Electronic Arts revealed today that the Need for Speed franchises has surpassed 100 Million units sold worldwide – making the Need for Speed franchise the best-selling racing brand in the gaming history. Along with that, the publisher also revealed that the franchise has generated a total of 2.7 billion in sales.

“Few video game franchises ever reach the 100M units mark, so this is a huge honor. We have millions of fans to thank for driving us to this milestone,” said Frank Gibeau, president, EA Games Label. “With the launch of Need for Speed Shift and the upcoming release of Need for Speed Nitro, we hope to continue to deliver the most entertaining, action-packed racing experiences.”

EA also noted that if Need for Speed boxes were laid out end-to-end, it would span 173,609 football fields. With that said, in all, the Need for Speed brand brought us 15 titles for over 14 platforms, which were released in 22 languages in more than 60 countries.

It’s very unclear if Bungie will be returning to develop another entry into the Halo series, other then next year’s Halo: Reach. However, Microsoft is hellbent on continuing the franchise. So much, in fact, that they’re planning on continuing the Halo series well into the next decade with, or without, Bungie’s help.

“We do have a plan that goes out at least six years [2015],” 343 Industries’ Frank O’Connor reveals when speaking to USA Today. SPOILER! Specially, with Halo 3’s legendary ending, he thinks that, that will be a great point of continuation. “I think that [the Master Chief's] fate, Cortana’s fate and the identity of that giant, dark planet at the ending are probably big mysteries that would be irritating if they were just cliffhangers,” he continued.

[Thanks to GameSpot]

At Tokyo’s Xbox 360 Media Briefing 2009, Microsoft confirmed that Konami will be publishing Ninety-Nine Nights II. There’s little information know about the title, however, the sequel will feature the same style of gameplay as the original – which blends a  large groups of enemies with fast-paced combat. Ninety-Nine Nights II was said to be developed by Rez designer Testsuya Mizuguch, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Konami had “no comment” to make about the news.

I’m charismatic when it comes to the release of the next Beyond Good & Evil title, however, the president of Ubisoft North America doubts that the squeal will ever get a release.

When being interviewed, Ubisoft’s Laurent Detoc stated that it’s possible that the title may never get a release date – when being questioned about the risks of the new IP.

“Yes, that worked out, but it doesn’t work out every time, and sometimes you come back to an IP that didn’t work because you still think it could have – like Beyond Good and Evil, which was leaked, so now people know we’re working on a new one,” said Detoc in an interview with IndustryGamers.

“Whether or not it comes out remains to be seen anyway, but we didn’t want to abandon that IP because it has a cache and authenticity about it. There’s something very pure about that game and it’s too bad that we were not able to build it as an IP at the time.”

He later then denied that the squeal had ever been confirmed.

“Well, I didn’t say there’s definitely going to be another game. I said something had leaked, which means we’ve been working on some Beyond Good and Evil stuff, but whether there’s going to be another game or not, that’s something for the future. But getting to your question as to why there’s work on the IP again, it’s a creative people business; the creative talent is interested in it and possibly exploring how to do it from a new angle.”

Activision are building a new studio in San Francisco. And, believe it or not, they need people to work there. So they have picked up two of Visceral Games’ senior staff member.

According to Kotaku, Activision got their hands on Glen Schofield, who was general manager at Visceral, and Michael Condrey, who was chief operating officer.

They both left today.  To go onto work at Activision’s new studio, whose name and purpose are a mystery. However, I bet we can rule out anything “family friendly”. Seeing that EA’s Visceral Games worked on such games as Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno.

[Dead Space Devs Jump Ship To Activision via Kotaku]

Superannuation reports that last Wednesday Eidos filed a trademark registration for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, suggesting that a long-rumored sequel is indeed on the way.

However, Eidos hasn’t exactly been shy about talking on the sequel. Back in May, Eidos president Ian Livingstone said that developer IO Interactive was working on the sequel. “We’ve already got Kane & Lynch 2 in production, which just goes to show the belief we have in it as a long-term franchise.”

More info should be revealed shortly.

