2010
09.02
GameStop and Best Buy customers will be the only players to get invisibility and tag modes this year; Wal-Mart preorders receive Oddjob-themed “Cheater” apparel. Last month, Activision announced a Goldeneye 007 bundle with a gilded Classic Controller to promote its upcoming remake of the seminal Nintendo 64 first-person shooter. The publisher’s picked up its promotional activities today, revealing a trio of retailer-exclusive enticements for players to pick the game up when it arrives November 16.
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GoldenEye 007 gets retailer-exclusive game modes, T-shirt
2010
09.02
Publisher more than triples quarterly sales to $354.1 million; L.A. Noire officially delayed to first half of next year
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Red Dead redeems Take-Two earnings, ships 6.9M
2010
09.02
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3D-enabled hyperrealistic racer, sci-fi shooter join God of War: Ghost of Sparta, Little Big Planet 2, and a PlayStation Move smorgasbord at Japan’s biggest gaming expo. With the 2010 Tokyo Game Show just two weeks away, the major game publishers are starting to tout which titles they will be showing off at the massive expo.
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Gran Turismo 5, Killzone 3 on Sony’s TGS slate
2010
09.02
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Ubisoft readying downloadable multiplayer shooter from developer of The Ship; game built on Valve’s Source engine set for release this fall. Upon its maiden voyage, Outerlight’s 2007 debut The Ship received critical praise for its unique take on multiplayer shooters, where each person on a cruise ship has to hunt a specific passenger while avoiding his or her own stalker
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Xbox 360, PC in for Bloody Good Time
2010
09.02
Managing director Keiji Inafune tells Spanish gaming site the publisher is working to get survival horror sequel to market “lo antes possible,” will tailor next Devil May Cry for Western audiences.
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Capcom wants Resident Evil 6 ASAP
2010
09.02
Rockstar bringing portable overhead actioner to Apple’s tablet with HD makeover next week for $10. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars certainly achieved substantial critical success upon its initial release for the DS in March 2009. However, Rockstar Games’ overhead action adventure proved not to be a commercial juggernaut like its console cousins, with Nintendo calling sales of the game “frustrating.” Since then, Rockstar has extended the game’s reach to the PSP and iPhone, and now the publisher is adding one more platform to the mix, Apple’s iPad
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GTA: Chinatown Wars raging on iPad Sept. 9
2010
09.02
On-demand game-streaming service introducing wireless access this month; Labor Day special discounts all games by 50%, Founding Members subscription extended. One of the greatest impediments to OnLive’s promise of on-demand, anywhere game-streaming has been the necessity of a wired broadband connection to access the service’s wares
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OnLive Wi-Fi beta goes online in September
2010
09.02
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Legal council representing defendants against Nintendo suggest the battle against pirates has only just begun. Sony’s PlayStation 3 mod chip lawsuit could be just the first of many gaming giant-initiated cases in Australia, according to a lawyer who defended a client against Nintendo in a similar case earlier this year. Late last week Australia’s Federal Court slapped a temporary ban–which expires tomorrow–on a handful of local retailers selling or importing hardware–commonly known as ’mod chips’–that allows unauthorised software to run on the popular PlayStation 3 console
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PlayStation lawsuit first of many, says lawyer
2010
09.01
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Microsoft’s motion-sensing system’s voice-command features will be limited to American English, British English, Mexican Spanish, and Japanese when it launches Nov.
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Kinect unable to recognize non-UK European voices – Report
2010
09.01
Star Wars studio said to have trimmed some 85 positions in advance of The Force Unleashed II’s October 26 release.
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LucasArts scales down internal dev staff – Report