Game Wars

We expect interesting news today regarding Halo Wars. The real-time strategy derived from the world of Halo game has a release date set for February of 2009 and in two versions: a standard that will complement is indeed a substantial Limited Edition. Why we say “substantial”? Because besides containing various gadgets tasty, the limited edition will include inside Halo 3 Mythic, which is not the new draft which we have informed a mesetto ago but a map-pack with 3 new maps that you can use in multiplayer Halo 3.

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Only three days ago we provided information and images on additional exclusive BioShock for PlayStation 3, but now we go further: 2K Games has released a trailer ad hoc to present these new players. These three “challenge room”, scenarios where the player will have to overcome many ingenious short missions. Please note that this content will be released worldwide via PlayStation Network on November 20 at a price of 7.99 €.

The recent divorce between Tomonobu Itagaki and Team Ninja, seemed idiliaco until shortly after the release of Ninja Gaiden 2, should not have smosso little water inside of the working hours led by Yosuke Hayashi. Stop a moment to listen to his words we realize a net change of strategy development. Referring to Nintendo Wii, for example: “Inside the company, there is a good knowledge on the subject, and we believe we have achieved the ability to create very fun and interesting using this machine. There are a lot of fans of Wii within the company, so we hope to have something to work on.

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After Electronic Arts, including Activision Blizzard has released its results for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, registering a loss of 108 million dollars. The higher costs appear to be derived from the merger with Vivendi Games, which took place last year. The games which have helped were very Call of Duty 4, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, GH: On Tour and World of Warcraft. Activision Blizzard has announced a recovery plan, which the company should be able to get up to 1 billion dollars.

In times of financial problems, THQ pulls a deep breath through Saints Row 2, which a few days after the market has already recorded two million units distributed to stores. Having received positive giuidizi unanimity of the critics, Saints Row 2 was also rewarded by the public. The publisher had announced a few days ago that the action, Saints Row 3, is already in the pipeline. And given the results it does not surprise us at all.

Paraphrasing Garibaldi (but also a song by De Gregori), we must also us from witnesses of what is going on in these hours in the United States, the center of the world from our unique point of view, namely that videogame. And it is exactly for this reason that we present Super Obama World, a free game developed in Flash that “runs” the stages of a long election campaign and ape, so funny and inspired enough, the look and feel of Super Mario World, the immortal glory Super Nintendo.

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Capcom has released 21 new screenshots much of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, ritraente the historical series that have made them immortal the second chapter. Recall that according to the latest reports from its development team remake of the glorious Beat’em arrive simultaneously on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network by the end of November, at a price increased compared to games normally distributed in digital delivery on both platforms. Certainly not the maximum precision on how and when the game comes, but in the meantime we have to console us that with this new gallery.

Gears of War 2 is now imminent exit, but to fill this short wait while we decided to propose the introduction of movie that you will find in the full game. Awarded by the reviews of all magazines of the world (and soon, on Gamesblog), the game of Epic Games promises to improve its predecessor in every single aspect.

Sony has started to send, via e-mail, the calls for the European beta of Resistance 2. Like the American version, this beta will provide an opportunity to test the multiplayer title dell’attesissimo Insomniac. The lucky users will receive in these days of e-mail from Sony will be able to download, via special code to redeem, the 2 gb to take part in the test European Resistance 2. Gamesblog of course we could not miss an appointment, then stay on our pages for first impressions.

Small step towards the revelation of data out of Europe Street Fighter IV, albeit indirectly, in a conference in Tokyo that Capcom has announced that the game will arrive in Japan on PS3 and Xbox 360 during the month of February 2009 . Breeding the news today with that of a few days ago that the game console would come before the winter, becomes the expected output also by our shares between February and March, at least in the console versions, assuming that arrivals first in Japan and then here as often happens.

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