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November NPD Numbers Released: Wii Sells 2 Million, Xbox 360 Outsells PS3, LBP Falls Out of Top 10

Posted in Nintendo Wii, Other Gaming, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 with tags , , , , , , on December 12, 2008 by Jonathan Cullen

NPD have released the final numbers of the year with their results for the month of November 2008 and surprise, surprise, Nintendo rules the roost again.

The Wii sold over 2,000,000 million units (yes, that is right, two million!) while the Nintendo DS sold just over 1.5 million units which means combined, they make up 3.5 million units sold for Nintendo in November.

Meanwhile, on the HD console front, the Xbox 360 won on that front as well as the Software charts overall. The 360 sold just over 835,000 units all thanks to the worldwide launch of Gears of War 2 which won the Software charts with the game shipping over 1.5 million units sold.

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CONFIRMED: PlayStation Home Now Online

Posted in PlayStation 3 with tags , , , , on December 11, 2008 by Jonathan Cullen

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Two years after it was first announced at GDC 2007, Sony has finally released the open beta of PlayStation Home, GOONL!NE can confirm.

The service was brought online at just before 8:30pm GMT.

And official confirmation has come from CydoniaX of SCEA

Home is open…get in there, be nice to each other, and have fun.

I’ll see you there!

~CydoniaX

Go, people, go!

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Final Fantasy XIII Blowout: New Character for FFXIII?

Posted in PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 with tags , , , , , , , on December 11, 2008 by Jonathan Cullen

final-fantasy-xiii-4So, a couple of scans from Dengeki’s “Cloud Message” have leaked already and yet it seems that there is something interesting in the works already concerning Final Fantasy XIII.

In a scan in the magazine (shown after the jump), a concept image is shown of a character near the top right of the board who hasn’t been seen yet, it’s pretty much confirmed by the fact the image is blurred.

And by the looks of it, it ain’t Lightning, Snow or Pigtails Girl.

The scan plus new info is after the jump.

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Final Fantasy XIII Blowout: And So it Begins – First Real Time Screens of Final Fantasy Versus XIII

Posted in PlayStation 3 with tags , , , , , , on December 11, 2008 by Jonathan Cullen

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And so ladies and gentleman, if your a Final Fantasy fan and are very much looking forward to FFXIII and Versus XIII, christmas has come early this weekend.

Tomorrow, a special Dengeki called “Cloud Message” will go on sale in Japan with new info on Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII and on Saturday, a special DVD called Re: Replay will be released with new trailers of Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII back from Square Enix’s DKS3713 event back in August.

But already, there is some new info.

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Resident Evil 5 Rated 18 by the BBFC

Posted in PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 with tags , , , , , , , on December 11, 2008 by Jonathan Cullen

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We just took a look around the BBFC website to see if there was any game classifications given recently and it turns out there has been, two of them.

One of which is Resident Evil 5.

The game has been given a 18 by the BBFC according to a listing which popped up on December 9th which was Tuesday.

It means that Resident Evil 5 has a garned a higher BBFC rating then that of Resident Evil 5 when it got a BBFC 15 when it was released firstly on the GameCube before being released on the PlayStation 2.

By the looks of the demo, the game may just deserve that 18 considering it’s gore is certainly gory.

Only last month, we revealed that Resistance 2 was given a BBFC 18 for it’s gore and in the same search for Resident Evil 5, we discovered that Killzone 2 was given the exact same rating, an 18.

The game is out on Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 in North America and Europe on March 13th.

Resident Evil 5 [British Board of Film Classification]

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Killzone 2 Rated 18 by the BBFC

Posted in PlayStation 3 with tags , , , , , on December 11, 2008 by Jonathan Cullen

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We just took a look around the BBFC website to see if there was any game classifications given recently and it turns out there has been, two of them.

One of which is Killzone 2.

The game has been given an 18 by the BBFC according to a listing which popped up on December 4th which was last Thursday.

The 1st game was not given a BBFC rating when it was released in 2004 for the PlayStation 2 and was given a 16 PEGI rating.

We can perfectly understand the 18 rating for Killzone 2, if our hands on impressisons of the beta are anything, the rating is understandable.

Only last month, we revealed that Resistance 2 was given an 18 due to it’s gory nature and while we dont think Killzone 2 will be as gory, we do think it will be a harsh reailty of war.

Game’s out in February 09.

Killzone 2 [British Board of Film Classification]

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GOONL!NE Best of 2008 Awards – The Results

Posted in GOONL!NE Stuff, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 with tags , , , , , , on December 10, 2008 by Jonathan Cullen

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So, the results are now in, we can finally reveal to you our picks and your picks for the best of 2008.

We have had so many votes come in for this, you have made sure your voice was heard on what was the best year in gaming ever. Recession? What fucking recession?

In a year full of great games and big news, we have made sure that our voices, be that as gamers or anything else, is heard and you’ve made sure of that.

So without a further ado, your winners of GOONL!NE’s Best of 2008 Awards.

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CONFIRMED: We’re All Going Home for Christmas – Launches Tomorrow

Posted in PlayStation 3 with tags , , , , , , , on December 10, 2008 by Jonathan Cullen

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Sony said it would be out by the end of the year and now, they have proven it. They have announced the open beta to PlayStation Home will be available to everyone from Thursday December 11th 2008, thats tomorrow to you and me.

The application will be there when you boot up your PS3 when Home goes online and will be available, like the closed beta was, through the PlayStation Network tab on the XMB of your PS3.

On the announcement of the release of Home, the CEO of SCE Kaz Hirai, said:

“PlayStation Home is truly a promising network community service on the PlayStation platform, made possible with the powerful combination of PS3’s overwhelming computational power and PlayStation Network that covers many countries around the globe”

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RUMOR: Gears of War 3 in Development

Posted in Xbox 360 with tags , , , , , , , on December 9, 2008 by Jonathan Cullen

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Gears of War 2hasn’t been out the door long, it’s already sold 3 million copies worldwide and even yet, it seems pre dev for the sequal is underway.

According to EGM’s Quaterman, Gears of War 3 is in development already by Epic Games for the Xbox 360 (and not for the PLAYSTATION 3 like a couple hoped for). Already, it’s been said there will be a couple of tweaks for the gameplay engine and there will be infact a massive 5 player co-op experience, be it a improved verison of either Horde or an entire new campaign altogether remains to be seen.

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Peter Molyneux to Tease 2 New Projects

Posted in Xbox 360 with tags , , , , , , , on December 9, 2008 by Jonathan Cullen

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If your a fan of Peter Molyneux, you may wanna watch G4 tonight.

X-Play has said that Molyneux will be teasing 2 brand new projects on the show tonight when it airs at 8pm EST (Thats 1am GMT).

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