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August 2008 Archive

Aug. 31, 2008
1. Pirate Station
Aug. 29, 2008
1. Killzone 2
2. Dead Space to release a week early
3. Diablo III in full content production
4. No GT or movie PS3 bundles for UK
5. Four for WiiWare/Virtual Console
6. Gun-shaped box for Saints Row 2
7. The Wii "isn't hurting us", says Sony boss
8. Japanese charts: hardware sales down
9. WOW getting gradual graphics upgrade
10. Ninja Gaiden II sales top 1 million
11. Pre-order EndWar for 360, get beta access
12. Square Enix offers to buy Tecmo
13. Spore now available for download
14. Shane Kim wants MMOs on Xbox 360
15. Champions Online to link to paper RPG
16. Champions Online: official details
17. Aliens FPS and Red Faction 3 named
18. Champions Online
Aug. 28, 2008
1. The Last Guy on PS3 Store
2. Eurogamer Games Convention Awards
3. More full albums for Rock Band 2
4. LEGO Batman cartoon in works
5. Smash Court Tennis 3
6. GH dev mocks Rock Band cymbals
7. Bangai-O Spirits
8. New PAL Releases Roundup
9. No super-slim PS2 for the UK
10. Japanese charts: PS2 game at No. 1
11. Buddy system coming to FFXI
12. Meteos Wars heading to XBLA
13. Next EVE expansion to focus on industry
14. Sony backs "free services" for consoles
15. Will Wright discusses Spore porn
16. Castle Crashers
Aug. 27, 2008
1. New Prince of Persia developer diary
2. Gearbox in talks to do new Halo game
3. The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria
4. Rhythm Tengoku Gold
5. Stargate Worlds
6. Asheron's Call gets 100th update
7. City of Heroes Issue 13 announced
8. More than 10m PSPs sold in Japan
9. Nintendo dismisses rumours of new DS
10. EVE is better than WOW, says Dyack
11. Fear and Levelling in Las Vegas
12. Immersion to pay Microsoft USD 20m
13. LOTRO: Moria pre-orders open
14. No FFXIII 360 for Japan: it's official
15. Sin City game switches developers
16. GH dev "thinking about" keyboard game
17. Bomberman WiiWare title on the way
18. Major WOW patch coming in "weeks"
19. Brain Training breaks UK chart record
20. LEGO Batman
Aug. 26, 2008
1. 9/11-themed "Invaders!" pulled from GC
2. Virtual Console Roundup
3. Konami's Hideo Kojima
4. Kojima wishes people would stop asking about MGS4 on 360
5. Gears 2 bonus content revealed
6. Nintendo: core games in development
7. LBP's copyright system explained
8. Tetris clone axed from app store
9. IGDA slams WAR for omitting credits
10. Quantum of Solace
11. Report: 500,000 gold farmers worldwide
12. Blizzard: StarCraft MMO would be difficult
13. No PS3 price cut this year, says Reeves
14. EA in secret talks with Take-Two
15. Left 4 Dead held back a fortnight
16. Bionic Commando Rearmed sells 130k
17. WiiWare Roundup
Aug. 24, 2008
1. Media Molecule's Alex Evans
2. SEGA Mega Drive Handheld
3. Bungie's Damian Isla
4. Bank Holiday Updates
Aug. 23, 2008
1. Sony GC Conference Roundup
Aug. 22, 2008
1. Brand new Resistance 2 video at 5pm!
2. MG Acid for PSN "possible" - Kojima
3. Saved films for Duke Nukem XBLA
4. Galaga Legions
5. Alone in the Dark
6. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
7. Tomb Raider Underworld
8. Heavy Rain: The Origami Killer
9. BF Heroes effectively "already out"
10. Battle of Destiny 2008
11. Bionic Commando
12. Soulcalibur IV demo on Xbox Live
13. Another peripheral for Guitar Hero 4
14. Samba de Amigo Wii to offer DLC
15. Cammy included in Street Fighter IV
16. Ratchet and other loot in PSN update
17. Super Mario RPG heads VC update
18. Space Siege
Aug. 21, 2008
