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August 2010 Archive

Aug. 31, 2010
1. JRPG dev/pub Atlus safe and sound
2. MS confirms new 360 controller
3. Enslaved UK pre-order deals detailed
4. Kane & Lynch 2 MP add-ons today
5. Tech Interview: LucasArts' frame-rate upscaler
6. IO "satisfied" with Kane & Lynch 2
7. Eurogamer.net Podcast #34
8. XBLA "Game Feast" this October
9. UK Charts: Mafia II takes top spot
10. Valkyria Chronicles II
11. Fallout: NV has 100-point Achievement
12. DS Golden Sun RPG dated
13. Far Cry 3 appears on retailer sites
14. Yakuza PSP demo available to all
15. Xbox Live Gold prices going up
16. Report: Microsoft revising 360 d-pad
17. Final Fantasy XIV open beta tomorrow
18. Infinity Gene for PSN/XBLA next month
19. Blizzard wants Cameron for StarCraft film
20. UNICO: We ruined the Mafia II launch
21. TRON game gets $130 Collector's Edition
22. UK charts: Crackdown 2 in at one
23. Borderlands GOTY in October
24. Nintendo cuts price of DSi in US
25. Vanquish
Aug. 30, 2010
1. Dead Rising 2
2. Inversion
Aug. 28, 2010
1. Political Milestone
2. LucasArts' 60FPS Force Unleashed II tech demo
Aug. 27, 2010
1. The Case for Kinect
2. Xbox headset sound to improve
3. Bank Holiday update schedule!
4. MS selects celebrity Reach team leader
5. Rare on Kinect Sports
6. Sony teasing game reveal next Thursday
7. Red Dead's Liars and Cheats Pack dated
8. Rare urges core gamers to try Kinect
9. Valve once worked on "flying fairy game"
10. PR agency settles fake review charges
11. Download Games Roundup
12. Kinect beta confirmations sent out
13. Play Fighting
14. Chime heading to PC in September
15. Shank issues "not the 360's fault"
16. Joe Danger "People's Patch" released
17. Enslaved Collector's Edition unveiled
18. Staff laid off from Tom Clancy studio
19. BioShock 2: Minerva's Den next week
20. Brad Pitt to star in Red Dead movie?
Aug. 26, 2010
1. Microsoft outlines the future of Xbox Live
2. Dragon Age: Witch Hunt DLC unveiled
3. Microsoft hails Sky Player as a success
4. DJ Hero 2 song list revealed
5. Move: Sony not expecting huge day one
6. Full Rock Band III track list unveiled
7. PS3 Mubi films cost 3 quid each
8. FFXIV limits XP earning after eight hours
9. Dead Space 2
10. UK's first 24/7 game channel announced
11. Sony's Ray Maguire
12. New Nintendo downloads revealed
13. FF Versus XIII may not make next year
14. Microsoft to keynote Tokyo Game Show
15. Google games man leaves after 4 months
16. Bungie: Reach leak won't spoil game
17. Take-Two loses out on bioshock.com
18. Trip Hawkins suing Zynga over Mafia Wars
19. PopCap trademarks Vacation Quest
20. Man tries to finish MW2 without killing
21. PlayStation designer explains all
22. Shank and MotorStorm 3D in PSN update
23. Sony: 3D is not a fad
24. Red Faction: Armageddon
Aug. 25, 2010
1. MS: PlayStation Plus "hasn't changed" us
2. New BioShock enemy's name revealed
3. Yamauchi responds to GT5 controversy
4. Dragon Age 2
5. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
6. Assassin's seeks "research assistants"
7. Alien Swarm adds AI Director
8. MS working on phone-to-console gaming
9. Capcom learned from RE5 racism row
10. THQ asks for "patience" on Metro bug
11. Angry Birds creator hawking movie rights
12. Report: $43m This Is Vegas canned
13. New Doctor Who games for DS and Wii
14. Gearbox to talk Duke Forever at PAX?
Aug. 24, 2010
1. MS took "shortcuts" with Kinect
2. Digital Foundry vs. PSJailbreak
3. Doom 4 dev: 3D needs more time
4. MS confirms voice control for Kinect
5. Eurogamer.net Podcast #33
6. Spec Ops: The Line
7. Serious Sam HD: TSE dated for XBLA
8. R.U.S.E.'s Mathieu Girard
9. Cryptic: we must improve for Neverwinter
10. APB has 130,000 registered players
11. MS: "Unauthorised" Halo: Reach risks ban
12. MotorStorm 3D Rift on PSN this week
13. WOW expansion finally launches in China
14. R.U.S.E. PC demo due this week
15. COD: Black Ops PC to allow modding
16. Mass Effect 2 Shadow Broker DLC dated
17. Valkyria Chronicles 3 on the way?
18. FFXIV open beta in early September
19. Plants vs. Zombies coming to the DS
20. DeathSpank sequel out this year
21. Saw II: Flesh & Blood dated
22. Forza 3 Ultimate Collection sighted
Aug. 23, 2010
1. COD military advisor defends MOH
2. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
3. First Crackdown 2 add-on announced
4. New Neverwinter game announced
