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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Big League Sports video game on Nintendo Wii

Big League Sports for the Nintendo Wii has hit retail shelves in North America. Developed by Koolhaus Games exclusively for Wii, the game is all about putting players right into the action in the most thrilling situations in their favorite sports.

There are multiple disciplines to master within tennis, basketball, football, soccer, lacrosse and hockey. But unlike other games the focus is not on the team – it’s on whether or not you can deliver in specific, adrenaline-pumping moments. Whether it’s acing an opponent in tennis, hitting a basketball shot at the buzzer, or bending free kicks around a goalie in soccer, Big League Sports offers a fresh interpretation of what a sports game can be on Wii.

“Big League Sports is perfect for family game night,” said Dave Oxford, Activision Publishing. “The innovative Wii controls offer the kind of accessible head to head competition that gets everyone off the couch, playing and cheering!”

Big League Sports allows up to four players to compete in a variety of modes, including single game and tournament modes that offer hours of non-stop action. Players can also view their statistics and overall progress, as well as the trophies they have won. A character creation feature allows players to craft a character to their liking with dozens of customization options.

The game is out now for a suggested retail price of $39.99 and is rated “E” for Everyone by the ESRB.

Far Cry 2 Download content - The Fortune's Pack - new weapons and vehicles

Exciting new downloadable content (DLC) for Far Cry 2. The Fortune’s Pack DLC will bring new vehicles and new weapons to both the single-player game and the multiplayer game, giving gamers even more diverse means of destruction. Be the silent stalker armed with your silent shotgun or jump on your new quad and blast through the dunes of Africa. The Fortune’s Pack DLC for Far Cry 2 will be available for download from Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and from PlayStationNetwork.

The Fortune’s Pack DLC for Far Cry 2 includes:

Single-Player Mode

Three brand-new weapons
- Silenced shotgun
- Sawed-off shotgun
- Crossbow

Two new vehicles

- Unimog
- Quad

Multiplayer Mode

- Four new exciting maps
1. Cheap Labor
2. Last Resort
3. Lake Smear
4. Fort Fury
- New single-player weapons and vehicles also available in multiplayer

Platform video game Cletus Clay coming to PC and Xbox Live in 2009

Cletus Clay, a manic side-scrolling platform brawler headed your way on Xbox LIVE Arcade and PC in 2009. Released under Tuna's new label TunaSnax, the Xbox LIVE Arcade version will be self-published whilst the PC version will be distributed by those mighty fine folk at Pinnacle Software.

Based on an original concept by acclaimed animator Anthony Flack, Cletus ClayTM is a fast paced old-school run'n'gun with eye catching visuals and a seriously irreverent attitude. Playing as the eponymous Cletus, a bad-tempered, wise-cracking, gun-totin' hick, you take on a bunch of uninvited alien visitors who have had the temerity to trespass through your farmland on their way to conquering the Earth. Cue flying saucers, ray guns, seemingly endless reinforcements, giant robots and motherships galore; but nothing is a match for an angry redneck and his pitchfork! Continues...

Created entirely from clay, the world of Cletus Clay is a fusion of traditional model making, stop-motion animation and modern digital technology. Virtually every object in the game has been modeled, photographed and animated using similar techniques to those used on productions such as Wallace and Gromit (Aardman Studios).

So, grab your shootin' iron and blast, punch, kick, and smash your way across 12 memorable levels in a quest to rid the Earth of them there boggle-eyed cow rustling invaders. Because nothing says ‘Welcome to Earth’ quite like a good old home cooked helping of whup ass!

KEY FEATURES:

• The whole game is made out of clay and presented in HD: you can even see the thumb prints on the models

• Two player cooperative gameplay: a second player can join in as Cletus’ brother Emmett so the dynamic duo can beat up the marauding alien invaders as a team.

• A multitude of mini-games and bonus stages, including: blasting alien saucers out of the sky with a mounted cannon, rescuing sheep from a flooding valley, frantic egg gathering from chicken coops, exploring caves for hidden treasure and hunting down fleeing aliens in a hijacked flying saucer.

• Cletus has access to an impressive arsenal of weapons to lay down the pain, including: pitchforks, shotguns, dynamite, mini-guns, flame throwers, grenade launchers and alien ray guns. But, given half a chance, he's just as likely to make use of a sturdy plank, a hay bale or even a pig!

