Brothers In Arms lands behind enemy lines on August 26th (via OXM) -- Oft-delayed squad strategy shooter has its day of release confirmed by Ubisoft. Ubisoft has confirmed August 26th as the release date for Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway, showing that its long development is finally nearing an end. | |
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Treyarch and Activision to Make Next Bond (via Arts Technica) - While James Bond has enjoyed something of a renaissance in cinema, the games based on the popular spy haven't yet caught up. EA lost the rights to the character in 2007, and the exclusive rights were then picked up by Activision. The above is the first image of Activision's upcoming Bond game, called Quantum of Solace. | |
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Demo: NCAA Football 09 (via Major Nelson) - Powered behind groundbreaking gameplay controls and unique college-style animations, NCAA Football 09 arrives on campus with all the excitement and pageantry of a storied college bowl game. Develop a loyal fan base with adrenaline-pumping home field atmosphere and see if you can run the table in the all-new online Dynasty mode or utilize the all-new Quick Call Recruiting system to lock down five-star recruits. | |
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Fable 2 Keystone Mini-game (via Neocrisis) -- A video with live footage of Fable 2's Keystone pub mini-game and some Fable 2 gameplay. | |
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Microsoft takes the pill, joins E for All expo (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - The not quite E3 and a lot more like video game fanboy happy-fun-time event known as the E for All expo is in its second year this year, and we can confirm that the E for All funnery will be eighteen times cooler. Cooler because Microsoft and their library of Microsoft Game Studio games will be attending E for All 2008. | |
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Rumor: Michael Ironside dumped from the next Splinter Cell? (via Sarcastic Gamer) -- A source close to the Splinter Cell: Conviction production says that he was getting 'way too egotistical and extremely difficult to work with,' and was also 'asking for a s**t-load of money'. | |
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Tecmo drama continues: Itagaki hit with four-point gag order (via Kotaku) -- Perhaps they were afraid he'd break the first two rules of Fight Club? | |
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Top 5 Best and Bottom 5 Worst Xbox Live Demos (via SacasticGamer) - "PC gamers have had the ability to download demos for quite some time now, but console gamers didn't get their chance to test out games until the release of the Xbox 360. Sure, there were some demo discs circulating prior to that, but demos really didn't hit the mainstream until Microsoft's second console hit store shelves. | |
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SpikeTV to Show Call of Duty World at War Game Footage (via GamePlasma) -- Spike TV's "GameTrailers with Geoff Keighley" will be showing exclusive in-game footage from Call of Duty World at War this Friday, June 20th at 1am ET/PT in HD. | |
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MS wants to be first out of the gate with the next Xbox (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Talking with VentureBeat, Xbox 360 boss Robbie Bach chatted about where the Xbox brand is headed next generation, reconfirming their plan to be the first out of the console release gate once again. "If you take the question of whether it was the right thing to try to be first , the answer to that is definitely yes" Bach told VentureBeat, "it has given us a leg up with game developers. | |
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UK Tabloid GTA IV Paedophile Scandal (via Spong) - Sun has discovered the littlelacysurprisepageant . com 'site' within GTA IV. This is the element of the game that refers to a beauty pageant but has been blocked with the in-game authorities. Visiting the 'site' also gives you a five-star wanted rating. The in-game URL itself simply links to Rockstar. | |
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Fight Night Round 4, behind the scenes video with the first look at Iron Mike! (via DCEmu) -- via Computer and Video Games (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=191012) A behind the scenes video of Fight Night Round 4 has seemingly turned up on You Tube, giving series fans their first look at EA's Mike Tyson. You can watch it over there... | |
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Rumor: Up to three dozen Team Ninja members leave with Itagaki, AND file lawsuits (via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Rumors Wait, you mean there's actually a rumor today that didn't come from the infamous survey? Yup, indeed there is. This one comes to us from the good folks over at 1up who have been keeping their collective ears to the ground for just this purpose. | |
