Capcom has announced that Devil May Cry 4, which is coming out for Sony’s PlayStation 3, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and PC will be playable at this year’s Leipzig Games Convention. Too bad for the public the game will only be playable for the press. The game is set to come out early 2008.
id Software has announced at QuakeCon that they’re developing Quake III Arena for Microsoft’s Xbox Live. Let’s hope that the game will feature a multiplayer mode and enough fun levels for our FPS needs. Too bad we don’t have anymore info on this new title. We’ll keep you updated!
Another PlayStation 3 exclusive is heading towards Microsoft’s Xbox 360 as well. KOEI’s Ninja Gaiden 6 will come out on the Xbox 360 end this year in Japan together with the PlayStation 3 version. The Ninja Gaiden games aren’t that popular in America and Europe, but Japanese gamers love them. Check out a new video of Ninja Gaiden 6 For PS3 and Xbox 360 here.
On September 1th and November 1th Electronic Arts will shut down a few more of its gameservers. Their serverparc is getting too big for them and some games aren’t popular anymore so they want to make some space for future games.
September 1th:
Arena Football (PlayStation 2, Xbox)
FIFA Soccer 06 (Xbox 360, PC, PS2, PSP, Xbox)
FIFA World Cup 2006 (PC, PS2, PSP, Xbox)
Fight Night Round 3 (PSP, Xbox)
Madden NFL 06 (Xbox 360, PC, PS2, PSP)
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (PS2, Xbox)
MVP 07 NCAA Baseball (PS2, Xbox)
NASCAR 06 Total Team Control (PS2, Xbox)
NBA Live 06 (Xbox 360, PSP, PS2, PC)
NCAA Football 2005 (Xbox)
NCAA Football 2006 (PS2, Xbox)
NCAA March Madness 06 (PS2, Xbox)
NFL Head Coach (PC, Xbox, PS2)
NHL 06 (PC, PS2, Xbox)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 (Xbox, Xbox 360)November 1th:
Burnout Revenge (PS2, Xbox)
Need for Speed Underground (PS2)
Need for Speed Underground 2 (PS2, PC)
Need for Speed Most Wanted (PSP, Xbox)
Fans have been waiting years for Grand Theft Auto IV, the sequel on the great Grand Theft Auto III. Everyone expected the game to come out end this year, but today Take Two Games had to disappoint us and delay the game until April 2008. Rockstar Games is going to use that extra time for developing and in the meantime they will focus on Manhunt 2 for Sony’s PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Nintendo’s Wii.
Activision has confirmed another seven songs that will be playable in Guitar Hero III. More Slayer, AFI and The Strokes songs for you to play on your Guitar Hero controller!
Miss Murder (by AFI)
3’s and 7’s (by Queens of the Stone Age)
Raining Blood (by Slayer)
Reptillia (by The Strokes)
Paranoid (as made famous by Black Sabbath)
Cities on Flame (as made famous by Blue Oyster Cult)
Mississippi Queen (as made famous by Mountain)
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.
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.
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.
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 EveryoneAtari 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)