Friday, November 21, 2008

Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles First Dreamcast game in six years

Redspotgames annouced that their latest game "Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles", released November 1st 2008 for the Sega Dreamcast, is now also available at Amazon, eBay and GameGavel.

With the listing at Amazon, this is the first Dreamcast game that was listed at the world's largest e-commerce retailer for almost 6 years.

Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Wind-Water-Puzzle-Battles-Sega-Dreamcast/dp/B001L4RAGQ/

eBay: http://myworld.ebay.de/redspotgames

GameGavel: http://www.gamegavel.com/other_items.php?owner_id=100399

TrackMania racing game out on Nintendo DS

TrackMania DS, the eagerly anticipated and most exciting racing game available on Nintendo DS, is released today.

TrackMania DS allows players to drive at mind-blowing speeds in hi-octane racers on incredible tracks made of jumps, loops and turbo boost pads as they bid to become the fastest driver on the planet. View the extreme gameplay on the latest TrackMania DS trailer: www.youtube.com/mediasafari

Choose from Desert, Rally or Stadium environments to select your race machine and go head-to-head with your mates in multiplayer mode. Other unique features of TrackMania DS include:

• 3D Track Editor: Players can create their own adrenaline rush as they craft customised tracks for out-of-this-world racing

• Single cartridge multiplayer: Up to four players can race on custom or in-game tracks using just one game cartridge via the local WiFi connection of the DS

• TrackMania vehicles: These include the light and powerful Rally car, the hard to handle desert vehicle and the iconic TrackMania car, a stylised F1 racer

• Three single player modes: Race, Platform and Puzzle provide a variety of challenges for even the most experienced racer

• Hotseat multiplayer: Using just one game cartridge and one DS console, adrenaline flows as up to eight players take turns racing around custom or in-game tracks to set the fastest times in nail-biting competition

• Three TrackMania environments: Desert, Rally and Stadium environments offer unique styles of gameplay

TrackMania DS is in stores now, by Ascaron Entertainment and 93 Games, bringing a new type of extreme racing to the handheld console and providing the perfect Christmas present for adrenaline junkies.

Bigshot PC video game demo download

It's go time baby. Offers are flying in fast and furious and you need to make decisions. Your job is to build a portfolio of businesses that you can leverage into a business empire.

What to hold, what to fix, what to wheel and deal for, what to bid on, what to package up and spin off - it's all about the art of the deal and you control everything. But watch out; there are a lot of shrewd players in this game and they are all out to be the richest, baddest tycoon in the city.

Can you keep up? Do you have what it takes to outwit, outbid, out-manage and out maneuver the rest of the pack?

Are you a Big$hot?

Find out here... http://www.rustyaxe.com/big$hot/index.php

Find out in this fast paced, easy to learn, multi-layered business strategy game that is never the same twice!

Big$hot is the exciting new title from Rusty Axe Games, developer of Real E$tate Empire!

Fan Reward for Prince of Persia - Unlockable Skin of Assassin's Creed hero Altair

There are many secrets hiding within the quiet places of our Prince’s world. Link your Ubisoft.com account to your Xbox LIVE or PlayStation Network account, and you will gain access to the skin of Altair from Assassin’s Creed. Continue your exploration of the fantastic places of ancient Persia clad in the white and red of Altair’s ancient order.

“Prince of Persia is an incredible experience. We’re thrilled to give our loyal fans another way to journey through it,” said Ben Mattes, producer for Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia video game. “This exclusive reward is a ‘thank you’ to our fans, who can easily unlock it when they link their Ubisoft.com accounts to their Xbox 360 or PLAYSTATION 3 gamer identities.”

Create your Ubisoft.com account now at www.princeofpersia.com, and when you begin your Prince of Persia adventure you will be able to immediately unlock this exclusive reward.

Prince of Persia is currently scheduled for release on December 5th 2008 for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, and PC.

The Face of the Ultimate Soldier- only in Call of Duty World at War

Scientists find the face to follow into battle, as Call of Duty: World at War launches

As a soldier steps onto the battlefield, he needs to be sure the guy leading the troops is up to the job, but is there a way to know for sure? According to research conducted by scientists at the University of Stirling, the structure of a person’s cheekbones, jawline and brow can be an indicator as to whether they have the perfect face for war, or if they would be better off at home.

