TakeTwo Considering Layoffs at Venom Games
(via Team Xbox) -- Following rumors of 2K closing Venom Games at the end of the month, TakeTwo has confirmed to TeamXbox that it is currently considering "possible redundancies" at this UKbased development studio.

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5 months ago 

Monday is Bungie day
(via Major Nelson) - Bungie (and Halo) fans, be sure to mark your calendar…since Monday (7/7) is Bungie Day. That means all sorts of Bungie related activities will kick off, including: 7 Exclusive new gamerpictures and a Bungie day theme will be available on Marketplace. These area available for one day only.

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5 months ago 

Disney Rolls out Plenty of New Pure Screenshots
(via Planet Xbox) -- Disney Interactive's upcoming racing game for the Xbox 360, Pure, will be storming store shelves very soon. In anticipation of the release we have around fifteen brand new images which show off the game's unique graphical style.

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5 months ago 

Legendary Weapons Trailer
(via Team Xbox) -- Take a look at some of the weapons you'll find in Legendary.

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5 months ago 

Once a Labor of Love, Sales of Football Rosters Now Inflame Passions Roster Editors
(via Kotaku) - July is the most anxious month for the independent roster editors devoted to Electronic Arts’ NCAA Football franchise. No matter what the game adds each year, promising an ever richer pageant of college football, it falls to these writers to add in the basic identities of the game’s performers.

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5 months ago 

Community Night 7/3
(via Squad XP) -- Community night this thursday at 9:00pm est (TONIGHT). On Battlefield 2 Bad Company.It's being hosted by myself Rodder XP. We welcome everyone to join us, as long as you don't mind getting shot in the face/ass. Please join session in progress from my gamer card!  

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5 months ago 

NASCAR 09 Review
(via Gamespot) -- NASCAR 09 isn't a tremendous step forward for the series, but it's a solid effort.

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5 months ago 

Diablo III: Out with the PK - In with the PvP
(via Gaming Today) - Thanks to the folks over at VG247, we have learned that over on the WoW forums Bashiok (Blizzard-type person) has posted the following information in regards to the PK vs PvP discussion going on in the Diablo III thread. Turns out, Pk is out and PvP is in: “We’re - in general - not big fans of griefing for any game.

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5 months ago 

New Playstation 3 Firmware Lasts Less than 24 Hours
(via Planet Xbox) -- Playstation 3 owners everywhere, me included, rejoiced yesterday when Sony finally released their newest firmware; which included in game XMB access and the PS3 answer to achievements (one of my favorite 360 features). It didn't last.

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5 months ago 

Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger Announced
(via Planet Xbox) -- SouthPeak Games today announced that it will distribute Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger for the Xbox 360. The game is a unique blending of real-time strategy and first-person shooter genres; we also have some new screens of it.

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5 months ago 

Ubisoft reveals latest European Xbox 360/PC releases
(via Xboxic) - Ubisoft’s UK arm has today sent ICGamers its latest updated list of releases for Europe, featuring several high profile games across all formats, including the likes of Brothers in Arms on PC/PS3/360, Prince of Persia on PC/PS3/DS/360 and…well…lots of Imagine titles for the

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5 months ago 

Infinity Ward says: No Trophies for CoD4
(via xbox-hq)

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5 months ago 

Empire to shed internal studio
(via CVG) -- Staff headcount cut by by 30 percent. Silverstar-owned publisher Empire Interactive will sell off internal development studio Razorworks as it bids to reduce its staff headcount by 30 percent.

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5 months ago 

PS3 vs. Xbox 360 round… We lost count
(via N4G.com) - TVGB: "We always get some of the big company execs throwing little jabs at one another over business plans, projections, and financial statistics. All companies also find away to spin their numbers or reports of success over failure; so it should come as no surprise that when Sony announced that the PS3 had passed Xbox 360 in overall sales in Europe a while back, Microsoft responded with a right hook in the form of 'oh no they didn't!'.

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5 months ago 

Pure Screens
(via Gamespot) -- 14 new shots posted.

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5 months ago 

Girlz ‘N Games #30
(via LazyGamer) -- So earlier Yahtzee ripped into web comics and the very same day I received the latest comic from one of our local web comic creators. Pfangirl’s 30th comic has arrived and is once again gaming related… well I think it’s gaming related… It’s odd… which makes it art.