No this isn’t a April Fools joke, mainly because it’s not April. But, the kind sirs, and madams, over at Microsoft are offering Silver members the chance to upgrade to Gold for one month. Here’s were it gets good, all this for the one time price of $1.

However, being a “limited-time offer”, which it is, when the free months up, you’ll be charged for the rest of the year, but, of course, you can opt out of it.

At the Konami E3 press conference, Hideo Kojima announced in front of the video game press core that Kojima Productions as well as at Spanish studio Mercury Steam are busy working on Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, which then confrims reports that happened earier this year.

Kojima says they want to “keep the franchise fresh”. Along with that, he also stated that Lord of Shadow should be out sometime within 2010 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Holy cow… This maybe a bit too soon, but has Microsoft just debuted a Left 4 Dead 2 trailer during its E3 Press Conference. There wasn’t much details given at the conference about the game, but according to end the trailer the game will be releasing on November 17th of this year. The game is set to release exclusively for Xbox 360 and PC.

It’s time. After god knows how long since the teaser that shocked the inter-web, the Eastern Conference Final is finally upon us. During the end beginning of the second third fourth quarter of the Eastern Conference Final millions of fans and gamers were left at the edge of their seats with this very Modern Warfare 2 trailer.

“Everyone on the team is laser focused on making the most gripping experience we’ve ever created,” said Infinity Ward’s CEO, Vince Zampella when the title was announced. “No detail is too small and every finishing touch imaginable is underway to make Modern Warfare 2 our best ever. We can’t wait for our fans around the world to play starting November 10th.”

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Sam Fisher can’t remain hidden any longer and the time has come for UbiSoft to show us (absolutely nothing of) Splinter Cell: Conviction via one if their “teaser trailers”.

Anyway, there isn’t much point in going into detail about the teaser trailer because there aren’t any, but you do get to hear Sam Fisher talking about the situation he’s landed in Jack Bauer style. However, according the teaser site, you’ll have to wait until the 20th of May, and 28th May for more details and, properly, another trailer.

Talk about a bold statement. Developer Bethesda Games, know for the Fallout titles, are feeling pretty good about their newest project with Splash Damage in Europe, enough to call it a both a “genre-breaker” and a “killer app.”

“We’re not announcing the name yet, but it’s a first-person shooter. That’s a product that we believe is a genre-breaker, it’s a real killer app,” European managing director Sean Brennan told GamesIndustry.biz.

“From a quality perspective we’re pitching that along the same lines as Fallout 3. We’ve kept it under lock and key, there are so many innovative features in there we don’t want to reveal them too soon. We’ve spent significant resources developing the title. And that’s a great example of our European work.”

The machines have yet to take over, but that won’t stop the media barrage of Terminator Salvation from continuing it’s onslaught.  Here’s the latest trailer profiling the terrestrial-based mechanized baddies.

“Terminator Salvation is a third person shooter where the player needs to “constantly move, flank, cover and utilize their squad to progress.” The player must battle Skynet enemies from the upcoming film as well as new enemies specifically designed for the game.

The game features a campaign that can be played alone or cooperatively with one other local player via split-screen.”

According to GameSpot, in a post-earnings conference call with investors, UbiSoft offered more detail as to how well Shaun White Snowboarding is performing in the market.

Anyway, in the call, CEO Yves Guillemot revealed that the title has achieved sales of 3 million units sold. Later on in the conference, it was revealed by Guillemot, which came as no surprise, that Ubisoft intends to release new installments in the franchise.

“You can expect more Shaun White in the future,” Guillemot plainly told investors. Unfortunately, he didn’t provide a time frame in which the next installment in the Shaun White franchise would release. Currently, the publisher does not have it penciled in for release during its current fiscal year -  runs through March 31, 2010. 

Rise your hand if your excited, I know I am. When UbiSoft released its full 2009-10 sales report today, it was revealed that they were working on another Ghost Recon title, Ghost Recon 4, which could mean that they’re working on another Advanced Warfighter title or whatever – but we all know it’s going to be good. 

Along with the reveal it was shown that they are also planning to release series games like Assassin’s Creed 2, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction, Rabbids Go Home, Red Steel 2, and Anno 1404  all before Apirl 10. 

