Sony Continues to Struggle

The big man at Sony, Howard Stringer, will announce tomorrow that the company plans to cut 2,000 jobs and two television manufacturing plants. Sony plans to have these cuts made by the end of their fiscal year, and there is also talk of a plan to cut bonuses for the managers and executives of the struggling company. We’re just glad that at least one company is punishing the executives and not just the grunts.

News like this usually brings sadness to many gamers, but the rest of the stories cheered us up when the almighty Sony could not.

Monumental Games Makes a Deal with Capcom

If you are a fan of Capcom, you could be a fan of Monumental games very soon. Capcom reached an agreement today with Monumental Games, a UK based video game studio, to do a multi-platform game due out in 2009. Although the game’s genre or title is yet to be revealed, Monumental Games said they are "proud and excited to be working on it.”

Another Assassin’s Creed on the Horizon?

Michael Pachter, Wedbush Morgan Financial Securities analyst, made another bold statement today when he predicted that Ubisoft will release the sequel to Assassin’s Creed before the end of their next fiscal year, falling right in line with TGR’s own Rumor Killer, James Barr, who made a similar observation a couple of weeks ago.

This would mean it would be available to the public before April 2010. Who here hopes he’s right? I do!

Killzone 2 goes gold

Not much more to say, but this is huge. This means the game will finally be released. Hopefully there wont be any snafus or impediments to keep this one from getting on store shelves as scheduled. The reviews are starting to come in now, and so far the consensus is that all of the hype has been well deserved.

And we saved the best story for last. I dare you not to tear up reading the full story. Dare, I say!

Wii Fit helps a girl walk again

A girl from Wexford, Ireland was paralyzed by a virus four years ago, and only took her first steps in a New York hospital last year. Now she is playing Wii Fit, and it helps her to balance better, and strengthens her legs. Can Wii Fit do anything wrong?

As for TGR, we ran the second part of our interview with Velvet Assassin developer Replay Studios. Wherein, they discussed with us the complexities of creating a strong female lead character who also isn’t forged in the cookie cutter Lara Croft mold.