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Rumor: Microsoft to release Avatars to combat Nintendo's 'Miis' (via Xbox360Fanboy) -- Will they replace Gamer Pictures? Or coincide with them? | |
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More Leaks: Forza 3 and Call of Duty Leaks (via Kotaku) - Other nuggets gleaned from the ongoing mining of the Xbox marketing leak by Xbox 360 Fanboy: • The next Call of Duty will be known as "World at War" instead of CoD5. There are five box concepts leaked. There's speculation that calling it World at War is an effort to keep the lifespan of hot-selling CoD4 running as long as possible. | |
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Tell Capcom why YOU should be in Street Fighter IV! (via Capcom-Unity) -- You could be a background character in Street Fighter IV! Deadline for entry is Wednesday, June 18th. | |
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Prototype Might Get multiplayer After All (via 360 HQ) - According to videogaming247's interview with Tim Bennison Radical Entertainment executive producer, the developer is evaluating Prototype's multiplayer: it may make the game after all. Benninson said in March that multiplay had been cut from the Vivendi action game, thank God they seem to be going back and second guessing this decision and Tim Bennison has said "We're trying to create the best possible single player experience", the producer told us this week. | |
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Rumor: Metal Gear Solid On Xbox LIVE Arcade (via Cinema Blend Games) -- With nothing much at all to play this week we can only look to rumors for what may be coming down the pipe. Rumor has it that Metal Gear Solid has made an appearance on Partner Net, the developers only network of Xbox LIVE, and that means we may see the game on the Arcade at some point. | |
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Burnout Dlc Due out in July (via criterion games) -- the next dlc for burnout paradise will be out on july 10, 2008. the update includes new online challenges, online road rage and marked man, and more. for more info check out the burnout official website. | |
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Real racing in the virtual world (via BBCNews) - Sat on the start grid, foot poised over the accelerator, you wait for the row of red lights to extinguish. Alongside you are top names like Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen. The cars' engines are screaming and everyone is poised to go. For any Formula One fan the chance to race against their heroes would be a dream come true. | |
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Xbox Originals: Spyro and Guilty Gear X2 from Monday (via 360 Monster) - The Originals service on Xbox has been fairly quiet since it launched, but two more games are due to join the unusual lineup that we already have on Monday for 1200 Points each or pound;10.20 in old money. The first is The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning which tried to re-invent the purple dragon but failed to ignite any flames (see what I did there?). | |
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Resi 4 with Nazis? (via CVG) - We've just received some new shots of Replay Studio's Velvet Assassins, featuring some WWII ninjas sneaking through what almost looks like the eerie town of the Los Ganados in Resi 4. Having been floating around since 2005, the title was originally a PC exclusive called Sabotage, but got a name change in February and was announced for 360 last month. | |
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MGS Europe: We will never cancel a game (via Game Industry) - Once Microsoft Game Studios Europe signs a game, they will never cancel it says business development manager Peter Zetterberg. "Maybe we sometimes announce them earlier than we should, but we stick with them, we have our resources team work with them as much as we can," he told GamesIndustry. | |
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SSFII Turbo HD Remix Beta Starts June 25 (via 1Up) -- Buy one Capcom game, help test out another for a few weeks. | |
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Source of the Xbox 360 Failures (via EETimes) - Microsoft has never disclosed the exact source of the game console's heat problem that led all the failures. Now, in an unlikely venue at Design Automation Conference here, Bryan Lewis, research vice president and chief analyst at Gartner, disclosed that the problem started in a graphic chip. | |
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The inevitable Grand Theft Auto IV / real-life NYC photo comparison series (via Xboxer) - Some rather enthusiastic young man has spent an age hanging around New York, taking photos of the various lumps of concrete, glass and ornate 19th century brickwork that make up the city. He then created what we understand youths refer to as a "mash up" of the photographs and some screenshots from GTA IV, letting us see just how much detail Rockstar managed to squeeze in. | |
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