1. New Prince of Persia move unveiled
2. GTA IV is biggest global seller of 2008
3. Haze not down for May 22nd after all
4. No Haze for Xbox 360 or PC
5. Haze slips to 2008
6. EGTV: Haze demonstration
7. EGTV: David Doak on Haze
8. David Doak talks Haze
9. Haze
10. War vets doing games is "pretty f***ing bizarre" - Haze writer
11. Haze still multiformat - Doak
12. Haze dated for PS3 this Autumn
13. Four-player co-op for Haze
14. Haze slips into financial 2007
15. EGTV: Haze interview
16. Ubisoft announces HAZE
17. Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty
18. Darwinia coming to Xbox Live Arcade
19. First details emerge of GTA IV PC
20. Eden to fix Alone in the Dark 360
21. Demo and DLC for Heavy Rain
22. Free ArchLord expansion released
23. EA Sports' Peter Moore
24. Diablo III
25. Moore warns against suing file-sharers
26. Logitech making racing wheel for Wii
27. Tweaked PSP due out in October
28. Jetpacks for Warhawk next week
29. Everyday Shooter gunning for PSP
30. New PAL Releases Roundup
31. Star Ocean PSP for October
32. GTI Club+ PSN details and shots
33. Tom Clancy's HAWX
34. PS2 songs in PS3 SingStar clarified
35. Microsoft E3 Conference
36. First Age of Conan expansion teased
37. Sony unveils Quantic's Heavy Rain
38. WipEout HD on track for "fall"
39. Wonder Woman heads to Mortal Kombat
40. PC makers see piracy as "hidden benefit"
41. Sony shows off PSN Vidzone
42. Play as your Miis in Guitar Hero
43. Savage Moon is tower defence title
44. How to access Rock Band songs in RB2
45. Fable 2 Pub Games to be patched
46. Buzz does brain training for PSP
47. Bond game gets Bond actors
48. Sony Games Convention Conference
Aug. 20, 2008
1. Fallout 3 given European date
2. Several new SingStar games revealed
3. EyePet revealed, due out in 2009
4. LittleBigPlanet release date
5. Microsoft confirms revised 360 d-pad
6. Age of Conan will tie in with new film
7. Bully in development for PC
8. Age of Conan updates detailed
9. Microsoft revising Xbox 360 d-pad?
10. 360 instruments also cross-compatible
11. EA unveils MotionPlus tennis game
12. Weekly player updates for FIFA 09
13. The Sims 3 due in February
14. PS3 has "no chance of making money"
15. Viva Pi?ata: Trouble in Paradise
16. Viva Pi?ata 2 demo in certification
17. Bejeweled is most popular this century
18. Midway picks up Wii air guitar game
19. Novastrike still heading to Europe
20. BioWare drops Dragon Age demo hints
21. Dragon Age: Origins
22. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts dated
23. BCR fan's Challenge Room revealed
24. Publishers to fine 25,000 game pirates
25. 2K dates BioShock PS3
26. Sony GC Conference on Wednesday
Aug. 19, 2008
1. New House of the Dead for Wii
2. Far Cry 2 map editor: video, shots
3. Ratchet PSN download is 3.2GB
4. Roper opens up about Flagship demise
5. Crytek: PS4 and Xbox "720" in 3 to 4 years
6. Too Human review
7. Maggie Q: game acting is "coooool!"
8. Silicon Knights' Denis Dyack
9. Dyack "not worried" about bad reviews
10. "Rio" and "Girls on Film" for Rock Band
11. Force Unleashed demo on Thursday
12. Xbox 360 DLC Roundup
13. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
14. Banjo demo, Stop 'N' Swop detailed
15. Dragon Ball: Origins in December
16. Codemasters unveils FUEL
17. Rock Band 2 instruments work in GH4
18. Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan
19. Pirates of the Burning Sea: skirmishes out
20. Chrono Trigger DS gets US date
21. Mario Kart reclaims Top 40 pole
22. Duke Nukem 3D for XBLA finished
