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September 5th, 2008, 20:34 Posted By: wraggster
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Be an Assassin: Master the skills, tactics, and weapons of history’s deadliest and most secretive clan of warriors.
Realistic and responsive environments: Crowds react to your moves and will either help or hinder you on your quests.
Action with a new dimension – total freedom: Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever, and however. Stalk your prey through richly detailed, historically accurate, open-ended environments.
Relive the epic times of the Crusades: Assassin’s Creed immerses you in the realistic and historical Holy Land of the 12th century, featuring life-like graphics, ambience, and the subtle, yet detailed nuances of a living world.
Intense action rooted in reality: Experience heavy action blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in realistic swordfight duels.
Next-gen gameplay: The proprietary engine developed from the ground up for the next-gen console allows organic game design featuring open gameplay, intuitive control scheme, realistic interaction with environment, and a fluid, yet sharp, combat mechanic.
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Assassin’s Creed is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that will redefine the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin’s Creed merges technology, game design, theme, and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of change.
The setting is 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict.
You are an Assassin, a warrior shrouded in secrecy and feared for your ruthlessness. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history.
http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-2zk4.html
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September 5th, 2008, 20:31 Posted By: wraggster
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Focus on armies and battles while de-emphasizing the tedious aspects of base and resource management
The easy to use, detailed custom map editor allows players to create custom battlefields
Command heroes and champions as they learn new tactics, unlock new abilities, command larger units, and challenge other Champions in duels to the death.
Try the dynamic campaign mode with an epic story of a brutal Chaos invasion, and multiple modes for both casual and competitive multiplayer action
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Prepare for the Battle March invasion! Command the armies of the mighty Empire, the marauding hordes of Chaos, or the unruly Orcs and Goblins as they clash in a battle that will determine the fate of the world in Warhammer®: Battle March™. Experience the action and strategy of a real-time strategy game without the necessity of tedious resource management, with six fully playable armies (Empire, Chaos, Skaven, High Elves, Orcs and Goblins, and Dark Elves), plus additional controllable races, Champions and Heroes.
http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-2xsm.html
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September 5th, 2008, 20:23 Posted By: wraggster
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Fish in 14 Tournament Events and complete various objectives as you attempt to fill your boat with the biggest and best fish
Gameplay focuses on the excitement of battling fish struggling against being caught.
Use an onboard GPS unit to discover exactly where the fish are biting all across the lake.
Angle for 20 of the most sought-after fish species including large-mouth bass, small-mouth bass, walleye, cat-fish, trout and more.
Three gameplay modes: tournament, open fishing and quick challenge
Fish with over 300 lures including authentically modeled, Rapala lures, each having unique properties, physically-modeled behaviors, and a range of different colors.
Over 500,000 acres of authentic fishing locations including Clear Lake California, Lake Okeechobee Florida, and the Potomac River in Maryland.
Incredibly rich and photo-realistic underwater environments showcase crisp details that surpass anything seen before in a fishing game.
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With their hands on authentic gear in the game, players will feel like they are using an actual rod as they cast and reel in fish hooked on their lines. Players can battle for their favorite trophies as they angle against more than 20 species of fish, all within beautiful freshwater environments. The world’s top freshwater locations are magnificently represented here, and players will have their skills put to the test against some of the best trophy fish in the world.
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September 5th, 2008, 20:21 Posted By: Shrygue
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Lionhead has released six new screenshots showing off the character customisation in Fable II.
There's a lady with white dreadlocks, a beard-y pirate and - this being Lionhead - the customary man in a dress.
"As you know everyone starts in Fable II as either a little boy or a little girl and will grow up to adulthood," reads the blurb on the official site.
"You will change visually to reflect your choices and actions in the world of Albion but it doesn't end there...we now have so much more clothing (think masks, hats, ...) all of which can be dyed (in pretty much any color), plus we have make-up, jewelry, hairstyles and facial hair plus all the many different morphs (like strength, fatness, skin color etc...) which will mean that each hero will be very unique.
"Taking every single thing into account that will influence what you look like, our programmers calculated a number that goes well and truly into the billions."
Fable II is out on October 24.