We all knew that the content was going to release on April 30th, but we really weren’t sure as to how the price tag was going to look like. However, your wonders will now seems to disappear.

Today, the price tag was given for the newest content for Killzone 2 entitled ‘Steel & Titanium’ – the first of the DLC – at about $5.99, which will feature two maps; New Sun, which is on a ISA flagship; and Wasteland Bullet, which is on 2 Helghan trains running right next to one another with environmental gotchas.

In reports yesterday, that were from GDC, it was read that Massive Action Game, aka MAG, was an “iteration of SOCOM”. So GamersDigest when to investogate the statements made at the event.

When speaking to Cindy Bowens, the community manager at SCEA, she clarified the comments made.

“I just wanted to give you a heads up in response to the quote about MAG being an ‘iteration of SOCOM,” she told GD. “I wanted to clarify that this is a misstatement. MAG is a brand new IP and is unrelated to SOCOM… It is not a sequel nor built upon SOCOM. It will be a brand new experience.”

GameTrailers TV just released the first ever teaser trailer for Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time. The teaser focuses on the supreme power of time and the consequences that will result if time is manipulated. Of course, that means that some bad guy will create ‘A Crack In Time’ and that means it’s up to Ratchet & Clank to seal it. Ratchet and Clank: A Crack In Time will arrive in stores sometime in Autumn 2009.

There were many reports today stating that Modern Warfare 2 has dropped the ‘Call of Duty’ out of its name, so we asked Activision for a reason why they changed the name. Responding, a company spokesperson told us as to the reason why.

“Modern Warfare has taken on such a life of its own, it has become our focus now,” we were told by the company spokesperson. But, sadly, other then that we were reminded that, “it’s too early to release additional details.”

The game is planned to release November 10th 2009. More details will be revealed in our upcoming preview of the title coming god knows when.

What happened two weeks ago? What you don’t remember… Well, just so that you know, that’s when Killzone 2 released, however, now it seems that the PS3 exclusive has now sold over 1 million copies.

On the games opening weekend, Killzone 2 went on to sell 700,000 copies in both North America and Europe. And, of course, the following week it went on to sell another 300,000 copies, which, according to the charts, is about over a 50% drop in sales – a pretty decent showing considering the title was launched in a non-holiday sales period.

In total, the game has sold about 1.05 million copies thus far. With it’s Japanese release coming next month, the title should manage to stay on the charts for a while, hopefully.

Ignition Entertainment has confirmed that King of Fighters XII will be coming to the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 this Summer. The game has had its up and downs as of lately with one of the longest development cycles for any series title to date, but that is okay. Only if we can get a great game at the end.

But, with time we’ll be able to see how the game has been rebuild from the ground up – with an all new engine and a in-depth improved character sprites. Speaking of, you can view the trailer here.

At the DICE ‘09 conference, John Riccitiello told the attendees at the conference that the current recession has been ‘a blessing in disguise [so that] we can clear away junk’. Stating that the overall goal from this is that the developers can ’stop sending pointless product to retail stores’. ‘Junk is hard to compete with,’ said Riccitiello. He felt that developers should shift their focus on quality and away from quantity.

‘We did get fat in too many places. It seemed like anyone who could draw a guy with a gun with a crayon could get funded. At least for EA, we got a little too fat, and a little too reliant on where things were,’ he continues. ‘I’m not pro-recession but to quote Rahm Emanuel: never waste a crisis.’

This is a great wake up call for developers atleast they can wake up before it  became too late.

The God of War, Kratos, is back for an extended view of the trailer that we got viewed at back at last years VGAs. The trailer looks absolutely amazing, but be warned you may be blown away, if not, let us know!

A Sony rep has confirmed that the trailer is live action, meaning that it was taken from actual gameplay. But, franchise fans will notice the absence of some signature elements; enemies here aren’t dropping light orbs, the person playing the game isn’t being given on-screen button prompt when he – or she - goes in for the gory mini-boss kills. Lucky, Sony has confirmed to us that those elements were removed from the trailer for presentation purposes.

After the long-struggle about trying to get the recently released Mortal Kombat title to sell well, its publisher has filed for bankruptcy this morning, calling it a ‘difficult but necessary decision.’