5. Red Dead ban hammer coming tomorrow
6. EA hits back at MOH "un-British" claim
7. Splash Damage's Paul Wedgwood
8. COD: MW2 UK's best-selling game ever
9. Wedgwood: Beth lets us get on with it
10. DCMS backs ratings system in MOH row
11. EA: We're not "toning down" Suda51
12. UK chart: Kane & Lynch 2 top dog
13. Eurogamer.net Podcast #32
14. EA in talks with Valve to sign Portal 2
15. Italian city upset with Gran Turismo 5
16. Why Fallout: New Vegas has to end
17. Vanquish demo due next week
18. The Force Unleashed II demo confirmed
19. Madden NFL 11
20. Defence Secretary demands MOH ban
21. Halo: Reach leaked
22. New Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 DLC inbound
Aug. 22, 2010
1. R.U.S.E.
Aug. 20, 2010
1. Realtime Crisis
2. The Art of Fable III
3. Realtime staff sacked via PA address
4. Lionhead working 10x faster on Fable III
5. Killzone 3
6. Tesco buying used games nationwide
7. Master Chief's voice in Halo: Reach
8. Download Games Roundup
9. Guillemot urges "patience" with BG&E2
10. EA: Crysis 2 will be a 90-rated game
11. Third Doctor Who game revealed
12. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow dated
13. Rest of Rock Band 3 setlist leaked?
14. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Aug. 19, 2010
1. Bungie quashes Halo: Reach 3D rumour
2. THQ on everything
3. Hackers may have cracked PS3
4. WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011
5. Sony's Andrew House
6. Suda51's new game is Sine Mora
7. Sony: PS3 now the "de facto" purchase
8. EA: COD creators' game a long way off
9. New PSP has touch-sensitive controls
10. APB will live on in Europe and US
11. New Deathspank game already?
12. EA on APB: Sometimes ideas are too big
13. Call of Duty: Black Ops
14. Take-Two rubbishes Mafia II racism claims
15. Steam saved our bacon - Introversion
16. Gran Turismo 5
17. Yamauchi mentions Gran Turismo 6
18. Fable III
19. Todd Howard working on two new games
20. Resistance 3 unveiled at gamescom
21. Virtua Tennis 4 revealed for PS3
22. Fighters Uncaged revealed for Kinect
23. MJ, Just Dance 2 tracklists outed
24. Valve gives Portal 2 a release date
25. PES 2011 a week after FIFA in UK
26. Front Mission Evolved nudged to October
27. HAWX 2 demo on Euro PS3 Store
Aug. 18, 2010
1. Digital Foundry vs. Mafia II demo
2. All GH Warriors of Rock songs named
3. Mass Effect 2 confirmed for PS3
4. Core community will "love" Kinect - Lewis
5. PS3 AC Brotherhood beta dated
6. Microsoft's Chris Lewis
7. RTW demise blamed on "lacklustre" APB
8. Ubisoft reveals Might & Magic Heroes VI
9. Moore: No Kinect, Move, 3D for FIFA
10. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
11. Ubisoft Eurogamer Expo line-up revealed
12. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
13. Nail'd dated
14. LittleBigPlanet 2 beta "soon"
15. Medal of Honor single-player detailed
16. Red Faction XBLA/PSN game revealed
17. BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger PC dated
18. Instant Jam revealed
19. F1 2010 given solid UK date
20. Lost Planet 2 dated for PC
21. Kinect UK release date announced
22. Cage: Heavy Rain did the business
23. Xbox Live heading to mobile phones
24. Age of Empires Online revealed
25. uDraw GameTablet
26. THQ unveils Wii drawing tablet
27. Xbox 360 exclusive Gun Loco revealed
28. Front Mission 3 heading to PSN, PSP
29. Ghost Recon Predator/Wii unveiled
30. 2K: Mafia II loses some detail on PS3
31. EA dates The Sims 3 on console
32. Kinect for Potter Deathly Hallows
33. APB and Crackdown dev collapses
34. Dragon Age 2 dated for Europe
35. EA dates Crysis 2
36. Beckham fronting EA Sports Active 2
37. DOWII gets expandalone Retribution
38. Gran Turismo 5 dated for Europe
39. PS3s with larger HDDs in September
40. Homefront PC developer named
41. THQ talks Dawn of War III, UFC 3
Aug. 17, 2010
1. New Ratchet & Clank game announced
2. Sony gamescom 2010 conference
3. THQ reveals Space Marine loyalty treats
4. Microsoft rejected Move-style technology
5. Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3: Round 27
6. Blizzard wins $88m in private server case
7. F.E.A.R. 3 delayed
8. Brink
Aug. 16, 2010
1. In Theory: Is Xbox 360 3D Ready?
2. MS clarifies gamescom event format
3. Bethesda's Todd Howard
4. H.A.W.X. 2 demo this week for PS3, 360
5. UK chart: Toy Story 3 still top
6. Mortal Kombat Arcade Compilation outed
7. Fallout: New Vegas