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September 5th, 2008, 15:47 Posted By: Darksaviour69
For a limited time only (well, until the end of October) the Marketplace is running an ‘Extended Play Download Days’ promotion which is offering some pretty good savings on some of the more popular DLC. Game games included are Mass Effect, Lost Odyssey, Forza Motorsport 2, Oblivion, Guitar Hero 3, Beautiful Katamari.
Check out the full details at Majornelson
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September 5th, 2008, 01:41 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft has said that it won't be passing on the price cuts in the US to its Xbox 360 console to the UK Pocket-lint has learnt.
"Pricing is handled on a region-by-region basis. We do not have a price drop in this region to announce", was the official word.
The news means that the Xbox 360 Arcade official price is now £48 more expensive in the UK than the US.
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/ne...rice-cut.phtml
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September 5th, 2008, 01:38 Posted By: wraggster
According to an interview with The Wall Street Journal, a Microsoft exec noted that about 75% of hardware sales take place following a price cut below $200. What's more, GameStop (GME) has boosted its expectations for Xbox 360 sales following the price drop, telling BusinessWeek that it expects sales to jump "anywhere from 1.5 times to 3 times current levels" as a result.
But while MSFT expects to continue to outpace Sony's PS3 sales, Nintendo may already be untouchable. In an interview with BusinessWeek, Don Mattrick, senior vice-president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, said "I'm not at a point where I can say we're going to beat Nintendo."
http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/co...x?byteID=87530
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September 5th, 2008, 01:36 Posted By: wraggster
Intel is pulling out all the stops to get its Larrabee GPUs inside Microsoft's next-gen Xbox (Xbox 720) or another console, according to The Inquirer citing unnamed sources.
As rumours go this doesn't sound too off the mark. MS needs a graphics chip for the Xbox 720, and Intel, along with NVIDIA and AMD, will have suitable parts available. The bigger surprise would be that MS refused to even hear Intel's sales pitch.
But the Inq has gone further to say that Intel is doing everything it can to table an deal MS can't refuse, going so far as offering to do the engineering work on thermal design (hopefully ensuring we won't ever see a repeat of the RROD nightmare), and is even prepared to hand over the rights so that MS can get the chip manufactured at any fab it chooses.
The main motivation behind all this for Intel is developer support. The PC graphics card installed base is dominated by NV with around 60% and AMD with 30% (according to the Valve Hardware Survey), and it's just basic economics that games developers will devote most of their resources to design and test their new titles on these two families of cards.
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/10071/...e_in_xbox_720/
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September 4th, 2008, 22:24 Posted By: Shrygue
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Microsoft's pressed the go button on its big old screenshot machine and here are five new shots of Gears of War 2. They're not completely grey either...
Mr. Cliff Bleszinski recently revealed that the sequel's "85/90%" complete, and Epic's at the "polish stage right now, doing some last minute optimisations."
Sounds like it'll be ready for that November 7 release, then.
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September 4th, 2008, 22:10 Posted By: Shrygue
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This is what we like to see in RTS games - massive damage. Dozens of small robots and airships firing hundreds of lasers at giant mechs and all sorts of carnage kicking off around that.
These are new 360 shots and, despite certain CVG staff members refusing to accept RTS games played on control pads, it's looking pretty bloody good.
The game's out next Friday, so not long to wait.
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September 4th, 2008, 20:18 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
It's 10 years since Rare turned out the original Banjo-Kazooie on N64, in a blummin' marvellous platformer that rivalled Mario 64 in the gameplay stakes while charming us with the Britsoft studio's irresistibly quirky humour.
To make the series relevant to today's discerning gamer, the duo's long-awaited return this November in Nuts & Bolts sees Rare jumping on the user-created content bandwagon, offering a blend of traditional platforming and custom vehicle creation, with a big emphasis on the online community.
We recently visited Rare to take an in-depth look at how the game was shaping up, which you can read all about in our detailed preview , and go further behind the scenes in our Eurogamer TV Special .
But we also made it out of Twycross with a good deal of exclusive, direct-feed footage captured from the latest build of the game, which you can check out below.
Vehicle Editor - This is, if you'll forgive us, the nuts and bolts of the new Banjo experience. Create and customise vehicles with an increasing range of parts as you progress through the game. And you can share your best blueprints with others over Xbox Live.
Showdown Town - Welcome to the hubworld of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. All of the game's areas are accessible from here, although you'll need a seriously pimped-out motor before you can reach everywhere.