“We have been focused on realigning our operations and improving our execution, and this filing will relieve the immediate pressure from our creditors and provide us time for an orderly exploration of our strategic alternatives. This Chapter 11 filing is the next logical step in an ongoing process to address our capital structure,” said Midway Chairman, President and CEO Matt Booty.

“Midway enters this process with strong underlying fundamentals, as evidenced by solid fourth quarter sales that exceeded expectations in spite of a challenging retail and general economic environment,” Booty added. “Overall, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe sales are approaching two million units shipped, TNA iMPACT! has shipped approximately one million units, and our Game Party franchise has sold close to three million units in total.”

Midway expects that Chapter 11 protection will enable the company to conduct its business operations as usual. To that end, Midway is seeking approval from the court for a variety of First Day Motions enabling the company to continue managing its operations in the ordinary course. These motions are typical of the restructuring process, and approval is regularly granted.

The fate of the earth and the survival of the human race hang in the balance and it looks like you are, once again, called upon to take on the role of your favorite giant robots. Today in an untimely fashion, it seems that Activision has announced there role in the development of the upcoming move video game Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

The will be base off the upcoming move with the same name, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

“The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen video game will give fans the chance to experience their favorite Autobots and Decepticons  in an all-new, movie inspired adventure packed with the thrilling and explosive action that only the Transformers universe can deliver,” said Rob Kostich, vice president of global brand management, Activision, Inc.

“We are thrilled to announce that after experiencing the rush of commanding colossal robots on their own, players can challenge their friends for the first time ever in full-featured, blistering multiplayer action as their favorite characters.”

Jigsaw’s, the guy that we just love to hate, will finally be getting a release date after some, foolish, talk that the game would never see the light of day.

Konami today revealed that it has come to the table with a deal with, Lions Gate Entertainment is to continue the work of  Brash Entertainment, after the the studio closed it’s doors late last year. The deal would entail the movie game so that it will release around the the same time with Saw 6, which is Fall 09.

Here’s a quick question. Are you guys into the Saw franchise? If so, are you looking forward to the game? And we all know that ”The Sicko can’t be let down. Let’s play a game.”

Update: G4 has posted the extended trailer from the game. Looks better than the original.

Original: Lead Animator, Tomas Hrebicek, has confirmed that the recently released Mafia II trailer was all created in real-time.

“It really was,” said Hrebicek. “All the scenes were completely created in our editor the same way we create cutscenes for the game. Our cutscene editor is a very powerful tool. Besides, we can see it all real-time which makes our work a lot easier. There was absolutely no need to modify the resulting video in the post production.

“Because everything was created solely in our editor, only our in-game scenes and models were used. So what you see here is great representation of the quality of work that you will see throughout Mafia II. Of course, this is not the end yet, and frame rate and other technical issues are still being tweaked in order to have the game working smoothly on all the platforms we create it for.”

‘The Godfather’, altogether, is one the film industry’s most recognized, and most acclaimed, films and when some in the gaming industry embraces, or finds, that it well make a great game they will go after it. Thus was born The Godfather: The Video Game, the game, being the first game, was a very interesting first try releasing on most of the last-gen systems.

Now, its developer, EA, plans to release it on current nex-gen systems in the form of a new game, The Godfather II, and it was recent revealed that the title will be releasing in February. Now-however, it seems that EA has also finally revealed the Box-Art for the game.

Alex Mercer may not remember if he was a hero or a villain, but do you remember the trailer that was ‘leaked’ a month ago? Well, it looks like that trailer has found its way to CES, in Las Vegas, this year and, as I digress into this matter, that’s not what I’m here to talk about.

At the end of the trailer (shown below), there was a simply advert saying that newest release target for Prototype, which reads ‘Summer 2009′. That’s it. That was the newest release target for the title, but also in the trailer it revealed some powerful, and rather painful, powers that haven’t been shown before, here take a look.

Note: to view video in better quality go here and click in ‘watch in HD’.

Probably one of the most under-appreciated titles in 2008 – it even won many “Most Overlooked” Awards – it makes sense that the title would be getting a re-release in the part of the world that RPGs are most dominant. After all, there were many reports that the game was not selling well in North America.

