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September 2008 Archive

Sept. 30, 2008
1. Valkyria Chronicles gets firm release date
2. Eidos making Shellshock sequel
3. Xbox 360 outselling PS3 two-to-one - MS
4. Xbox Live comes back to life
5. The Art of Fable 2
6. Steam to begin hosting mods
7. Runes of Magic
8. Wii tearing away as UK market leader
9. Fable 2 art guys wanted "Fable, but done by Ridley Scott"
10. Spellborn to have free starter zone
11. Nintendo making own Wii Jog peripheral?
12. PopCap reinventing Bejeweled in October
13. Rebellion talks Shellshock 2
14. PC Roundup
15. PC demo of Sacred 2 now available
16. Gears 1 maps to be DLC for Gears 2
17. Funcom to merge Age of Conan servers
18. Wii to get DLC for Rock Band 2
19. Xbox Live still down for maintenance
20. Director of 300 to make videogames
21. Puzzle Quest bound for iPhone
22. Sony Online looking at PSP MMOs
23. Force Unleashed dominates UK charts
24. War World on XBLA this Wednesday
25. Capcom dates Age of Booty
Sept. 29, 2008
1. Bleszinski: "Internet facilitates dickishness"
2. LittleBigPlanet beta keys still available
3. Mega Man 9
4. Rise of the Argonauts
5. Play Call of Duty 5 at Eurogamer Expo
6. PES 2009 demo on Thursday
7. Gouken for Street Fighter IV console
8. Is the press to blame for Jack Thompson?
9. Maddie is a character in Halo 3 game
10. Elections for second EVE council begin
11. Earn game time with WOW credit card
12. Rock Band 2 to get Red Hot Chilis' album
13. Job ad hints at LOTRO for consoles
14. New Xbox Experience themes info
15. New 360 front end coming in November?
16. Register your CV for GI.biz Career Fair
17. The New Xbox Experience
18. The New Xbox Experience: Avatars
19. Burnout Paradise Trophies released
20. Disgaea DS gets European release date
21. XBLA revenues up by over 60 per cent
22. New DS out this year, says Nikkei report
23. MySims Kingdom
24. Fable 2 to ship without online co-op
Sept. 27, 2008
1. Maddie ref. an "unfortunate coincidence"
2. City of Heroes mission editor delayed
3. Paradise City tiny compared to Fuel map
4. Duke Nukem 3D
5. Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli
6. Banjo-Kazooie XBLA gets date, price
7. Dev would "love to do" console Total War
8. PSN-exclusive Punisher game in works
9. Pristontale 2: The Second Enigma
10. Analyst: WAR will get 250-350k subs
11. Resistance 2
12. Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
13. Secret Ensemble project a Halo MMO?
14. Dofus opens new Heroic server
15. de Blob
16. Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
17. Vanguard offers free reactivation
18. WAR bans gold sellers "like crazy"
19. Price cut boosts 360 sales by 32 per cent
20. GTR: Evolution
21. Exclusive BIA: Hell's Highway vids
22. DS Roundup
23. Burnout Paradise: Bikes Pack
24. Publishers "scared" to scrap DRM
25. LittleBigPlanet pushed forward a week
26. Age of Conan will be more "player-centric"
27. Civilization IV: Colonization
28. Massive Wars
29. Empire: Total War
30. No downlodable demo for Far Cry 2
31. Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest
32. LittleBigPlanet Trophies listed on internet
33. Sonic leads Virtual Console charge
34. Yakuza 2
35. More GRID content on its way
36. Redlynx Trials 2 gets a beefy update
37. New details for GTA: Chinatown Wars
38. Free bass for anyone pre-ordering Guitar Hero: World Tour 'super bundle'
39. Fracture, Soulcalibur IV demos on PSN
40. Clancy games coming to Wii, says Ubi boss
41. New PAL Releases Roundup
42. Guitar Hero outselling Rock Band 6 to 1
43. Nintendo unveils Christmas DS bundles
44. Xbox Live Arcade Roundup
45. Mythic clarifies comments about EA
