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Uncharted 2 sells 1 million copies

While Modern Warfare 2 is ravaging the sales charts these days, Sony quietly announced (and what better time to announce it) that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has sold over 1 million units on the PS3. However, the number isn’t confirmed with NPD, so we’ll see how much truth there is to it. But for a game of Uncharted 2’s quality not to already sell a million copies, being the most anticipated PS3 title this holiday season, would be a bit disappointing.

Facebook support coming to PS3

Mega-social network Facebook is already coming out on the Xbox 360 (alongside Twitter) later this month, and now Sony is getting a piece of that action as well, as Facebook has been confirmed for the PlayStation 3, after leaked shots showed some Facebook action on the console. Details haven’t been released yet, but we assume that it’ll at least support whatever the Xbox 360 supports in terms of functionality.

C&C 4: Tiberian Twilight launching on March 16

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, has received an official release date, and will be in stores on March 16 in North America and March 19 in Europe. While those are dates on the release, they’re also dates on when the C&C 4 team will get sacked, as EA plans to let go the entire team behind the game as soon as it wraps up.

Modern Warfare 2 sells 4.7 million on first day

Modern Warfare 2 is officially a “record breaking” game, selling no less than 4.7 million copies on day one, across all systems in North America and UK (rest of the world wasn’t tracked, meaning the number is definitely higher). The previous record was 3.6 million and was held by Grand Theft Auto 4. Stay tuned for our Modern Warfare 2 review later today.

Need For Speed 2010 confirmed

EA has confirmed that developer Criterion has a Need For Speed game ready for 2010, after working on the Burnout series for a long time, indicating that the series will now have yearly installments, much like their EA Sports series. EA also revealed that Need For Speed Shift has shipped over 2.5 million units, while actual sales numbers were not disclosed.

Borderlands DLC landing on November 24th

Borderlands is enjoying great critical and commercial success at the moment, and the game has lined up its first DLC, called “The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned“, which will be available on November 24th for $10 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. However, developer Gearbox didn’t mention a PC version of the DLC, which is a bit disappointing, to be honest, especially if it turns out that the DLC won’t be available on the PC at all.

SEGA announces Bayonetta special edition

SEGA of Europe has announced a special edition of the upcoming Bayonetta, which includes the game, a hardcover art book and a soundtrack. Bayonetta, an action game developed by Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya, is scheduled for release in January. The special edition is expected to be announced for the North American continent as well.

Tekken 6 review

The Tekken series has been in a long battle with Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter for many, many years, each time, each series tried to top the other, and now is no different with Tekken 6. The latest installment in the franchise, this time with a deep roster, new gameplay modes and tweaks, this is certainly the best Tekken game to date. But how does it stack up against the rivals? Read on.

The story of Tekken 6 is slim to non existent to laughable — but that’s expected, it’s not a novel, it’s a fighting game, and the story that’s there basically moves your from fight to fight. Nothing special, and it gets the job done. The single player campaign lets you battle all of the available enemies, which means you’ll be fighting a lot of them — the roster is one of the largest in any Tekken game, with all the classic fighters back, including Lei, Paul, Jin and Kazuya. It also includes characters included in Tekken Dark Resurrection, further increasing the roster to a total of 40. However, not many new members have been introduced, not that it makes any difference, since the roster already feels crowded and it’s gonna take you a long time to identify with all of the characters. Read the rest of the Tekken 6 review

EA posts losses, cutting 1,500 jobs

While Activision is gearing up to have the largest entertainment launch of all time, EA isn’t exactly basking in the same success. In fact, they have announced today that they will be eliminated 1,500 employees in an attempt to cut costs and turn a profit.

EA says that eliminating these employees and shutting down several facilitates will give them an opportunity to “focus on titles with higher margin opportunities”.

Exactly what these titles are remains unknown.

via kotaku

Modern Warfare pre-ordered 4.5 million+ times

Wondering just how successful Modern Warfare 2’s launch will be? Well, VGChartz has today reported that the title has been pre-ordered over 4.5 million times.

Additionally, it is predicted that the game will sell well over 6 million units in the first week netting Activision somewhere around $500 million making it the biggest entertainment launch in history. This means that its launch will produce more money in the first week than any movie, book, or music launches.

Now all we have to do and wait until it hits store shelves tomorrow to see how the game actually performs.

Select GameStops selling Modern Warfare 2 early?

Modern Warfare 2 isn’t supposed to launch until 12am tonight, as you most likely already know, but it seems that some GameStops in the North East have broken the street date.

Kotaku says that one such retailer was quoted to have said that they were given permission by Activision to start handing out the title a day early to which they quickly responded:

“Activision has not given any retailer permission to sell Modern Warfare 2 prior to the Nov. 10 street date. The company fully supports the Nov.10 street date.”

On the other hand, if you did get your hands on the game early you don’t have to worry about getting the banhammer as Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling pushed out the following tweet:

“ANY store selling #MW2 early is in violation of street date. There are no “special permissions”. That said, we won’t punish players for it.”

Wii Fit Plus claims top stop on UK charts

Nintendo Wii Fit Plus expansion to Wii Fit has takes the top spot on the sales charts in the UK (read our Wii Fit Plus review), while the highly regarded Dragon Age Origins debuted at a solid 5th spot, the full top 10 list below:

1. 1.  Wii Fit Plus
2. 2.  FIFA 10
3. 3.  Wii Sports Resort
4. 4.  Football Manager 2010
5. 5.  Dragon Age: Origins
6. 6.  Forza 3
7. 7.  Mario & Sonic Winter Olympic Games
8. 8.  GTA4: Episodes from Liberty City
9. 9.  Pro Evolution Soccer 2010
10. 10. Tekken 6

Gran Turismo 5 delayed for “marketing reasons”

Gran Turismo 5 has been delayed many times, indicating that the developer wants to make a perfect game, which is good (unless your game is called Duke Nukem Forever). GT5 has a firm release date for March 2010, but it appears that the game could’ve been released earlier, and it’s held back until March for marketing purposes. Now developer Polyphony Digital revealed that while the March 2010 date is set for Japan, Sony us still thinking about when to release it to the rest of the world, and it may very well be later in 2010, possibly in Fall 2010 (although this is pure speculation at this point).

German Modern Warfare 2 edition doesn’t feature civilian kills

Germany, not exactly known as the most game friendly nation in the world — far from, actually — will be getting an edition of Modern Warfare 2 that doesn’t feature the ability to kill civilians, which was a very controversial subject on Modern Warfare 2 a few weeks ago. The airport scene, where you can kill civilian passengers with no remorse, will be different in Germany. If you shoot any of the civilians or injure them, you’ll get a game over screen. We suppose it’s not that big of a deal, Modern Warfare 2 has a lot more to offer. Unless you count it dedicated servers for the PC version.

Id Software’s Rage unlikely to use dedicated servers

Hot off the heels on the whole Modern Warfare 2 PC dedicated server debacle, Id Software, long time PC developers and enthusiasts, have revealed that it’s unlikely that Rage, their new IP slated for 2010 release, will support dedicated servers on the PC, and this comes from Id head honcho himself, John Carmack, who revealed the news in an interview with Variety. We’ll see if this news is met with the same controversy and revolt as Modern Warfare 2 was.