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Huston GTA IV has landed in London in a big way. Midnight queue's around the block, huge advertising, stabbings and short supply! Even my local HMV store was turning those fools away who didn’t pre-order. Check out the jump for the BBC News article detailing the situation with the stabbing, it appears that the GTA titles will never be able to avoid controversy. [Stab attack at Grand Theft queue via BBC NEWS]
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Check out this YouTube clip courtesy of weeman300 to get the lowdown on dodging those new POW blocks. All I can say is that I'm glad I kept my Wavebird! What's your fav control for Kart? [Avoid POW Block - YouTube]
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If you're like us, you may have wondered from time to time how a Nintendo Mario FPS would play like in the world of Super Mario 64? Well, you can leave your wondering days behind you now as the video below will vividly display just how it would go down. Hell to the yeah, get fraggin' suckas!
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PlayTV. What is PlayTV I hear you ask? For the uninitiated, PlayTV is the latest offereing from Sony to bring integration into everyone's face. No really, it's the following," PlayTV is a twin-channel DVB-T tuner peripheral with digital video recorder (DVR) software which allows users to record television programs to the PlayStation 3 hard drive for later viewing." So in essence, it's a device connected to your TV and whatever you record using it will be stored on your PS3 hard...
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Interesting title coming for both the Xbox 360 and PS3 by the name of Prototype which involves a mutated New York. You'll play the role of Alex Mercer who awakens to find himself with no memories and a unique virus that grants him the ability to mutate and change in more than one way. Just one ability will be the power to consume people and take on their form for a start. With the game set in a city where anything and everything happens, you can bet that soon enough Alex will be squaring off...
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Party for the drunken party yahoos and wannabe divas out there, Singstar has been confirmed as receiving a version for the PS3. Shipping in the US on May 20th, the PS3 incarnation will bring with an online social interaction called My Singstar Online. What MSO is bringing to the table will be the ability to purchase songs very similar to the current structure in place for Apple's iTunes store where the tracks will be on a similar par pricewise with the music video of course thrown in. The game...
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New screenshots released today from the followup to Pokemon like game,Spectrobes titled, Spectobes: Beyond The Portals for the Nintendo DS.
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Am amazing statistic today from play.com reporting that it's been taking over 80 orders a minute for highly anticpated roam and destroy God title, GTA IV. Stuart Rowe, the Chief Operating Officer for play.com said, "We're experiencing trading levels similar to what we would see in the run up to Christmas, taking over 80 orders per minute at peak times. "We have had to recruit extra warehouse staff to work through the night to ensure product arrives on the day of launch," he...
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We all knew it would happen and mostly does with HUGE releases in the gaming world/industry but there have already been reports trickling in that some retailers have been shafted by their distributors with the release of GTA IV today in Australia. The distributors have just not been able to keep with consumer and retailer demand and have been shortchanging some stores with particular emphasis on independently run stores reporting little to no stock of the limited editions of GTA IV for both the Xbox...
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We recently reported that Sega had chosen to close the doors on its racing arm based in the UK, Sega Racing Studio, seems like another developer in the form of Codemasters have a vested interest in the studio. They've given the studio a gold ticket and purchased it meaning that now Sega can work closely on some of Codemaster's signature franchise series' like Colin McRae and Race Driver, for example. Codemaster's CEO, Rod Cousens, had the following statement, "In seizing this...
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Ready for another serve of recent bouts of Capcom laziness?? The recent cover of Okami had a snafu when it was revealed that the IGN logo could be clearly seen on the front cover of said game. Well, now they've gone one better and released the strategy guide for Okami and you'll never guess it but they've gone and done the exact same thing to that cover! Don't these people learn and aren't they aware that people are paying close attention to this sort of stuff? Unless it was intended...
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Top Spin on the Nintendo DS hasn't had a favourable run for the tennis sim yet that hasn't stopped 2K Sports from releasing a third incarnation of the sport for Nintendo's handheld. The following screens below don't actually look half bad but we've yet to see gameplay on this but still these are the first screens that 2K Sports has released so it can only get better, right?
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Been hearing reports that versions of GTA IV for the Xbox 360 will bring attached a coupon for 1 month free on Xbox Live as opposed to the standard 48 hours free. Can anyone confirm or deny this for the Australian market or are we to get shafted again??
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The latest title in the Prince of Persia franchise is as yet untitled but we do know that it's coming to Xbox 360, PS3, PC, and Nintendo DS sometime later this year. It's being developed by the same team that did the original, Sands of Time and more recently Assassin's Creed. Also Ubisoft will be releasing a version specifically tailored for the DS. The game promises to have a new style of gameplay with illustrative art.
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Reports today from Nintendo that they have forecasted selling another 25 million Wiis over the next 12 months bringing the total up to 50 million. Absolutely staggering. Their profits have already gone up 50% to $2.5 billion for the Japanese fiscal year and overall Nintendo racked up sales totalling $16.2 billion. In a statement Nintendo added the following, "Nintendo's strategy is to accelerate the current sales momentum from 'must-have for every family' to 'must-have for everyone'...