Sony Launches E3 Site, Inadvertently Teases Titles

Thanks to EvilAvatar for its article discussing the recent launching of Sony's E3 site, showcasing "a few select [PlayStation 2] titles" that'll be displayed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles next month, including Champions 2: Return To Arms, the Snowblind-developed Champions Of Norrath sequel. However, if you "start fiddling with the numbers at the end of the URL" on the official site, you can see very basic, unlinked-to info on other games that'll be publicly shown by Sony at E3, including the unannounced action title Rise Of The Kisai from Bottle Rocket/Sony, Dark Cloud 3 from Sony, Final Fantasy XII from Square Enix, Destroy All Humans! from Pandemic/THQ, and, interestingly, Cold Fear from Namco, a survival horror (?) title (related to the thought-lost U.S.S. Antarctica?) rumored in development at Alone In The Dark IV developers Darkworks. Update: 04/26 18:30 GMT by S : The entire site, even the previously public titles, are now password-protected and private.

For posterity

[Anonymous Coward]

As Sony will no doubt break the links, for the sake of posterity, here is all of the content. There is some eye candy page layout stuff, but that's the same from page to page, and doesn't relate to the games in any way.

http://e3.playstation.com/games_details.php?game =1 5
[Broken Image] [Rating Pending]
Title Rise of the Kisai
Platform PlayStation 2
Publisher SCEA
Developer Bottle Rocket
Release Date Q1 2005
Genre Action
Rating Rating Pending
Online TBD
All Release Dates Subject to Change

http://e3.playstation.com/games_details.php?game =1 2
[Broken Image] [Rating Pending]
Title Dark Cloud 3
Platform PlayStation 2
Publisher SCEA
Developer Level-5
Release Date TBD
Genre RPG
Rating Rating Pending
All Release Dates Subject to Change

http://e3.playstation.com/games_details.php?game =4
[Final Fantasy XII Image] [Rating Pending]
Title Final Fantasy XII
Platform PlayStation 2
Publisher Square Enix USA Inc.
Developer Square Enix CO., Ltd.
Release Date TBD
Genre RPG
Rating Rating Pending
All Release Dates Subject to Change

http://e3.playstation.com/games_details.php?game =7 7
[Broken Image] [Rating Pending]
Title Destroy All Humans!
Platform PlayStation 2
Publisher THQ
Developer Pandemic
Release Date Q1 2005
Genre Action
Rating Rating Pending
All Release Dates Subject to Change

http://e3.playstation.com/games_details.php?game =1 2
[Broken Image] [Rating Pending]
Title Cold Fear
Platform PlayStation 2
Publisher Namco Ltd.
Developer Namco
Release Date TBD
Rating Rating Pending
All Release Dates Subject to Change

Re:For posterity

[Scarblac]

As Sony will no doubt break the links, for the sake of posterity, here is all of the content.

Trust Slashcode to parse this as a request to break four out of five of your links...

Oh please tell me

[DourSalmon]

that Destroy All Humans! is some kind of remake of Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Just thinking about it makes me want to go out and buy a snes.

Re:Oh please tell me

[Babbster]

If only it were "Kill All Humans!" featuring Bender finally fulfilling one of his fondest dreams.

Re:Oh please tell me

[cbirdsong64]

I was hoping it was some kind of sequel to War of the Monsters.

Upcoming games

[elasticwings]

Hey, maybe they'll have a demo of Duke Nukem Forever at E3 this year... NOT!!!

Ahh...

[josh glaser]

Ahh...it wouldn't be E3 without the requisite website cock-up. To bad we didn't get too much new information or anything, but it is good to know that Dark Cloud is getting another sequel (It's a great game...didn't play it? Shame on you!) and everything. And we got another picture from FFXII (is that a new character? I haven't seen a picture of anybody but Ashe and Vaan...) so that's cool. But I am interested in that game from Bottle Rocket. It sounds...interesting.

Final Fantasy XII

[JExtine]

What a suprise, who could have seen that one coming ... ... ... ...

I was really, really bored, OK?

[josh glaser]

