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Rockstar Goes Back To Basics With Ping Pong For The 360

March 6th, 2006

If it was April 1 we would be consigning this story to the “round up of wind ups”. Rockstar Games, famous for producing the controversial Grand Theft Auto series are to move onto a more gentle pursuit for their next title - Table Tennis.

Table Tennis is expected to ship to North American retailers on May 22nd, 2006 for a MSRP of $39.99 and will hit European retail shelves on May 26th, 2006 for a price of EUR 39.99 and GBP 29.99 in the UK.

“Our goal was to create a game that is perfectly addictive in its focused simplicity, a game that showcases the true possibilities of a next gen experience, not just in looks but in feel and pace,” stated Sam Houser, Founder and Executive Producer of Rockstar Games. “We wanted to use the power of the new hardware and the resolution of new televisions to give the game an immediacy, an intensity and a sense of physicality and reality, resulting in a purer, more visceral experience that simply was not possible previously.”

Houser continued, “It is a distillation of game design philosophy, focusing on removing the traditional areas of compromise inherent in managing size and scope and concentrating the hardware’s entire power on one activity, with the aim of doing that better than it’s ever been done before.”

TechSmec.com remembers teenage games of Ping Ping being pretty violent affairs so maybe there will be a twist in the tale. However, it’s hard to see how even Rockstar can shake up the table tennis world, so a pure sim is probably on the cards.

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