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The much wanted Analogue Control Patch for Lair (which was given fairly low scores since it required you to use the SIXAXIS's tilt) has now been released. With the new update you can now control the in-game dragons using the Analogue stick as opposed to moving the controller in the direction that you want the dragon to turn.

Will this help boost the ratings? Only time will tell...

Also note this is only available for Europe for the time being.

"When we reported on the PSN Release Schedule leak story and the possible truth behind it, the dates and content listed were still only speculation. After recent revelations, it’s now clear that the schedule is in fact true.

The leaked European document was always potentially credible due to the correct date given to Warhawk: Operation Broken Mirror. Thanks to our very own Kelsey Hart’s digging into the Ratchet: Quest for Booty item on the list, further concrete reliability was added to the..."

"I played Lair today and the controls wouldn’t work. Why? They reconfigured it for analog use. Now you can choose which controls you like. It’s too bad so many Lair owners balked at the innovation. It’s still good to have a choice. The patch will be available sometime in March for download.Â"

"01. [NDS] DS Nishimura Kyotarou Suspense Detective Series: Deadly Intent (Tecmo) - 61,000 / NEW
02. [PS2] Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! Meteor (Bandai-Namco) - 47,000 / 251,000
03. [PSP] Gundam Battle Chronicle (Bandai-Namco) - 28,000 / 114,000
04. [NDS] Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Time Expedition Party (Pokémon) - 26,000 / 502,000
05. [PS2] Arcana Heart (AQ Interactive) - 23,000 / NEW
06. [NDS] Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Shadow Expedition Party (Pokémon) - 22,000 / 440,000
07. [PS3] Lair (..."

"First, it was announced last week that the soundtrack for Lair received a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Video Game Award nomination for best Original Score! Hopefully some of you have now unlocked and experienced all of the high-fidelity surround sound music in the Concert Hall within the game’s Extras, and can agree with the nomination. If you haven’t listened to the music in the Concert Hall, you’re really missing out—it’s fantastic in showcasing all of the nuances tha..."

"I guess I just feel that there should be more substance to a review than just kissing up to it and the platform that it is on just because you are die-hard supporters. Maybe they really liked the game, but to be honest, I have a hard time trusting a site that is so blatently pro PS architecture, and that gave Bioshock a 5/10."

"Reviewers can throw all the mediocre grades and scornful commentary they like at PlayStation 3 exlusive and critical flop Lair, because Sony still won’t give a toss. That’s according to SCEA PR boss Dave Karraker, who told Next-gen.biz that it’s the views of consumers that matter most."

"The ability to play PlayStation 3 dragon-combat game Lair on the PSP has generated plenty of headlines in recent days. What's gained much less attention, however, is the fact that the feature is potentially available for all PlayStation 3 games.

Indeed when checking up on the Lair situation with a Sony technical insider, we got the response: "It's a nice start. Over time, I'm sure we'll have more advanced features."

The core of this PS3-PSP interaction is the PlayStation 3's Remote Play..."

""At the end of the day, I'll be interested in the consumers' response, because the consumer awareness for this title was so huge. I've spoken to any number of people who really like it, and there's other people that find it a challenge.""

"Lair has not come out yet for the PS3, but this hotly anticipated game has already be destroyed by most reviewers. Now the development team has come out of their development foxhole, not to necessarily defend their game, but to start pointing fingers and casting blame. The interview they had on MTV's Game File was eye opening to say the least."

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"I don't want to suggest that somehow the control magically becomes perfect. It doesn't. But the difference is palpable. I pulled up that infamous first bridge level, and suddenly I was actually able to make the dragon go where he ought to. I can't imagine why this functionality isn't an option. I don't know if it's possible to play through the entire game like this. Certainly some key button features, like lock-on and rage mode, weren't mapped to the buttons on my pad."