Looks like they'll be few suprises for me in the PlayStation lineup this year...which is really quite a shame. They're arranged alphabetically: 01-Getaway 2 02-God of War 03-GT4 04-FFXII 05-Jak III 06-KillZone 07-MGS3 08-R&C3 Starts over alphabetically again: 09-A new Arc The Lad game (!) 10-Athens Summer Olympics 11-ATV Offroad Fury 3 12-Dark Cloud 3 13-Formula 1 2005 14-Hot Shots Golf Fore 15-Rise of the Kisai 16-MLB 2005 17-NHL Hockey 2005 18-Siren 19-Sly Cooper 2 Band of Thieves 20-Syphon Filter Omega Strain 21-World Tour Soccer 2005 Alphabetically, yet again: 22-100 Bullets 23-Ace Combat 5 Unsung War 24-ASB 2005 25-Area 51 26-Battlefield 1942 27-Bloodrayne 2 28-Burnout 3 29-Call of Duty Finest Hour 30-Champions Return to Arms 31-Cold Fear 32-Cold Winter 33-Combat Elite WWII Paratroopers 34-Darkwatch Curse of the West 35-Death by Degrees: Nina Williams 36-Def Jam Vendetta II 37-Dynasty Warriors 4 Empires 38-EA Sports Lineup 39-Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone 40-Front Mission 4 41-Hitman Contracts 42-Juiced 43-Mercenaries 44-Monster Hunter 45-Onimusha 3 46-Phantom Brave 47-Red Star 48-Robotech Invasion 49-Shellshock 'Nam '67 50-Silent Hill 4: The Room 51-Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow 52-Spiderman 2 53-Star Ocean 3 54-Star Wars Battlefront 55-The Warriors And again: 56-Asterix and Obelisx 57-Backyard Baseball 58-Bunjingai: The forsaken city 59-Crimsom Tears 60-Dead to rights II 61-Driv3r 62-Driven to Destruction 63-Duel Masters 64-FRDS (Forgotten Realms) 65-Godzilla Save the earth 66-Mega Man Anniversary Collection 67-Mega Man X8 68-Mega Man X Command Mission 69-The Nightmare Before Christmas 70-Shadow of Rome 71-Street Fighter Anniversary Collection 72-Terminator 3 Redemption 73-Under the Skin 74-Viewtiful Joe 75-Way of the Samurai 2 76-Yu Yu Hakusho Dark Torment Once more... 77-Destroy all Humans 78-Digital Devil Saga Avatar Tuner 79-Gulty Gear Isuka 80-Playboy: The Mansion 81-Shark Tale 82-Shin Megami Tensei Nocturn 83-Shrek 2 84-State of Emergency 2 85-Tomorrow 86-Transformers 87-Viewtiful Joe 2 (hold on, it says it's developed by Square Enix?!) One question - where are the PSP games? Oh, and if anybody accuses me of being a karma whore I'll quiver behind my computer screen and call them nasty things.

SORRY

[josh glaser]

I repeatedly told myself "Remember to post in Plain Old Text" - but it didn't work. I mean, I remembered, but it was too few characters per line. So that's dumb. I still hope I could have been of some help. If not...sorry.

Re:SORRY

[Fizzl]

No groweling infidel!
You are not forgiven so easily.

Thou shalt use Preview! ;)

Whoops, now it broke my formatting. I wanted the smilie to be two lines lower to give a sense of suspense whether I am joking or not. I see what you mean.
Hmm...
Damn, too lazy to write the html just to fix that. :)
(and that)
(... ...)
*Stack overflow*

Re:I was really, really bored, OK?

[Phil Wilkins]

They're arranged alphabetically:

In which case, your alphabet is pretty fucked up.

lawsuits-a-plenty

[DeadboltX]

can't wait until sony starts saying that the people who discovered this "unlinked to information" are hackers, and that they violated some privacy law by "fiddling with the numbers at the end of the url"

Not entirely on topic...

[NanoGator]

... but I hope this lights a fire under Nintendo to give us a peek soon at the DS system. Wish I could say something about Sony, but I'm not a PS2 owner. heh.

Re:Not entirely on topic...

[Rallion]

I'm with you on this. The GameCube, for all its godly qualities, doesn't have the RPG library that I need.

Re:Not entirely on topic...

[NanoGator]

I'm a little annoyed that you were modded off-topic. Frankly, I had more reason to be modded off-topic than you did.

Sorry man.

Possible explanation

[SuperMo0]

Somehow I think that it wasn't all that unintentional. Remember, their site isn't complete yet, but the fact that the games have very little information about them indicates that they may have left them there on purpose.

I'm not saying that that's DEFINITELY the answer, but for all we know they're just trying to bring up buzz for games that they knew would strike a chord with players, such as Dark Cloud 3 and Kill All Humans! (FFXII is a given to be shown off this year, but I had no idea that Dark Cloud would be getting another sequel. It deserves it, though.)

Re:Possible explanation

[Omestes]

If it wasn't unintentional, why did they throw up a password on them?

Re:Possible explanation

[SuperMo0]

To add to the suspense? To make it SEEM like an accident? This really can't be taken at face value. The more buzz they get Pre-E3, the better, whether intentional or not, and I think at this point the password only servers to fuel that buzz.

Maybe they should look for a new webmaster...

[Anonymous Coward]

Check this link out:

http://e3.playstation.com/games_details.php?game=' [playstation.com]

That gives us a handy link to :
http://e3.playstation.com/include/search/ [playstation.com]

Now where is the directory traversal link...

Re:Maybe they should look for a new webmaster...

[Kalak]

Well, that was a damn quick reaction on the part of the webmaster, because they're all 401 errors now. Must be a /. reader. "Oh Crap! That's MY site!"

Anyone got the pages in their cache they can put up somewhere? Heck, I can mirror them if you do.