Activision and Bizarre Creations has announced that Blur will have across platform competition between PSN and XBL facilitated through twitter via notifications given in-game, and dashboard messages as you and your friends’ accomplishments within the game is automatically twitted upon completing or receiving a challenge. Bizarre Creations facilitates competition through this cross messaging system and challenges do not directly affect anything in-game. Bizarre Creations has noted that Xbox Live Gold accounts is not required to twitter responses to friends, but Gold accounts is required to play head-to-head on Xbox Live. Blur is to release May 25th for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
it needed some kind of hook, cause this game looks lame. too bad this “cross platform” is lame too though….
This is cool, but not really quite what we wanted. Oh well… it still means that there will be one leaderboard through twitter.
Ehhhhhhh so disappointing!!