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
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After several push-backs PS3’s FPS finally gets a final release date, but for Europe only.
Although the game was announced for May back in February, but no one really believed it, and they had a pretty good reason, considering all the delays. Haze was originally planned for the first half of 2007, then it was pushed back to before March this year and then again to autumn.
Today Ubisoft announced that the PS3 exclusive sci-fi shooter, developed by Free Radical Design will reach European retailer shelfs on May 23. No official date was disclosed for North America by the publisher, but according to online retailers it will reach Americans on May 20.
What’s very interesting is that Rock Band for the 360 will hit European stores on the same date, May 23. Let the battle begin.
April 9th, 2008
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Ubisoft’s latest entry in the popular Rainbow Six series is doing really good in the sales department.
By shipping 1 million units just one week since launch, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 proves that Ubisoft made a great business decision when it acquired all the rights to Tom Clancy’s name. It’s not very surprising as the series is well known and Vegas 2 has gotten really great reviews from the major gaming sites (an average of 83% on GameRankings).
This proved Clancy’s games are a strong drive of Ubisoft’s business and may have been the reason for the company greenlighting the MMO set in a Tom Clancy universe.
March 25th, 2008
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According to the French developer First Person Shooters aren’t profitable enough to make them a viable investment.
Video-game designer Phil Therien said, during a LiveText Interview with Eurogamer.net, that Ubisoft would like to please both its FPS fans and casual gamers, but since compromises have to be made and shooters don’t sell very well, they’ll focus less on bloodshed and more on family fun.
That doesn’t mean they’ll give up on the FPS genre completely, we’ll just see less of them that’s all. Not a big surprise considering they’re software for the Nintendo Wii is doing very well, sales wise.
March 17th, 2008
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The battle for the title for most popular game on Xbox Live proves to be a hard-fought one as Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare manages to steal the crown from Halo 3 once again.
After taking the number one spot on Xbox Live for the first time in January, only to loose it back to Halo 3 after only one week, CoD4 has managed to reclaim its spot at the top, pushing Bungie’s shooter back to second place. Gears of War manages to keep holding on to the last spot on the podium, coming at number 3.
Infinity Ward’s FPS fully deserves its glory as it is one of the best shooters in history and it has one numerous awards, including best game of 2007.
February 8th, 2008
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The classic FPS from THQ will start blasting on the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 for a third time.
The last Red Faction game came out in 2003 and it wasn’t very well received, so I for one was very surprised to see the series resurrected after 5 years. The game wasn’t announced through a press release like it usually happens, but through a series of conference calls, by THQ executives.
There isn’t much available about the game, just that it plans to take full advantage of the new generations consoles’ capabilities and offer gamers a very interactive environment. It will be available for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Red Faction 3 is scheduled for release sometime during THQ’s next fiscal year, which starts April 2008 and ends in March of next year.
February 7th, 2008
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According to VG Chartz, Activision’s popular FPS reached the 2 million sold PS3 copies milestone last week.
Thus, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare joins Motorstorm and Resistance: Fall of Men as the Trio, the only 3 games on the PS3 to sell 2 million copies. This golden trio, so to speak, will soon turn into a quartet, as Assassin’s Creed reached the 1.99 million sold copies mark and will surely reach 2 million very shortly.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was in many people’s opinion the best video game to come out in 2007 and it has been doing pretty well in the sales department on every platform.
January 28th, 2008
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As practically everybody was more than disappointed with the ending of the revolutionary FPS Crysis, an answer to the cause of this abrupt finale was in order.
And the answer came from the director of Crytek Studios himself, Mister Cervat Yerli. In an interview with inCrysis.com, Yerli said “The game is designed as a trilogy, so you have two more installments to come and the ending is planned deliberately. But I cannot answer any more questions here please as we want to keep some surprises for you all.”
So we’re in for two more Crysis titles in the years to come, provided this first one sells when enough to encourage further development. And I personally have no doubt Crysis will do very well on the market, and we’ll get to see more of those metal aliens soon.
January 4th, 2008
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There’s been a lot of speculation on the web about whether the next installment in the CoD franchise will return to World War II and judging by the evidence, it could happen.
It all started when Treyarch, who worked on a number of CoD games in the past, posted an ad for a Call of Duty level designer, with the following job description:
December 18th, 2007
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Yup, according to this taped phone conversation, the highly anticipated first person shooter, Call of Duty 4 for the Xbox 360 is now on sale in a video-game store in Colorado, even though the official release date is November 5th.
Unfortunately there were only four copies of the game, and my guess is they’ve already been bought by now. But hey don’t give up hope, call some of your local video-game stores, maybe they have some copies too, good luck!
Call of Duty 4 made both Xbox and Playstation a lot of money!
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October 28th, 2007
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Microsoft must be really proud of how their expensive and aggressive promotion campaign for Halo 3 turned out. And they should be, their creation is breaking records in the entire entertainment industry, not only in gaming, now that’s something!
After breaking all game pre-order records, Halo 3 has done it again, cashing in at over $170 million on the first day, in the U.S. alone. That’s more than this summer’s blockbusters like Spider-man 3 or the new Harry Potter managed to make. Some say it’s only normal since the cheapest version of Halo 3 is more expensive than any ticket to these movies, but I tend to disagree. Movies have a larger array of viewers, whereas video games rely mostly on the young male category. So that makes this accomplishment even more amazing.
September 27th, 2007
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Crysis fansite, Crysis Online, published a list of minimum requirements for the game yesterday, and just when I was getting ready to comment on them, they’ve updated that post, saying those specs were released by accident…(what the…?!?) and that the official requirements might change.
Here are the requirements that have been posted initially.
September 22nd, 2007
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The most anticipated game of 2007, Bungie Studios’ Halo 3 just took a blow below the belt. The game’s ending movie was leaked on the internet. Filmed with a mobile phone, the caption is of very poor quality but for those of you who are dying to see the ending of a game you haven’t even played yet, it should be perfect.
Apparently some dude bought the game off E-bay, finished it and had nothing better to do than post the ending on the net. He might think what he did is cool but if you ask me it’s just wrong. With all this hype surrounding Halo 3, I’m sure there are fans out there who won’t be able to help themselves and are going to watch this video. And there goes part of their excitement.
September 19th, 2007
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For fans of Clive Barker’s Undying, the announcement that the acclaimed horror stories writer is involved in another video game project must have come like an answer to their prayers. After the success of Undying it was only natural for Barker to remain in touch with the gaming industry, especially because it helps his imagination come alive in a more visible fashion, helping him better express his thoughts.
September 13th, 2007
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According to Mark Rein from Epic the highly anticipated shooter for the PS3 might not make it’s November deadline. Rein told the fans, on the Epic official forum, not to get their hopes up to high for a November release, and that they’re concentrating on getting the game released RIGHT rather then RIGHT NOW.
To be honest I’m a little disappointed to hear about the possible delay, but quite frankly I’d rather be a little upset right now than after the game is released. I would rather wait a little longer and enjoy a quality online shooter. Unreal has the potential now let’s give’em some time.
September 11th, 2007
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