"It was somewhere in the neighborhood of my fourth pass over a bridge filled with two warring factions and a bunch of evil rhinos that I went from thinking Lair wasn't that bad to wondering if Lucifer himself pressed this Blu-ray disc in the pits of hell.

See, the time had come for my Asylains to draw up a peace treaty with a group of neighboring bad guys called the Mokai, but when the peace process soured, a huge battle erupted and I -- Rohn, one of the best dragon-riding sky guards around..."

Given that the Playstation 3 currently doesn't have as many games available as the other consoles, it still does hold a fair bit of games. But are people making the most of the Playstation 3's capabilities? Well it seems that out of the many games that have been released only around 16 games so far are using the Playstation 3's SPE.

Whilst there may be more, the 16 games that are listed below have pretty much been confirmed to be using the PS3's SPE:

1. Resistance: Fall of Man
2. Ratchet and Clan...

"Today, the official released dates for upcoming playstation three games has been made official. The game are Lair, Heavenly Sword, Warhawk, Eye of Judgement, Folklore and have all been dated for Europe.

12/09/07 - Warhawk (Incl. Headset Bundle)
19/09/07 - Heavenly Sword
10/10/07 - Folklore
24/10/07 - Lair
24/10/07 - The Eye of Judgement
October - SingStar"

"If you had missed it, they were the first gaming website to review the game and gave the game very low scores none of which was above a 7 out of 10. According to the latest podcast from them, the sit down and discuss the reviews of the game.

GOOD
They said motion control was cool.
The ground combat was well done.
No mention of frame rate indicating it was stable.
They liked the epic scope of the game.

BAD
They thought the dragon was a re- skinned x-wing
The dragon shooting firebal..."

The delay that has made many fans upset and angry, has also been a saviour for some game developers that no longer have GTAIV to compete with for christmas. Which will obviously mean that they will have more reason to release it before then, and will most likely be getting more notice from you than if GTAIV had released.

The games ofcourse are:

1. Bioshock
2. Army of Two
3. Lair
4. Haze
5. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
6. Assassin's Creed
7. Heavenly Sword

"PlayStation 3 fans took a bit of a blow yesterday when it was announced that highly-anticipated dragon sim, Lair, has been delayed until September 4th. While Lair has looked suspiciously hit or miss for a while, even optimistic fans would be a little bit disappointed that an early review of the game by EGM has given it a pretty scathing assessment. Scoring an average of 5.5 out of 10, the game was called up on serious control issues due to an over-reliance on Sixaxis motion sensing controls. ..."

"According to EB Games, Lair has been delayed until September 4th from it’s previously scheduled August 12th release date. Gamefly has also changed it’s release date, but they’re showing September 6th (most likely to account for getting enough copies in to rent to customers). Screenshots taken in case they change it back (EB Games above, Gamefly after the jump).

We’ve previously heard the game has gold gold directly from Sony. What could be causing the delay? Either they pulled the game to ..."

"According to an un-named source, two reputable gaming magazines have reviewed Lair and have each given it 9 out of 10. EDGE magazine is one of the these sites which reviewed Lair and gave it a score of 9 out of 10.

Gamezone, the other publishing website that also reviewed Lair and gave it a score of 9 out of ten. According to the un-named source, they label the game as having a “unique experience ”

While this has not been confirmed yet, the availability of EDGE magazine and Gamezone wil..."

"I am not much of one to make new threads, and I know that this has been posted in several posts in other threads. I still see people making posts that say that the scores are not real or confirmed. While I believe these scores to be not true scores basing my information on many other game previews. this is what EGM has rated the game. I just feel that I have to make this thread as a end to the debate of the legitimacy of the scores."

"Given all the content and interest here on Lair, I figured you guys would also be interested to hear that the North American version of Lair has completed its development and is now in manufacturing! That means that we are on track for our August 14 release date. It goes without saying that we’re eager to get this out to those of you that have been waiting so patiently (or not!) for it to arrive. Considering the new PS3 price and now Lair, hopefully there’s even more of a reason to scoop up..."

