Look forward to Summer's with SingStar Summer Party on Sony PlayStation 2

Summer's almost here and so is SingStarTM Summer Party!

It's packed with summer hits past and present for your PlayStation 2

www.singstargame.com is the only place to share the experience!

Roll on summer - the weather’s good, the nights are long, it’s the perfect time to get everyone together for a party - and SingStar’s going to be right there with you. SingStar™ Summer Party for PlayStation®2 (PS2™) is arriving this April with 30 great tracks that are just perfect for those hot summer nights. We’re talking about classic songs and videos that just capture that summer feeling: tracks from Blondie, Rihanna, David Bowie, Klaxons and Peter Andre to name just a few.

With a track list bursting with feel-good favourites, your SingStar Summer Party will turn even the most reluctant guest into a stage worthy Show stopper - there really is something for everyone to enjoy as you sing your way through all these great hits:

1. Adele - Chasing Pavements
   
2. Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own
   
3. Blondie - The Tide is High
   
4. Blur - Girls & Boys
   
5. Booty - Luv Shine
   
6. Chesney Hawkes - The One & Only
   
7. David Bowie - Let's Dance
   
8. Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out
   
9. Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You're Dead
   
10. Dodgy - Good Enough
    
11. Elton John - I'm Still Standing
    
12. Five Star - System Addict
    
13. Girls Aloud - Call The Shots
    
14. Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot
    
15. Klaxons - It's Not Over Yet
    
16. KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See
    
17. Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)
    
18. Madness - House of Fun
    
19. Mel & Kim - Respectable
    
20. Mika - Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)
    
21. Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl
    
22. Plain White Ts - Hey There Delilah
    
23. Pulp - Disco 2000
    
24. Razorlight - In The Morning
    
25. Rihanna - Umbrella
    
26. Sugababes - Red Dress
    
27. Texas - Summer Son
    
28. Toto - Hold The Line
    
29. Wham! - Club Tropicana
    
30. Yazz - The Only Way Is Up
    

So, send out those invites and call up your entourage - it’s the perfect excuse to host your very own SingStar summer party - and with all your favourite tracks on one disc, you’ll never want the party to end. And it doesn’t have to end there! You can capture and upload your videos to the SingStar website at www.singstargame.com for all your friends to tag and watch – and for you to relive your finest hour.

With a summer classic for every party guest, SingStar Summer Party is a must for your SingStar collection, whether you’re into indoor house parties or outdoor summer barbies. Let’s get in tune for summer!

Be the first to play Nintendo Wii - Mario Kart Wii at Games stores

Be amongst the first in the World to play Mario Kart Wii at a GAME store near you!

Start your engines and get racing in the Mario Kart Grand Wii tournament for your chance to win great prizes including your very own Mario Kart VW Beetle Convertible

To celebrate the launch of Mario Kart Wii, Nintendo and GAME are challenging the nation to take part in the Mario Kart Grand Wii, a tournament set to find the country’s best Mario Kart driver. Keen drivers will be first off the grid, trialling the new game before it goes on sale anywhere in the world and could win themselves their own Mario Kart VW Beetle Convertible.

Thirty GAME stores across the UK will be opening their doors to fans old and new of one of the world’s best loved racing games from Saturday 5th April. Heats will be taking place at each of the specially selected GAME stores throughout the day and the finalist from each location will go forward to race for a chance to win a Mario Kart Wii inspired VW Beetle Convertible.

Prizes up for grabs at GAME stores include copies of the game and £250 of ‘Experience Vouchers’ for activities including Karting, Paintballing, Quad Biking and other action packed family adventures. In addition, each GAME store will feature its own prize draw with the winner receiving a Mario Kart Gift Card worth £50 to spend in-store! The ‘Grand Wii’ final will take place at an exclusive racing day event at Mercedes-Benz World, Brooklands, Surrey on the 12th April which will see a winner cross the finish line and claim their prize.

You may think you’ve been racing as the Mushroom Kingdom’s finest for a long time, but now there’s a new racer in town: Your Mii! Put your Mii behind the wheel and take on all comers! For those who want to get into the game even more, Mario Kart Wii comes packed with the Wii Wheel. Shaped like a steering wheel, you place the Wii Remote inside the Wii Wheel’s casing and get ready to ride! In addition to the Wii Remote, you can also use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers in combo, or use a GameCube Controller to take those tight turns and challenges Mario Kart Wii throws at you.

