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Guitar Hero 4 At the Drive-In

Fearless Records has announced that progressive rock band At the Drive-In will be contributing a song to Guitar Hero 4. The company stated that “One Armed Scissor” from the band’s third album “Relationship of Command” will be included in the game, alongside music from Aerosmith and Def Leppard.

At the Drive-In is an American post-hardcore band from Texas that was active from 1993 to 2001. Their most recent album, from which GH takes the song, was released back in 2001 after which the band broke up due to creative differences and band members feeling they were being held back.

Guitar Hero 4 is expected sometime next year for PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii.

Battlefield: Bad Company Demo on June 5

Those looking to sample Battlefield: Bad Company before its release on June 23 will be able to do so come June 5 when EA releases a single and multiplayer demo on both Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store.

The single-player portion of the demo starts the player’s ‘B’ company career, introducing some of the game’s characters. The multiplayer part of the demo offers the Gold Rush mode on the Oasis Map. Those who pre-order the game at participating retailers will get early access to the demo.

Vampire Rain Drizzling on PS3

I don’t know what they were thinking, but publisher AQ Interactive sent out word that the universally panned Xbox 360 action game Vampire Rain will be ported to the PS3 as Vampire Rain: Altered Species. No media, or any other information, was provided with the announcement.

Vampire Rain, developed by Artoon, is a stealth-action game set in the contemporary world, putting the player in role of John Lloyd, a member of a US government unit created to combat superhuman vampires called Nightwalkers.

Activision Reveals Massive Profit

With other publishers revealing their revenues, the focus now falls on Activision, who, unlike the others, has posted a net income of $344 million, a significant increase over its 2007 take of $85 million. Their record profits were pulled from total revenue of nearly $2.9 billion; Activision’s fiscal year ends on March 31.

The company attributed profits to strong sales of Guitar Hero 3 and Call of Duty 4, both of which have continued to sell well into the company’s fourth quarter. According to the publisher, a total of 82.8% of income came from console software, with portable games bringing in 10.8% of income. Sadly, the PC brought in a mere 6.4% of income.

Wrestlemania Game Announced

THQ is going wrestling crazy, as the publisher revealed that it is working on WWE Legends of Wrestlemania for the PS3 and Xbox 360, alongside the already established Smackdown vs. Raw series (which has shipped more than 37 million units worldwide). The game is in development for release in March 2009 to coincide with the annual Wrestlemania event in Houston, Texas.

“We have generated significant year-over-year growth in key global territories with WWE-licensed videogames, including tremendous success with the WWE SmackDown vs. Raw franchise,” said Peter Matiss, vice president, global brand management, THQ. “The development capabilities afforded by next generation hardware, combined with our established history and deep understanding of fighting videogames, allow us to leverage the strength of the WWE brand to further extend our leadership in the fighting videogame genre and bring this new property to market.”

JAKKS Pacific is working on the game. No details or media were provided.

Gran Turismo Series Ships 50M+

The first gaming series that comes to mind in terms of racing sims is undoubtedly Gran Turismo. The games unrivaled realism matched with its incredible graphical capabilities has helped the series as a whole pass a new milestone.

To date, Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo series has shipped over 50 million units altogether worldwide. With the release of Gran Turismo’s debut title, Gran Turismo for the PS1, the series has been reaching for the stars ever since.

Netting an impressive 2 million units, considering it isn’t even a full game, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is the latest addition the series, marking the games transition to the PS3. With Gran Turismo 5’s official release just on the horizon, we can only expect to see these sales numbers continue to increase as the series progresses.

Siren: Blood Curse Announced

Having announced the game at its PlayStation Day event in London, Sony today announced that its new Siren game will be released in episodic format via the PlayStation Network, with the first episode being released this Summer.

Dubbed Siren: Blood Curse, the game is set in the Japanese village of Handua, telling the story of a TV crew researching a ‘vanishing village’ where human sacrifices are performed. Players will be tasked with uncovering the secrets of the village, battle the undead and save survivors. It will make use of the same sight-jack system found in previous games, allowing players to see the action from the point of view of the enemies.

