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July 2008 Archive

July 31, 2008
1. Bayonetta
2. Id announces Doom II RPG
3. Rage still a long way from release - Willits
4. New Nintendo hardware in development
5. Sony Japan not doing echochrome sequel
6. Ubisoft details Armored Core for Answer
7. FaceBreaker, Madden demos on Xbox Live
8. New PAL Releases Roundup
9. PixelJunk Eden leads PSN charge
10. Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
11. You could always use BitTorrent - Reeves
12. Bionic Commando Rearmed
13. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat devs FIGHT
14. Devs don't need producers - Naughty Dog
15. Ghostbusters, Brutal Legend still on track
16. Devil May Cry 4
17. Bourne rights up for grabs again
18. Bungie "very excited" about Halo Wars
19. NCsoft taking gamers' DNA to space
20. WAR system requirements revealed
21. Dodgy Ninja Gaiden 2 content back on Live
22. Game journos are lazy, says exec
23. Gran Turismo TV cheap for two weeks
24. Rockstar wins big at Develop awards
25. Uncharted Trophies are same as medals
26. Bungie talks AI and animation
27. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
July 30, 2008
1. Piranha Bytes offers details on "RPB"
2. Online distribution made LostWinds work
3. Piranha Bytes doing new game
4. Game quality has "skyrocketed" - Braben
5. Leipzig keynote all about Demigod
6. SoulCalibur IV review
7. Levine warns against early focus testing
8. PS3 games earn big bucks for EA
9. Moral choices came late to BioShock
10. Levine: extra development time helped to make BioShock a success
11. GTA Chinatown Wars site appears
12. Grand Theft Auto heading to DS
13. New Gaia Online MMO named zOMG!
14. Champions Online to feature UGC
15. Nintendo profits up by a third
16. Mass Effect DLC released on PC
17. PS3 gets new firmware update
18. EA delays Battlefield Heroes, Tiberium
19. EA man wants to charge for Spore content
20. EA doing 40 games for Wii and DS
21. Crysis Warhead
July 29, 2008
1. APB isn't Realtime's only game
2. Ubi delays HAWX, dates Hell's Highway
3. Space Siege demo pops up
4. PS3 selling twice as well as last year
5. WAR is "finished", could ship now
6. WAR: "we can't schedule for sh**"
7. Resi, Devil May Cry comics in the works
8. Penny Arcade dev explains PSN delay
9. Hell's Highway experiences tailback
10. Free multiplayer for silver Live members
11. UK charts: Wii Fit back on top
12. Ghostbusters drops off release schedule
13. Okami needs to sell or no sequel
14. Lionhead has three more Fables planned
15. Braid, Galaga, Castle Crashers dated
16. PSN is in Bizarre's plans "going forward"
17. Wada says Square Enix is platform-neutral
18. Go! Go! Break Steady
19. Double D Dodgeball
20. Coffeetime Crosswords
July 28, 2008
1. Bionic Commando Rearmed dated
2. Riccitiello: EA quality up "sharply"
3. Guild Wars
4. Midway doing Mortal Kombat PS2 bundle
5. InFamous
6. Funcom shares halve post-Conan
7. Ninja Gaiden 2 mission pack back today
8. New Marvel vs. Capcom game in works?
9. Virtual Console Roundup
10. EA indicates September for WAR
11. The Wheelman veers into 2009
12. Gears of War 1 to unlock Gears 2 content
13. MS: We'll "explore not exploit" Halo
14. David Cage clarifies Uncharted comments
15. David Cage on Heavy Rain storytelling
16. Wii Music playing in October in Japan
17. SSFII Turbo HD Remix beta extended
18. Gears film gets Legendary boost
19. Star Trek Online for PC and console
20. Ubisoft using MotionPlus in Red Steel 2
21. Cryostasis
July 26, 2008
1. Mechner happy with next POP game
2. Arkanoid DS
July 25, 2008
1. Wright: "Play Spore for your entire life and you'll never visit everywhere"
2. Microsoft hints at 'HaloCon' event
3. Tera Patrick working on Saints Row 2
4. Bionic Commando Rearmed date TBC
