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Archive for the ‘Rumors’ Category

May 2nd, 2008

Earthbound coming to Nintendo’s Virtual Console?

The ESRB has recently posted a rating for the classic Super Nintendo RPG EarthBound for the Nintendo Wii. Yep, that usually means that Earthbound will be released and logic dictates that it will be via Nintendo’s Virtual Console.
Kotaku says: “The sequel to the Japanese-only game Mother, the game tells the story of Ness and company […]

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April 17th, 2008

Grand Theft Auto 4 to earn 400M in first week?

Variety is saying that the first week of Grand Theft Auto 4 will come close to matching the biggest box office 6 day haul of $404 Million by Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. This will make Grand Theft Auto 4 the biggest debut for a videogame surpassing even the mighty Halo 3, which […]

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April 16th, 2008

Buy SimCity Box, Get Spore Creator

IGN is confirming that the soon to be released compilation The SimCity Box will feature some working version of the Spore creature creator. Rumors have been circulating about the addition of the creature creator on both Amazon and Joystiq, as a box image for The SimCity Box emerged with the Spore content promoted in […]

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April 16th, 2008

Nintendo denies new DS rumor

Nintendo Japan has just flat out denied the possibility of a DS hardware revision for this year’s E3. Read that again…slowly. For this year’s E3. Remember that Nintendo is a company with a penchant for re-re-re-releasing hardware and software that becomes successful in the market. So it might not be this year’s E3 but anybody […]

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April 3rd, 2008

Sins of a Solar Empire Expansion Imminent

According to Wired, Brad Wardell, president and CEO of Stardock, has just confirmed an expansion to Stardock’s popular space strategy game: Sins of a Solar Empire. While the Ironclad games developed expansion doesn’t have a release date, it is reportedly coming in the “reasonably near future.”
Wardell said the expansion would feature a campaign mode, something […]

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February 22nd, 2008

360 HD-DVD To Drop To $50

Rumors from GDC say that the Microsoft Xbox 360 HD DVD player will be dropping in price to a still expensive $50. Expensive since this is essentially a dead technology, We should be paid to even bring one of these chumps home.

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February 20th, 2008

Wii Fit US Launch On May 19

It looks like Wii Fit has a US release date already:
According to the Wall Street Journal, of all places, Nintendo have gotten around to announcing a release date for money-printing balance (remember, balance, not fitness) training game Wii Fit. It’ll be released in the US on May 19, so those looking for new ways to […]

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February 10th, 2008

Viacom not interested in Take Two

The Intarwebs were buzzing for the past few days due to rumors that Viacom was attempting to buy Take-Two. This is not true, according to a report by Reuters.
News of the rumors spiked shares of Take-Two 12 percent on Thursday. But unfortunately, it was just wishful thinking. Reuters sites an unnamed source “familiar with the […]

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February 4th, 2008

Gears of War 2 Info in Gamepro 234

GamePro issue 234, which hits news stands on Feb. 12 and mailboxes next week, has the goods on Rainbow Six Vegas 2, including new information, new weapons, game modes, and features. But what makes me more excited is the release of new Gears of War 2 info, hopefully some screenshots and a game overview.

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February 1st, 2008

Microsoft dispels Halo Wars PC news

We know that Microsoft’s Ensemble Studios is hard at work on the next fix in the franchise - the Halo Wars real-time strategy game but if a report on the gaming web site Angry Pixel is to be believed, the final game will support cross-platform play between the Xbox 360 and PC versions. Yep, we […]

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