The game will be released through twelve separate episodes, which Sony points out will take on the ‘TV style’; they will be released after short intervals. No pricing information was given.

PixelJunk Monsters Expansion Today

The official PlayStation Blog reveals that the previously announced expansion for PixelJunk Monsters will hit the PlayStation Network today. Dubbed Encore, the expansion includes a new island, 15 new levels, five new music tracks and item cost and availability revisions.

As revealed earlier by developer Q-Games president Dylan Cuthbert, the add-on was the result of his wife’s constant nagging, as well as emails from people asking for more. The original can be purchased through the PlayStation Store for $7.99, with the expansion going for $5.99.

Rumor: Sony Ditching F1 License

Sony is apparently set to abandon the license for games based around Formula 1, with increased costs blamed to the culprit. TG Daily claims that, according to their industry sources, there is a pretty wide gap between what Formula 1 wants for the license and what Sony is agreeing to pay.

The site named EA, Ubisoft and Codemasters as possible licensees, though it should be pointed out that anyone can basically get their hands on the license given enough money. However, it has to be noted that while EA and Codemasters both have established racing franchises, Ubisoft is yet to produce any.

Haze Demo Live on PSN

Long in development and oft-delayed shooter Haze has finally had a playable demo released on the PlayStation Network today. Exclusive to the PS3, the demo offers a sample of the single-player campaign in the game, offering the first full level. It also features support for up to four-player, drop-in drop-out co-op play online, via LAN or even two player split-screen combat.

The demo also offers the option to set up private rooms to play with close friends and the like. Worked on by Free Radical, creators of the venerable TimeSplitters series, the game ships May 23 exclusively for the PS3.

NASCAR 09 Gets Car Customization

Taking customization to the next level, EA today announced an all-new Paint Booth feature for NASCAR 09, allowing gamers to completely customize their car from start to finish. A car customization template will be available online which creates endless possibilities for personalization. Players will also be able to see custom-designed cars of their friends, as well as share their own cars online.

The online connectivity of the game will allow players to download the template and import it into photo-editing programs like Adobe Photoshop. These customized templates can then be uploaded into the game and driven around the track.

NASCAR 09 will be available starting June 10 on PS3 and Xbox 360.

SCEE Prez Says PS3 to Get GTA IV DLC Too

As if it wasn’t a big deal enough when Microsoft secured exclusive GTA IV DLC for their Xbox 360 console, now SCEE President David Reeves has been quoted to say otherwise.

Optimistic that the PS3 too will receive some form of DLC, even if it isn’t the same content featured on the Xbox 360, David Reeves feels that Microsoft’s only chance to beat Sony is by paying unheard of sums of money for exclusive content. Of course, with the recent announcement that the PS3 has been oustelling the 360 in Europe this may just be the execs ego expanding ever so slightly.

Either or, Grand Theft Auto IV’s DLC still has much mystery surrounding it for instance, exactly what it is. Well, if rumors are to be believed come the end of this year all of our answers should be answered as new content is expected to hit sometime before November.

Fight Night Round 4 Gets Announced

It seems that Fight Night is back again, this time in round 4 as EA has recently announced that Fight Night Round 4 is currently undergoing development by EA Canada under the EA Sports brand.

Featuring an all new gameplay engine, as compared to its predecessors, Fight Night Round 4 will include super realistic physics along with an array of fighting styles that will allow for endless unique fights. Also including things we’ve know like fatigue, adrenaline, footwork, and timing, Fight Night Round 4 will make for the most true to the sport game in the series to date.

Also announced by EA, for the first time ever, players will now have the opportunity to pit boxing superstars like Muhammed Ali against more new school fighters like Mike Tyson.

Fight Night Round 4 is expected to hit shelves sometime in 2009 for the both the Xbox 360 and PS3.

EA Announces Lord of the Rings: Conquest

Be you a fan of J.R.R. Tolken’s The Lord of the Rings series or not, at least one of the countless games based on the books are sure to spur your interest.

