Game Wars

To celebrate the number of sales days from launch to date, which is around 4.3 million units distributed to retailers, Konami has released the demo version of Hideo Kojima’s masterpiece on the Japanese Playstation Store. Who has not yet had the opportunity to experience Metal Gear Solid 4 (the only plausible reason could be to have been abducted by aliens), can go on Japanese store (after Japanese account) and download the demo version of the weight of 1 , 4 gb. The demo includes in particular the initial scenario set in the Middle East. We await news regarding the possible release during the day on European and American stores.

After the miserable failure of Hellgate: London, Bill Roper, former director of Blizzard and Flagship Studios becomes part of Cryptic Studios as announced today by the development team. Roper’s role in the new staff will be Design Director of Champions Online, the MMORPG Cryptic themed superhero output for PC and Xbox 360 in spring 2009 under the label 2K Games.

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In an interview with the prestigious magazine Edge, a “deep throat” of Microsoft informs us that Gears of War 2, outbound on November 7 for Xbox 360 Nostrana, will not be released in Germany and Japan. As for Germany, the news does not surprise us much longer view of the fate happened to his predecessor, never released in Teutonic territory because of that classification PEGI legally obliged Epic Games to “soften” the violent content of his first creation of a ‘Eventual publication (exactly as happened with Mad World).

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Half-Life 2: Episode 3 could be shown for the first time the press by the end of the year. A Doug Lombardi has revealed on the website Kikizo. “We could show it to the end of the year, ’said the laconic vice president of Valve, indicating that the release date is still far away (autumn 2009?):” The next time you play in the shoes of Gordon have waited longer than it rose from Episode 1 a Episode 2.

This even mere uncontrolled items, but it is definitely interesting to restore what emerges on Mass Effect 2, if only because of the lack of news about it. In one forum foreign, in fact, has been battling a link to a page of the site known Gamespot, which were reported many details about the continuation of the title Bioware: the use of the past is a must, as this page is no longer available. However, the news emerged have been previously recorded by the user who reported it.

On the site Nintendo Everything has been published new scans, taken from Nintendo Power magazine, on Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. From the new images we see a little better in the style cel-shading adopted by Rockstar for this portable version of Grand Theft Auto brand. In addition there are some clues about the game play: the touch screen is used for certain actions, such as’ ignition of the car (stolen of course), or as a map of the city.

It will be Ubisoft to bring Tenchu 4 in Europe and North America is what was announced yesterday by the French publisher, who has also made it clear that the game be released exclusively for Wii in early 2009.

The new chapter of the famous stealth series will arrive in Japan on October 23: it seems we will have to wait a while ‘but at least we now have the certainty that we can play, provided of course that you have a Nintendo console at home.

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Mega Man 9 title particularly expected from all fans of the historical saga Capcom, is shown in three new movies playing that we propose after the break. Based on more distant predecessors as Mega Man and Mega Man 2, this new chapter mixes elements seen in all the episodes of the series.

A few days after the release of the game will also be brought on the first downloadable content, which will play in the shoes of Proto Man. Initially by Capcom as exclusive WIIW, Mega Man 9 will come instead also on their marketplace for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by the end of the month.

After the blockade imposed by Microsoft on this project, Bungie has suddenly taken over the marketing promotion of the next chapter of his acclaimed series, namely Halo. For the first time it was confirmed that this new episode will fall in ‘Halo universe, even though we can not know to what extent clearly. On the site of Bungie has meanwhile appeared a mysterious phrase: “Keep it clean” (keep clean).

The other news concerning the kind of belonging: it speaks in fact a kind of shooter in third person teams, similar to the famous Ghost Recon in this regard. This hypothesis, moreover, would make sense in light of the passage of the creative director of Advance Warfighter Ghost Recon, Christian Allen, a Bungie. Expect more news later this week.

It seems that the problem concerning money Fable 2 Pub Games, the title Xbox Live Arcade developed by Lionhead Studios, is now only a memory.

Despite the team Lionhead has expressly said that it was a defect wanted (possible?), The end came an update to fix everything. The game, suffered from a bug, where players could win a flood of money, then used in the game full of Fable 2. Peter Molyneux had ensured that these rogue players would pay the price once entered the game official.