| Saints Row 2: Not like GTA IV | |
| Posted: 19.06.2008 09:57 by |  Comments: 2 |
 Brian Farrell, THQ’s chief executive told investors that their up and coming title, Saints Row 2 will be “very differentiated” to Rockstar rival GTA IV. Featuring more "tongue-in-cheek" and "silly, over-the-top gameplay", Violation’s sequel hopes to stand apart from Bellic’s grim underworld-tale by including more customisation, a more integrated co-op mode and a “unique” combat system. | |
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| Paramount could get sued over EA's Godfather game | |
| Posted: 19.06.2008 09:49 by Kres | Comments: 3 |
 Reuters are reporting that author Mario Puzo's son is trying to sue Paramount over EA's Godfather game because Puzo's estate didn't receive any royalties from the games release. EA acquired the licence from Paramount, and now Anthony Puzo is trying to claim over $1 million in damages. | |
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| It lives! 250,000 species created in one Spore day, rude ones too | |
| Posted: 19.06.2008 07:08 by Jamie | Comments: 1 |
 The Spore Creature Creator has spawned over 250,000 new life forms in just one day from hitting the web.
Amusingly and disturbingly a number of taboo body parts have been either replicated or encompass new species as a whole. Yes, willies and boob monsters - for shame! | |
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| No title announcements from LucasArts at E3, "too much noise" | |
| Posted: 19.06.2008 06:49 by Jamie | Comments: 2 |
 If you've followed the gaming news recently you will know that LucasArts blew a lot of employees into space dust, and the subsequent leaked 'secrets'.
Apparently though they won't be making any new title unvelings at this year's E3 event because of "too much noise" surrounding the show. Darn. | |
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| Ghostbusters material from Zootfly team helped | |
| Posted: 19.06.2008 05:26 by Jamie | Comments: 1 |
 A while back Zootfly floated footage of a Ghostbusters game but had no license from Sony to do much of anything with it.
Mark Randel, president of Terminal Reality, commented in their interview with OXM that "what Zootfly did for us, inadvertently, is help sell the concept." | |
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| BBC spills beans on "whole new version" of Driver, Ubisoft quiet | |
| Posted: 19.06.2008 04:54 by Jamie | Comments: 1 |
 The UK's BBC conducted a little video poke around at Ubisoft Reflections in Newcastle, where they report the team is "working on a whole new version" of Driver.
A later clip centred around the UK industry struggling from oversea tax breaks reiterates the studio is working on "the latest version of a popular driving game". | |
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| GamersGate awards the most active SI members! | |
| Posted: 18.06.2008 14:20 by Jurgen | Comments: 14 |
 The leading online distribution site, GamersGate, awards the most active SI members with a FREE game, of their choice! What's good about this is that this isn't a competition of any sort. This is just an announcement. | |
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| EA's Riccitiello reveals Need for Speed: Undercover in the works | |
| Posted: 18.06.2008 07:13 by Jamie | Comments: 6 |
 Whilst at an investors meeting John Riccitiello confessed to "torturing" the team behind the NFS franchise which led to the "not good" NFS: Pro Street.
The team has been split in two to ease the cycle load, something he feels will help them "get better from here." | |
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| EA CEO John Riccitiello; "Dragon Age won't be a risk" | |
| Posted: 18.06.2008 06:15 by Kres | Comments: 2 |
 EA CEO John Riccitiello has been talking at a session with investors at the William Blair & Company's 28th Annual Growth Stock Conference, and assured investors that the upcoming Bioware RPG Dragon Age would not be a risk for the company. | |
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| Gears of War movie gets the Die Hard touch, Cliffy B to consult | |
| Posted: 18.06.2008 06:02 by Jamie | Comments: 5 |
 Len Wiseman, director of Die Hard 4.0 and Underworld, takes the big job of shouting "cut" and is working along with Chris Morgan to scribble a script, reports Variety.
Our industries own Cliffy B is attached as executive producer and will be consulting on behalf of Epic Games and Microsoft. | |
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