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April 2008 Archive

April 30, 2008
1. Etrian Odyssey confirmed for June
2. SE Lost Planet gets release date
3. Okami Wii gets Euro date
4. New Prince of Persia previewed
5. Prototype to get co-op in the future?
6. Prototype
7. MS, Yahoo rejected Steam, says Valve
8. TrackMania Nations Forever
9. EA-Land to be shut down
10. Bay calls Boll "a f***ing idiot"
11. Crytek drops PC exclusives
12. Aerosmith exclusive to Guitar Hero
13. EA announces BattleForge
14. New TF2 map and mode launch for PC
15. Take-Two says GTA estimates too low
16. UK Gov should celebrate GTA - Kingsley
17. Paddy Power taking bets on GTA success
18. Hirai and Reeves at PlayStation Day
19. Story-driven Unreal will return - Rein
20. Unreal Tournament 3
April 29, 2008
1. Fatal Inertia coming to PSN
2. Fatal Inertia EX
3. Fatal Inertia team "regrets" 360 demo
4. Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
5. Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
6. Make your own City of Heroes content
7. Rockstar gives GTA PS3 advice
8. GTA IV Social Club launches
9. GTA IV smashes records at Play.com
10. Pete Hines on Fallout 3
11. Eight Days in full production
12. PlayStation 3: Are we there yet?
13. Brighton goes bonkers for GTA IV
14. PS3 GTA IV almost certainly 630p
15. Duke Nukem Forever still coming
16. Wii Fit exercises chart dominance
17. KOEI dates PC fighting duo
18. New mode and map for Metal Gear Online
19. GTA helped industry stand up for itself
20. Ghostbusters could come to PSP
21. GTA IV cheat codes in the wild
22. No new XBLA game due to GTA IV
April 28, 2008
1. Premium DLC and Demo Roundup
2. Conquest Mode for Bad Company
3. Arcade Perfect
4. Bourne demo dates altered
5. Crash Bandicoot to return
6. Miyamoto talks Wii Fit
7. Hamill, Ricci to star in Spyro game
8. 50 Cent 2 not set in Middle East
9. Ghostbusters
10. No theme tune remix for Ghostbusters
11. Ghostbusters same on PS3 and 360
12. New WIC will appeal to FPS fans
13. Why no Damon in Bourne game?
14. Assault Heroes 2 in May
15. Bioware wants to innovate in MMOs
16. Sony tots up SingStar sales
17. First Gothic 4 details pop up
18. Next EVE expansion detailed
19. Bungie excited about Jackson project
20. Boll challenges Bay to boxing match
21. Lost Odyssey content on Live
22. Spore demo coming in June
23. Army of Two DLC on Xbox Live
24. Virtual Console Roundup
25. Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli
26. GTA IV review on Sunday
April 25, 2008
1. Battlefield Heroes beta in May
2. Valve: No new Portal this year
3. Nintendo not cutting hardware prices
4. Metal Gear Online beta is live
5. Analysts: PS3 will win GTA battle
6. PS2 Roundup
7. Fallout 3
8. LEGO Batman
9. Bionic Commando multiplayer detailed
10. Codemasters grabs SEGA Racing Studio
11. MGO beta client updated
12. More Assassin's Creed coming
13. Games "miles away from mass market"
14. VC: Double Dragon and two C64 games
15. Free add-on for Two Worlds
16. US/Euro Wii Fit will weigh your pet
17. Xbox 360 passes 19 million mark
18. PSN: Bishi Bashi, C&C, flOw, COD4 pack
April 24, 2008
1. Ubisoft fixing Assassin's Creed on PC
2. Dragon Quest Swords for Wii dated
3. Final Fantasy IV for DS this summer
4. PSP video downloads this summer
5. No PAL echochrome demo today
6. Pokémon Explorers dated
7. Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
8. New Def Leppard single on Xbox Live
9. Smash Bros. Brawl Euro date
10. WiiWare gets Europe date, pricing
11. Wii storms closer to 25 million mark
12. New PAL Releases Roundup
13. Prince of Persia Prodigy rumoured
14. MS hiring for Jackson Halo project
15. The World Ends With You
16. Sam & Max Season 2
17. EA reinvents Monopoly
18. Devil May Cry 4 PC details, demo pledge
19. EA and Hasbro get it on
April 23, 2008
1. Ubisoft looking into Vegas 2 PC error
2. Bikes and planes for Burnout Paradise
3. Burnout Paradise Bogart patch recalled
4. Name the sequel to F.E.A.R.
5. F.E.A.R. sequel named
6. Soulcalibur IV stimulated by competition
7. Alone in the Dark gets flashy edition
8. QuakeCon 2008 registration soon