Those looking for world ranking domination can take on up to 11 players simultaneously worldwide using the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service which will offer them the chance to race other players across the globe in a nail-biting contest of speed and skill! Prefer to keep the rivalry a little closer to home? Try the Multiplayer Mode, in which up to four people will be able to challenge each other in the comfort of their own living room, bringing the on screen excitement into a whole new dimension.

MARIO KART GRAND Wii EVENT DETAILS:

WHEN: Saturday 5th April 2008

WHERE: GAME Stores at the following locations:

• MANCHESTER Unit 59 Arndale Centre
  
• TRAFFORD 124 Peel Centre Trafford Centre
  
• BOURNEMOUTH Unit 4, Avenue Centre Commercial Road
  
• PORSTMOUTH 226 Commercial Road Portsmouth
  
• STEVENAGE Unit 4A The Forum
  
• MERRYHILL Unit 87, Lower Mall Merryhill Shopping Centre
  
• READING Unit 18 Oracle Shopping Centre
  
• BASINGSTOKE Unit 15 Festival Place
  
• BRAEHEAD Unit 57 Braehead Shopping Centre Kings Inch Rd
  
• GLASGOW 146 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow
  
• MILTON KEYNES 15 Crown Walk Milton Keynes
  
• NOTTINGHAM Unit 308A Victoria Centre
  
• LEEDS 50-52 Albion Street Leeds
  
• LUTON 142-144 Arndale Centre Luton
  
• CHELTENHAM Unit A 100/104 High Street
  
• CRIBBS CAUSEWAY Unit LR53 Cribbs Causeway
  
• CARDIFF 92 Queen Street Cardiff
  
• NEWCASTLE FENWICKS (GAME CONCESSION) 39 Northumberland Street Newcastle
  
• GATESHEAD
  

• METRO CENTRE 17 Red Pathway Metro Centre
  
• BLACKBURN 10-12 Market Way Blackburn
  
• WIGAN 27 Standish Gate Wigan
  
• HANLEY 214-215 The Potteries Hanley
  
• LONDON HAMLEYS 188-196 Regent Street London
  
• LONDON 100 Oxford Street London
  
• THURROCK Unit 106 Lakeside Shopping Centre
  
• ROMFORD Unit 15 Liberty 2 Centre
  
• TAUNTON 45-46 Fore Street Taunton
  
• EDINBURGH 127 Princes Street Edinburgh
  
• DUNDEE 51 Murraygate Dundee
  
• KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES 3rd Floor The Bentalls Center
  

Mario Kart Wii launches in the UK on the 11th April at the estimated retail price of £35

POSTAL video game to be shown at special screenings in major US cities

Screenings for POSTAL Movie Slated for New York and Chicago

Tribeca Film Center to Host NY Preview on April 1

Prior to its long-awaited national rollout on May 23, Uwe Boll’s cinematic rendition of Running With Scissors’ POSTAL video game franchise will be shown at special screenings in major American cities, starting with New York and Chicago.

The Big Apple preview will take place at 8PM (EST), April 1st at the Tribeca Film Center (founded by Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal and home to the famous Tribeca Film Festival). “As a born-and-bred New York boy, I’m really looking forward to this event,” admitted Running With Scissors CEO Vince Desi. “I’m very happy with what Uwe has done with this film, so I’m proud to see it showcased in my home town. Plus I get some good pizza and Italian ice.”

Desi and auteur de farce Uwe Boll will both be bringing along their egos for a Q&A following the screening. The kings of multi-media controversy will take unscreened questions from the audience. The Chicago screening will follow on Thursday, April 3rd, 7PM (CST) at the Lake Street Screening Room at 70 E Lake St.

RWS is offering New York-based fans a chance to win one of five pairs of guest tickets to the Tribeca screening through a Facebook promotion. Anyone who joins the POSTAL Facebook Fan Page and leaves a wall post related to the film before March 28th is eligible to win.

The poster included with this press release is the second in an ongoing series of Running With Scissors one-sheet style movie posters being produced to celebrate the release of Postal-The Movie.

For more information on the upcoming POSTAL Movie, Postal games and gear, as well as updates on the development of POSTAL III visit our new expanded site www.gopostal.com and be sure to visit PostalNation.net for in-depth coverage of the RWS scene.