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5 months ago 

E3 '08's Top 5 Speculations from XboxOZ360 Part Two
(via N4G.com) - "E3 this year represents why all gamers on all platforms should be thankful for what many call the "console-war", or what we prefer to call here at XboxOZ360-gamer as a little "healthy-competition". The result has meant that gamers of all shapes and sizes are more spoilt for choice now, than at any time in recent history.

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5 months ago 

Rumor: More Rock Band 2 tracks listed
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm A second partial Rock Band 2 setlist, supposedly culled from a playtest, popped up on the ScoreHero Forum recently, only to be removed and its author disciplined by a moderator. Lucky for you, a Joystiq tipster (thank you!) slipped a crumpled note into our back pocket with the same list: "Man in the Box" - Alice in Chains "We Got The Beat" - The Go Go "American Woman" - The Guess Who? (or Lenny Kravitz) "White Wedding" - Billy Idol "Aqua Lung" - Jethro Tull "Bad Reputation" - Joan Jett "One Step Closer" - Linkin Park "Peace Sells" - Megadeth "You Oughta Know" - Alanis Morissette "Testify" - Rage Against The Machine "Spoonman" - Soundgarden These 11 songs join the nine that were shown in a possible screen grab earlier this week, forming what could be roughly a quarter of the 80 or so master recordings to be featured on the Rock Band expansion sequel disc.

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5 months ago 

Raven Squad infiltrates 360, PC
(via Gamespot) -- SouthPeak enlists to distribute Hungary-based Atomic Motion's RTS-FPS hybrid on Microsoft platforms this fall.

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5 months ago 

Empire unloading Razorworks
(via Gamespot) -- Publisher in talks to sell off or close Ford Racing developer as part of restructuring plans to reduce workforce by 30 percent.

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5 months ago 

Reviews: Civilization Revolution
(via OXM) - Ladies and gentlemen, the console strategy game is here. There are no sniper rifles. There are no stealth sections. There are no celebrity voice-overs, no buttons to take cover, no ringing endorsements on the box from pompous authors looking for their next pay cheque. What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a strategy game.

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5 months ago 

Raven Squad: Hidden Dagger Screens
(via Gamespot) -- 6 new shots posted.

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5 months ago 

Reuters: PlayStation 3 catching up to Wii in Japan Us: not really
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii While elsewhere in the world, the Wii has little trouble outpacing its competition - with nearly 25 million units sold worldwide, nearly double the PS3's 13 million and a solid 25% lead on the Xbox 360's 20 million in sales - in Japan, it's a two console race (sorry, Xbox).

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5 months ago 

News: This Is Vegas won't be Vegas until 2009
(via OXM) -- Development team given more time to ensure it becomes a "triple-A videogame". Midway wants to make sure it gets This Is Vegas just right, with the game now being delayed until 2009.

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5 months ago 

Joystiq interview: Treyarch's Jeremy Luyties on James Bond
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Interviews During out whirlwhind tour through the new Quantum of Solace game demonstations, we were able to spend a few minutes speaking with Jeremy Luyties from Treyarch who serves as design director on the title.

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5 months ago 

2K Confirms Borderlands for E3 Gearbox
(via Kotaku) - 2K Games has confirmed what games it'll be showing at this year's E3. The tiles include: • BioShock (PS3) • Borderlands (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) • NBA 2K9 (PS2, PS3, Xbox 360) • NHL 2K9 (PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii) • Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization (PC) Late last year I had a check to check out Gearbox developed Borderlands, and that game in particular looked impressive.

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5 months ago 

More FIFA 09 screenshots
(via CVG) -- It's a bit like Match of the Day 2... Electronic Arts has released two new screenshots for the 360/PS3 version of FIFA 09.

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5 months ago 

Ticket to Ride reviewed
(via Totally 360) -- Will you choo-choo-choose this over other XBox Live turn-based games?

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5 months ago 

Re: Pinned Down
(via rampancy.net) -- Did you notice who Bungie.net Favorites cites for authorship of the map? Oh, yeah. ExplosionNova. The guy who posted it here. How can he "steal" his own map? Rampant for over se7en years.

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5 months ago 

Re: Death And Punishment
(via rampancy.net) - Anonymous wrote: I'm so happy you included that part of Gears of War as an example. I had to do that section over and over again because I played the game for the first time on Hardcore, thinking it was the medium setting. I've actually used that section as a reference in an discussion on game progression.

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5 months ago