5. PS3 Alone in the Dark this November
6. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
7. Atari and Jamie Oliver love to cook
8. Dexter game is for iPhones
9. Acti mute on Guitar Hero IV track list
10. Q Entertainment shaping Peggle for DS
11. Fallout 3
12. More Wakfu beta keys to give away
13. More Dragonforce for Guitar Hero III
14. Midnight Club: Los Angeles
15. Telltale doing Wallace & Gromit games
16. PDC Darts trying again on Xbox 360
17. Resistance 2 beta will be worldwide
18. Nintendo and Sony watching iPhone
19. IK+ heads VC update
20. EVE Fanfest tickets go on sale
21. Burnout 360 Cagney patch delayed again
22. Sony changes tune on WipEout HD
23. ESA can save "soulless" E3 - Moore
24. Bungie has "three distinct projects"
25. HD Remix patch details and videos
26. Bungie boss "laughed" when MS pulled Halo from E3 briefing - Mattrick
27. Bungie president "certainly didn't agree" with decision to postpone Halo E3 reveal
28. 1942: Joint Strike
29. Games are exceeding movies - Stan Lee
July 24, 2008
1. Splinter Cell delayed until 2009/10
2. New PAL Releases Roundup
3. Get all classes in Too Human demo
4. Microsoft's Don Mattrick
5. PSN: Siren, Gangs of London PSP
6. Geometry Wars 2 next Wednesday!
7. PixelJunk Eden Trophies outlined
8. Siren PS3 last-minute price change
9. Siren: Blood Curse
10. HMV offering Hell's Highway goodies
11. World of Kung Fu to launch soon
12. Xbox Live hosting original horror films
13. No room for growth in subs MMOs
14. Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway
15. Xbox 360 will outperform PS3 in software for years - Mattrick
16. Sony's Kaz Hirai
17. First N+ booster bundle on Xbox Live
18. Lich King beta keys sell for big money
19. Sony's David Reeves
20. Dragon Age: Origins
21. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
22. PS3 snares Penny Arcade Adventures
23. Another boost for WOW levelling
24. EA making strides into Hollywood
25. Hellgate "not going away" - Namco
26. Wii storage is now "mainstream problem"
27. Wii receiving online photo service
28. GfW Live not competing with Steam
29. SEGA dates Samba, Valkyria, Yakuza 2
30. Ferrari Challenge's Mark Cale
July 23, 2008
1. More Ferrari Challenge tracks confirmed
2. Warner making episodic Watchmen games
3. PS3 Ferrari Challenge DLC priced, dated
4. Halo 3 is number one on Xbox Live again
5. Gary Oldman outs Dark Knight game
6. Nintendo: you've seen all our 2008 games
7. Sony downplays FFXIII Xbox 360 deal
8. FFVII for PS3 is "rumour and speculation"
9. Metal Slug 7 due out in September
10. New info on Conan PVP revamp
11. WOW Lich King talents in full
12. Portal: Still Alive content explained
13. Portal coming to Xbox Live Arcade
14. Capcom working on HD Remix beta patch
15. Nintendo denies ignoring core gamers
16. XNA community games priced, detailed
17. Games for Windows Live is now free
18. X360 products are innovative - Schappert
19. E3 will return in 2009, says ESA
20. Wii Classic Controller faces US ban
21. BioShock
July 22, 2008
1. Paramount making girly films into games
2. Puzzle Quest expansion on Live tomorrow
3. More Nine Inch Nails for Rock Band
4. X360 has "fallen back" since GTA - Sony
5. Virtuoso Pack for Guitar Hero 3 on Thurs
6. SingStore update this Friday
7. Mirror's Edge
8. Jade Empire added to Xbox Originals
9. 2K details BioShock PS3 Trophies
10. Virtual Console Roundup
11. Tabula Rasa to revamp crafting
12. Peter Molyneux considering MMO options
13. Capcom officially unveils Dead Rising Wii
14. Some of my best developers are black, says Resi Evil 5 producer
15. Wii Sports Resort
16. SPOGS Racing
17. Pirates: The Key of Dreams
18. Double update for Live Arcade tomorrow
19. Home won't be an anti-climax, says Hirai
20. UK charts: LEGO Indy back on top
21. Gears of War books on the way