8. How DICE collaborated on Need for Speed's game world
9. Rage
10. Hunted: The Demon's Forge
11. Over 40 assassinations in Halo: Reach
12. SWTOR's advanced Jedi classes revealed
13. PES 2011 Master League keys today
14. BFBC2 Ultimate Edition spotted
15. X-Com creator doing 3DS launch title
16. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 multi-platform
17. Rammstein and Bob Marley in Rock Band 3
Aug. 14, 2010
1. Rage due out in September 2011
2. Google's Got Game
Aug. 13, 2010
1. Respawn not working with Bethesda
2. Zampella: Reviewers should finish games
3. Do the Revolution
4. Crysis 2 dated
5. Realtime "fully committed to APB"
6. Eidos Montreal calms Deus Ex fan fears
7. Realtime rumoured to want to sell APB
8. Tropico 4 announced
9. Tony Hawk: Shred out "this holiday"
10. New Buzz! game spotted
11. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
12. PS Plus subs get original Tomb Raider
13. Zombies confirmed for COD: Black Ops
14. Download Games Roundup
15. Kojima teases weekend announcement
16. Nintendo had Game Boy phone plans
17. StarCraft II US sales monstrous
18. Industry's future depends on Kinect, Move
19. Xbox 360 best-selling console in July
Aug. 12, 2010
1. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
2. id Tech 5 only for Bethesda titles
3. Hollenshead: No Doom 4 at QuakeCon
4. Carmack shows 60fps Rage iPhone game
5. ZeniMax acquires Arkane Studios
6. Levine: Why I passed on BioShock 2
7. Irrational's Ken Levine
8. BioShock Infinite announced
9. COD: Black Ops Prestige Edition is mental
10. Kane & Lynch 2 too violent for telly
11. Stronghold 3 still alive
12. Red Dead Redemption: Legends & Killers
13. Global Agenda gets UK retail release
14. New id game revealed tonight
15. Test Drive Unlimited 2 delayed
16. No Ubi DRM system for PC R.U.S.E.
17. Sony Ericsson to launch PSP Phone?
18. New Metroid made Sakamoto cry
19. Saints Row dev making third-person RPG
20. Fable III sales will top 5m - Molyneux
21. Treyarch warns of Xbox Live COD scam
22. Football Manager 2011
23. Kirby's Epic Yarn out in EU next year
Aug. 11, 2010
1. Ubi hints at more Ass Creed for 2010
2. 11 bands to debut in next Guitar Hero
3. Third Professor Layton dated for Europe
4. Gold Classic Controller Pro coming to UK
5. Scott Pilgrim heads PS Store update
6. Deadly Premonition coming to Europe
7. Fourth Borderlands add-on pack official
8. Football Manager 2011 unveiled
9. Dead Rising 2 EU release brought forward
10. If I Had One Wish…
11. Black Rock wants Split/Second feedback
12. Kinect can't read sign language after all
13. Gearbox making Duke Nukem – Report
14. Wii sales hit 30 million in US
15. Schafer's next game due in autumn
Aug. 10, 2010
1. ArenaNet talks Guild Wars 2
2. RDR Legends & Killers DLC out now
3. Sledgehammer hypes COD audio
4. Acti: IW "will rise from the ashes"
5. Metal Gear: Rising avoids complication
6. Chronicles of Spellborn shutting down
7. Eurogamer.net Podcast #31
8. Matthew Perry and Felicia Day in Fallout
9. Mafia II demo out now
10. Bloodline Champions
11. New Battlefield Heroes items for sale
12. Handheld Harvest Moon coming to UK
13. Pay Street Fighter experts for lessons
14. Valve still working on DotA project
15. Ubi unveils AC: Brotherhood SE
16. SOE unveils 17th EverQuest expansion
17. Battle.net preventing Starcraft II piracy
18. The Force Unleashed II PSP cancelled
19. New species for SWTOR revealed
20. Ace Combat: Assault Horizon announced
21. THQ may scrap annual UFC policy
Aug. 9, 2010
1. Molyneux: Judge Kinect on "the next step"
2. Atelier Rorona: Alchemist of Arland
3. A Guitar Hero game every year "a given"
4. Far Cry 2 dev joins new LucasArts project
5. DICE defends playable Taliban in MOH
6. Remedy has "great" ideas for Alan Wake 2
7. Alan Wake: Remedy Looks Back
8. PC DA2 camera "won't pull as far up"
9. Ancient Trader
10. Next EverQuest game teased
11. Square talks FF Versus XIII "difficulties"
12. Jade Raymond bigs up Ubisoft Toronto
13. UK chart: Toy Story 3 back on top
14. Splinter Cell and POP trilogies appear
15. Quake Live subscriptions revealed
16. Voice actor hints at new Ratchet game
17. Lara Croft launching without online mode
18. Black Rock details Split/Second DLC
19. 250GB Xbox 360 Kinect bundle spotted
20. Game of Life
21. Killzone 3 multiplayer beta planned
22. World of Tanks
Aug. 6, 2010
1. 4 on Demand coming to PS3?
