Games Industry Wire

Dan Aykroyd, one of the actors from the original series of Shosbusters movies has publicly said that he will be lending his voice to a new Ghostbusters game. According to the Edmonton Sun he will not be doing the voice and motion capture until next year which means a late 2008 release for the game is possible but 2009 is probably more likely.
Gamespot, who also reported the news, had expressed doubts over who would be producing the game after videos of a pretty radical game based on the series surface on YouTube. The Edmonton report also revealed that Universal purchased …read more

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Ubisoft, I believe, has created the first killer app for the 360, Ghost Recon: Advance Warfighter, and it seems that gamers are letting Ubisoft know the game is amazing.
Ubisoft’s shares have risen 4% on account of this one title for the 36O and Xbox. GRAW has sold over 240,000 in the US and 120,000 in the UK and, as of right now, is the fastest selling 360 game thus far.
Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft Chairman said, “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter had the best ever first-week sales performance for our company and is looking like a major commercial success.”
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Reports from development sources close to Sony Computer Entertainment are indicating that the firm is planning a major digital distribution service for game content, which could be a key element of PlayStation 3 – or even of a relaunched PS2.

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Now, I know this is a gaming industry blog, but I think this video exemplifies, illustrates, elucidates, and demonstrates why the gaming industry exists (no matter what you think). These two guys are what we like to call the “leet” of the gaming world.

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We’re working with the government pretty actively in trying to understand what it is we need to do,” said Alan Bowman, general manager of entertainment and devices for Asia Pacific and Greater China. “We’re taking a very careful approach in China.”

Bowman said. “We’re going to make sure that we make the right moves, develop the right content, have the right partnerships in place. It’s not something you want to rush in and do.

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MediaCreate tracks the top 10 video game sales every week in Japan and in the US (seperately). On the Japanese charts, the top five spots were all DS games this week; Brain Training 2, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Mario Kart DS, DS Training for Adults: Work Your Brain (Brain Training), Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time (in order).
MediaCreate also informs us that the DS console sold really, really well these last few weeks in Japan as well. In fact, they ran out of DS handhelds in some stores, and Nintendo actually had to apologize for the DS shortages.
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