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New Mass Effect 2 DLC Lair Of The Shadow Broker Announced
BioWare has announced the next DLC for Mass Effect 2 dubbed Lair of the Shadow Broker. Two years ago, Commander Shepard died and Liara T’Soni fought in a desperate struggle against the Shadow Broker to recover her former Commander. Now that Shepard is back, it’s time to even the score and team up with Liara […]
Mafia II Demo Coming August 10
The news that you have so long been waiting for. 2K has announced that the demo for Mafia II will be launching on August 10 2010 on PS3 and Xbox 360. Not that you need to play the demo, because, well, it’s Mafia. No word on a PC demo date I’m afraid. Mafia II release […]
PS3 Users Will Soon Be Able To Stream Netflix Movies Sans The Disc
PS3 users can stream Netflix movies to their consoles but inserting the Netflix disc everytime to stream a movie is a real pain. That isn’t a limitation of the PS3’s hardware. Infact, Netflix’s agreement with Microsoft prevents them from directly streaming movies to the PS3. Come October 2010 and that disc will be obsolete because […]
NPD: Digital Game Distribution And Physical Sales Go Head To Head
The digital download games service must be really booming. So much so in fact that they are almost on par with boxed copies sold in stores. NOD tracked some 21.3 million PC games sold through digital distribution such as Steam and D2D while 23.5 million boxed PC games were sold at retail last year. Very […]
The Sly Collection In HD Announced For $39.99
Sony has announced The Sly Collection for PS3. The collection will retail for $39.99 and will include the three Sly games re-mastered in HD; Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Sly 2: Band of Thieves and Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves. The collection will also support 3D. Included also are several new PlayStation Move mini […]
Ubisoft Q1 2010-2011 Sales Figures Up 94%
Ubisoft has just released their first quarter 2010-2011 sales figures. Sales for the first quarter totaled €161 million, up 94% from the same period in 2009-2010 which was €83 million. The strong growth in sales can be attributed to: * the solid performance of Splinter Cell Conviction™, which sold in 1.9 million units * a […]
New Halo Already In Development At 343 Industries?
A resume update by a fellow designer at 343 Industries reveals that he began “designing new levels and missions for the next Halo project” starting this month. Moreover, the 343 Industries website list a total of 25 vacancies, from Technical Artist, Game Engineer to Prodcuer and what not. Nothing is concrete as of yet but […]
Expect Multiplayer In Future Assassin’s Creed Titles
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood won’t be the only AC title to have mutiplayer. Speaking to Videogamer, AC: Brotherhood associate producer Jean-Francois Boivin said, “It is speculation, but I think we’ve done a really good job doing the multiplayer, and there’s a lot of room for expansion in that universe, so I see a multiplayer component being […]
Sony Patents 3D Multiplayer System Without Split Screen
Soon you’ll be able to play multiplayer on your PS3 without using split screen, thanks to wonderful 3D. In a patent filed by Sony last year (which became available online last week and found by Broke My Controller) Sony detailed how the technology will work. In a nutshell, the screen will produce two separate images […]
You Have To Pay Activision To Play Modern Warfare 2 Online, Wait. No
Yeah, you already pay for your net connection and for Xbox Live. So, the internet was ablaze when a video (which you can view below) was leaked detailing Activision’s plan to charge for Modern Warfare 2 online play. Turns out, the whole thing is a fake. Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward and its community manager […]
More Mass Effect 2 DLC On The Way
BioWare “still [has] some pretty big plans for DLC” for Mass Effect 2. Speaking to VG247 at Develop, BioWare co-founder Dr. Greg Zeschuk said, “We still have more DLC in the plan for Mass 2. The last ones were really well received. People were really, really impressed with the Overlord Pack, and the Kasumi one […]
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Gets February Release According To Steam
Steam has listed Deus Ex: Human Revolution for a February 2011 release date. No official release date has been confirmed, but Square Enix has said of an “early 2011” release. If you’ve missed the awesome trailer, check it out below:
Pachter: New Xbox Accounted For 40 Percent of US Sales
By now you probably know Michael Pachter, the Wedbush Morgan analyst for video games and his own web-show. Pachter has said that the new Xbox 360 Slim accounted for 40% of Microsoft’s overall sales in the US in June 2010. The contributing factor has been the pride drop rather than the introduction of a new […]
Nintendo 3DS To Launch In March 2011?
According to VG247, “Nintendo is telling UK publishers 3DS will release in Britain next March.” “Nintendo is apparently touring British companies for meetings relating to the machine”, reads VG247. Commenting on the rumor, Nintendo UK said, “That’s rumour and speculation as we’ve not announced any date for 3DS.” Nintendo’s official statement is that 3DS will […]