9. Atari picks up Smash Court Tennis 3
10. Sony unveils GTA IV PS3 bundle
11. Lost Cities
12. Original Xbox Live show after actors
13. End of road for Interplay?
14. Interplay sinks to new low
15. Californian authorities shut Interplay offices
16. Interplay readying fresh website
17. Titus take over at Interplay
18. Fargo quits Interplay
19. Interplay announces Kingpin, Fallout, Airborne and Exalted sequels
20. Interplay up for sale?
21. Interplay re-opens dev studio
22. BioWare ditches Interplay
23. VU Games and Interplay resolve dispute
24. Interplay shatters Trek license
25. Interplay plans Fallout MMO
26. Shake-up at Interplay
27. Vivendi dumped by Interplay
28. Interplay taps into the Matrix
29. Interplay position unclear as Titus declared bankrupt
30. Interplay Strikes Back
31. Interplay buys rights to Exalted
32. Interplay Financial Report
33. Interplay plans Fallout MMORPG amongst others
34. Vivendi to distribute Interplay titles
35. Interplay posts profit [sic]
36. Black Isle / Interplay Licenses LithTech!
37. Titus into receivership, Interplay back to work
38. Earthworm Jim wriggles back to life
39. Eidos explains accessing Conan early
40. MGS 4 features "implied child rape"
41. Harry Potter back again in late 2008
April 22, 2008
1. New Silent Hill this September
2. Get a Mythos closed-beta key
3. Activision rubbishes COD negotation talk
4. Lost Cities for Live Arcade tomorrow
5. GTA development very organic, says dev
6. Grand Theft Auto IV's Aaron Garbut: Part 2
7. Harker put on indefinite hold
8. Xbox Live DLC Roundup
9. Konami extending MGO beta
10. This is Vegas
11. PS3 film service to launch this summer?
12. PlayStation Home pushed back again
13. COD4 PS3 Variety maps this Thursday
14. Charts: Mario Kart still leading pack
15. We Love Golf
16. Camelot could return to Golden Sun
April 21, 2008
1. Realtime Worlds goes it alone with APB
2. No micro-transactions for Guild Wars
3. Fallout 3 demo not possible
4. Tabula Rasa
5. New Midnight Club for September
6. Grand Theft Auto IV's Aaron Garbut: Part 1
7. Sony coy on PlayTV date, price
8. Why Rockstar chooses fun over realism
9. Euro PSP gets firmware update
10. GC: PlayTV unveiled for PS3
11. Sony dismisses PlayTV price/date report
12. Do anything with PlayTV recordings
13. PlayTV
14. No demo for Gears of War 2
15. Lumines added to Steam
16. Dates announced for SOE Fan Faire
17. Top Cow spills on Darkness sequel
18. Mad convict files suit against Rockstar
19. Age of Conan open beta gets date
20. Gears of War comic in October
21. Quake Wars PS3 studio to close
22. Fallout 3 Collector's Edition unveiled
23. Gears 2 teaser on UT 360 disc?
24. Warhawk Operation: Broken Mirror
April 20, 2008
1. Browser RPG Roundup
April 18, 2008
1. Mass Effect DLC free on PC at launch
2. Army of Two DLC coming next week
3. UEFA Euro 2008
4. Time Crisis 4
5. First Rock Band album this month
6. World of Warcraft: Questing Self-Help
7. Premium DLC and Demo Roundup
8. Power to the People
9. Most Wii games "look like crap"
10. Race Driver: GRID
11. COD4 maps break Xbox Live record
12. SPOGS Racers for WiiWare
13. GTA IV being shipped out now
14. Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
15. PSP still on top in Japan
16. Phantasy Star III on Virtual Console
17. Soulcalibur IV for Europe in July
18. Sony, MS react positively to NPD data
19. Midway to unveil Mortal Kombat tonight
20. XNA boss defends Xbox Live Arcade
21. Rockstar Social Club sign-ups live
22. Xbox Live downtime on Monday
23. UT3 on 360 to get fresh content
24. Atari reiterates AITD demo plans
25. Alone in the Dark PS3 due in autumn
26. March Wii sales top 720,000 in US
27. Belloq from Indiana Jones
April 17, 2008
1. Grand Theft Auto IV
2. New Spider-Man game for autumn
3. BIA: Hell's Highway in August
4. BAFTA game awards pushed to 2009
5. New GTA IV telly ad now showing
6. Gervais to make jokes in GTA IV
7. Play Age of Conan three days early
8. Sony back in PSN Thursday routine
9. Wii Roundup
10. New PAL Releases Roundup
11. Mercs 2 dev admits "huge debt" to GTA
12. Mercs 2 PS2 is "true sequel to Mercs 1"