46. Rage for Xbox 360 to come on two discs
47. Samba De Amigo
48. Videogame epilepsy tests are "subjective", says WipEout HD dev
49. Age of Conan director leaves Funcom
50. EA responds to Spore DRM concerns
51. Barnett bets on 1m WAR subs in a year
52. I'll take on Sony any day, says MS man
53. Peter Molyneux picks apart Too Human
54. WAR ships 1.5 million copies
55. UK charts: EA trio still riding high
56. Listen to One Life Left online
57. Team 17 making more Alien Breed
58. MTV making Rock Band 2 telly show
59. Lich King Collector's Edition details
60. WOW: Lich King date confirmed
61. Why SEGA stopped making consoles
62. Gold Commodore 64 sells for GBP 2650
63. RACE Pro to cross finish line in January
64. Konami doing sandcastle building sim
65. Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen
Sept. 26, 2008
1. WAR claims 500,000 players
2. New PAL Releases Roundup
3. America's Next Top Model for DS
4. Kojima already has ideas for MGS5
5. Jack Thompson kicked out of the law
6. Shaun White Snowboarding for DS, PSP
7. Xbox 360 trumps PS3 in Japan again
8. MS spends big on Christmas advertising
9. Maddie reference spotted in Bungie trailer
10. Battlefield Heroes
Sept. 25, 2008
1. Nintendo announces Wii Music date
2. WipEout HD stars in PS Store update
3. Bungie reveals Halo project trailer
4. EA calms Spore forum threat outcry
5. Molyneux's next "ridiculously ambitious"
6. Animal Crossing for Wii this Christmas
7. Super-deluxe Dead Space pack unveiled
8. Spore sales top 1 million
9. Bungie to unveil Halo project today?
Sept. 24, 2008
1. Peggle XBLA to feature four-player mode
2. Buzz! PS3 special edition for Christmas
3. EA threatens to cancel Spore accounts
4. Mega Man 9 gets a release date
5. No Team Fortress 2 updates for PS3
6. Drug-dealing mini-game for GTA DS
7. Xbox Live users back Barack
8. Level-5 doing horror RPG for PSP
9. Downtime planned for Live this Monday
10. Interplay's Fallout MMO confirmed
11. Force Unleashed sales total 1.5 million
12. Duke Nukem 3D for XBLA today
Sept. 23, 2008
1. LittleBigPlanet beta keys all gone!
2. Halo 3 title update available today
3. Hydrophobia already set for a sequel
4. Burnout Paradise for PSN this week
5. Ensemble was "shocked" by studio closure
6. Quantum of Solace for US in early Nov
7. UK charts: Force Unleashed the new star
8. Listen to One Life Left online
Sept. 22, 2008
1. Make your own Guinness World Record
2. Suda51's The Silver Case for PSN
3. Chronicles of Spellborn dated
4. Eurogamer Expo tickets on sale now!
5. Cities XL
6. First details of Euro Combat Arms
7. New Golden Axe game gets date
8. 50 Cent sequel not dead yet
9. GTA on Wii "didn't really feel natural"
10. Fable 2 Achievements unearthed
11. Home 1.00 launching end October?
12. Rockstar's LA Noire a year away
13. Bejeweled add-on coming to WOW
Sept. 19, 2008
1. New details emerge of Star Trek Online
2. Four multiplayer modes for Far Cry 2
3. PlayTV
4. Wii Music gets US release date
5. Movie man buys Mass Effect rights
6. Far Cry 2 LiveText TODAY!
Sept. 18, 2008
1. Mirror's Edge gets release date
2. Fracture, Mercs 2 demos now live
3. A Public WAR
4. Sony and Jaffe sued over God of War
5. Warhammer Online's Mark Jacobs
6. Put motorbikes in Burnout Paradise
7. No video streaming for early PS Home
8. Myst Online man on why his game failed
9. PS3 still needs a defining game - Molyneux
10. Help choose platforms for TimeSplitters 4
11. Life with PlayStation now live
12. Life with PlayStation now live
13. Guitar Hero: Hendrix on the way
Sept. 17, 2008
1. The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
2. 'Google to buy Valve' report "speculation"
