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Sports Champions

Sports Champions is a new game for the PlayStation Move. Think of it as Wii Sports Resort for the PS3. Three sports have been shown for it: Gladiator Duel, Table Tennis, and Archery.

Here’s a new interview with the developers of Sports Champions:

And here’s the coverage you should have already seen from the GDC 2010 Press Conference:

And from the B-Roll “Slideshow” that I posted earlier:

PlayStation Move GDC 2010 Press Conference

Here is Sony’s full PlayStation Move press conference at GDC 2010.

Part 1 doesn’t really mention PlayStation Move, you can skip this first video as it is just a boring recap of older PlayStation 3 games:

Part 2 talks about PlayStation Move, and ends with the PlayStation Move trailer I posted earlier:

Part 3 demonstrates two new PlayStation Move games. Sports Champions is the PlayStation Move equivalent of Wii Motion Plus’ Wii Sports Resort. They demonstrate 2 of the games included in Sports Champions: Gladiator Duel (two handed sword and shield fighting), and Table Tennis. The second game is “move Party!”, which is an Augmented Reality game along the lines of WarioWare Smooth Moves.

Note how it loses tracking at 6:46!!! That shouldn’t happen. You can see the PlayStation Move’s glowing ball clearly on the screen with the tennis racket missing. Oops!

Part 4 shows the games Little Big Planet, EyePet, and Motion Fighters. Apparently they are re-releasing EyePet but with PlayStation Move instead of the “Magic Card” with a fiducial marker (the paw-print card). People had problems with the Magic Card requiring good lighting in order to be recognised:

Part 5 talks about the new Sub Controller (aka Nunchuk), shows the game SOCOM4, and mentions Stereoscopic 3D. Ironically the new Stereoscopic 3D feature, which is also coming out this year, will not be compatible with PlayStation Move’s augmented reality, since unlike Project Natal, PlayStation Move only has a 2D camera. It will work great though with all the other PlayStation Move features.

I think this GDC press conference was less impressive than the E3 demo. But it provided a lot of new information, like the official name of the controller, and the Sub Controller (Nunchuk), demonstrated how good this will be for FPS games, and said that there will be less than 1 frame.

PlayStation Move GDC Slideshow

Here’s the slideshow of PlayStation Move info from GDC:

PlayStation Move GDC Trailer

Here’s the official PlayStation Move GDC Trailer. It reminds me a lot of the Project Natal E3 video.

The main game shown is Sports Champions, which is the PS3 equivalent of Wii Sports Resort. It has Archery, Gladiator fighting, and Table Tennis, among others. Also shown were LittleBigPlanet, SOCOM 4, the street fighting game, and some others.