22. Elefunk
July 21, 2008
1. All LBP user content to be free at launch
2. FES edition of Persona 3 in October
3. EVE Online: combat basics
4. New Cooking Mama Wii coming to Europe
5. Metal Gear advisor faces smuggling rap
6. "No permanent solution" to MGO problems
7. Eurogamer TV: The Best of E3
8. Perry says E3 was an "embarrassment"
9. SEGA unveils new Sonic game for Wii
10. HMV to sell VAT-free games in-store
11. Mythos beta closes down
12. Ferrari Challenge live chat this week
13. WOW achievements confirmed
14. Konami struggles to deliver MGO add-on
15. Hirai wants PS3 to beat PS2
16. Hendrix playable in Guitar Hero 4
17. Moore: EA will lead online charge
18. LittleBigPlanet
19. Quantum of Solace: The Video Game
July 19, 2008
1. PlayStation Home
July 18, 2008
1. WipEout HD delayed due to technical issue
2. EA boss Riccitiello "hates E3 like this"
3. Wii becomes best-selling US console
4. Sony Conference Roundup
5. Nintendo Conference Roundup
6. Microsoft announces acts for Ibiza party
7. "First of its kind" online for Shaun White
8. Pirates and SPOGS for WiiWare
9. Free Realms
10. Wii to get keyboard peripheral
11. Shaun White Snowboarding
12. Velvet Assassin
July 17, 2008
1. PlayTV dated, will record TV while gaming
2. Satoru Iwata says predicting console lifespan is "nonsense"
3. Fable 2 main story only 12 hours long
4. Mega Drive handheld out now
5. MAG set for spring 2009
6. Killzone 2
7. Microsoft's Don Mattrick vs. Sony's Kaz Hirai
8. PSP could get Trophies too
9. New Animal Crossing Wii details emerge
10. Existing 360 themes work with new dash
11. PSP hard drives "increasingly likely"
12. PS3 Platinum in Europe next month
13. NCsoft merges Heroes and Villains cities
14. PSN PSone Roundup
15. Wii Music
16. Next Wiimotes may integrate MotionPlus
17. Wiimotes could have Motion Plus built-in
18. FFXIII "opens doors" for 360 in Japan
19. New Animal Crossing Wii details emerge
20. Euro 80GB PS3 priced and dated
21. Euro Home beta simultaneous with US
22. Ratchet Booty coming to Blu-ray
23. Gran Turismo TV Euro date confirmed
24. Next-gen SingStar at Leipzig
25. No PAL PS3 video store in 2008
26. SCEE working to get PSN titles ready
27. FIFA 09
28. Fatal Inertia EX
29. Wii Music is "more interesting than a videogame", says Miyamoto
July 16, 2008
1. BioShock PS3 gets exclusive DLC
2. Battlestations: Pacific
3. Dodgeball and Crosswords on XBLA
4. Europe to get 80GB PlayStation 3
5. Sony has not forgotten the PS2 yet
6. Champions Online
7. Flagship "still operating" but has no staff
8. PlayStation Store covered in E3 goodies
9. Resistance 2
10. Bungie upset it had to cancel E3 reveal
11. The Who frontman bored by Rock Band
12. Miyamoto finds Xbox avatars "flattering"
13. Dead Rising beheading to Wii?
14. Cliff Bleszinski: Avatars are Miis
15. First budget PS3 titles hit US
16. Moore: videogames "built" FIFA brand
17. Sony details Resistance Retribution
18. Bungie making new Halo title
19. First Wolfenstein details emerge
20. PS3 video store goes live tonight
21. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
22. Rare's Mark Betteridge
23. Nintendo shows Wii Sports sequel
24. Lost Planet movie confirmed
25. Killzone 2 multiplayer beta will happen
26. Ubisoft doing Dog Sports game for Wii
27. INiS's Keiichi Yano quiet on Lips DLC pricing
28. Ubisoft unveils I Am Alive
29. Wii Fit leaps to top of UK chart
30. Nintendo unveils Animal Crossing Wii
31. Nintendo introduces us to Wii Music
32. Nintendo "still not satisfied" by sales
33. Zelda and Mario teams hard at work
34. Sony unveils PS3-exclusive MAG
35. No God of War 3 this year
36. InFamous heading for spring 2009
37. Sony reveals Resistance for PSP
38. Ratchet & Clank Quest for Booty detailed
39. Gran Turismo TV in early August
40. Nintendo E3 Conference
