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Interview: Mike Bond Talks Fatal Inertia EX

After the Xbox 360 original took a bit of a kicking, KOEI could have been forgiven for slinking away and giving up on Fatal Inertia - its stab at a WipEout-style futuristic racer - altogether.

Instead, lead designer Mike Bond and his team got back to work on the PlayStation 3 version, and next month will release the result - Fatal Inertia EX - exclusively on PSN. Backed up by a downloadable demo, new tracks and a host of refinements, it aims to make up for mistakes made on Microsoft's platform.

Eurogamer caught up with Bond to talk about the game's chequered past and what KOEI Canada has in store for PS3 owners.

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name5858d ago

Wipeout Hd is coming out soon...sorry

crazy250005858d ago

Was there a time frame set?

Ri0tSquad5858d ago (Edited 5858d ago )

Can't wait to see the improvements on this game.

Mhassan5858d ago

I was really looking forward to this game back when it was only a PS3 exclusive..however Wipeout pure kept me way too busy to care about it but after reading the interview i am really interested in trying out the demo first hand and maybe buy it. I love futuristic style racing s and its kind of sad and and joyful that Wipeout still is the undisputed leader in this genre. But who knows..this game could be a good one.

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Limbo, Inertia! win 2011 Indie Game Challenge at DICE

Limbo and Xbox Indie title Inertia! have won the second annual Indie Game Challenge at DICE. Sponsored by The Guildhall at SMU, GameStop and the AIAS, the winners will each receive $100,000 and an EEDAR DesignMetrics title research assessment valued at $15,000.

Limbo, which we felt was one of the best games of 2010, took the grand prize in the "professional" category, along with another prize of $2,500 for achievement in art direction

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PALGN: PSN Review Round-up

Welcome to PALGN's PlayStation Network Review Round-Up. At the start of every month, this article will be dedicated to reviewing the titles that have been released during the past month on the PlayStation Network and give our verdict as to whether they are worth a download or not. We're a little bit behind, so this particular round-up will feature a couple of months worth of releases for your pleasure.

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Dark Zero Review: Fatal Inertia EX

Dark Zero writes: "Fatal Inertia EX is the PlayStation 3 release of the year-old Xbox 360 game Fatal Inertia and is available now as a download from the PlayStation Store, for a fee of course.
Set in a futuristic world where mega-corporations control everything from government to entertainment, Fatal Inertia has become the most popular, and dangerous, pastime. The best drivers race in cars that hover over all types of ground, from molten lava to coastal inlets.

Sounds exciting doesn't it? Unfortunately, in the early stages of the game it isn't. I know that the earlier levels are supposed to be easy for beginners to grasp the controls, but in my eyes they were just uneventful, boring and didn't make me thrilled about playing on. Fortunately I did, otherwise this would be a very short review, and by the time you get halfway through the 'Professional League' it gets a bit trickier and somewhat more enjoyable. The tracks are short which means that the races are quick and if you get stuck in the crowd with the rest of the racers, it can get very chaotic, which is where the races get interesting. A side effect of the tracks being fairly short, sometimes the race is over before you know it and suddenly you're in second when you thought you could overtake the guy in front on the next corner to take home a win which gets a bit annoying.
The races are based on six different areas with all the course"

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