"A new set of screenshots for the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3 exclusive, Lair, have been unearthed today, and they show off a title that seems to be growing in stature and scale every time GamerSquad sees it.

The texture detail, for example, looks massively improved over the last time we saw screenshots. Just check out that ominous tower surrounded by airborne beasts. The lighting is also looking amazing, with depth and realism in the fire effects and shadows. And those plumes of smoke?

..."

"Play TM magazine is the first magazine corp to get their hands on the retail copy of PS3 exclusive game. According to the PLay TM magazine..


So yes, if there’s any doubt left, Lair has come together beautifully

“With its stunning visuals and incredible soundtrack, Lair may well be the single most powerful experience that a man can share with his $5,000 home theatre system.”"

"Sony Computer Entertainment Europe also announced that Lair, which had an initial release date of September 26 of this year has been pushed back for EU.

Gamers anticipating the release of this game will have to wait until October 10, 2007 before they can finally pick this title up. The game will be launching along side Folklore."

"With Sony's press conference in the past, we've created a roundup of all the small, but significant, announcements and confirmations. This year, Sony allowed very little time for the audience to ponder and absorb, so a lot of the groundbreaking revelations were not emphasised. This was of course a good thing, as it showed that Sony had a lot of things to say. So aside from the major announcements, such as MGS4, Haze and UT3 exclusivity, here are the other tidbits:

- 200 games on Blu-ray an..."

"Lair, developed by Factor 5, the same studio behind the GameCube’s technically excellent Star Wars: Rogue Squadron titles, is a game that has long been lined up as one of the PlayStation 3’s big-hitters in the build-up to Christmas 2007. Today, three fresh, gameplay-rich videos of the title appeared, more or less reinforcing the two things we knew about Lair already. One: it looks dazzling. Two: GamerSquad wants it badly. Really, really badly."

"You see that date up there my friends? That’s the date that PS3 owners will be looking forward to because not only does it mean the long awaited, highly anticipated Lair comes out, but it also is the date where the PS3 software “drought” officially ends and the good games begin to roll out.

Not only has the release date been revealed today, but also it’s been revealed that we can all expect a Lair demo to hit the Playstation Network sometime in July. Here’s hoping it’d happen near the 4th ..."

"Factor 5 president and co-founder Julian Eggebrecht has stated in previous interviews that his team's decision to make their upcoming game Lair PlayStation 3 exclusive was based completely on the power of the console and nothing else. Still, even without knowing that, it takes just one brief conversation with Eggebrecht to discover that he and the people he works with are strict devotees of technology. So, it comes as no surprise that, in a recent interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Egg..."

"Julian Eggebrecht
President, Factor5

"The very basic fact is you could not do this engine completely as you see it there on any other system but the PS3.

We've got so much physics running, so much animation running, we've got the levels with 25,000 soldiers where we have to simulate the army combat which is going on the ground. We've got all these dragons being animated of course. To pull off this world scale.

I think it would have been absolutely impossible on any other platform ..."

"Though Lair has been in the public eye over the past few months thanks to interviews and the occasional batch of new media, new content for the game itself had been hidden away in development since last year's Tokyo Game Show appearance. That was, until Sony and developer Factor 5 blew the doors open at a press event last week, resulting in our first concrete post-TGS update on the game.

Perhaps most newsworthy is that the controls have been adjusted so that players no longer use the PS3 c..."

I’ve known Julian Eggebrecht, president of game developer Factor 5, for quite a while. He’s always eager to talk about the most technical stuff at game conferences such as the Game Developers Conference or the Dice Summit. But I’ve never had a chance to do a sit-down interview with him until now. Eggebrecht, a native of Cologne, Germany, has run Factor 5 for a long time, mostly as a developer of Star Wars games for LucasArts. But with the disappointment of the GameCube, Factor 5 has now branc...