3. Peggle sequel now on internet
4. Life with PlayStation temporarily available
5. Nintendo employees make USD 1.6m each
6. White Knight Chronicles gets release date
7. PS3 gets optional firmware update
8. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play
Sept. 16, 2008
1. Ubisoft orders EndWar to early November
2. Fable 2 Pub Games glitch was intentional
3. SSFII Turbo HD Remix still for 2008
4. Warhammer Online's Paul Barnett
5. Activision will influence console design
6. Loads more Guitar Hero games by 2010
7. Atari dates bundle of games
8. God of War III to get 120-page script
9. The Last Guy
Sept. 15, 2008
1. WipEout HD arriving next week
2. Mercenaries 2 demos this week
3. Burnout bikes arriving on Thursday
4. New Xbox 360 Controller
5. Full Guitar Hero: World Tour set-list
6. FIFA World Cup tournament to return
7. Monster WOW patch enters testing
8. Duke Nukem 3D dated for XBLA
9. Microsoft fires whistleblowing employee
10. EA abandons Take-Two takeover idea
11. Lich King release date announced?
Sept. 13, 2008
1. X Factor
2. Disney's Avalanche
Sept. 12, 2008
1. Crysis Warhead
2. Sony upset with third-party PSP support
3. UK retail points to 360 Christmas price-cut
4. The Gaming Difference
5. Activision buys B-Boy developer
6. Trauma Center: New Blood dated
7. Supreme Commander
8. BioShock PS3 demo in early October
9. Midway reveals MK vs. DC character list
10. Major Minor's Majestic March
11. Rise of the Argonauts due in November
12. FIFA and PlayTV demos in PSN update
13. Big three respond to August US sales
14. WAR server types, names announced
15. Capcom to focus on multi-platform games
16. WOW opens PVE to PVP transfers
17. Destroy All Humans! on Xbox Originals
Sept. 11, 2008
1. WipEout HD price announced
2. MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
3. One Life Left returns!
4. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
5. MotorStorm 2 ploughing into October
6. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
7. No Quest for Booty disc for UK
8. Gizmondo 2 seen, on track for year's end
9. Rare was working on Avatars "before Miis were part of gaming scene"
10. Guitar Hero: World Tour
11. Ted Nugent joins Guitar Hero: World Tour
12. Halo Studio gearing up for next-gen
13. FIFA 09 to feature online clan system
14. New PAL Releases Roundup
15. TNA iMPACT!
16. TNA Impact gets downloadable wrestlers
17. Midway Gamers Day asset roundup
18. TNA iMPACT's Kurt Angle
19. EA and Gillette doing huge 360 tourney
20. Sony doing Jeopardy! for US PSN
21. Braben: pre-owned is "damaging" market
22. Fracture PS3 and 360 demos next Thurs
23. Eurogamer t-shirt winners unveiled
24. FIFA 09 demos: PC out, PS3/360 today
25. Microsoft: We still own Age of Empires
26. Ubisoft turns attention to dog coaching
27. Burning Crusade's quality delayed WAR
28. Tony Hawk with tilt controls on DS
29. PES 2009 includes Champions League
30. COD4 Variety maps going half-price
31. Tabula Rasa is safe, says NCsoft
32. DS Roundup
Sept. 10, 2008
1. SingStar ABBA unveiled for PS3, PS2
2. Xbox Live Arcade Roundup
3. MotorStorm: Pacific Rift demo details
4. LBP would not work on 360 "as it is"
5. Red Alert 3 to use "more lenient" DRM
6. Spore prototypes open to public
7. Puzzle Quest heading to PSP Store
8. Chocobo's Dungeon dated for October
9. NCsoft's European MMO canned?
10. Help rename Games for Windows - Live
11. BF Bad Company getting Trophies
12. Apple hypes games for new iPod touch
13. Microsoft shutting down Ensemble Studios
14. Soulcalibur Legends
Sept. 9, 2008
1. Velvet Assassin slips into early 2009
2. Games to trump music sales at HMV
3. Florensia
4. Samba de Amigo held back a week
5. All That Remains songs for Rock Band
6. Big Vanguard update next week
7. Project Origin dated, becomes F.E.A.R. 2
8. WOW Arenas: regional winners
9. New Metallica album for GH3 on Friday
10. Opoona
11. Duke Nukem to be Hollywood film
12. PAL Novastrike submitted to SCEE
13. UK Banjo pre-orders net XBLA version
14. New Harry Potter game next summer
15. Midway: 360 "lagging behind" in Europe
16. Sony sorry for SOCOM beta collapse
17. Jacobs on WAR beta: "GOA messed up"
18. Mercenaries 2 does a job on UK chart
19. Three more for Xbox Live Arcade on Weds
20. Virtual Console Roundup
Sept. 8, 2008
1. Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
2. S?ldner-X: Himmelsstürmer set for PSN
3. Morrisons doing half-price games all week
4. Guitar Hero: Aerosmith demo on Live
5. Football Manager 2009
6. Beatnik unveils XNA game Plain Sight
7. Combat Arms gets Euro beta date
8. EA cuts price of Rock Band in Europe
9. PC Roundup
10. Buffy MMO will be 2D first, 3D later