13. Mercenaries 2 demo, DLC planned
14. COD4 PS3 maps coming on May Day
15. Free TrackMania game released
16. More SingStar PS3 songs tomorrow
17. Xbox 360 sales double in Europe
18. Test Drive DLC bundled together for PC
19. Opoona coming to Europe in July
20. Battlefield: Bad Company gets Euro date
21. Don King Presents: Prizefighter
April 16, 2008
1. Paradox doing Black Plague expansion
2. Wii Fit
3. XBLA: Battlezone and Rocky & Bullwinkle
4. More Wii Fits coming, says Nintendo
5. APB coming to PS3 too?
6. Three new Burnout modes unveiled
7. Prototype comic book coming
8. Petroglyph reveals "global" online project
9. DualShock 3 gets Oz release date
10. Battlefield Bad Company gets date
11. Rockstar Social Club registration update
12. Fans rally to save Disney MMO
13. No head-tracking in Boom Blox
14. More Xbox Originals soon on Live
15. Soul Calibur IV gets US release date
16. Sony explains PSN Store niggles
17. GTA IV to sell 6 million copies
18. The Sims hits 100 million
19. PS3 iPlayer already on BBC's roadmap
20. Samuel Jackson in Afro Samurai game
21. Halo 3 Legendary maps arrive
22. Haze demo for PSN in early May
April 15, 2008
1. Still no release date for Sadness
2. Retailers talk Quake Wars console date
3. RedLynx Trials 2 gets update
4. Nintendo WiiWare Roundup
5. Vogster unveils CrimeCraft MMO
6. CCP plays down EVE leak
7. One Life Left on air tonight
8. Redesigned PSN Store now open
9. Star Vault unveils ambitious MMO
10. LittleBigPlanet will be moderated
11. Pipe Mania revamped for summer
12. Meet Page 3 girls at Victoria station
13. Gran Turismo could come to PC
14. "Leaked" GTA IV intro movie is fake
15. Motley Crue doing Rock Band single
16. New MGS4 headset revealed
17. Rune Factory DS heading to Europe
18. UK charts: Mario Kart in pole position
19. UK charts: Gran Turismo still in lead
20. The Witcher editor, add-on and patch
21. More Metal Gear Online beta details
22. Konami details MGO Euro beta
23. Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword
April 14, 2008
1. Two for Live Arcade this Wednesday
2. Just the one DLC pack for Lair
3. Gothic 3 gets Forsaken Gods expansion
4. Eurogamer in blog format launches!
5. Welcome!
6. Premium Content and Demo Roundup
7. Gran Turismo's Kazunori Yamauchi
8. Ikaruga
9. City of Dress-Up
10. Def Leppard single to debut in GH3
11. XNA boss talks up Zune game concepts
12. Universe at War demo on Live
13. Monster Lab
14. WOW Arena Tournament sign-ups begin
15. Fan makes BBC iPlayer work on PS3
16. Harrison proud of Alone in the Dark
17. GTA IV Team and Race MP modes detailed
18. WipEout HD here next month?
19. Baroque coming to Europe in June
20. Games are catching up, says EA boss
21. Nintendo unaware of Mario Kart problems
22. Nintendo rubbishes new DS claims
23. Mafia II formats set in stone
24. MapleStory
25. Super Swing Golf gets Euro date
26. Hitman creators set up new studio
27. PSP Roundup
April 13, 2008
1. Mario Kart Wii
2. Revolving Doors
April 11, 2008
1. Resi 5 boss explains African setting
2. Square Enix announces Wii RPG
3. Pirates of the Burning Sea
4. Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
5. Miyamoto appears in Time's top 100
6. Virtual Console Roundup
7. Off Road Wii gets release date
8. PSP thumps competition in Japan
9. US getting gunmetal grey PS3
10. PS3 is "inviting trouble" with mod support - Microsoft XNA boss
11. Microsoft's Chris Satchell
12. LEGO Indiana Jones here in June
13. Okami
14. GDC: XNA Trials Roundup
15. Spielberg revealed as Crysis fan
16. Rock Band "won't magically get cheaper because you wish it so"
17. Sony unveils fresh Lair DLC
18. Street Fighter film blog resurrected
19. Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition
20. More Resident Evil 5 racism claims
21. PS Store re-launches here next week
22. Harmonix's Rob Kay
23. EA bundles five SimCity games together
24. Chronicles of Spellborn delayed
25. Four fresh titles for Virtual Console
26. Mario Super Sluggers heading West
27. WiiWare version of Toki Tori coming
28. More Pokémon Mystery Dungeon for DS
29. Alone in the Dark to sell 2-3m units
