Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EA, PC, PS3, Sports, Wii, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
On Tiscali Games. It's taken from a French mag, apparently, but it looks as though it's been shot off a screen. It's football. No doubting that.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in America, Trade | 2 Comments »
With Electronic Arts in his rearview mirror, what’s Neil Young up to now?
"I am going to create a next-gen mobile games publisher, specifically and initially focused on the iPhone," he ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in America, Microsoft, RPG, Xbox 360 | 12 Comments »
The Square Enix Members Blog has published the North American box art for the forthcoming XBox 360 exclusive JRPG, Infinite Undiscovery.
The game is released on September 2. Image after the ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, Midway, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
On IGN. This is the first story published on the site with "pre-IGN" in front of it, so welcome to the calm before the storm.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in America, Legalities, Trade | No Comments »
According to this GI report, ESA's announced that Minnesota paid $65,000 in legal fees incurred as a result of the association's successful challenge to the state's unconstitutional videogame law.
"Minnesota's citizens ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Trade, UK | 4 Comments »
The UK has become a promised land for gaming – a flagship for a Europe now easily comparable to America and Japan as a market.
Even so, in an interview with ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Fighter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | No Comments »
According to this Evil Avatar thread, the original Soul Calibur is to be released on XBLA this week.
And it hasn't got online play. But it's only 800 MS Points, so ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Trade | No Comments »
DFC Intelligence has forecast worldwide games revenues to reach $57 billion in 2009, with no signs of slowing due to slumping economies and expensive hardware.
"Consumer spending on software is at ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in America, Microsoft, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
Microsoft has teamed up with Dominos to offer 374 Americans a chances at winning a limited edition Batman-themed 360 Dark Knight console.
So if you live across The Pond and fancy ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, Charts, Germany, Konami, RPG, Shooter, Spain, Square Enix | No Comments »
Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots has taken pole in the Spanish and German software charts for week ending June 22, GI reports.
According to figures from Media-Control GfK International, ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EA, Rhythm action | 1 Comment »
Gamespot UK writes that The Who's 1971 album 'Who's Next' will not be available as DLC for Rock Band after all, due to Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos telling the AP ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Europe, Valve | 1 Comment »
Shacknews reports that the hacker MaddoxX, who last year hacked into third-party Valve servers, was finally caught by Dutch police in Maastricht last Tuesday.
"According to the Dutch Ministry of the ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Canada, Microsoft | No Comments »
DigitalHome writes that Microsoft recently commissioned a poll exploring Canadians' gaming habits asking whether they gamed "in public; at work; in the bathroom; in the bedroom, or in the nude."
The ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in America, EA, Trade | No Comments »
Soleil Securities Group analyst Daniel Ernst boosted his rating on Electronic Arts to "Buy" from "Hold" and set a $55 price target, implying he expects the stock to jump 25 ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Nintendo, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
According to this article on its official site, Rare can now boast 100 million software sales since the company launched in 1985.
"The result of releasing more than 100 titles across ...
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