11. Bungie reveals Achievements for Halo 3
12. THQ doing Warhammer 40K shooter?
13. Age of Conan available on Steam
14. Original 360 defect rate was 68 per cent
15. SingStar boss leaves Sony for Atari
16. Spore is meant to be Sims, not Half-Life
17. WAR open beta struggles in Europe
18. Schappert to keynote TGS next month
19. Eden details Alone in the Dark PS3
20. Lanning wants Oddworld Xbox on Steam
21. Infinite Undiscovery
Sept. 5, 2008
1. SOCOM beta keys all gone - for now!
2. Microsoft reduces DLC prices
3. SOCOM beta keys Friday at 4pm!
4. EG techs explain new gamepages
5. Call of Duty 5 gets Euro date, beta
6. EA investigating Spore login problems
7. Randomly selected European gamers to receive US MotorStorm 2 demo
8. Far Cry 2 given solid release date
9. Viva Pi?ata: Trouble in Paradise
10. FaceBreaker
11. Breaking Ground goes live for EQ2
12. Sting playable in Guitar Hero World Tour
13. Wii Roundup
14. No European price cut for Xbox 360
15. More Disgaea tumbling onto PSP
16. Rock Band 2 song transfer priced
17. Call of Duty: World at War dated
18. GTA IV ships over 10 million copies
19. Midnight Club: LA delayed slightly
20. 26 new songs for SingStore
21. Chase HQ and friends on Virtual Console
22. Dead Space release creeps forward again
23. Wario Land: The Shake Dimension
Sept. 4, 2008
1. Japanese charts: Afrika riding high
2. Football Manager 2009 dated, detailed
3. TT not going to "take the p*ss" out of LEGO-game fans
4. Team Ninja has three new games for TGS
5. Free Ryzom accounts on offer
6. Saga of Ryzom to return
7. Nevrax goes into receivership
8. Spore Creatures
9. Exclusive Banjo-Kazooie gameplay vids
10. Tecmo says no thanks to Square Enix
11. Sacred 2 for PC, consoles in November
12. Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes
13. New Halo 3 Achievements list leaked?
14. Buffy the Vampire Slayer MMO announced
15. Pure demo heads PSN weekly update
16. MS cuts price of Xbox 360 in the US
17. New PAL Releases Roundup
18. Spore
19. Kramer, Motorhead, Pistols for GHWT
20. PSP-3000 battery life fine after all
21. Lumines Supernova set for PSN
Sept. 3, 2008
1. Nariko LBP costume with Play pre-orders
2. Eurogamer Expo this October!
3. Conan 360 "still very much set to happen"
4. Football Manager 2009 revelations tonight
5. Lack of ambition to blame for previous Star Wars flops, admits LucasArts
6. EVE Online: The Politics
7. KOEI not planning a Bladestorm follow-up
8. Dynasty Warriors Gundam sequel in 2009
9. WAR item for Red Alert 3 pre-orders
10. UK PSP-3000 bundle contents still TBC
11. WiiWare and Virtual Console Roundup
12. Harmonix denies confirming Nevermind
13. Vote for your Eurogamer t-shirts
14. KORG DS-10 synthesiser for DS in October
15. Japanese direct-access PSP Store soon
16. Elefunk on PSN today
17. What else has Namco Bandai got?
18. LBP public beta sometime this month
19. Three games on XBLA today
20. New Pumpkins single to debut in GH4
21. Court sides with THQ against WWE
22. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09
23. Resistance 2 beta in early October
24. Final Fantasy IV
Sept. 2, 2008
1. Pure PS3 and 360 demos on Thursday
2. Xbox 360 nearing limits of capability - Epic
3. Darkfall Online beta begins
4. PSP-3000 gets UK date, price
5. Legendary
6. The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria
7. SOCOM: Confrontation beta delayed
8. Disaster: Day of Crisis coming in October
9. Viva Pi?ata: Pocket Paradise
10. COD 'didn't finish telling WWII story'
11. Disney DLC for LBP just an example - Sony
12. Square Enix to charge for FFXIII demo?
13. Capcom denies SF IV infinite combo
14. PS3 to get exclusive Mirror's Edge DLC
15. Molyneux would give Fable 2 9/10
16. Age of Booty to cost just over a fiver
17. UK charts: Tiger Woods roars to top
18. Ninja Blade is "seamless" 12-hour slasher
19. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
Sept. 1, 2008
1. Gauntlet DS crusades to October
2. Death Tank being remade for Live Arcade
3. LOTRO could be next "mass-market" MMO
4. WOW Lich King talent calculators go live
5. Mythic details WAR early access dates
6. Pirates vs. Ninjas heading to WiiWare
7. From Software shows Ninja Blade for 360
8. Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
9. Funcom confirms 400k players
10. Vote for new Bad Company maps
11. EA giving Red Alert 1 away for free
12. Microsoft slashes price of 360 in Japan
13. Castle Crashers MP patch coming soon
14. Life with PlayStation delayed again
15. Bleszinski rules out Gears 2 for PC
16. Nintendo raises sales forecasts
17. Kamiya wants to "exceed" God of War
18. Less battery life for PSP-3000, says Sony
19. Pick up Portal for half-price on Steam