April 10, 2008
1. Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles
2. New video demos changes to PS Store
3. Telltale doing Wii Software game
4. Rockstar wants 18 rating in Australia
5. RedLynx Trials 2: Second Edition
6. Europe will get Metal Gear Online beta
7. Gears criticised for stereotyping
8. Sony unaware of alleged PS3 error
9. GTA IV PS3 bundle is coming
10. Stargate Worlds details emerge
11. Sony quiet on Euro PS Store relaunch
12. Baja
13. Metal Gear Online beta for Japan only?
14. iPlayer could come to PS3 too
15. Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball delayed
16. EVE elections: candidates announced
17. EVE Online embraces democracy
18. EA scraps Bad Company weapon fee
19. Boom Blox gets firm release date
20. Unleashed will go back to Sonic's roots
21. Play as a zombie in new PC shooter
22. iPhone and iPod to work with PS3
23. Next Burnout download dated
24. New PAL Releases Roundup
April 9, 2008
1. Nintendo quiet on Euro Cube controller
2. Kane & Lynch ads banned in the UK
3. Street Fighter film pics break site
4. Wii to get BBC iPlayer
5. Haze finally gets firm May date, again
6. Mattel launches Facebook Scrabble game
7. Dofus
8. Earthworm Jim, MDK and co. to return
9. New Phoenix Wright spin-off on the way?
10. DS Roundup
11. Play.com reduces cost of Rock Band
12. Xbox 360 HD-DVD player gets patch
13. Unreal Engine 4 "years away", says Rein
14. Play as Vader in Force Unleashed
15. Karl Lagerfeld to play DJ in GTA IV
16. SEGA Racing Studio shuts down
17. First Warhammer 40K MMO details
18. Euro Rock Band songs to be like DLC
19. Mass Effect PC delayed a little
April 8, 2008
1. Rock Band man defends Euro price
2. EA extends Unreal Engine partnership
3. Retail to struggle with GTA IV demand
4. Listen to One Life Left tonight
5. Haze
6. Red Faction: Guerrilla
7. THQ: "Warcraft has peaked"
8. Rockstar details GTA IV multiplayer
9. GTA IV console bundle coming?
10. Demigod pushed back to 2009
11. Darksiders: Wrath of War
12. Gamer takes gold farmers to court
13. Everybody's Golf: World Tour
14. Wii Fit already selling out in the UK
15. BioShock 2 to grace the PS3?
16. EA clarifies Rock Band pricing
17. Rock Band gets official Euro date
18. Fresh Kane & Lynch maps dated
19. New PSP firmware out now
20. Microsoft creating its own Wiimote?
21. Warhammer 40K MMO years away
22. GT5 Prologue still ahead in Euro charts
23. Guitar Hero III "perverts" song, says musician
24. Masses of Gears of War 2 details
25. Ikaruga on Live Arcade tomorrow
26. UEFA Euro 2008
April 7, 2008
1. MMO patch news roundup
2. Dawn of War II not at THQ event
3. Levine picks his top five games
4. Artoon making rhythm-based Wii title
5. Chaos Theory: The top five crowd-control combat games
6. Alan Wake info promises rubbished
7. EVE Online
8. THQ Wii Showcase
9. GameCity to return at Halloween
10. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
11. New Burnout Paradise DLC videos
12. Who cares about the console war - THQ
13. Eidos quiet on talk of Thief 4
14. Fresh Lost Odyssey content in April
15. COD4 map pack problems fixed
16. Eidos remaking Gauntlet for DS
17. New TrackMania game to be free
18. Sony US to shut down some servers
19. Rein offers update on UT3 360
20. Stephen King defends games
21. Full Auto developer shuts down
22. Rockstar buys Mad Doc Software
23. The Final Word
24. PC Roundup
April 6, 2008
1. Shots and videos from THQ Gamers Day
April 5, 2008
1. Premium DLC and Demo Roundup
April 4, 2008
1. Saints Row 2 gets release date
2. New Sunshine Beachvolleyball pics
3. Empire of Sports
4. Dark Sector
5. Dyack hits out at so-called trilogies
6. Criterion to "transform" Paradise
7. Puzzle Quest add-on gets title
8. In-game ads coming to City of Heroes
9. Activision coy on Geometry Wars sequel
10. PS Store will still be region-free
11. Two Worlds gets second batch of DLC
12. GTA IV gets cut for Australia
13. Yamauchi: GT PSP unlikely this year
14. Ninja Gaiden DS here in June
15. Star Wars: Force Unleashed dated
16. Mercenaries 2 gets fresh date
17. Just one for Virtual Console this week
