Archive for August, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony – First Screens

Posted in Rockstar Games, Xbox 360 with tags , on August 30, 2009 by Jonathan Cullen

The Ballad of Gay Tony

Rockstar’s sent out the first screenshots of Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony tonight.

Rockstar’s formally released one screen, but they have sent out three other screens to GTA fansites. Luckily, we all four of them here for you to view: they’re after the jump.

The first trailer is out for the DLC on Tuesday. DLC is out officially on October 29th, the five year anniversary of the release of San Andreas.

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Batman Swoops In For New Guinness World Record

Posted in PlayStation 3, Square Enix Europe (Eidos), Xbox 360 with tags , , , on August 28, 2009 by James Love

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We’re sure by now many of you out there have played Arkham Asylum and realised how fantastic it is, but if you remain undecided, the Dark Knight of Gotham has been awarded a Guinness World Record for the ‘Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever’, with some bat-tastically good scores.

Metacritic have announced that to date Batman: Arkham Asylum has the highest ever average review score out of any superhero game to be released with an average of 91.67 from reviews around the world.

The game flew into shops in the UK today on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, with the PS3 version of the game recieving exclusive DLC allowing you to play as the Joker. If you haven’t got the game already, we sug-jest you get out there and buy it.

We would love it if anyone out there could come up with more comic book hero puns for us to Marvel at.

Huh? Huh??? PR is after the jump. You lot wouldn’t know funny if it slapped you.

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RUMOR: Square Enix Publishing Modern Warfare 2 in Japan

Posted in Activision, PlayStation 3, Square Enix, Xbox 360 with tags , on August 28, 2009 by Jonathan Cullen

Modern Warfare 2

Square Enix have up yet another teaser site for us to try and guess what game it is this time. Although you dont have to look far.

It’s not of Square’s games anyways as it has a big massive 2 on it: a very familar 2. As in Modern Warfare 2.

It looks like the house that built Final Fantasy is publishing the game in Japan.

We’ll know more soon, but go through here to see for yourself.

Its out on November 10 for PS3 and 360.

Colin McRae: DiRT 2 Goes On Tour

Posted in Codemasters, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Network, Xbox 360, Xbox Live with tags , , , on August 28, 2009 by James Love

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Codemasters today unleashed another trailer for DiRT 2 with nine locations revealed, ranging from the dusty desert tracks of Morocco to the serene mountains of China, sweeping up past fields in Yangshuo.

Over one hundred events will be playable in DiRT 2 too, along with varying game modes ranging from classic rally racing to Last Man Standing where every thirty seconds the racer in last place is eliminated until just one driver remains.

The brand new trailer follows the jump.

DiRT 2 launches on all systems on September 8th in the US and September 11th in the UK. If you wish to whet your appetite there is currently a demo of DiRT 2 on the Xbox Live Marketplace and on the PlayStation Store in the EU.

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13 Video Game Characters Seperated At Birth

Posted in Activision, Capcom, Codemasters, EA, Microsoft Games Studios, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, Rockstar Games, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, Ubisoft, Xbox 360 with tags , , , , , , , , , on August 28, 2009 by Chris Hawke

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Characters. Avatars. People. All designed by developers to have their own distinct body, face, style and personality. But what happens when two characters look rather too similar? Go Online tracks them down and makes a list. That’s what! So sit back and enjoy, as we scroll through the families the gaming industry don’t want you to know about. There’s also a lot of hats.

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First GTA IV: Ballad of Gay Tony Trailer Coming Next Week

Posted in Rockstar Games, Xbox 360 with tags , , on August 27, 2009 by Jonathan Cullen

The Ballad of Gay Tony

Rockstar’s announced the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony is coming next Tuesday.

They’ve also confirmed in the that a trailer for Episodes from Liberty City will also be released on September 1st. A couple of frames in the trailer cant be found at the link through here.

Both Ballad of Gay Tony and Episodes from Liberty City are out on October 29th.

RUMOR: GameStop List Final Fantasy XIII for June 22nd 2010

Posted in Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII Japanese Launch Portal, PlayStation 3, Square Enix, Xbox 360 with tags , , , , on August 27, 2009 by Jonathan Cullen

Final Fantasy XIII

We’re so fucking pumped right now.

Really.

GameStop have listed Final Fantasy XIII on their website, for both PS3 and Xbox 360, down for June 22nd 2010. This come as producer Yoshinori Kitase told our friends at VG247 at GamesCom last week that the game would be released in Spring 2010 in the US and Europe.

Now normally, that wouldn’t mean anything. That is until a piece of info comes into play that has come out tonight. Japanese journalists and select Western journalists have been invited to a Japanese premiere party of the game, which takes place on September 8th.

The Western date? We don’t know. But expect the Japanese date regardless anyways. It’s due in time for Christmas in Japan anyways for PlayStation 3.

Tokyo Game Show, here we fucking come! FULL SPEED!

From UFFS and Gamervision.

Top 6 Most Relaxing Games

Posted in Atari, Bethesda, PlayStation 3, Rockstar Games, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, Xbox 360 with tags , , , , , on August 27, 2009 by Chris Hawke

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We’ve all been the to dusty, blood-ridden planes of Helghan. We’ve all enjoyed a frantic bumper fest, checking the rear-view mirror as a loved one ploughs into a wall in a fiery ball of fire.

Hey, we’ve all killed our fair share of people, wrecked our fair share of cars and basically saved/destroyed the Omniverse at one time or another. It’s what games are there for, right?

Yes, undoubtedly. But that doesn’t stop some people making tranquil, relaxing pieces of entertainment, and then being featured in a list, this list, to help you find your spot of peace in the ether.
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Rockstar Release Two New Concept Art of The Ballad of Gay Tony

Posted in Rockstar Games, Xbox 360 with tags , on August 27, 2009 by Jonathan Cullen

The Ballad of Gay TonyRockstar’s put out two brand new concept art for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony.

Not much there, just two wallpapers showing Gay Tony himself and an unknown mystery brunette.

We have the two wallpapers after the jump for you.  Click on them to get them full sized.

It’s out on October 29th, exclusive to Xbox 360… or at least, it could still be for the next couple of hours.

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Rockstar Promises “lots of announcements” Today [UPDATE]

Posted in PlayStation 3, Rockstar Games, Xbox 360 with tags , , , on August 27, 2009 by Jonathan Cullen

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UPDATE: Rockstar’s just published the first screens of Chinatown Wars for the PSP. No use to us (yet…), but they did say there would “lots of announcmenets”. Go take a look here if you want.

There has to be at least one big console announcement. Lost & Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony coming to PS3?

UPDATE 2: They’ve released two new concept art for The Ballad of Gay Tony. Full story here.

As well as that, a new trailer for that music game for the PSP, Beaterator, is coming today. Nothing exciting yet, but keep the faith.

UPDATE 3: The first trailer for The Ballad of Gay Tony will be released on Tuesday.

Original Story: Maybe we are getting ahead of ourselves. Maybe…

But Rockstar has tweeted that they have “Lots of announcements” coming today. It comes as they re-launched their website (we know some other site re-launching too), saying the news on their .

“Rockstar site redux: http://www.rockstargames.com. Check it out. Lots of announcements coming today…”

Make of that as you will. But we’ve sent off an email to Rockstar anyways to see if we should set our expectations high or not.