23. Galaga Legions for 800 Microsoft Points
24. WAR open beta in early September
25. Bionic Commando Rearmed
26. Cult Classics: PlayStation 2
Aug. 18, 2008
1. Eurogamer Benelux launches!
2. Remedy "working hard" on Alan Wake
3. Epic "defrauded" industry, alleges Dyack
4. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky gets delayed
5. Age of Conan nets 415,000 subscribers
6. DC Universe Online
7. Atari unveils new WWII dogfighter
8. ArmA II due out in Q1 2009
9. Dragon Age: Origins coming to consoles
10. US charts: NCAA for 360 wins July
11. R&C: Quest for Booty only GBP 10
12. Bethesda Softworks' Pete Hines
13. Sony quiet on 80GB PS3 rumours
14. Akuma to appear in SFIV arcade
15. Bionic Commando Rearmed Eurogamer Challenge Room!
16. De Blob creator doing WiiWare game
17. Capcom "still making new PSP games"
18. Fable 2 Pub Games exploited
19. Lionhead explains Fable 2 money transfers
20. New weapons for Team Fortress 2
21. Need For Speed Undercover gets date
22. Sony won't cut PS3 price at Leipzig
23. More Ratchet & Clank on the way
24. Burnout Paradise PSN for Europe too
25. Maxis' Lucy Bradshaw
26. Rock and Roll
27. Cult Classics: PlayStation 2
Aug. 16, 2008
1. No cross-platform play for The Agency
2. EverQuest and EQII expansions announced
Aug. 15, 2008
1. BC Rearmed live on PAL PSN
2. No Spore demo, but expansions planned
3. Premiership football headed to Go!View
4. The Godfather II
5. Dreamlords: The Reawakening
6. Viva Pinata DS sprouting in September
7. Monster Madness PS3 dated
8. Warner Music videos for Xbox Live
9. Lineage II gets levelling speed boost
10. Brash doing Prison Break game
11. Nintendo leads as US console sales slump
12. Burnout Paradise to be sold on PSN
13. Castle Crashers set at 1200 MS Points
14. Tiger 09 and SBK-08 demos on Live
15. Lucy Bradshaw live interview today!
16. People Can Fly doing new game with EA
17. EA publishing Grasshopper horror title
18. No BC Rearmed on Steam
19. Strong Bad and fish on Wii Shop
20. Hellboy: The Science of Evil
Aug. 14, 2008
1. Register your interest in APB
2. Gemma Atkinson RA3 theme on Live
3. Radical Entertainment staff levels slashed
4. Ex-Lionhead man does PC piracy poll
5. Summer Athletics
6. Konami "pulling out stops" for PES 2009
7. Guinness World Records game coming
8. Fable 2 Pub Games
9. PSN: Tiger, Facebreaker, Monster demos
10. Parents more frightened of GTA than porn
11. Sony impenetrable on redesigned PSP
12. New PAL Releases Roundup
13. First Brothers in Arms free with pre-order
14. NCsoft Austin sheds staff
15. Crysis Warhead here in September
16. Monkey Ball iPhone patch imminent
17. EA unveils Celebrity Wii Sports effort
18. A-to-Z search for PS3 Store today
19. Capcom acknowledges HD Remix bugs
20. Overlord's Overlord
21. Codemasters unveils Overlord II
22. Overlord rampaging onto Wii, DS
23. Xbox 360 Roundup
Aug. 13, 2008
1. Sony grooming Sackboy to be face of PS3
2. Eidos doing "incredibly dark" Batman title
3. Yu Suzuki still at SEGA after all
4. Diablo 3 not the end of the franchise
5. Star Trek Online to feature PVP, classes
6. Exclusive Empire: Total War footage
7. PlayTV saved files no longer transferable
8. Shogun: Total War
9. Japan still loves Pokémon films
10. Sony clarifies PlayTV date, price
11. Spore
12. No Microsoft conference at Leipzig
13. Vigilante 8 enters XBLA certification
14. iPhone Gaming
15. Super Monkey Ball
16. Bejeweled 2
17. EVE Online: Alliance war
18. TF2 Heavy update next Tuesday
19. TF2's Heavy class to get new upgrade
Aug. 12, 2008