2. Sonic Colours dated
3. Tekken X Street Fighter NOT at gamescom
4. Tekken 6 breaks 3 million sales
5. Download Games Roundup
6. MGS PSP sales "progressed steadily"
7. Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock dated
8. Acti: Bungie focused on new game
9. Next OpFlash "takes on board feedback"
10. Acti: Cataclysm out this year
11. Acti laments poor Blur, Singularity sales
12. 5000 applied to work on COD
13. Pitchford shrugs off Borderlands DLC leak
14. Art Academy
Aug. 5, 2010
1. True Crime: Hong Kong delayed
2. Sid Meier's Civilization V
3. UK PC gamers denied Mafia II CE
4. Public Enemy, Nas, Wiley in Def Jam
5. Story-driven BioShock 2 DLC announced
6. UK chart: Rayman spent 5 years there
7. Molyneux admits Milo is "contentious"
8. Activision denies "lose the chick" report
9. Blizzard policing erotic role-play in WOW
10. Enslaved's Tameem Antoniades
11. Who would've improved Heavenly Sword?
12. Civilization V demo next month
13. GT5 Signature Edition costs €180
14. High Voltage lays off staff
15. Halo 2 maps remade for Reach
16. World of Darkness MMO reveal soon?
17. Soundgarden album free with Guitar Hero
18. Modern Warfare 2 demo released
19. Red Dead anti-griefing patch released
20. Fable III Kinect support confusion
Aug. 4, 2010
1. DJ Hero 2
2. Inafune's Dead Rising film on XBL
3. LEGO Potter sells 2.7 million
4. BioShock 2: Protector Trials
5. Runic reveals Torchlight sequel
6. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
7. Download LittleBigPlanet cheap on PSN
8. The case for WAR
9. Syndicate trademarks excite
10. Ubisoft grabs Virgin for online tournies
11. PSN Plus August/September content
12. Play Enslaved before it's released
13. EA admits COD and Halo will rule 2010
14. Uncharted film set back indefinitely
15. Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
16. MS wins online multiplayer legal battle
17. RDR Legends and Killers DLC dated
18. EA makes lots of money in first quarter
19. Need for Speed: Shift 2 confirmed
20. Crysis 2 delayed
Aug. 3, 2010
1. BMW prize-carrot tied to Blur demo
2. Report debunks "disc is dead" claims
3. StarCraft II fastest-selling strategy ever
4. Eurogamer.net Podcast #30
5. New Medieval Sims "series" for PC/Mac
6. Sony apologises for PS3 firmware woe
7. Metro 2033 Ranger DLC out now
8. NBA Jam PSN/XBLA possible?
9. EA: Warhammer Online is "profitable"
10. DiRT 3 has over 50 rally cars
11. PC Fable III delayed
12. UK Demon's Souls virtually sold out
13. StarCraft II accounts being stolen
14. ModNation patch to improve load times
15. Create a villager in Fable III
16. Kotick, a flight attendant, and $1.4m
17. COD map packs surpass 20m sales
18. The Curfew
Aug. 2, 2010
1. The Lord of the Rings Online
2. Castlevania: Harmony of Despair
3. SEGA defends 3D Sonic games
4. StarCraft II melting graphics cards
5. The Colour of Sonic
6. Bayonetta-related reveal this week
7. No Move, Kinect for Fight Night Champion
8. EA unveils Create
9. Mag spills DiRT 3 details
10. Resistance 3 trailer reveal at gamescom?
11. West/Zampella's Respawn at QuakeCon
12. Linkin Park MOH video launches
13. UK chart: StarCraft II victorious
14. DiRT 3 unveiled in video
15. Ex-GRIN devs open new studio
16. No release date for BF 1943 on PC
17. Halo: Reach quitters to be "penalised"
18. Realtime explains Project: MyWorld
19. Pokemon transfer system revealed
20. Ex-WOW devs to reveal new game
21. Next Operation Flashpoint named
Aug. 1, 2010
1. Bungie not bothered by Activision's rep