Editor's Note: The mysterious figure known as Superannuation is back with more fistfuls of gaming gossip about the people who made SOCOM, a mystery Crytek project and...more Dead Rising?. What has Superannuation dug from the Internet this time to share with you wonderful Kotaku readers? Read on.
Scuttlebutt has it that the Sony Computer Entertainment studio Zipper Interactive, maker of combat shooters MAG and the SOCOM series, lost several employees in a round of layoffs today. Reached for comment, a Sony spokesperson confirmed layoffs at Zipper, characterizing them as "normal business practice and a result…
This is Cullen Gray of NATO's International Security Force. He's going to be the lead performer in the upcoming SOCOM sequel. Sony published a small batch of screens, plus a profile of what makes the new Operations Commander tick.
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Zipper Interactive and Sony are so excited about tomorrow night's first 256-player battle at the MAG-themed PAX meet-up that they're tossing out beta codes to followers of the PlayStation Twitter.
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Zipper Interactive is taking its shooter know-how to a more massive scale with MAG, the developer's "massive action game" for the PlayStation 3. The epic shooter will host battles of up to 256 players online.
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Click to viewIt's not hard to imagine that Sony knew Microsoft would choose E3 to make its curtain-call announcement of Final Fantasy XIII for the 360. It's likewise reasonable to believe they searched their catalog of works under development for the best candidate to generate any buzz. What we got was a mixed bag -…