Well, adding to the extensive library of Lord of the Rings games, EA’s Pandemic Studios has recently announced their latest creation; Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Based in The Lord of the Rings universe as seen in the movies, LotR:C will allow players, for the first time, to take control of Sauron’s army along with the good guys, in their conquest for Middle Earth domination.

Set for release worldwide in fall of 2008 for the 360, PS3, PC and DS, those interested could tune into Spike TV’s GameTrailers TV on June 20th to get a glimpse at the world premiere of both never before seen game footage and the game’s first official trailer.

Kaz Hirai Still Believes PS3 Will Take The Lead

Apparently Kaz Hirai has failed to receive the memo, that or he strongly believes in the Playstation brand. Along with the usual speil about the ten year lifecycle of the PS3, he believes that the PS3 sales should pick up and eventually this generation it will regain the lead.

“I am very confident that after the 10-year lifecycle we will have the install base that we are looking for and that is obviously to be in the leadership position.”

Instead of a sprint, the race to the finish is actually a marathon, and simply Nintendo and Xbox simply don’t have the legs to keep on going. But then again, apparently he’s never seen a sales chart which are often dominated by year plus old Nintendo software.

Clearly even at this stage it’s impossible to predict the situation in a few years, but certainly the odds right now remain stacked against Kaz.

Misleading PS3 Ad Gets The Boot

It seems that the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has recently pulled the plug on a PC World PS3 TV ad that leads users to believe that 60 GB PS3s provide backwards compatibility for all PS2 games.

The phrase causing the boot is, ‘and it plays your PS2 games as well’ leading potential buyers to believe that their shiny new console will play any PS2 game, and breaching CAP TV ASA Code rule 5.1, or ‘misleading advertising’.

While the ASA will allow PC World to continue advertising the PS3, they must alert consumers that the console only has partial backwards compatibility.

Possible PS3 External Harddrives?

While the only PS3 available is now down to just the 40 GB model, users still have the ability to buy a larger harddrive to replace the old, or just plug in a USB enabled external harddrive to fulfill their storage needs.

Well, David Reeves, head honcho over at SCEE, has recently hinted at the possibility of a PS3 branded external harddrive to give consumers a larger array of storage devices to choose from.

However, this does not mean that Sony is in any rush to launch new storage devices for the console, rather than completely new PS3 models, because consumers can already expand on the storage using the methods mentioned above. Based on Reeves recent sayings, its very possible that sometime in the future we will see various official options for expanding the PS3’s storage.

Grand Theft Auto IV Patch Coming Today

If you were one of the unlucky PS3 GTA IV owners who has been experiencing an increased amount of lag among other connectivity issues surrounding the games multiplayer, the tables may soon be turning in your favor.

Rockstar and Sony have planned the release of a patch that will help connectivity issues by reducing loads on Gamespy servers ultimately making GTA IV’s multiplayer experience a much more enjoyable one.

Please note: This is a completely different problem than the one that is causing the game to freeze altogether, for which Rockstar recommends deleting the save file and creating a new one which should fix the problem. Hopefully once Rockstar diagnoses the problem we will see another patch completely stopping this problem in its tracks.

LittleBigPlanet Pushed to October

Killzone 2 wasn’t the only game that was delayed at SCEE’s PlayStation Day event. The company also pushed back Media Molecule’s upcoming customizable platformer LittleBigPlanet to October.

The game, which debuted at last year’s E3, was originally set for release this September. No reason for the delay was provided.

In related news, the game will feature cute Helghast plushies for use in the environment. I never knew the Helghast could look ‘cute’.

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Game in Europe

Atari today announced that they will release Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm for the PS3 in Europe. Based on the popular animation series, the game features open-world exploration and high-definition graphics and unprecedented scale. The game is scheduled for release this November.

Players will be able to battle in full 3D across massive environments, unleashing powerful attacks, performing acrobatic evasive maneuvers and even run up walls, among other things. The characters’ fighting styles can also be customized; players can also recruit up to two support characters as well. A total of 25 characters will be available within the game. There will be over 1000 unique missions, valuable scrolls and more.

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