According to CVG, Sony will launch a Haze demo on PSN later today. The big question: is this four-player coop demo for real? Last time we heard of such news rumors, it was the Spanish PS3 website that supposedly showed the announcement. Well, this tale was unceremoniously quashed thanks to Babel Fish.
Until I see with my own eyes this actual Haze demo, I’ll take it with a grain of salt. Of course, my skepticism won’t stop me from hanging around PSN all day for any updates.
Image of Haze is courtesy of Free Radical Design and Ubisoft.

I thought my indifference for Haze would never get any worse. CVG recently revealed that Korn, that nu-metal band, has written an exclusive track for the seemingly-generic shooter.

The song will debut over the radio and in videos next month.

Funny how these two ended up having some sort of connection. Here’s how they’re wired in my cranium: Haze’s vanilla theme and action doesn’t do a thing for me; Korn’s guitar riffs have the same (lack of) effect.

Originally, September 25 is a red-letter day not only for Xbox 360 owners, but for PC gamers as well. You see, having the Crysis demo on this day is supposed to ease the pain of not having an Xbox 360 or play Halo 3 with the millions of fans that lined up to get their copies of 2007’s most-anticipated shooter.

Unfortunately, the PC gamers won’t be able to get a taste of Crysis on said date. According to CVG, the demo will be available on October 26 instead. Why the delay?

Crytek and EA reasoned that they’re “taking some extra …read more

Why, you ask? Aren’t developers supposed to play other companies’ games if they want to make good games of their own? Of course. Just ask any marquee developer, and they’ll tell you that they play other makers’ games.

But when your office is stuck in crunch time because your team is feverishly working on a couple of games that’s scheduled for release in a couple of months, then the decision to ban one of the best shooters ever made is beginning to make a lot of sense.

Valve big kahuna Gabe Newell told CVG that they had to ban Bioshock …read more