Bungie and Microsoft have announced during a press conference in Amsterdam that Halo 3 for the Xbox 360 will feature an Xbox Live co-op mode for up to four players. In this mode you’ll be able to play the single player missions with your buddies.

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The official Forza Motorsport 2 site says that we’ll be seeing new downloadable content for the game on the Xbox Live Marketplace later this week. We don’t know anything about the content in the downloadable pack, the price of it or any other details.

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Jade Raymond, the hot Ubisoft producer working on Assassin’s Creed, has said in an interview that she’s already thinking about a sequel on Assassin’s Creed. If the first game gets good review scores and a lot of fans, Ubisoft will order another Assassin’s Creed game with her. Ubisoft is promoting the game hard to make it a strong franchise that goes far beyond videogames.

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Two of the biggest third-party developers, Atari and Ubisoft, have released their Leipzig Games Convention line-up. From August 22th until August 26th we’ll be seeing footage of these games:

Ubisoft Leipzig GC line-up:

* Far Cry 2 (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)
* EndWar (Xbox 360, PS3)
* Haze (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
* Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (Wii, DS)
* The Settlers 6: Rise of an Empire (PC)
* Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
* Splinter Cell: Conviction (Xbox 360, PC)
* Assassin’s Creed (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
* Games for Everyone

Atari Leipzig GC line-up:

* Alone in the Dark: Near Death Investigation (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)
* The Witcher (PC)
* Eternal Sonata (Xbox 360)
* Ace Combat 6 (Xbox 360)
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (PS2, Wii)
* Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 (PS2)
* Asterix at the Olympic Games (Wii)
* My Horse and Me (PC, Wii, DS)

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Head of Microsoft’s Game Studios Shane Kim talked about the currently exclusiveness of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for Sony’s PlayStation 3. He thinks that we are spending too much money on our games. He says that Konami will be earning big cash on MGS 4 and that they have to compensate this. Anyway, this his is what he had to say about Metal Gear Solid 4:

Well we’re certainly feeling bullish about third-party support in general. If you look at it from an economic standpoint, third parties have to support more than one platform. That’s their business model. Titles are just getting way too expensive. How much do you think that Konami is spending on MGS4? So economically they’ve got to leverage that the best that they can. So it’s really up to the first parties to create the content that’s going to differentiate the platforms and that’s where we think we have the competitive advantage.

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Ubisoft and Sony Computer Entertainment are planning to put a demo version of Tomy Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (GRAW) 2 in the PlayStation Store so that fans can prepare for the next combat full of action on Sony’s PS3 gameconsole. Too bad we don’t know if it’s a singleplayer or multiplayer demo, or both! We’ll see when the demo comes out.

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Chief Executive Officer at Ubisoft Yves Guillemot says that his company will focus more on Nintendo’s Wii to beat its rival Electronic Arts in the videogame market. Electronic Arts’ stocks went up with 19% since mid 2006, Ubisoft’s stocks doubled thanks to the Wii. Red Steel sold very well and so they plan to develop more for the Wii.

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According to IMC a new first person shooter called THEY will be shown off at this year’s Leipzig Games Convention. The name is mysterious, the announcement is mysterious and the story is full of mysteries as well. We know that it will be all about using gravity to destroy the levels in the near future. THEY are huge – THEY are different – THEY are hostile! That says it all!

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Sony has announced that racesimulator Gran Turismo 5 for their PlayStation 3 console will be playable at this year’s Leipzig Games Convention event. This could be a glimpse of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, but we hope that we’ll be seeing some stuff from the full version of Gran Turismo 5.

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Thanks to the German USK we now know that Sony will be showing off three new PlayStation Network games at the Leipzig Games Convention end this month. We’ll be seeing Aqua Vita, Operation Creature Feature and Trials of Topoq for the PlayStation 3. Too bad we don’t have any extra information on these games, but Leipzig Games Convention is getting close!

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