41. Sony E3 Conference
July 15, 2008
1. Microsoft Conference Roundup
2. Epic not doing a Gears of War 2 demo
3. Tomb Raider Underworld dated
4. Too Human demo on Live now
5. 360 games to be installable to HDD
6. Spore has more species than Earth
7. Geometry Wars 2 gets date, details
8. Darksiders: Wrath of War
9. Left 4 Dead gets Euro date
10. Halo Wars marches to next year
11. Multicoloured pads for Xbox 360
12. MS: Don't hold your breath over PS Home
13. Dragon Age coming to consoles
14. NBA '09 gets new live stats feature
15. Resident Evil 5
16. Fable 2
17. EA unveils Nucleus social games layer
18. Original Banjo heading to XBLA
19. EA to publish id Software's Rage
July 14, 2008
1. Gears of War 2 out November 7th
2. Resident Evil 5 release date announced
3. Microsoft unveils Live Arcade trump cards
4. New 360 dashboard and avatars in autumn
5. You're In The Movies for Xbox 360
6. MS unveils online TV game-show for 360
7. MS says 360 will win console war
8. Fable 2 gets October date
9. Final Fantasy XIII coming to 360
10. Microsoft confirms Lips for 360
11. Nintendo unveils MotionPlus accessory
12. Conflict developer Pivotal to close
13. Metal Gear Online add-on this week
14. PSP video service launches in the UK
15. UK gaming more popular than ever
16. Apogee to be resurrected as publisher
17. Warhammer Online guild beta begins
18. PSP firmware gets an update
19. BioWare spills Dragon Age details
20. Family Ski
21. Wii an "expensive niche" says Sony boss
22. Empire: Total War sets sail for February
23. Spector working with Pixar on game
24. MotorStorm Pacific Rift
25. Flagship Studios closes doors
26. Microsoft unveils 60GB Xbox 360
27. Prince of Persia
28. POP will miss Xmas "if quality's not there"
29. POP demo "not planned"
30. "Potential" for POP spin-offs
July 11, 2008
1. Eurogamer's E3 coverage
2. WAR loses four cities and classes
3. Atari flashes exclusive 360 racing game
4. Brash doing Tale of Desperaux game
5. Wakfu
6. Buffy coming back to life on DS
7. Activision Blizzard to rival iTunes
8. Ferrari Challenge online fix coming soon
9. Golf: Tee It Up!
10. Beijing 2008
11. Ninjas and arty fights on VC this week
12. New drum kits for Rock Band 2
13. Mythic drops EA from its name
14. First Half-Life 2: Ep 3 picture surfaces
15. Sony has no plans to cut PS3 price
16. Microsoft has plans to cut Xbox 360 price
17. Age of Conan available to download
18. 2K to publish Champions Online
19. Deep Silver takes Ride to Hell
20. Konami sues Harmonix and MTV
21. Too Human demo coming next week
22. No Far Cry 2 demo planned
23. Island games just "cashing in" on Far Cry
July 10, 2008
1. Ubisoft doing Hell's Kitchen game
2. New console RTS from Total War team
3. Rumours swirl around new Ubisoft project
4. More than 160 games coming to iPhone
5. Two more Chocobo games for DS
6. New mode for Ninja Gaiden 2 this month
7. Mirror's Edge
8. Echochrome finally on Euro PSN
9. No motion control for Banjo Kazooie 3
10. Entire Rock Band 2 list leaked?
11. New PAL Releases Roundup
12. More evidence of LocoRoco 2 emerges
13. Peggle now available in shops
14. David Hayter takes on the Internet
15. PSP and Monster Hunter leading in Japan
16. USD 345m invested in virtual worlds
17. Schizoid
18. Activision unveils new range of Wii games
19. Quake Live tournaments at QuakeCon
20. BC Rearmed PS3 has rumble support
21. Operation Flashpoint 2 slips to 2009
22. More sign up for GI.biz career fair
23. MS to unveil "music/singing" game at E3
24. Dragon Age named, trailer dated
25. Ghostbusters' Ernie Hudson
July 9, 2008
1. Sony details PAIN Amusement Park
2. Air Rivals
3. First Rock Band 2 tracks confirmed
4. Capcom 1942 remake out this month
5. LOTRO Book 14 detailed
6. Ferrari Challenge DLC "in the next month"
7. 60GB Xbox 360 for end of July?