18. Sam & Max confirmed for Wii
19. Condemned 2: Bloodshot
April 3, 2008
1. Saints Row team not fazed by GTA IV
2. Saints Row 2
3. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm
4. Mr Driller Online
5. Quake 2
6. Sensible Soccer 2006
7. Pro Evolution Soccer 6
8. Burnout Paradise
9. Virtual Console Roundup
10. SEGA Mega Drive Collection
11. Another World: 15th Anniversary Edition
12. Obscure II
13. Transformers: The Game
14. The Orange Box
15. Team Fortress 2
16. Portal
17. Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War
18. Impossible Mission
19. Rock Band
20. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
21. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
22. Sensible World Of Soccer
23. Tempest
24. New PAL Releases Roundup
25. Devil May Cry 4
26. Turok
27. Conflict: Denied Ops
28. Army of Two
29. The Spiderwick Chronicles
30. SEGA Superstars Tennis
31. Universe at War: Earth Assault
32. Sonic Unleashed confirmed
33. Microsoft denies backing wrong horse
34. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
35. Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
36. Lineage II collector's edition coming
37. Epic rewarding UT3 mod makers
38. City of Heroes weekend draws crowds
39. Kojima talks about the future of MGS
40. Viking: Battle For Asgard
41. Mad people forge actual WOW Epics
42. WAR beta to hit a million sign-ups
43. Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
44. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
45. Metroid Prime
46. Nintendo dominated Japan in 2007
47. Sega Sports Day, with Barry Wannaker and Banal Handsome
48. Space Giraffe
49. Killer 7
50. Dawn of War sequel officially announced
51. Moore on lack of EA Sports PC titles
52. The House of the Dead 2&3 Return
53. Land of the Dead
54. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
55. Rein unsure of Gears 2 Comic Con reveal
56. Alone in the Dark pushed back to June
57. Pandemic doing Batman game?
58. 72 per cent of Americans play games
59. COD 4 maps definitely this week
60. Penny Arcade Greenhouse goes beta
61. Liking games is like having Aspergers
62. Sins of a Solar Empire to get add-on
63. Classic NES Series: Zelda II - The Adventure of Link
64. Commodore 64 Direct-To-TV
65. Forza Motorsport
66. Mashed: Fully Loaded
67. Mashed
68. Gradius V
69. Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy
70. Classic NES Series: Castlevania
71. Tom Clancy plane game gets name
72. Classic NES Series: Dr. Mario
73. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
April 2, 2008
1. "It was a mistake," says BBFC
2. BBFC removes GTA IV info from site
3. Naughty stuff in GTA IV detailed
4. The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
5. Sony coy on Euro DualShock 3
6. Second Warhawk expansion dated
7. Games a "colossal waste of time"
8. Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition
9. Ninja Gaiden 2 gets Euro date
10. Bourne Conspiracy in late June
11. Japan likes Monster Hunter 2G a lot
12. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3
13. Wii Software DLC system explained
14. Watch WiiWare titles in action
15. WiiWare gets Japanese launch date
16. WiiWare launches in Japan
17. Football Manager 2008
18. Ubisoft adds portfolio to Steam
19. Gears of War 2 at Comic Con this month
20. Neverwinter Nights AOL studio closes
21. Rainbow Studios vets create new firm
22. WOW won't make you violent, says study
April 1, 2008
1. PS3 sales topping Xbox 360 in UK
2. Eurogamer t-shirts now on sale
3. Guess the plot for Banjo-Kazooie 3
4. One Life Left on air tonight
5. Mortal Kombat: Blood and Money
6. Celebrate the olden days of videogames
7. PC market dying is a "crazy idea"
8. New Age of Conan PVP modes revealed
9. Byron defends adult gamers' rights
10. SouthPeak Roundup
11. COD4 Map Pack still "early April"
12. Realtime Worlds gets USD 50 million
13. Burnout Paradise PS3 to get new patch
14. Chocobo's Dungeon gets US release date
15. Sony offers SOCOM PS3 details
16. Vegas 2 chalks up 2 million sales
17. New Trauma Center coming to DS
18. Gran Turismo 5 Prologue top of grid
19. Xbox Live DLC Roundup