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Xbox 360 Slim UK Release Exceeds PS2, PS3 Slim Launches, Says Chart-Track
Chart-Track a UK company that monitors retail sales of music, video and software in the UK reports that the launch of Xbox 360 Slim in the UK has surpassed those of both PS3 and PS3 Slim. The report states: “Microsoft’s new, improved, slimmer Xbox 360 console, the Xbox 360 250GB (or Xbox 360S) achieves the […]
Details On The Huge Dragon Age Patch From BioWare
BioWare is prepping a huge patch for both Dragon Age: Origins and its expansion, Awakening. For the full list of fixes, head on to BioWare’s forum. The PC patch is complete and will release in July 19 2010. The patch will release on PS3 and Xbox 360 as soon as it passes certification on the […]
Red Faction: Origins Hits TV In March 2011
THQ has announced the TV movie Red Faction: Origins that acts as a prequel to Red Faction: Armageddon. It takes place ten years after the events in Red Faction: Guerrilla. Here’s a bit about the story: Twenty-five years have passed since Alec Mason led the Martian Colonies to freedom…and ten years since vengeful enemies killed […]
Killzone 3 Will Have More Responsive Controls, Says Guerrilla
Guerrilla has updated the Killzone site with info on how Killzone 3 will control. The developers wanted “to keep the unique sense of weight in the game while ramping up the accuracy and responsiveness of the controls. Our first priority when we started working on the controls for Killzone 3 was to listen closely to […]
Bungie Answers All Your Halo: Reach Questions And More
Can’t get enough of Halo: Reach? Bungie has got you covered in its weekly update. This week Bungie answers many community questions, touches on a variety of Reach campaign specifics, including how the game will treat newbies, how past Halo entries have affected the design of Reach, how Bungie went about setting the campaign’s dark […]
Kane & Lynch 2 Demo Coming Next Week On PS3
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days demo will be available to PlayStation users next week for download. Previously, the demo was only available on Xbox 360 redeemed via tokens handed out by Square Enix. PlayStation Plus subscribers will get early access to the demo on July 20 2010 and it will be available to everyone […]
No Demo For F1 2010, Says Codemasters
F1 2010 is Codemaster’s take on the Formula 1 racing. Sadly, there will be no demo available to sample the game. Codemasters community manager Ian Webster has said on the game’s official forums, “Due to the nature of the game, and its layers of licensed content, it will not be possible to make a cut-down, […]
Codemasters Want To “Sell Unfinished Games” To Combat Piracy
Piracy is bad. We get it. And no matter how intrusive your DRM is (I’m looking at you AC II), it will likely get cracked. Even before you release the game. So what does Codemasters have in mind? According to a recent statement by CEO Rod Cousens, the answer lies in selling us “unfinished games”. […]
StarCraft II Cost More Than $100 Million To Develop
[Update] This has been an error on part of the Wall Street Journal. It was actually World of Warcraft that took $100 million to develop. A Wall Street Journal article reports that Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, has said that Blizard has so much faith in StarCraft II that it has spent more than $100 […]
PS3 Limits 3D Games To 720p
Sony’s senior development manager, Simon Benson has said that 3D games on PS3 will be limited to 720p. Games that natively run in 1080p will be downscaled to 720p when using 3D, even though the PS3 is capable of displaying 1080p 3D images. The reason is that running 3D games at 1080p comes at the […]
Killzone 3 Gets Rid Of Loading Screens
You read that right. Killzone 3 does not have any loading screens, the game is practically “streamed”. In an interview with Hurman Hulst, CEO of Guerrilla Games, he said “We’re excited what the PS3 can do for us and what we can do for it… (speaking of loading screens), literally everything is streamed now”. Killzone […]
Hideo Kojima Working On New Adventure Game With 5pb
Japanese site 4Gamer reports that Hideo Kojima, creator of the famed Metal Gear Series has teamed up with developer 5pb. to create a new adventure game. In the interview, 4Gamer asked Shikura (CEO of 5pb.) whether “Kojima is making an adventure game.” To which Shikura replied, “Yes, Kojima said that he wanted to make an […]
EA Sells Their Entire Stake In Ubisoft
EA is selling off its 14.8% stake in Ubisoft which it acquired six years ago. A Paris based stock trader said, “Electronic Arts was seen as a natural bidder for Ubisoft, though a lot of people had given up with this idea a long time ago. On the other hand, it may open the door […]
StarCraft II PC System Requirements Released
Blizzard just confirmed the PC system requirements to Big Download. Can your PC survive the onslaught of the Zerg? Minimum System Requirements: PC: Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7 (Latest Service Packs) with DirectX 9.0c 2.6 GHz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processor 128 MB PCIe NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT or ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video […]