1. Eternity's Child dev quits games industry
2. Roadrunner Records tracks for Rock Band
3. Future C&C beta key in Red Alert 3
4. MadWorld spoils "family fun image" of Wii
5. PhysX free for GeForce 8 and above
6. Psyonix making vehicle sports for PSN
7. The Casuals Are Coming!
8. Spore Creatures
9. It would take a billion to tackle WOW
10. Magic Roundabout turned into game
11. Another free update for Warhawk soon
12. Geometry Wars is "not going to stop"
13. Midway bins The Career Criminal
14. IPhone Monkey Ball sales hit 300k
15. SEGA legend Yu Suzuki departs
16. Braid for PS3 is a possibility - Blow
17. Fallout 3 unbanned in Australia
18. Wii Fit balances on top of UK chart
19. Miyamoto hushed up about hobbies?
20. Street Fighter Alpha confirmed for PSN
21. No Brain Training profits for Kawashima
22. Fallout 3
Aug. 11, 2008
1. Eidos reveals new Lara Croft model
2. Gearbox Software's Randy Pitchford
3. Gearbox doing BIA: Hell's Highway demos
4. What kind of gamer are you, asks analyst
5. MS: Wii third-party sales "not pretty"
6. Biting the Apple
7. Q-Games to tweak PixelJunk PSN games
8. Games should enrich people's lives, says former Edge editor
9. Gears gun replica selling "like hot cakes"
10. Arts and Warcraft
11. Final Fantasy IV on DS in September
12. Wolfenstein
13. Most criticism of religion in Spore is from "militant atheists", claims Wright
14. Wright hints at Spore MMO
15. Eurogamer announces Spore Week!
16. Maxis' Will Wright
17. Wright has new projects "in the wings"
18. 60GB Xbox 360 in Europe on Friday
19. Sony and Nintendo will tie in hardware race, says former SCEE boss
20. Exit for DS this October
21. Capcom explains Bionic PC pricing
22. Star Trek Online out within three years
23. Coverage Index
24. Drone Tactics
25. PAIN Trophies/Amusement Park dated
26. Unofficial Xbox Live app for iPhone
27. Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball dated
28. BioWare keen on more Mass Effect DLC
29. Shred Nebula for XBLA in September
30. Mythos developer becomes Runic Games
Aug. 9, 2008
1. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
2. Red Faction: Guerrilla
3. Building BioShock
4. Soul Nomad & the World Eaters
Aug. 8, 2008
1. LBP is "going to be a hardware seller"
2. Dragon Quest IV dated for Europe
3. MS on why FFXIII is coming to 360
4. The Godfather II for February 2009
5. Too Human 15 to 80 hours long - Dyack
6. Randy Pitchford live chat on Monday
7. Diablo III art director hands in notice
8. MotionPlus tech not exclusive to Nintendo
9. BioWare considering Mass Effect for DS
10. BioWare looking into PSP, Wii
11. There's still hope for Crackdown 2 - RTW
12. WWE star wants "more violence" in games
13. EA to teach poker, sudoku, solitaire
14. New LittleBigPlanet website launches
15. Bionic Commando PSN delayed
16. European Home beta invites "shortly"
17. MS man takes a pop at Wii Fit
18. Four for Virtual Console this week
19. Capcom patches SSF2T HD Remix
20. Fable 2 release date announced
Aug. 7, 2008
1. No Hitler in new Wolfenstein
2. Civ Rev DLC heads PSN weekly update
3. No word on PS3 SOCOM for Europe
4. Original Driver for PSN next Thurs
5. PixelJunk Eden
6. Ubisoft under fire for America's Army
7. New PAL Releases Roundup
8. Borderlands
9. We Cheer for Europe in early 2009
10. EA delivers more detail on Godfather II
11. EA boss talks Godfather II game
12. Xbox site gets Community Voices feature
13. Kim Kardashian in EA's FaceBreaker
14. WAR was to have 250 classes
15. Ubi suing over Ass Creed PC leak
16. Criticism of Sonic "warranted" - SEGA