Challenges - Nuts & Bolts is packed with mini-games that promise to give it that 'one more go' feeling, as you try a few more tweaks under the bonnet to beat your best scores.
Multiplayer - Arguably as big a draw as the single-player portion, Rare has exploited the current fad for user-created content with a range of games that will put your most ingenious vehicle designs to the test.
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts is due out on Xbox 360 in November.
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September 4th, 2008, 17:23 Posted By: wraggster
Kotaku notes that the suspected price cuts to the various Xbox 360 systems have been confirmed. Xbox Live's Major Nelson posted the new prices ($199 for the Arcade, $299 for the Pro, and $399 for the Elite) and pointed out a BusinessWeek story discussing the changes. The price cuts will take effect on September 5th.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl.../09/03/2246231
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September 4th, 2008, 17:12 Posted By: wraggster
According to an interview with Epic Games' senior producer Rod Fergusson, developers for the Xbox 360 may be reaching the outer edges of what is graphically possible with the console. In an interview with Gamasutra, the Gears of War / Gears of War 2 head says that recent advances and refinements are pushing the system further than expected, though he still believes there's some room to grow. In Fergusson's words: "I think we're certainly approaching the upper end of it, as far as what developers are able to do with it, but just looking at all the demos we saw today -- ours and others -- it's clear that all the games just keep improving, and keep pushing that bar." Of course, there's a long gap between pushing a system to its limits and starting to look around for its replacement, though since we all know another iteration of the Xbox is inevitable, none of this news should come as any surprise. They have a name for things like this... progress.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/04/x...soles-graphic/
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September 4th, 2008, 15:18 Posted By: Darksaviour69
Sources close to Rockstar North have told Eurogamer that downloadable Grand Theft Auto IV content is on track for a late November release.
Parent company Take-Two previously changed the date from autumn to some time between November 2008 and January 2009 - leaving our stockings at risk of being empty.
The content, which is "absolutely exclusive" to Xbox 360, will be made up of at least two episodes around 10 hours in length, complete with extra unlockable Achievements. Speculation on what form it will take has ranged from additional cities to developed side-missions with brand new stories to unravel. There's been no mention of what all this will cost.
Via Eurogamer
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September 4th, 2008, 12:13 Posted By: Darksaviour69
We have juicy rumor news coming straight out of PAX regarding a new set of 30 achievements worth a total of 750 Gamerscore for a little game called Halo 3. Yes sir, it's time for brand new Halo 3 achievement rumor news!
According to a post over on Ascendant Justice Forums, there will be a new set of 30 Halo 3 achievements that will be releasing in the near future and they even include screenshot proof (ninja-taken during PAX) to prove it. Content that may have something to do with that Halo 3 Mythic rumor we heard about the other day. The achievements, which look to be based on the Heroic, Legendary and (speculated) Mythic map packs, look rather legit seeing that the descriptions, achievement names AND off-screen photographic proof are supplied. But, as is customary with Bungie, we're in the dark regarding how they'll be implemented, whether or not the content has anything to do with the Mythic stuff or even the E3 stuff. That is if this is legit news. Enough speculation, take a looksy a the (rumored to be new) Halo 3 achievement names after the break.
Via Xbox360fanboy
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September 3rd, 2008, 19:45 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
Funcom has told Eurogamer that an Xbox 360 version of Age of Conan will definitely be released.
"The Xbox 360 version is still very much set to happen and we are working on it," said Erling Ellingsen, chief horn-blower for Funcom.
"However, there are no dates set, even though we aim for a 2009 release. Our big priority now is, of course, the PC version and fixing the issues with it and improving it for our current players."
Work began on the console MMO in December 2006, but was put to one side during the run up to the PC launch in May this year.
The plan was to follow with an Xbox 360 version of Age of Conan roughly 12 months later.
However, observers speculated that the amount of work needed to keep the PC community playing, plus the perils of the Xbox Live platform (certification for patches - eek!) meant Funcom may not bother with a console version after all.
Contrary to this, Age of Conan was shown being controlled by an Xbox 360 pad during Games Convention last month. This is the work of Blue Orb and clever PC application SwitchBlade, though.
Funcom is currently testing an upcoming PvP rewards patch for Age of Conan, which will offer the best battlers impressive equipment sold from specialist NPCs.
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