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Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe 'Mashups' HD trailers

By Gareth
November 6, 2008
in :  Gaming
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Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe 'Mashup' trailer HD So there’s not the same level of gore or brutality there was in previous Mortal Kombat games, sure the fatalities have been dumbed down to reach a teen rating. Still there’s no denying that this game looks like a ton of fun, and I’m going to go out on a limb here …

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Gears of War 'Last Breath Machinima'

By Gareth
November 6, 2008
in :  Gaming
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Gears of War 'Last Breath Machinima' You don’t have to look very hard these days to find a bad machinima, however the good ones are very few and far between, “the Last Breath” is the first in a series by TheDuoGroup and follows Colonel Victor Hoffman’s most well known exploits and the team he pulled together to make it happen. …

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Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Unreadable on SDTVs

By Gareth
November 6, 2008
in :  Gaming
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If you’re a standard-definition television owner, you may want to consider canceling that pre-order for Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts.  Following the recent demo release, players using SDTVs noticed the text was difficult to read. This may remind you of a similar problem with Dead Rising, after which Capcom told fans they’d have to deal without a patch. A Rare community …

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Activision looking to profit from User Content in GH: World Tour

By Nick De Bruyne
November 6, 2008
in :  Gaming
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This has me kind of worried to be honest. Kotaku report that: "Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, noted during today's quarterly earnings conference call that the publisher may begin charging for user-generated songs uploaded through Guitar Hero World Tour's GH Tunes service. Kotick has previously stated that GH Tunes has the "potential" to be one of the 'credible alternatives to iTunes.' " I want to jump the gun here and say that Activision are just seeing nothing but dollar signs but we have yet to see if any of the users will be able to benefit from their own creations. If they don't then I am not going to be a happy camper. Profiting directly from content created by users is something that goes a little overboard in my opinion and the fact that the songs won't even have lyrics makes me wonder if it will all be worth it. As reported by Kotaku, Activision knows exactly how much money can be made from subscription based services such as World of Warcraft but I don't see this as a step forward for gamers at all. The content should be free and available to anyone who buys the game. If something like this catches on you could see scenarios were all publishers start charging for the ability to access user created content.

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Exclusive: No Gears of War 2 "Flashback Map Pack" code for South Africans?

By Nick De Bruyne
November 6, 2008
in :  Gaming
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Gow2NoMaps.jpg I really hope that I get proven wrong on this one because if I don't, it will be a pretty sad piece of news for us South Africans. As you all know, a few South Africans have been able to get their hands on copies of Gears of War 2 a few days early. I got the chance to speak to someone who has already gotten a copy and has played a sneaky multiplayer session with a few other of the lucky folks who got it early as well. The problem is that none of them could find the "Flashback Map Pack" code in their Gears of War 2 boxes. Say it ain't so. More after the jump. While there is a small chance that the early copies didn't have the codes, I very highly doubt that there is any difference between those copies and the ones that will be available on Friday. If this is true, it may mean that South Africans are going to completely miss out on the recreated maps from the original Gears of War. The truth is that South Africa isn't officially supported for Xbox Live but one would think that because we get the same stock as Europe, we would have the codes packaged in. At this point I am just sincerely hoping that the guys I spoke to were just hopelessly blind and couldn't find the codes that are actually there. Problem is that it isn't really likely. If we are lucky, the maps will become available over Xbox Live to everyone after a short while, even though a lot of South Africans will need to resort to special measures to bypass the region block on all of the Gears of War 2 content.

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Activision wants more of your money

By Gareth
November 6, 2008
in :  Gaming
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  Having gained a stable subscription revenue base from World of Warcraft, Activision Blizzard may look to monetize some of its other titles through subscriptions — like Guitar Hero, CEO Bobby Kotick said today. Last Updated: November 6, 2008

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Fable 2 sells 1 Million Copies in it's first week

By Nick De Bruyne
November 6, 2008
in :  Gaming
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If my name was Peter Molyneux, I would be feeling pretty relaxed right now. Well, wouldn't you? There is an unspoken rule about videogaming that if your game sells a million copies, it can truly be considered successful. Fable 2 has proven itself more than worthy by crossing the one million mark in the first week of it's release. While some people get grumpy when I refer to VGchartz.com, their report for worldwide sales of the week ending on October 24th shows Fable 2 as the number seller with a total of 1,000,901 sales. I thought that Fable 2 was going to be very popular but I really didn't expect it to take off so incredibly well. Out of my personal experience I realised that I thought that most of the buyers were going to be the fans of Fable 2, completely forgetting that a lot of newer and more "casual" gamers might be interested by its approachability, which seems to also be the case. It's a pretty incredible start to Fable 2's sales, who knows how many will have sold by the end of the Christmas season.

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Gears of War vs Gears of War 2 – Graphic Comparison

By Nick De Bruyne
November 6, 2008
in :  Gaming
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Whilst browsing around the gametrailers.com website, I happened to find a neat little video in the user uploads section of a graphics comparison between Gears of War 1 and Gears of War 2. While it is initially difficult to see the major differences between the two games, you will find that a short while later it becomes heavily apparent that the upgrade to the Unreal 3 engine has really spruced the games visuals quite nicely. The original Gears of War already had some very impressive graphics to start with, so the fact the Epic was able to actually make it look even better whilst keeping the framerate the same or even better is quite a feat in itself. Well, it's only a short while now until we all get to see for ourselves, so let the excitement begin. I hate all of the people that have already got a copy, only because I am not one of them.

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