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GTA IV finished and on its way to retailers

The most anticipated game of 2008 has officially gone gold, Take-Two announced today.

GTA fans across the globe, rejoice! The game you’ve all been waiting for is finished and ready to meet its April 29 deadline. Here’s what Take-Two top man Strauss Zelnick said at the company’s annual general meeting yesterday: “Trucks are rolling next week and there will be a lot of them”. So the GTA IV is hitting retailers soon, keep your eyes open, you might steal yourself a copy.

Pre-registrations for Rockstar Social Club have also been opened, so you’ll soon be able to record your stats in different Rockstar games, as well as compete to break other players’ records.

One last thing, Rockstar is giving out plastic keys to the first ten who complete the game 100%, so get ready.

April 18th, 2008 Posted by Spooky | Action-Adventure, PS3, Xbox 360 | no comments

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows gets teaser site

Everyone’s favorite superhero, Spider-Man, will be swinging back into the video-game business in Activision’s next title, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.

No details have been revealed about this upcoming Spidey title, not even what systems it’s being developed for, but it does have a neat teaser website, seizecontrol.com. As the name suggests, developers are giving players the ability to “control everything”. Although I’m convinced they’re exaggerating with that remark, it seems players will affect the outcome of the game, the way Spider-Man fights his opponents, which of his weapons get upgraded, his allies and the fate of the city of New York.

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows is being developed by Activision’s internal studios Treyarch (they’ve worked on a Spider-Man game in the past) and Shaba Games. The game is expected to be released sometime this fall.

April 18th, 2008 Posted by Spooky | Action-Adventure, News | no comments

Hell’s Highway coming in August

Gearbox’s latest entry in the Brothers in Arms series finally gets a release date, and it’s not as bad as we thought.

After first being announced in April 2006 for a holiday release of that same year, developers pushed back the game for the last part of 2007, but it didn’t come out last year either, and although a new release was scheduled for early 2008, all we got was another delay, for fiscal year 2009 (which basically meant sometime between April 1, 2008 – March 31, 2009).

Fortunately we won’t have to wait until 2009 to experience more tactical FPS combat in the same WWII setting, or at least that’s what the latest trailer says. It hints towards an August release and this time I hope Gearbox mean it.

The game is being developed for the PS3, Xbox 360 and the good-old PC.

April 18th, 2008 Posted by Spooky | FPS, News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | no comments