To coincide with the launch of the video game, Call of Duty: World at War, Dr. Anthony Little used computer software to blend 3380 facial characteristics from the top 20 movie soldiers, including Michael Caine (The Eagle has Landed), Sly Stallone (First Blood) and Laurence Olivier (Battle of Britain), with the aim of investigating the typical facial traits of the ultimate soldier. The result of this experiment showed that, outside of Hollywood, a face affects military rank in the real world, too.

Facial traits of the ultimate soldier

In the Call of Duty franchise, the player is the ultimate soldier, however in film, the perfect warrior has classic masculine facial traits. Dr. Little’s research team used facial metrics to look at five key characteristics and found that the face that most embodied the ultimate soldier had larger jaw lengths relative to their face length, lower eyebrows, and a more prominent brow ridge - like fictional squaddies, such as Steve McQueen in The Great Escape.

As part of the research, released today, people were asked to rate facial traits on how much they conveyed trust, heroism, masculinity, leadership and fitness. The face of the perfect soldier, right, is the result of blending 169 key locations on each face of the top 20 war movie heroes.

Life imitates art

As well as finding the face of the Supreme Soldier, Dr. Little also morphed the faces of Hollywood legends Kiefer Sutherland and Gary Oldman, who provide voiceovers in Call of Duty: World at War, to show what they would look like as the Supreme Soldier.

Activision UK's Marketing Director, David Tyler said: “The Call of Duty franchise is one of the world’s most popular video games, with millions of gamers across the globe vying to be the ‘Supreme Soldier’. So we wanted to see how our supreme soldier compared to traits portrayed in the movies, as well as in the real world.”

Dr. Anthony Little, of The University of Stirling University said: “The face of the perfect soldier, as selected by Hollywood, is a face that is masculine, physically fit and heroic looking. As our selection is based on movies that span a range of decades, we can see that the traits are the same for all soldiers no matter what time. For this reason it seems likely that this image of the Supreme Soldier reflects a good soldier in any period of history.”

Call of Duty: World at War is out now and has already been tipped by industry insiders to be the number one game this Christmas, for more information visit www.callofduty.com <http://www.callofduty.com>

Top 20 movie soldiers used in research

1. Charlie Sheen - Platoon

2. Michael J Fox - Casualties of War

3. Tom Hanks -Saving Private Ryan

4. Martin Sheen - Apocalypse Now

5. Robert De Niro - The Deer Hunter

6. Alec Guiness - Bridge over the River Kwai

7. Laurence Olivier - Battle of Britain

8. Richard Todd - The Dam Busters

9. Steve McQueen - The Great Escape

10. Sean Penn - The Thin Red Line

11. Matthew Modine - Full Metal Jacket

12. Tom Cruise - Born on the Forth of July

13. Michael Caine - Zulu / The Eagle Has Landed

14. Josh Hartnett - Black Hawk Down

15. Richard Burton - Where Eagles Dare

16. Mel Gibson - Gallipoli

17. Clint Eastwood - Kelly's Heroes

18. Sly Stallone - Rambo

19. John Wayne - The Sands of Iwo Jima / The Longest Day

20. William Dafoe - Platoon

Win a Lara Croft Tomb Raider Underworld Alison Carroll Model

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terminator Salvation video game of the film announced

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Equity Games Production and Halcyon Games announce Terminator Salvation – The Videogame an action-packed, third-person shooter, to be released in conjunction with the highly anticipated Warner Bros. Pictures and Sony Pictures film, which opens nationwide in 2009.

Based on the upcoming “Terminator Salvation” film, the game offers players the chance to assume the role of John Connor, a soldier in the resistance, battling for survival against the far superior forces of Skynet. Terminator Salvation – The Videogame is a third-person action game with concentrated armed combat against all of the Skynet enemies from the film while encountering new enemies specifically designed for the game. The game was developed by GRIN Studios, published by Equity Games, co-published by Evolved Games and distributed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

“Terminator Salvation – The Videogame allows players to battle for survival against Skynet enemies utilizing an incredibly fluid and realistic control set,” said Cos Lazouras, President of Halcyon Games. “The player will be led through a visceral story with extremely polished production values to create a fully interactive Terminator experience.”

“Building on the incredibly strong franchise, Terminator Salvation – The Videogame will be a cinematic gaming experience that complements the upcoming film,” said John Quinn, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “Working with Halcyon and Equity Games, we will expand on the Terminator universe on next generation consoles with action packed gameplay and detailed environments.”

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