<![CDATA[Kotaku: Haze]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Haze]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/haze http://kotaku.com/tag/haze <![CDATA[Haze Developers Say PS3 Technical Issues Impacted Game Design]]> Free Radical Design's Haze was not a good game. After being delayed multiple times, the futuristic first-person shooter landed with a thud. Part of that can be attributed to the developer's struggle coming to grips with PlayStation 3 hardware. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5336188&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Top Ten Selling New Video Games Includes... Haze?]]> Maybe it's because I don't really read newspapers anymore. Maybe it's that I just never noticed it. But I didn't realize that like the New York Times, Blockbuster has gotten into the bestsellers business. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5306958&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Crytek Buys Free Radical]]> Timesplitters and Haze developer Free Radical Design has found financial sanctuary in German developer Crytek, who is reported to have purchased the struggling Nottingham, UK dev for an undisclosed amount. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5145829&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Gets Bargain Binned]]> Well, that didn't take long. GameStop's weekly ad reveals that the games retailer is moving copies of Haze for the low price of $39.99, a $20 drop from the suggested retail price it launched with less than three weeks ago. That could be very telling of its retail performance if GameStop is already slashing prices on the game, but publisher Ubisoft may be behind the move to get rid of some copies of the PlayStation 3 shooter. Even at forty bucks, I'd find it hard to recommend, but you'll have to decide for yourself. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5014115&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Haze Launch Trailer]]>
If your the type of mindless sheep that replies on just about every major gaming news outlet to tell you what to buy, this launch trailer might be as close to Free Radical's Haze for the PlayStation 3 that you want to get. But if you're one of those quirky free-thinkers that isn't afraid to go against popular opinion and blaze your own trail, then by all means, put down $60. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5010504&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Frankenreview, Haze (PS3)]]> A year ago you couldn't look at a list of PlayStation 3 killer apps without seeing Free Radical and Ubisoft's Haze right up there towards the top. Promising cutting edge visuals, a deep story, and the unique power of the nectar, a drug that gives soldiers superhuman abilities, Haze seemed destined to become one of the PS3's definitive games. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5010290&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Review: It Sure Beats Pumping Gas]]> Ubisoft's Haze is a futuristic first person shooter from developers Free Radical Design. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5009840&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Over Nine Minutes Of Pure Haze Promotional WTF]]>
Oh man. Oh man. Words cannot express this, whatever this is. Just watch. No, on second thought. Don't, just don't. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5009874&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Not In HD]]> While the PlayStation.com blog says that Haze runs at 720p, the game's creative lead Derek Littlewood begs to differ, saying the game runs at 576p, letting the PS3 upscale the game. Says Littlewood: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5009649&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What Are You Playing This Weekend?]]> I'm about to beat feet to a Sony Computer Entertainment America related event, so who knows what I'll be playing this day. Hopefully, something exciting! For the rest of the weekend though, I'll be hunkering down with a PlayStation 3 and a copy of Haze, racing to shoot my way through Ubisoft's first person exclusive that should appeal to bees. Bees!! I've gotten as far as the installation so far, but will have it finished by Monday at the latest. Woo! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5009381&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Demo Hits North American PlayStation Store Tomorrow]]> Europe is already knee deep in Haze demo enjoyment, but North Americans will get their fill of Ubisoft's first person shooter starting tomorrow. That is, provided that your fill of Haze is the game's first level and a sampling of drop-in, drop-out four-player co-op. It may have the most hyphens of any PS3 game to date. The official PlayStation.blog brings word on what to expect, including voice chat—noteworthy that it's off by default—and the ability to set up private co-op games. Welcome shielding against internet douchebaggery! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5008208&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Korn Talks Haze]]> In this "mature-rated" video Jonathan Davis of Korn talks us through his decision to write a song about Ubisoft's upcoming shooter Haze. It is the first time he's ever worked on music for a game. To prep he said he watched the trailer about fifty times. What? Ubi didn't give him any gameplay love! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5008163&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Korn Debuts Haze the Song]]> Here it is, Korn's original song inspired by Ubisoft's upcoming shooter Haze. The song, which has the same name as the game, is available for purchase on online music sites or you can catch it on the enhanced CD version of the Korn untitled album which hit Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand on April 21. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=383303&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Preview HAZE In A Not-Too-Gimpy Demo]]> Remember Haze? It was the cross-platform game that went PS3-exclusive last year (when it was originally supposed to be released). Now it's slated for a US launch on May 20th and it's got a demo to boot—with 4-person, drop-in drop out multiplayer (all on top of a more standard single-player experience). More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=380011&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Gets Yet Another Release Date]]> Hear the one about the boy who cried Haze? Cried about a release date too many times, so when the game actually did appear, nobody believed him, and the game bombed at retail. Wise words. Those unable to heed the teachings of Aesop, however, may as well know that Ubisoft have announced a May 23 release date for Free Radical's very yellow shooter. That's for Europe. No date as of yet for North America, but if precedent's anything to go by, it shouldn't be too far off May 23. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=378095&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[More Haze Gameplay]]> G4 has been spending some time with a build of Haze on the Playstation 3 and created this video to show off some new bits of in-campaign play. I know the buzz on this game has been waxing and waning, but I remain intrigued with both the game's story and mechanics. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=375675&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Too Good To Be True Haze Trade-In Program Was Too Good To Be True]]> Ubisoft's no obligation promotion with retailer GameStop sounded like a cheap-ass gamer's dream. Buy Haze for PlayStation 3, beat it (or give up on it) in a week, then trade it in for something else. No cost to you, miserly gamer. That dream has been shattered, according to MTV Multiplayer, as Ubisoft has pulled the plug on the too good to be true deal, chalking up the whole thing to miscommunication between it and the Canadian version of GameStop, known as GameStop. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=369804&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Is PS3 Exclusive "For Now" (Sigh)]]> Ah, yes. Timed "exclusives." Originally, Ubisoft's Haze was scheduled for the PS3, the Xbox 360 and the PC. Then! It was slated as a PS3 exclusive. What does that mean? According to a Ubisoft spokesperson, Haze is: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=369543&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New Haze Screens]]> Courtesy of Ubisoft, here's five new screens for upcoming PS3 shooter Haze, which have only been slightly (OK, more than slightly) touched-up by the company's make-up artists. Don't know why they bothered, thought the game looked fine on its own merits. Oh well. Anyone interested in picking the game up, playing the game to completion then getting some hefty in-store credit at GameStop should be made aware it's due to hit in May. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=367801&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[GameStop Offering Haze For Free (You Know This Can't Be True)]]> Here's an odd promotion: GameStop is offering pre-orderers the chance to buy Haze, play it for a week and return it for a full buy-back refund (in-store credit, of course). Whereas most would simply rent a game that they intended to return, GameStop would prefer you to buy a game and forget to return it. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=366903&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Gets A Hazy Release Date]]>
Free Radical's Haze for the PlayStation 3 has been delayed and delayed again, but they promise us that they've finally gotten the whole releasing the game thing under control. How confident are they? Confident enough to release this new video, complete with May 2008 stamped at the end of it. That's pretty damn sure right there, while still leaving them a period of 30 days to shuffle it around in case they haven't gotten all the delaying out of their system and need a quick fix. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=360917&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Four Player Co-Op]]> Who knows when Haze will actually be making its way to stores (last we heard was sometime between April 2008 and March 2009). This latest clip shows off some of the game's split-screen co-op play, something that seems to be a growing trend among shooters. Which is a good thing, I think. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=351037&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Delayed Again]]> Free Radical's drug-friendly FPS Haze has been delayed yet again. Now it's been pushed back for a vague release within the 2008 fiscal year, meaning sometime between April 2008 and March 2009, for any and all platforms. Yes, that's quite a wide range, but the news came out in a financial report, not a press release packaged neatly for gamers to devour. I blame my own, nasal, not-so-kind impressions for destroying the team's progress. Apparently even Crecente's more positive take couldn't balance out the jarring to Free Radical's studio. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=348090&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Far Cry 2 Details Get Hazy]]> Far Cry 2, that game coming to both PCs and 360/PS3, has spilled some gameplay beans to Edge in the most recent issue. And a game that sounded promising before just got a whole lot more interesting. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=346559&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Gamer TV Haze Special Airs This Weekend]]> Video game television program Gamer TV will be airing a very special episode this weekend, all about the delayed and then delayed again PlayStation 3 exclusive shooter, Haze. The special is hosted by members of the Free Radical design team Dave Doak, Derek Littlewood, and screenwriter Rob Yescombe. The show will include exclusive footage of four player co-op in action, and promises to reveal an all-new twist in Haze's already twisted plotline. Gamer TV's Haze special will be airing this Saturday at 10:00 am on Bravo 2 in the UK, with encore showings on Bravo the first Sunday at 11:30 am and again on Monday at 4:30 pm. We yanks are going to have to wait until next Saturday to catch the show on Starz Edge at 11:00 am and again on the 12th at 8:30 pm. Be sure to set your Tivo so you can watch it over and over again until the game is released sometime early next year. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=328378&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ubisoft Delays Haze To 2008]]> Ubisoft announced its financial results today, which were up, for those who care about such things, issuing delays for a pair of games at the same time. Haze, a PlayStation 3 "exclusive" first person shooter developed by Free Radical Design of TimeSplitters fame, will not ship this calendar year as planned, instead moving to the first quarter of 2008. This has no impact on Sierra's TimeShift, which apparently is on schedule, but the two are inextricably tethered in my mind. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=324971&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PS3 Exclusive Haze IS Coming This Year...in December]]> Back at E3, Sony spent a lot of time hyping up two big third-party PlayStation 3 exclusives for this fall: Unreal Tournament III and Haze. Unreal Tournament III has slipped into 2008 according to Midway (or late December according to Epic), so that begs the question: What about Haze? At one point it was set for release in November, but now EB Games is reporting a launch in early December, with a December 4th release date. Sources close to Ubisoft tell me that the game is indeed coming this year (although I'm hearing December 11th), so it looks like Sony will at least get one third-party exclusive out the door. Still, I bet the house that Ken Kutaragi built is kicking itself that it didn't lock up Assassin's Creed as a PS3 exclusive, especially with early review scores like a 9.5 from Game Informer. (I've played the game but my thoughts can't be posted until Tuesday morning). More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=320257&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A War Game That's A Game About War? Derek Littlewood on Haze]]> Gamasutra's Pierre Gaultier has an interesting interview up with Derek Littlewood of Free Radical on the subject of the upcoming PS3 title Haze. Narrative design and this whole question of making games compelling on a level a little deeper than 'Oooh, shiny!' is a hot topic, and various studios have claimed to have made great strides in realizing games that have some sort of higher purpose. Most of them have fallen short. Way, way short. Free Radical has set out to tackle the challenge, and from what I've read about Haze over the past couple of months, they seem to be hitting a lot of the important points in a pretty deep way - which is more than can be said for a lot of these 'Look, look, we have a deeper purpose!' games out there. What's Littlewood's take on Haze's place among games-with-a-purpose and games in general? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=318574&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Korn Writes, Records Haze Song]]> Korn has written and recorded an original song "inspired" by Ubisoft's upcoming shooter Haze. The song, Ubi says, will hit online music download sites in November when the game hits. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=313590&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Developer Pioneers Radical New Pay System Called "Overtime"]]> I discovered at an early age that I never wanted to work in game development, despite my love for the medium and my illusions of creativity. It was when I learned that programmers, artists and designers had to work weekends that I realized this was not the field for me. We're all presumably familiar with the development cycle "crunch" that sees developers sleeping under their desks, seeing their kids only while they sleep and growing fat on a diet of savory snacks and sweet sodas. And they do it for a set salary. Insanity! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=305869&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Injected PS3 Controller]]> You got to hand it to Free Radical, not only do they like sticking it to the Man, even when they're making a game for said Man, but they don't mind sticking it to Sony after sorta confirming the return of controller vibration months early in a dev diary. I guess those controllers were soaked in Haze too. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=305715&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Developer Play-Through]]> There is much disagreement about whether Haze is just another shooter with a neat story line or a truly unique experience with asymmetric fighting, that disagreement holds true for those at Kotaku Towers as well. Personally, I think that the game is unique on many levels, least of which is that it uses game play mechanics to reinforce the message in the storyline, which I think is pretty amazing. Mark, he falls in the other camp. Check out this video to help develop your own crazy opinions. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=295593&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Nixed for PC, 360?]]> Ubisoft says that Free Radical's first-person shooter Haze is now being planned for the Playstation 3 only, according to Gamespot. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=295524&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PlayStation Store Update: Beauty & The Beast]]> The PlayStation Store for North America has been updated with a slew... no, no a plethora of quality goodies for PLAYSTATION 3 owners to slowly download. In addition to the already mentioned Folklore demo, PS3 owners can enjoy a recently updated Folding@Home experience. The new Folding@Home adds two new weapons to the title, four new cars, and a fixes a bug that allowed certain ball and stick wiggle motions to cause the console to crash. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=293130&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sloppy Seconds - Haze]]> "So, I just want you to know that I'm here with the angle of what makes Haze different than just another first person shooter." Free Radical Lead David Doak nods politely. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=292943&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Dev - PSN Equals Freedom]]> Haze Project Lead Derek Littlewood has an interesting perspective on designing multiplayer for PSN as opposed to Xbox Live.
...on the one hand that's a disadvantage, because developers will under-deliver compared to what Live provides. But at the same time, because it's not as strongly defined, you have the freedom to do it in the way that you want to - in a way that may be more suitable to your game.
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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=290694&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze: A Study in Asymetric Combat]]> Click to view More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=289750&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Free Radical Talks Wii, Miyamoto]]> Talking with Free Radical Design's Rob Yescombe and Derek Littlewood today, I asked them if they had seen the reaction Shigeru Miyamoto had to Haze. Both the video of his viewing the game and the reaction others felt he had to the game's use of drugs. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=287009&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Shigeru Gets His Assassins Creed Game On]]> Shigeru Miyamoto was all over E3 this year. As I mentioned in a post last week, one of the major benefits of this year's show was that developers seemed to have a bit more time to get chatty with the competition, seeing each other's stuff, even playing each other's stuff. It was certainly a kinder, gentler E3. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=280682&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Haze Impressions]]> I just sat through a very impressive demo of Haze gameplay. While the game itself looks amazing, what most blew me away was the revelation that what we had seen and heard about up till today was really only a small portion of the game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=277552&view=rss&microfeed=true