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Sony purges cash in your GameSpot News Update for Saturday October 31, 2009. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot “PC | GameSpot News Update October 31, 2009 1” was posted by Homer on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:33:19 -0700

Gamasutra’s weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week’s charts, with data taken from October 29th, 2009, find Borderlands outperforming Forza Motorsport 3 in the United States, as Hikari no 4 Senshi: [...]

BioWare’s long-awaited fantasy RPG takes wing, as Activision and MTV Games launch their next rhythm game volley; Rabbids Go Home, Academy of Champions, Jak and Daxter, Star Wars Battlefront, more. Most years, publishers are tripping over themselves to release their pride and joys during the prime November window. With an inordinate number of top-tier 2009 [...]

Nintendo’s latest minigame compilation debuts to nearly septuple-platinum sales. Yesterday, Nintendo reported that revenues declined 34.5 percent to ¥548.1 billion ($6.0 billion) during the April-September period of its current fiscal year. And while part of that decline could be attributed to a weakness in the hardware market, Nintendo also saw a dip in its global [...]

If you’re looking for an excuse to slip into some brightly-colored spandex and roam the city streets, Halloween’s not your only option this weekend. Developer Cryptic Studios and publisher Atari recently announced that their superhero-themed MMO Champions Online now houses more than 1 million player-created heroes. As we reported earlier, if you’re curious to see [...]

This simple superhero game is a super bore. Score: 4.5 / poor Get the full article at GameSpot “Wii | Marvel Super Hero Squad Review” was posted by Tom Mc Shea on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:11:45 -0700

To boost arguments in Bethesda lawsuit, Interplay releases concept shots for its Masthead-developed post-nuclear role-playing game. Sporting the latest in irradiated fashions¥ One week after it countersued Bethesda Softworks over the Fallout massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Interplay has fired another shot over its former ally’s bow. To bolster its contention that it is actively [...]

To celebrate the seventh anniversary of its Half-Life multiplayer mod Natural Selection, independent developer Unknown Entertainment today issued the first screenshots from its impending standalone sequel Natural Selection 2. Marines in a hallway and the Skulk’s “bite-cam.” Powered by Unknown’s proprietary “Spark” engine, the multiplayer-focused game mixes elements of strategy with first-person shooting action. It’s [...]

“Pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at suppertime,” the old commercial jingle used to declare. “When pizza’s on a bagel, you can eat pizza anytime.” And while this trailer for Avalanche Studios’ Just Cause 2–coming to PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 2010–certainly isn’t as catchy, you’ll notice that if you replace [...]

Though we still don’t know much regarding Dead Space 2, it appears we’ll know more relatively soon, as Reuters has pegged the horror sequel for a 2010 release. While technically unannounced, the sequel has been mentioned by both job listings and staff members of series publisher Electronic Arts. Developed by Visceral Games (formerly EA Redwood [...]

With both the weekend and a holiday mere hours away, the usual digital distribution outlets are rolling out their seasonal savings and discounts on select PC games. It seems like everyone has temporarily knocked Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare to $23.99–a savings of 40%–with Dead Space, Ghostbusters, The Witcher and many other festive games [...]

Remember when LEGO Rock Band was announced and publisher MTV said the music game would embrace the “imaginative settings that the LEGO world offers?” May I present to you the intro video for LEGO Rock Band. It’s out on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and Nintendo DS in North America next Tuesday, November 3, with [...]

Vampire Hunters is a PC full 3D role-playing game with adventure-like elements that will charm the player with its dark atmosphere of old docks where a mysterious clan of vampires rages free. For more information visit: http://www.vampirehunters.euThe city lies down to sleep while somewhere in the middle of an old dockyard a man’s life fades [...]

Friday 30th October/… No Ordinary Mission, no ordinary hero. Armed with a unique multi-tethering grappling hook, no combat scenario will ever feel ordinary either.Just Cause 2 takes open-world combat to an all new level with the unique, arm-mounted grapple, instantly available at the touch of a button. Launched at soldiers, they are pulled off their [...]

The Biggest and Best is Back on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Available Now at Retailers Across Europe and PAL -CERGY-PONTOISE, FRANCE – 30th October 2009 – NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe opens the newest King of Iron Fist Tournament to all comers today as TEKKEN 6 launches across Europe and the PAL regions for the [...]

The first major batch of downloadable content for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 will hit Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on Thursday, November 5, publisher Activision said today. The $10 / 800 Microsoft Point download will deliver new upgrades and missions to Vicarious Visions’ superhero action-RPG, along with five new characters. Of those new heroes, four [...]

The Force-using, droid-tossing, and lightsaber-swinging ways of the Jedi Knights are detailed in these new screenshots from BioWare’s upcoming Star Wars PC MMO. There’s still no official word as to when Star Wars: The Old Republic will launch or what business models it will use, though beta signups are still open.

Developer Gearbox has rolled out a pair of updates for Borderlands, bringing a number of bug fixes and tweaks to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions. On its official forums, the company vowed that it is “continuing work on support updates for all platforms, and will deploy fixes for every version as soon as [...]

A wealth of rhythm game news emerged out of Activision today, as the publisher detailed the first downloadable track packs coming to the just-released DJ Hero along with a rundown of the various tunes hitting Guitar Hero 5 across the next month. Guitar Hero 5 Downloadable Content November 5 – Band Hero Song Imports ($5 [...]

Offering yet another means to access the God of War III E3 2009 Demo, Sony has revealed that those who pre-order the PlayStation 3 game from “select retailers” will get a download code. Those download codes are available at those select North American retailers today, with the game itself due during March 2010. In addition, [...]

Developer Harmonix has issued details on next week’s batch of downloadable add-ons for Rock Band and Rock Band 2, which will deliver eight new tracks to the franchise. The following will hit the online marketplaces of the Xbox 360 and Wii on Tuesday, November 3, and then PlayStation 3 on November 5. Each track will [...]

To commemorate the availability of Fort Zombie (PC) on “all major digital distribution channels,” developer Kerberos has issued a new trailer for the undead action-RPG. The video provides a glimpse of everything the $9.99 title offers, from shooting zombies and scavenging around the randomly-generated town for supplies to fortifying your base and ensuring that other [...]