Now, however, it looks like Sega is scheduling a budgeted re-release of Valkyria Chronicles in Japan on March 5, and the game will include the Edie Nelson mission(s), which is currently only available via download on the Japanese PlayStation Store. The price has also dropped down to 3,990 yen, which is just about $44 U.S, give or take.

There is no word on if the title will re-release in North America, but there is a strong change that they will benefit from such a move. This will also help the popularity of the title in Japan, but this time let hope that they advertise the game better.

I’m a big fan of the underwater adventure, Bioshock, but one think that really did made me think was a simple question, “who is Rosenberg?” I’m mean the character seemed as if he was way more powerful then Andrew Ryan. And right before you confront Andrew Ryan, in a sub-room, Ryan has a jumbled wall of pictures and news clippings with the words “Would you kindly?”, which shows how every one is connected.

But there was shadowy figure that is the only one that is tied to Ryan, and cut off by Ryan. So Matt of the unofficial Bioshock 2 forums did some digging into it and he found an audio diary that has the only information about Rosenberg.

“Transcript: Diane, my dear, I’m sorry but I’ll be late again tonight… Rosenberg is demanding to speak about this Fontaine business. I’m trying to build a proper financial market and this idiot keeps going on about Adam this and genetic modification that. I’ll go spend an hour pretending to pay attention to the poor fellow and be home as soon as I can.”

Rosenberg is the most likely new character for Bioshock 2, for the simple fact that rumors circulating the Bioshock 2 community state it will be both a sequel and prequel, that fits perfectly for Rosenberg.

As gamers, we are always looking for new batteries for our controllers so we here at GamerCenterOnline have decided to team up with Energizer and Pandora Radio to help fulfill that need in the form of a contest.

In this contest you’ll have the chance to win a pack of Advanced Lithium batteries from Energizer with free Rock Band DLC – that comes with every pack if you redeem the code in the package.

Now, as a company Energizer is trying to address all the needs of our high-tech personal gadgets by creating Advanced Lithium batteries that last longer and weighs less, both on the environment and in sizes.

And to celebrate the launch of Advanced Lithium batteries, Energizer has joined forces with the popular internet radio site, Pandora, which is expanding its offerings by creating a brand new message board – powered by Energizer.

Anyway, to enter this contest all you’re going to need to do is contact us here at contact [at] gamercenteronline.net telling us how Energizer has fulfilled one of your many household gaming or entertainment needs. Along with your Name and Address with the message being named Energizer/Pandora Radio Contest. Or you can leave a comment, in the comment box, telling us your story on the site, but keep in mind if you e-mail us with your story, your changes may go up.

End Date: 1/05/2009

Prize:  Advanced Lithium batteries with free RockBand  DLC.

Well, this holiday season isn’t as white as it should of been for video game publisher and developer EA, but besides all of its problems they processed to try an fulfill the needs of their Mirror’s Edge fans.

Yesterday, EA confirmed that Mirror’s Edge will be seeing a follow-up, but on the downside, it’s sad to see the company announcing this in the face of a disappointing holiday sales rate.

“While we saw significant improvement in the overall quality of our key products this year, we are disappointed that our holiday slate is not meeting our sales expectations,” said EA CEO John Riccitiello to GI.biz. “Given this performance and the uncertain economic environment, we are taking steps to reduce our cost structure and improve the profitability of our business.”

However, despite slow sales the warm critical reception afforded to Mirror’s Edge will ensure a sequel.

“Many times with a new intellectual property, the first edition doesn’t generate the units that subsequent editions could generate,” Riccitiello continued, “Mirror’s Edge is one that was very strongly reviewed, that one’s going to go forward. We’re probably going to look into some issues around the design to make sure strong IP is married with strong business.”

Wow, out of the many company’s that I though would be laying off people, EA had to come and pull this trick. Today, word has hit the web that Electronic Arts has “massive” layed off 6 percent of its staff, which adds up to be about 600 people.

“EA is continuing to make progress against our business plan, but we have the constant imperative to keep our costs in line as we grow our revenues and improve our margins,” said Electronic Arts spokesperson, Mariam Sughayer. “Decisions that impact people’s jobs are always extremely tough but all of the people affected will be treated fairly and respectfully.”

