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Jack Thompson “I’m Being Watched”

You thought he was gone for good, didn’t you? The eccentric, anti-game lawyer, Jack Thompson has made headlines once again. Anyone who knows Jack Thompson, or even anyone who knows of him, will tell you that simply disbarring him wont keep him quiet. There are plenty of issues with non-legal nature that he can over [...]

Daily Battle - 9/30/08

New Resident Evil 5 Screenshots
Nintendo To Revive An Old Franchise
Tiberium Cancelled
New Content Announced For Force Unleashed
Drug-dealing GTA Incites Fury from UK Drug Support Group
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 Demo Coming
Why Gears of War 2 isn’t on PC? PIRACY!
AC/DC Rock Band Spinoff Coming
Stupid NASCAR Driver Tries Video Game Tricks in Real Life
Age of Booty Goes Gold, Arriving [...]

New Resident Evil 5 Screenshots

It’s been a little while since We’ve had news on Resident Evil 5. Rather than let people forget how good the graphical elements are, Capcom has released not one, not two, not three, not five, but four new screenshots. The four screenshots show everything from a dirt bike race to a thing that looks like [...]

Nintendo To Revive An Old Franchise

As you may or may not know, Nintendo is holding a press conference in Japan on Thursday. So far the only hint of what the conference might hold is a new Nintendo DS. Today, however, there is news that Nintendo will also announce a new title for Wii. Of course, by “new” they mean that [...]

Tiberium Cancelled

We first learned the first person shooter based on the Command & Conquer universe, Tiberium, would be delayed to a 2010 release. Today, even more upsetting news has been delivered; Electronic Arts announced that the game is cancelled. Mike Verdu, the executive producer for the canned title, said that the reason behind the cancellation was [...]

If you haven’t already blazed through the regrettably short but often enjoyable Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, you might be happy to know there’s some new content coming. It’ll be coming in two rounds to both the Xbox 360 and the PS3 by the end of this year.
The first update brings a few different character [...]

Building up the hype train for the upcoming portable version of GTA that will let you sell drugs, British tabloid The Sun published an article Thursday titled “Fury Over Drug Deal Vid Game”.
The article had Darren Gold speaking on behalf of UK support group Drugsline, calling out the game for its “glamorization” of drug-dealing [...]

From Eurogamer comes word that Konami plans on releasing playable demos on Thursday for Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
The demo will offer five minute exhibition matches, including multiplayer. Players will be able to choose from Liverpool, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Barcelona and the Italian and French national teams.
Word is [...]

Why Gears of War 2 isn’t on PC? PIRACY!

Piracy, piracy and piracy. That’s all developers seem to talk about these days. And that’s also the reason they are abandoning the PC as a viable platform for video games.
Talking to Total Video Games, Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski discussed the absence of a PC version of Gears of War 2, citing piracy as one of [...]

The New York Times reports that MTV will later today announce AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack, the first spinoff title for the Rock Band platform, taking a cue from Activision’s Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.
Set for release this November as a tool to promote the band’s upcoming album “Black Ice”, the game will feature all [...]

Remember kids: video games isn’t real life! Somebody needed to remind NASCAR driver Carl Edwards that he wasn’t playing a video game when he was in second place going into the final lap of Sunday’s NASCAR Camping World RV 400. Desperate to take the lead, he made use of his video game knowledge and [...]

Pirate strategy game Age of Booty has gone gold and will arrive as a digital download on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network on October 15 and 16, respectively, costing 800 Microsoft points ($10).
Created by Certain Affinity, the game is a hex-based strategy title formerly known as Plunder, which was, [...]

PSP MMOs in the Future

I’ve stated it over and over again that the PSP is a poor, poor platform that is ignored by the developers and inundated with bad ports despite having excellent hardware and potential to be great.
Sony Online Entertainment seems to be on the path to make the platform stand out, as company president John Smedley [...]

According to reports from Japanese-language newspapers Yomiuri and Nikkei Net, Nintendo will release an upgraded model of the DS. It will feature a camera, music playback and modern features and will be released in Japan later this year.
They additionally report that pictures taken using the camera can be used in games released for the [...]

Game Stocks Drop as Wall Street Crashes

The US economy is crashing, as they say, but this year has been the worst for gaming companies, as every gaming company out there posted huge losses after the US House of Representatives voted down a bill to rescue the financial sector with $700 billion of taxpayer money.
Gamespot has all the nitty gritty details: [...]

War World Hitting XBLA

This Wednesday will mark the release of mech shooter War World from Third World Games on Xbox Live Arcade.
Published by Microsoft and Ubisoft, the game will feature 16 mechs, over 100 singleplayer levels and four online multiplayer modes. It will retail for 800 Microsoft points ($10).

Tags: Action, microsoft, ubisoft, war [...]

Age of Conan Getting Servers Merged

As revealed on the game’s forums, Funcom’s Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures will have its servers merged, meaning that all players in the same geographic region will play together instead of on several identical, but discrete versions of the same game world.
This is happening in both North America and Europe, allowing “more healthy populations” [...]

300 Director to Make Games

Director of the now-legendary film 300 and the upcoming Watchmen, Zack Snyder has revealed his plans to dabble in the gaming industry by signing a deal with EA to create three original game properties for the publisher.
He will work with EA’s Los Angeles studio, which will develop the games. It is known for games [...]

Hoping to ignite some creativity amongst gamers, Activision let out word that they will remove any track that resembles copyrighted material posted using Guitar Hero World Tour’s music-creation tool.
"We’ll be actively monitoring the site," said Neversoft project director Brian Bright. "We can’t condone people putting up covers of music. It’s [...]

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