17. Halo PC to scrap disc checks on Friday
18. "Beat It" confirmed for Guitar Hero 4
19. BioShock PS3 survivor mode unveiled
20. Ghostbusters WILL get a release
21. Traveller's Tales doing more LEGO
22. Logitech Driving Force GT
Aug. 6, 2008
1. Braid would be cheaper if MS agreed
2. Chrono Trigger DS travels to 2009
3. PS3 Buzz patched with Trophies
4. Four more characters for MK vs. DC
5. GTA IV confirmed and dated for PC
6. Minor 360 dashboard update released
7. DC Universe Online
8. Gothic dev names next game
9. Id Software's John Carmack
10. Halo Wars
11. Tiger Woods PSN demo tomorrow
12. This is Vegas isn't out this year
13. Uncharted used less than half PS3's power
14. Warhammer Online gets release date
15. Spock to unveil Star Trek Online
16. Strong Bad gets WiiWare, PC date
17. WOW friend recruitment revamped
18. No bikes for Burnout until September
19. Halo has "a lot to learn" from COD4
20. Manson and others for GH3 tomorrow
21. Warhawk Trophy patch dated, detailed
22. Uncharted Trophy support introduced
23. Pre-order LBP, get free goodies
Aug. 5, 2008
1. Square Enix clarifies PSP game reveals
2. Gemma Atkinson to act in Red Alert 3
3. Lost in Blue 3 washing up in October
4. Id turned down Quake MMO offers
5. Struggling MMO Fury closes down
6. NCsoft unveils Blade & Soul MMO
7. No more "crappy" games, promises EA
8. Sales show Doom 3 was "not bad" - Willits
9. Rage
10. Payne is Wahlberg's "favourite role so far"
11. UK charts: Soulcalibur IV fighting fit
12. Dragon Age franchise has "console future"
13. New DC Universe Online details emerge
14. APB is "bastard child" of GTA
15. Bad Company gets new mode this week
16. GTA IV pulled from sale in Thailand
17. Wild West Guns
18. Defend Your Castle
Aug. 4, 2008
1. Siren: Blood Curse to get Blu-ray release
2. Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI dated
3. Logitech to do Guitar Hero 4 instruments
4. Quest for Booty out this month on PSN
5. Battle Fantasia heads to Europe
6. The Last Guy on PSN this month
7. "Steve Jobs doesn't care about games"
8. Bethesda has plans for Fallout 4
9. Pure
10. Alone in the Dark demo on Xbox Live
11. Hellgate and Mythos live on
12. Final Fantasy XIII for Japan in 2009
13. "Loads of plans" for LittleBigPlanet DLC
14. LBP dev hints at another big reveal
15. BioShock rescued shooters, says Levine
16. Lich King to release in fourth quarter
17. Burnout Cagney patch for 360 today
18. Bungie exterminates Halo 3 porn sharers
19. Rival platforms 'looking dated', says Sony
20. PC Roundup
Aug. 3, 2008
1. Midnight Club: Los Angeles
Aug. 1, 2008
1. Avary writing Wolf movie "right now"
2. Doom 4 may leverage Quake Live system
3. "360's the better platform" for contemporary games - Carmack
4. Wii leading market as second system a "good problem to have!" - Carmack
5. EA bosses "all hardcore gamers" - Willits
6. "Darker" Diablo fan petition rejected
7. Microsoft may sell Avatar clothing
8. LBP gets Japanese release date
9. PES 2009 confirmed for Wii
10. PlanetSide
11. MadWorld
12. MS still seeking staff for Halo project
13. Square Enix launches new range of games
14. Blizzard: WOW lost players to Conan
15. Too Human demo proves popular
16. Still no PVP update for Age of Conan
17. PSP still topping the charts in Japan
18. Carmack speaks out on hardware issues
19. EA boss hints at Godfather 2 date
20. John Carmack's QuakeCon Keynote
21. Doom 4 "three times" Rage visual quality
22. Next-gen Quake Arena game shelved
23. Id Software has two iPhone projects