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Square Enix reveals NA and European date for Sleeping Dogs

Posted: 13.04.2012 by JonahFalcon

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Square Enix has announced that its upcoming open world title Sleeping Dogs will be hitting North American retail on the 14th August, 2012 and European retail on 17th August, 2012 for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

The publisher also announced the preorder bonuses for the game from Best Buy, GameStop and Amazon.com.

Square Enix spotted with 'Rebellion Overdrive' trademark

Posted: 09.02.2012 by Technet2k

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Now that the mysterious Sleeping Dogs filing by Square Enix is found out to be United Front Games' reboot of True Crime: Hong Kong, it's time to solve another trademark riddle.

What is Rebellion Overdrive? There's some speculation it could be the publisher's Unreal Engine 3 game in the works, or perhaps a subtitled project for another IP? Time will tell.

Square Enix confirms Sleeping Dogs, formerly True Crime: Hong Kong, for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360

Posted: 08.02.2012 by JamieSI

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Square Enix has confirmed the development of Sleeping Dogs, which will be developed by United Front Games in collaboration with Square Enix London Studios for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the second half of 2012. The game was formerly True Crime: Hong Kong, which was originally cancelled by Activision and picked up by Square-Enix.

Sleeping Dogs is a gritty and visceral openworld cop drama set in the city of Hong Kong. Players take on the role of undercover cop Wei Shen, tasked with taking down a criminal organisation known as the Hong Kong Triads.

Report: Square Enix releasing Sleeping Dogs in August, True Crime reboot

Posted: 08.02.2012 by Technet2k

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Activision drop kicked United Front Games' True Crime: Hong Kong for 'not being good enough', but Square Enix snapped up the project and let United Front repackage the open world title.

It seems Square's Sleeping Dogs isn't referring to Kane & Lynch 3 after all but the True Crime reboot, and it's due out this August. The game was shown at Destination PlayStation.

Ward: "Gaming world is changing" and now only top tier succeed

Posted: 17.10.2011 by Technet2k

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Activision Blizzard SVP of Worldwide Studios, Brian Ward, says the console game landscape has shifted and now only the top tier of a genre can succeed.

Whereas "four or five years ago" any top 10 in a genre did well on console, now it's "concentrated on the top two" in each. Activision has responded.