Latest UK video games charts

CHARTTRACK WEEKLY CHARTS

All formats

(Full price) Week ending 22 March 2008

1 TOM CLANCY'S RAINBOW SIX: VEGAS 2 UBISOFT
2 MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES SEGA
3 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK ACTIVISION
4 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION
5 ARMY OF TWO ELECTRONIC ARTS
6 FIFA 08 ELECTRONIC ARTS
7 SEGA SUPERSTARS TENNIS SEGA
8 PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2008 KONAMI
9 BULLY: SCHOLARSHIP EDITION TAKE 2
10 COOKING MAMA 2 505 GAMES
11 THE SIMPSONS GAME ELECTRONIC ARTS
12 ASSASSIN'S CREED UBISOFT
13 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. NINTENDO
14 NEED FOR SPEED: PROSTREET ELECTRONIC ARTS
15 MX VS ATV UNTAMED THQ
16 BURNOUT PARADISE ELECTRONIC ARTS
17 WWE SMACKDOWN VS RAW 2008 THQ
18 FIFA STREET 3 ELECTRONIC ARTS
19 FRONTLINES: FUEL OF WAR THQ
20 HALO 3 MICROSOFT

Little Sky - is now available to all Zu players!

Zu Online: Little Sky Open Now

The Zu team is happy to announce the long-awaited, highly anticipated scene “Little Sky” is now available to all Zu players!

“Little Sky” is a Xanadu surrounded by dense fog all year around. Nearby the tranquil lake there’s a lotus pavilion. It was originally built for Boulder Immortal, but now it is used to keep the 7 Seven Northern Immortals trapped. Although Little Sky is very small, the amount of wonder and magic there are unsurpassed. The way there is on a twisting cloud path that winds through the silent bamboo forest and Starfalling Cliff. Most of the monsters in Little Sky are approximately levels 140 to 180 and there are also many new treasures to be found including precious items and top equipment.

Below is some brief introduction to the main immortals living in Little Sky who you may encounter when doing a quest.
Fairy Yaogan: a wise and beautiful female immortal, but can show weakness when it comes to her feelings.

Immortal Tanqian: this powerful immortal is always seen carrying his magical hourglass. Inside the sand inside drops endlessly away, whilst the purpose of the item may not be certain it is said to be very important.

Cheen: One of the three highest immortals in the Purple Mansion, the precious treasure that he carries in his hand has the power to frighten Monsters away by sight alone.

Snow Beast: an inhabitant of Sky Pot, it can fly freely in the sky.
Sky Pot Guardian: The Boulder Immortal created this stone mechanism to protect the Sky Sand Pot.

Lyre Envoy: This envoy has the ability to use his musical instrument to increase the morale of the other immortals. However, due to his mercilessly hard practice over the ages, he has become both deaf and blind.

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New Resident Evil 5 games footage appears in Japan

That Resident Evil 5 footage Capcom promised for some time this week made it into the new issue of Famitsu as planned. Here's a report on what the Japanese are getting in this week's issue of their biggest games publication.

Rather than a new trailer, the DVD provides just a few minutes of off-screen footage of the game being played in the background of an interview with producer Jun Takeuchi. In addition to the gameplay sequences, the DVD also provides a glimpse at some of the development tools being used to create the models for the game.

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World of Warcraft legal battle over WOW bot with automated actions

The makers of World of Warcraft are locked in a legal battle with a firm that has produced a tool to automate many actions in the virtual world.

Blizzard is suing Michael Donnelly, the creator of the MMO Glider program, which performs key tasks in the game automatically, such as fighting.

Both sides have submitted legal summaries to a court in Arizona.

Blizzard says Glide is a software bot which infringes the company's copyright and potentially damages the game.

In its legal submission to the court last week, the firm said: "Blizzard's designs expectations are frustrated, and resources are allocated unevenly, when bots are introduced into the WoW universe, because bots spend far more time in-game than an ordinary player would and consume resources the entire time."

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Help test Quake Live Beta test Quake Live website access sign up here

ID software offer - Help test Quake Live - Beta test Quake Live website access

Enter your email address to sign-up for the QUAKE LIVE Beta Program. 

Beta testers are given early access to the QUAKE LIVE website and game, and will help us test all of the game's features and functionality while offering feedback and suggestions. 

Simply enter your email address to apply, but please note that entering does not guarantee participation in the beta program.

Access the beta test site here

Crisis Core - Final fantasy VII on Sony PlayStation 3 and PSP

Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of Square Enix interactive entertainment products in North America, announced that CRISIS CORE -FINAL FANTASY VII-, the much awaited prequel to one of the most influential titles in video-gaming history, has shipped to North American.