8. Complaints about Bully ad dismissed
9. No toolset for Fallout 3 PC at launch
10. Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli
11. David Hayter talks Lost Planet film
12. Google launches virtual world
13. Gears of War 2 release date revealed?
14. Wolfenstein and Quake Live at E3?
15. Fallout 3 maturity hasn't been "tempered"
16. Mega Man 9 to cost 1000 Wii Points
17. 33 new songs for SingStore tomorrow
18. Animal Crossing Wii at E3?
19. Prey
20. Capcom teases new game called Flock
21. Activision suits greenlight Vivendi merger
22. DS Roundup
July 8, 2008
1. Introversion making game with Channel 4
2. Rein: Wii is "just not our medium"
3. Ignition turns for Unreal Engine
4. BioShock shouldn't have worked
5. Schizoid, Golf: Tee It Up! for XBLA
6. Todd Hollenshead defends Doom III
7. Chili Peppers and Rush for Rock Band
8. Damnation
9. EA doing Scrabble game for Facebook
10. Square Enix releases iPod game
11. Getaway PS3 was only in pre-production
12. Two new modes for Metal Gear Online
13. WOW passes "the Bushnell Threshold"
14. Bungie hints at E3 announcement
15. Siren: Blood Curse - Chapters 1-3
16. Bushnell bashes Atari's lack of values
17. Atari points to September for Legendary
18. Fable 2 Live Arcade titles due in August
19. Flagship's Max Schaefer
20. UK chart: Smash Bros. still victorious
21. PS3 gets firmware update 2.41
22. Skate It
23. Guitar Hero: On Tour
July 7, 2008
1. Nintendo dismisses widescreen DS claims
2. Eledees to return on DS
3. Guitar Hero: On Tour
4. MySims to appear on PC
5. The Wii is a novelty console, says MS man
6. Audience wants shorter games - Argonauts dev
7. Rise of the Argonauts
8. Fatal Inertia Ex gets Euro date
9. EA Sports games "have been too hard"
10. Final Fantasy WiiWare gets DLC
11. WiiWare: My Pokémon Ranch and Pop
12. Vietnam turns to power-levelling
13. Codies responds to GRID complaints
14. Major Vanguard update detailed
15. New yoga game coming to Wii
16. Bungie Day Halo 3 freebies arrive
17. New SOCOM delayed by a month
18. EA apologises for FIFA anthem gaffe
19. Noel Gallagher links games to knife crime
20. More OctoCamo patterns for MGS4
21. Dragon Age surprise on Wednesday
22. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
July 4, 2008
1. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Explorers of Darkness
2. Console Diablo "theoretically possible"
3. Diablo III
4. Burnout "Cagney" update delayed on 360
5. WOW Lich King beta sign-ups open
6. New entries for Japanese software chart
7. Siren: Blood Curse date and pricing
8. Soulcalibur
9. Rock bands in talks to do music games
10. Lots more levels coming to N+
11. PSP still topping Japanese chart
12. Kojima lists his top five games
13. Double WiiWare surprise today
14. New Halo 3 map coming next week
15. DualShock 3
July 3, 2008
1. Microsoft working on 3D games
2. Viva Pi?ata: Trouble in Paradise dated
3. Digital Extremes onboard for BioShock PS3
4. SouthPeak unveils RTS and FPS hybrid
5. No home-made music for Rock Band 2
6. Unreal Tournament 3
7. New Midnight Club drifts to October
8. Commando 3 storms onto Euro PSN
9. Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
10. Square Enix confirms Chrono Trigger DS
11. Chrono Trigger travelling onto DS
12. Trading card game for Star Wars Galaxies
13. No PS3 Trophies for Resistance or COD4
14. New PAL Releases Roundup
15. New felt-tip themed game coming to DS
16. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
17. Ubisoft to release games for Mac
18. Sadness gets release date
19. PC sports market has declined - Moore
20. PlayStation website infiltrated by hackers
21. Sony pulls PS3 firmware update 2.4
22. Buzz! Quiz TV
July 2, 2008
1. Blizzard: PC decline talk is "dead wrong"
2. Go! Team and Battles in LittleBigPlanet
3. Media Molecule's David Smith talks LittleBigPlanet
4. LBP to feature voice chat, PS Eye options
5. LittleBigPlanet to run at 30fps, 720p
6. LittleBigPlanet beta already under way
7. Trophies confirmed for LittleBigPlanet
8. Soulcalibur IV pre-order deals unveiled
9. We Love Golf
10. DMC4 playable at TGS
11. Politicians "could learn from" EVE Council
12. Insomniac's Ted Price on Resistance 2
13. No bare bums or boobs in Soulcalibur IV
14. Castlevania Judgment coming to Wii
15. PS3 trophies now in Super Stardust HD
16. First Rock Band 2 songs spotted
17. Gamecock games invade Steam
18. THQ reveals more wrestlers for WWE '09
19. Secret Agent Clank
July 1, 2008
1. "Top Gun Anthem" for Guitar Hero III
2. More WOW Lich King info from WWI
3. More Cooking Mama for Wii
4. UFC 2009 Undisputed
5. UK charts: Smash Bros. is smash hit
6. Soulcalibur on Live Arcade tomorrow
7. Sony answers PS3 firmware 2.4 questions
8. Treyarch sorry for slating BIA
9. New International Track & Field
10. Age of Conan nets 700,000 subscribers
11. Soul Calibur I to get XBLA outing
12. Disgaea DS, PS3 coming to US
13. Microsoft to keep staggering PC and Xbox 360 releases
14. J Allard gets a new job title
15. Nintendo to offer fitness checks
16. No Euro date for Rock Band 2 after all
17. FIFA 09
18. FIFA 09