Gamedaily writes: "2K Sports' latest tennis game, Top Spin 3 features scores of famous pros, including Roger Federer, James Blake and one of the world's most recognizable female athletes, Maria Sharapova. Hot off her 2008 Australian Open women's singles victory over Ana Ivanovic, Maria showed up at the Top Spin 3 event to discuss games, her career and the athletes she admires.
Q: You mentioned on your site that you want to do doubles with Orlando Bloom. What about him do you like?
A: I've liked him a lot in a few movies and I actually got to meet him at a Vanity Fair party a year and a half ago. That was really fun. Years ago, I thought he was really attractive, of course, that's probably the main reason why. And then I met him and he was really sweet and polite and English."
OPM: Thousands of Brits will be inspired to pick up a racket this week on the back of Andy Murray’s success at Wimbledon – but in this heat, and given our hand-eye co-co-ordination, we’ll be sticking to the virtual type. Looking to fill your week with some ace-smashing antics? Then join us in revisiting PlayStation’s finest tennis efforts…
Not really, most of those games were available on multiple platforms.
Just so happens that the PS magazine wrote the article so makes sense it would be 'Playstation's greatest games' :)
Gamepyre writes: "When Virtua Tennis 2009 first came out I was very excited about the game; I was so excited that I actually went and got it on release day.
Virtua Tennis 3 has been one of my favorite PSP games, and I could not wait to see what the 2009 Xbox 360 version of the game brought to the table. After playing the game, I was very disappointed in Virtua Tennis 2009; not because it was a bad game per say, but because it wasn't anything new from the previous release."
Another week and another episode of Distributed Failure is here for your listening pleasure. This week's "What They've Been Playing" features discussion on Top Spin 3, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Fight Night Round 4, Battlefield 1943, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, and much more! They follow that up with some gaming news including the latest update on EGM, the addition of prizes to 1 vs. 100, and the announcement of a new Mechwarrior game.
the 'games are for kids' excuse is long gone. i couldn't be happier