Before Cloud and Sephiroth’s now legendary confrontation and the ensuing battle that captivated millions of gamers worldwide, there was Zack Fair and his simple yet whole-hearted ambition to become a SOLDIER 1st Class. Players will now discover what was hitherto left untold, as they journey through the exciting and intriguing world of CRISIS CORE - FINAL FANTASY VII -, developed exclusively for the PSP (PlayStationPortable) system. Offering a compelling narrative coupled with breathtaking graphics and an action-packed battle system, this latest entry in the COMPILATION OF FINAL FANTASY VII series is sure to captivate both fans of the original FINAL FANTASY VII and newcomers alike.

Seven years prior to the events of FINAL FANTASY VII

The Shinra Company is rapidly increasing its influence through its monopoly on mako energy and military might. With the burgeoning city of Midgar as its base and symbol of prosperity, Shinra is on the verge of establishing absolute dominance over the world. SOLDIER is a group of skilled combat operatives within Shinra. The elite within the group—those strong enough to be deemed SOLDIER 1st Class—are respected and idolized by the citizenry.

Zack is a young SOLDIER 2nd Class who aspires to become a 1st. He spends his days carrying out assignments under the guidance of his 1st Class mentor, Angeal. During an operation in Wutai, a large number of SOLDIER members, led by 1st Class operative Genesis, go missing. The severity of the situation prompts Shinra executives to deploy even more SOLDIER operatives in hopes of bringing an end to the war with Wutai—and conducting an investigation into the mass desertion. The ones assigned to the mission are Zack, Angeal, and the 1st Class hero who is known the world over as Sephiroth...

What truths lie behind Genesis's disappearance? What secrets bind the three SOLDIER 1st Class operatives? For Zack, a cruel and fateful struggle awaits...

FEATURES

• Complete the FINAL FANTASY VII experience and reunite with the most recognized RPG characters created by world-renowned character designer Tetsuya Nomura
  
• Witness stunning graphics and gorgeous CG cutscenes coupled with top-notch voice acting in a 16:9 widescreen presentation, made possible by the PSP system
  
• Innovative DMW (Digital Mind Wave) system enhances the action-packed real-time battle system, allowing players to unleash special attacks or call upon iconic FINAL FANTASY summons
  
• Take on challenges with the all-new “Hard Mode” developed exclusively for the North American audiences
  
• Acquire unique accessories made available through 300 side missions to further enrich the gameplay experience
  

Supreme Commander coming to Microsoft XBox 360

Supreme Commander, the multi-award winning strategy game from Chris Taylor and Gas Powered Games, will be hitting the Xbox 360 in Europe later this year. The game follows three human factions in the distant future as they battle to win the Infinite War once and for all.

Adding to the expansive Supreme Commander universe, the Xbox 360 edition will feature exclusive new units, updated maps and two new multiplayer modes. Furthermore, gamers will be able to take the fight online against up to three other players from around the world via Xbox LIVE. In addition, a revised, console-specific control interface and HUD will give gamers unprecedented strategic power over their armies.

Supreme Commander allows gamers to take control of one of three factions—the Cybran Nation, Aeon Illuminate or United Earth Federation—and help their chosen faction win the Infinite War once and for all. You control each faction’s Armoured Command Unit, a giant mech that excels in construction and combat but whose protection is mission-critical.

Each faction has its own goals, experimental units and back-story that leads them to the game’s thrilling climax. Battles rage over land, sea and air, and the command and control system puts the gamer in charge of every aspect of the fight, engaging in titanic land, air and naval battles.

The revolutionary Strategic Zoom not only gives the player the flexibility to control the entire theatre of war from an overhead map view, but also enables them to zoom right down to ground level, where they can issue orders to single units. The game can handle a vast number of units on screen, and players will need every single one to take down enormous experimental units that can change the tide of battle. The same units, ranging from miniscule to mammoth, will be available in the ranked multiplayer battles.

Xbox 360 gamers will experience the Infinite War with full support for HD and surround sound later this year.

Key Features:

- Four technology tiers, ranging from diminutive drones to mountain-straddling titans.
- Three unique factions to play.
- Four-player multiplayer over Xbox LIVE.
- 18 levels and three campaigns.
- From Chris Taylor, multi-award winning developer of Total Annihilation and Demigod.
- All new-interface, HUD and controls for Xbox 360.