It looks like that there is still life in Flagship Studios’ ill fated Hellgate: London as North American publisher Namco-Bandai may be stepping in to rescue it. An intriguing post appeared on Hellgate’s official forums from Namco-Bandai’s senior director of business development, Zack Karlsson, stating:
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Well look at that, Internet rumors of an Xbox 360 price cut have been circulating for quite some time and Target went ahead and made it official from a retailing standpoint earlier today. The new Xbox 360 60GB model will retail for $349, which the “old” SKU Pro previously sold for. The Elite model, which comes with a 120 GB hard drive, remains at $449, and the Arcade SKU, which has no hard drive, is still $279. I hoped for an overall price increase with additional storage but that just proves that you dont always get what you want.
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In advance of this weekend’s Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris, the frenzy of speculation around what the company’s “big announcement” would be has increased further with Blizzard’s VP of Design, Rob Pardo, hinting that it might be a brand new title.
In a question and answer session that concluded this year’s GDC Paris, Pardo was asked directly if he could talk more about “the new game” that rumours have strongly suggested will be Diablo 3.
“So you want me to announce the game before our announcement?” he said. “No offense, but I think there’s like 300 people here, and I’ll be ripped …read more
The team behind Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is rumored to be making a new sci-fi title. So, this is the reason why Infinity Ward aint doing COD 5?
Speaking with TalkPlayStation.com an insider said “we are currently working on a new sci-fi title, we cannot release any more information as of yet, we may or may not announce it at E3″. So what sort of sci-fi game will this be? Most likely a first person shooter, maybe its something that will rival Halo. Infinity Ward are famous for developing Call of Duty 4, they have no part in …read more
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Fire Emblem is indeed making its way to the DS, and the latest issue of Famitsu has the first solid details following the game’s announcement last year. The new title is reportedly similar to a translation of the japanese title -> Fire Emblem: New Dark Dragon and the Sword of Light , this first DS installment in the storied series is actually a remake of the original Fire Emblem. The basics of the game wont change much from the original (or its sequels, for that matter) as players alternate between event scenes and strategic battles.
In the middle of Electronic Art’s dreadfully slow takeover dance with Take-Two, it’s been speculated that the affair could ascend into a veritable ménage a trois, with Ubisoft now being marked as a potential future suitor for the Grand Theft Auto publisher if it continues to spurn the Redwood giant.
A Forbes report postulates on a possible partnership between Ubisoft and Take-Two, following Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick’s comments in the company’s second quarter call on Thursday that he’s “had and continues to have formal discussions with interested parties” over any future mergers or sales.
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Microsoft’s very own Robbie Bach has shot down a fresh round of rumors that the Xbox 360 will be supporting rival Sony’s Blu-ray format in the near future, but was less quick to scotch speculation that motion controls were on their way to the console.
Bach, who heads Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, reiterated the company’s stance on the technology in an interview with SF Gate, emphasizing Microsoft’s focus on delivering content over Xbox Live. “You have to look at how fundamentally compelling the difference is between a progressive scan DVD player and the picture that it can produce and what …read more
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LucasArts is reportedly ceasing internal development after the release of The Force Unleashed, according to speculation coming off the back of staff cuts last week. The layoffs included VP of Product Development Peter Hirschmann and Lego Indiana Jones producer Shawn Storc, and now Shacknews is now citing a source claiming that LucasArts will indeed halt internal development after the completion of The Force Unleashed, with all future development to be outsourced.
LucasArts is also known to be working on an Indiana Jones title that was last seen at E3 in 2006, which has reportedly not been affected by this turn …read more
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Capcom producer Jun Takeuchi has previously stated that Resident Evil 5’s main development platform is on the PC. When Eurogamer asked Takeuchi why Capcom was showing the Xbox 360 build of Resident Evil 5 instead of the PlayStation 3 version at Capcom’s Captivate 08 event, Takeuchi clarified that Capcom was requested to show RE5 up and running on a console, due to their hardware similarities it was just faster to port the PC build over to the Xbox 360.
But while this will surely start rumors of the survival horror game coming to the PC, Capcom bluntly told gaming site IGN, …read more
It has been reported that the team behind Bioshock is behind the next X-Com game and i couldnt be happier. This isnt some news from left field as 2k bought the rights to the X-Com franchise in 2007. Who better to craft the next iteration of the turn based tactical alien invasion sim? Argh. I hope this is true.
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