The spokesperson goes onto reveal that the company has “reduce hiring” and that “open positions that – they – had previously planned to fill this fiscal year” were closed. This is because they are tiring to “adjust employee numbers” to ensure that their resourced in a ways that allows them to continue to grow, revenue-wise.

“These are challenging economic times around the world, and it’s impossible for any business leaders to predict the future. However, EA has made good progress in improving product quality, building a holiday lineup of titles that is extremely strong, filling our new IP pipeline, and expanding our Direct-To-Consumer and online businesses. As well, our talent remains the best in the industry.”

[Electronic Arts Lays Off Six Hundred via Kotaku]

The number one wrestling simulator has now proven its surrealism one again, but this time it’s really something to be hold. Today, we have gained news that WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 has achieved “Platinum Hits” status for the Xbox 360. The game originally launched in November of 2007 and is now available for the suggested retail price of $30.

“Attaining ‘Platinum Hits’ for the Xbox 360 demonstrates the long-standing dedication of our fans to this tremendous franchise,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, publishing, THQ. “This accolade comes at an opportune time as we march toward the much-anticipated North American release of WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 across all major gaming platforms, including mobile devices, on November 9.”

Looks like Nintendo is really going to have to step things up because according to the sales figures Micorsoft has step up its game with the recent price cut. Bloomberg is reporting that the Xbox 360 sales have double after the price cut narrowing Nintendo’s lead to 29 percent. Video game retails and many alike have reported a 100 percent increase in sales for all models compared with the previous weekend with some models selling at six time more then the previous weekend’s rate. When the price cut was released on September the 5 it give Microsoft the lowest price in the market for the first time. Also Microsoft rose 34 cents to $26.44 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading.

In a recent Interview with Xbox’s vice president Don Mattrick spoke about their current place in the console market, In second place that they will do everything in there power to maintain that powerful spot. Mattrick also touched on the issue saying, that while they cannot see beating there arch rival Nintendo because of that great hold on the market they are confident that second place race is over and that Sony falls into a third spot.

“I’m not at a point where I can say we’re going to beat Nintendo,” he said, before predicting, “We will sell more consoles this generation than Sony.”

Early this year at E3, Mattrick said that he wanted to beat Sony, but this time it is stressed more.To this date Microsoft has sold an estimated 20 million console since  its introduction on November 2005.

[Microsoft concedes victory to Nintendo, will fight Sony for second]

Midway has revealed a new Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe character render for one of the many characters from the Mortal Kombat Universe, Jax. If you didn’t know Jax was the first African American character in the Mortal Kombat series and he made his first appearance in the second Mortal Kombat game, Mortal Kombat II. The Mortal Kombat titles are all owned be Midway Games, a video game publisher since 1958, the company made many important stops in the last month and they are set to make many more in the coming months. Their next stop is in Germany for the upcoming Games Convention and they’ll be bring Mortal Kombat along with many over games.

The Vancouver Sun is reporting that video game company Radical Entertainment will be laying off about 100 employees, which is almost half its staff. The decision was made by the company’s owner, Activision Blizzard, to reduce the number of titles Radical produces.

“Activision Blizzard is committed to making the best games possible and has elected at this time to reduce the number of titles that Radical is developing from four games to two,” Leah Rubin, Radical’s vice-president of human resources, in an email. “Therefore, we will be proportionately reducing the size of our studio.”

Activision Blizzard said it would go ahead with five games including Radical’s Crash Bandicoot, and Prototype, a new game created by Radical that will debut in 2009. The reductions come in the wake of an ownership change last month that saw France-based Vivendi, which owns Radical, and American video software company Activision, join forces as Activision Blizzard.

Bobby Kotick, the CEO of Activision Blizzard was very proud to announced that Call of Duty 6 will be developed by Infinity Ward and will be on track for a 2009 release. If you don’t remember, Infinity Ward was the development studio which was behind the Call of Duty franchise and are the mastermind behind Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare.

