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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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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Dutch gamedeveloper Triumph Studios is recruiting a PlayStation 3 programmer to code Xbox 360 or PC code to Sony’s PlayStation 3. Since the last game Triumph developed was Overlord for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and PC we think that they are porting the action game overlord to the PS3.

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We knew that Midway’s Stranglehold Xbox 360 and PC demo was coming, but we didn’t know the exact day. Today Midway announced that the PC and Xbox 360 demo will appear on the internet on August 8th. PlayStation 3 owners will have to wait a little longer since Midway has been very quiet about the PS3 version of the demo. .

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The PS3 version of Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent had some extra content, but now Xbox 360 users can get the extra content as well. The Secret Base and Kinshasa levels, three outfits, a female spy and four new challenges are available for download for free on Xbox Live Marketplace. Enjoy!

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Test Drive Unlimited for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has been out for a while now but Atari keeps pushing fresh content on the Xbox Live Marketplace for the race game. For 350 Microsoft Points you’ll get five new cars and one motorcycle to play with. This is what the Test Drive Collection-Volume 5 Pack contains:

* Spyker C8 Spyder
* Ferrari 512 TR
* Ferrari 308 GTS Quattrovalvole
* Dodge Charger Super Bee
* Chrysler Crossfire SRT6 Coupe
* Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12R.

The new Holden Efijy Concept car is free for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace as well.

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Keiji Inafune said in an interview that Capcom hasn’t a sequel on Dead Rising in the makes. He’d like to make Dead Rising the strong franchise that it could be, but currently there are no plans for Dead Rising 2 though a couple of months ago we read in Famisu that Capcom is working on a sequel.

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Frank Gibeau spread the word that Electronic Arts is working on The Godfather 2, but he couldn’t tell on which platforms the game will appear. We’ll probably be seeing a PS3 and Xbox 360 version but hopefully a Wii version as well. With games like The Godfather 2, Crysis and Army of Two EA wants to reach adults who want to game.

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ESRB has announced that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 RPG Mass Effect has received an M-rating. Not the guns but certain sexual elements in the game are the cause of that Mature-rating. ESRB has discvered that the main character is able to have sex with one of his female opponents.

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The PlayStation 2 from Sony used to be Rockstar’s favorite platform, but at this year’s E3 Sony didn’t say a thing about the PS3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV. Jack Tretton, big chief at Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), said that they sent an email to Rockstar to request some footage that they could show off during their E3 press conference, but they didn’t even did an effort to reply so that’s why Sony couldn’t say or show anything from the title. And we thought Rockstar and Sony had a good relationship!

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