Some of the most enlightening news you can get can come straight from the a game developer. In the case of God of War: Chains of Olympus, it's Ready At Dawn director Ru Weerasuriya. The director had a lot to say about the development of the PSP God of War title, particularly in response to a certain comment made about the game being only five hours long. Catch Mr. Weerasuriya's comments after the jump.

Here's a strange bit of information from Chris Kohler of the Wired Blog. Apparently, God of War: Chains of Olympus is a short game. So short, in fact, that a hardcore gamer could finish all five hours of it in one go, if he so chose. If you're looking for proof, there's a picture of the current saved game time for the game in the full article.

If you thought the future of the Sony PSP could only be foreseen by the sole authority of the PlayStation Portable, John Koller, you might want to reconsider that notion. Several high profile game industry veterans popped a few thought balloons over rumors of a new PSP that may be cooking in Sony's kitchen. What their neurons cooked up on the new features of the "PSP2" you might have difficulty believing - if you don't find the read too far-fetched.

 

Chris Kohler of Wired informs all of us that the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has announced the debut of gaming.wikia, an open-source gaming magazine.

What's amusing about this is that like all other wiki's, you can go in and finally edit out the annoying parts of other people's articles. Admittedly, this blogger thinks that the mentioned scenario will probably happen to a lot of his posts. Other self-explanatory wikia's include Tunes.wikia, Cars.wikia, and Health.wikia.

Will this end up as the ultimate gaming resource for the gaming community? Or will this end up as a NeoGAF induced with massive amounts of alcohol?

Penny-Arcade's Skeletor strip seems oddly prophetic. Anyhow, if you want to check out the new resource, feel free to head there via our "read" link below.

Like a dispensable bit player on E.R., the team behind Wired has declared Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo 4 Mobile dead at exactly 2006 A.D. According Wired's GameLife section writer Chris Kohler the game that was "the strongest argument to buy the PSP" is nothing more than "one of the most egregious [gross] examples of vaporware ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public."

"Vaporware" is a term for a software (or hardware) extravagantly hyped by its developer before its release but never actually makes it to the market. There are a number of reasons why companies figuratively manufacture vaporware:

• To see how consumers react to the announcement (if the reaction is blah, the project is dropped)
• To draw attention from other similar products (consumers may wait for the vaporware rather than buy an already existing competitive product)
• To improve a company's stock value

Sometimes the product becomes a victim of its own hype. You know, if it looks too good to be true it's probably vaporware.

We don't know what really happened to Gran Turismo 4 Mobile. But if you're seeking some sign that the game is not vaporware we can only direct you to the world's favorite source of instant info, Wikipedia. Its list of cancelled computer and video games does not yet include Gran Turismo 4 Mobile.