While this is great news there are still many question that are left to be answered. What time will Call of Duty 6 be placed in? While there is no idea many are rumored to believe that  in 2009 we may be heading the way of the science fiction universe. So will Call of Duty 6 be held in space with squads and or marines fighting the War On Terror. Stay with us we will keep you informed

That’s right, i didn’t spell anything wrong in the title. According to GameZine, at the Take-Two press conference at E3 they showed a short teaser for a new title in the Red Dead Revolver franchise. There where many rumors that pointed to this game being reality.

Here’s what they had to say about the teaser “Other games on show were NHL 2K9, NBA 2K9 and a Wii Dora the Explorer ‘game’. The presentation was concluded with a quick teaser trailer for a new title in the Red Dead Revolver franchise.” We are still waiting for official word from Take-Two.

According to member on the IGN Boards, he was watching G4 The Dark Knight preview with Kristin Holt interviewing Gary Oldman, who plays Jim Gordon in the movie. In the preview Gary Oldman told Kristin with loose lips that there really is “a Dark Knight Game in the works.” In the preview he joked about a “small scene in the game about his character on a roof top all alone while Batman jumped off the building and opened his wings to fly away to save the day.” He also talked about how it will look when Batman glides in the game. The game is set to be released around the same time as the DVD, near the end of this year.

Update:

According to a article on  ButtonMasher, fans of Rockstar’s L.A. Noire should expect a new trailer for the upcoming game at E3.

“A little bird has told me that we should expect a new trailer for the game at E3 this week. As Rockstar do not attend E3 it is safe to assume that the trailer will be coming via the Sony press conference or made available during the show.”

Will a new L.A. Noire trailer be shown tomorrow? You will just have to wait and see….

[L.A. Noir info and trailer coming at E3 ]

Sometime back many websites reported that LucasArts wouldn’t be attending this years E3 events because they stop working with Activision as a regards to the European market. Well, think again. We got news that LucasArts will indeed be delivering the force this E3 event. In addition, to the news we also got word that the collaboration with Activision on the European market was not on the agenda.

On the official site for Tomb Raider: Underworld the game was giving the confirmation of a November 2008 release across all current-gen platforms as well as the PS2 and DS. On the site there where forums, a podcast and lots more with even details on the mission you will be taking this Fall. Also with E3 just around the corner we may more from Edios on this this game and the there 2009-10 line-up.

Take a look at the site.

While Eidos isn’t exactly in the most pleasant of thoughts with thousands of gamers out there, the bottom line is that we can’t skip on reporting about one of the world’s most recognizable franchises, Tomb Raider. Eidos Games has release new screenshots for Tomb Raider Underworld, their upcoming follow-up to Tomb Raider: Legend. In the first screenshot you will see Lara Croft hung to a rock facing a giant octopus and in the next screenshot you will see her under water in prey with a shark.

We didn’t even see this one coming, one of the longtime creators of Electronic Arts, Neil Young, has left the company for an "new project." I have never reported about some leaving a company before so i really don’t know what to say, i’m kind’a at a lost of words right now.

But, anyway just forget about me a lets get back to the story. As i was saying, Neil Young was working at Electronic Arts for about or even more then 11 year. He worked on games like The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, following that Young was put in charge of Maxis during the production of Sims 2 before being promoted to vice president and general manager of EA Los Angeles. When in Los Angele Young supervised Medal of Honor Airborne and Boom Blox.

"Neil Young has decided to leave EA to manage his own company. Neil is an 11-year EA veteran who has created a lot of great games and many good friendships at EA.  We wish him the very best on his new project. Neil will always be welcome at EA."

[Exclusive: Longtime Electronic Arts Creator Neil Young Leaves Company via Level up]

The game maybe all about Marcus but, have you ever wonder who was that strong female voice in all those trailers for gears of war? Well, looks like Cliff Bleszinski wants you to stop wondering because in an interview revealed by Danish gaming website, Game Reactor, that the wonderful female voice would be finally revealed.

Here’s what he had to say "Several Boomers scream “For the Queen!” in the game, while General RAAM encourages to “Serve the Queen!” This led to believe that this female voice is The Locust Queen, but her identity has yet to be revealed. Now we know it will be revealed this November." Could this mean that The Locust Queen is set to make an appears in gears 2? Well, i hope so. Just as was state in the quote you will be able to play as Marcus once again in gears of war 2 this "November."

