Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in EA, PS3, PSN, Sports, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 1 Comment »
EA's confirmed that demos for Madden 09 and Facebreaker are now up on both Live and PSN, so get them if you're bored.
Madden's out on August 15, says Gamespress, with ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in America, Microsoft, Retail, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
The 60Gb Xbox 360 announced at E3 is starting to pop up all over the place, but Microsoft has dashed talk of bombshell street date-breaking by confirming that the machine ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Eidos, MMO, PC, Russia | No Comments »
Both Funcom and Blizzard have announced Russian release dates for their spearhead MMOs today, with Age of Conan hitting the country in "late 2008" and WoW getting all vodkarish in ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Shooter, Sony | 4 Comments »
On Gamekyo. We're excited. The Guerilla shooter has to be one of the best looking projects currently in the works on PS3, as this new set of images testifies. It's ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Financials, Square Enix, Trade | No Comments »
Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix has reported Q1 profits of $26.6 million, compared to $25.3 million in the corresponding previous period.
Despite the rise in profits, sales were down for the ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Development, Intel, PC | 4 Comments »
Speaking to PCGH, Intel's Michael Vollmer has predicted that the first ray-traced games could appear in the next two to three years.
"I dare say that in two to three years ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Develop 2008, Development, Microsoft, Racing, Trade, UK, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Speaking to VG247 at Develop today, Bizarre Creations head Sarah Chudley said that Activision, and not Microsoft, bought the Gotham developer as Microsoft's "internal structure probably wasn't in the right ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Develop 2008, Microsoft, Racing, Xbox 360 | 5 Comments »
Speaking to VG247 at Develop in Brighton today, Bizarre Creations boss Sarah Chudley has revealed that the Activision-owned developer co-owns Project Gotham Racing's Kudos dynamic.
Although the firm can still use ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Action, Arcade, PS3, PSN, Sony | No Comments »
This US PS Blog post has confirmed SCEJ's The Last Guy the western release, saying the top-down rescue title will be hitting PSN "very soon."
There's loads of detail through there ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Ubisoft, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Ubisoft's announced that it will publish the next Armored Core game, Armored Core for Answer.
The From Software mech title has been confirmed for release in the US today, but there's ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Europe, Microsoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 9 Comments »
Speaking in the latest issue of Edge, Microsoft Europe boss Chris Lewis has said that Europe makes up "less than a quarter" of Xbox Live's total membership, mostly down to ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in DS, Nintendo, Trade | 1 Comment »
Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter has predicted that slowing sales of DS in Japan could see a hardware revision from Nintendo before the end of the year.
"We think that the timing ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Europe, PS3, PSN, Sony | 7 Comments »
Here you go. PixelJunk Eden for a fiver. Don't dare complain. Thanks, Wonderwallweb.
PS3 demos
PixelJunk Eden Demo - free
echochrome micro Demo - free
PS3 games
PixelJunk Eden - £4.99
Trailers
Prince of Persia E3 ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Develop 2008, Microsoft, Strategy, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Bungie told Eurogamer at Develop today that Ensemble 360 RTS Halo Wars is coming on well, thank you very much.
"Everything we've seen has been very, very encouraging - we're very ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Home, Japan, MMO, PS3, PSN, Sony | 2 Comments »
According to this SixthAxis report, Home beta selection is not ongoing in Japan. From the site:
Don’t get your knickers in a twist, but it appears that there’s a big banner ...
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