions of 7.4cm x 11.9 cm. There is also a small metal coin in the box with Kratos’s face. In the other containers you can discover the dark game disc and light media disc. The last piece of the package is a small poster tied together with a bloddy textile.

    God of War III Media Kit

    God of War III Media Kit

    God of War III Media Kit

    God of War III Media Kit

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