When showing the financial results for the second quarter, Take Two Interactive announced that it’s hit game Grand Theft Auto IV has sold over 8.5 Million copes, with about 11 million distributed worldwide. Grand Theft Auto IV came out at the end of this pass May on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Congrats to the guys at Take Two Interactive and RockStar Games.

Sony has just confirmed to the guys over at Joystiq that the 80GB PlayStation 3 bundled with Motorstorm , is no longer being supplied to retailers. Here’s what Sony had to say "Retailers aren’t getting any new inventory of the 80GB Motorstorm bundle,". Yeah, that’s how they put it down, short and simple.

We just want you to know that this doesn’t mean that the 80GB model is out of production, in fact Sony is switching there focus to the forthcoming 80GB bundle that features a copy of Metal Gear Solid 4 and a DualShock 3.

[Sony: 80GB PS3 Motorstorm bundle discontinued via Joystiq]

Ubisoft has just finished the opening day of the Ubidays conference and the has not been a single word about Splinter Cell Conviction. The evidence does suggests that Ubisoft planned to show the game during the event. The Ubidays event was the ideal time to slip in a few words on the upcoming Splinter Cell. Could this mean that the rumors going around happen to be real?

Heres a good question Ubisoft, Wheres Sam?

Today, DREAMWORKS and PARAMOUNT PICTURES announced that Transformers will be headed to Blu-Ray this September as a two disc special edition Blu-Ray movie. There was no information about what would be contained in the special edition movie combo but many would speculate that there would be a trailer for the upcoming Transformers 2 movie.

According to an Inside source at 1up the entire PR, marketing, and sales department at Eidos has been laid off as part of a big deal with Warner Bros.

Warner Bros plans to get very cozy with the North American portions of SCi’s distribution chain. While it’s been understood for a while now that Time Warner has been actively seeking a way to increase the reach of its digital properties, the move comes at a very interesting time. Recently the media world has seen a lot of centralization and blurring of the lines between the games and entertainment business, with big entertainment distributors making grabs for hot properties at every turn. Maybe John Riccitello was onto something when he mused recently about Hollywood getting all nervous about the influence videogames have over the mass market?

[Layoffs at Eidos in Light of Warner Bros. Deal? 1up]

The sequel’s development, with the team taking apart every system in the game to figure out ways to amplify its component parts. This means more enemies onscreen at once, an approach to cover that will hopefully be more dynamic and exciting, and presumably, gorier chainsaw kills…."

"… the Gears team was disappointed by the apparent randomness of the chainsaw-bayonet’s mechanic in the first game. Their solution (and the means by which Gears 2 ’s combat will live up to the team’s macho maxim): chainsaw duels, as illustrated in the latest teaser video. It’s like Star Wars ‘ lightsabers as interpreted by the WWE after a six pack of Mountain Dew Code Red…"

"……the team is aiming to deliver the experience of large-scale conflict that was absent in the original Gears . "It never really felt like a giant war," he said. "It always felt like sort of a spy incursion, sneaking behind enemy lines." According to him, the technology is now able to deliver on that vision in a big way. No more smoke and mirrors to separate players from the bigger conflict, no more small-squad warfare, and no slower deliberate pacing compared to the more fast-paced shooters out there. Capps, in short, "[wants his] D-Day." It’ll be interesting to see if his team can transform Gears into a platform for that sort of experience."

"….But you get the distinct impression nonetheless that the brains behind Gears feel that they’ve distilled "fun" into something quantifiable, and thus possible to replicate. "It ought to be illegal, really," said Capps. "We’ve manufactured fun like Doritos manufactures that powdered stuff that tastes good, even though it’s not actually food." Which begs the question: if Gears of War is Doritos, which game is the shooter analogue to those all-natural pork rinds that are fried in lard?"

Today, UbiSoft sent out a release schedule, which stated that the May 22 release date was incorrect.

“Please note: Change to Haze release date is MAY release,” said a spokesperson. “Confirmation of the release date soon.”