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Has Rico’s grappling hook/parachute combo.
The Just Cause movie is the origin story of game protagonist Rico Rodriguez, and hopes to emulate Bond flick Casino Royal.
In an interview on the Just Cause website, L+E Pictures’ Adrian Askarieh and Eric Eisner explain why Just Cause is ripe for Hollywood adaptation.
“It’s a great action/adventure with a strong central character; two must have elements for a good action film,” Askarieh said.
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Market research firm looks at purchasing habits over last three months; Steam leads the charge.
An analysis of videogame purchasing habits by market research firm The NPD Group has found that 29 per cent of games bought in the last three months were done so digitally.
Of those surveyed, 47 per cent of digital buyers said they made their purchases using online gaming sites and services, such as BigFishGames and Steam. 42 per cent bought through app stores or mobile phone carriers, with thirty per cent using console services such as Xbox Live and PSN.
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Publisher meets goal of turning a profit without a GTA release as Red Dead sales near 8m.
Take-Two Interactive has reported profits of $42.5 million for the twelve months ending October 31.
Over the same period last year the publisher sustained losses of $140m. Net revenue rose to $1.16 billion, an increase of 65% on the previous year.
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Blizzard MMOG the week’s highest new entry; Black Ops holds second place.
World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm evidently had a successful launch in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, topping the Nordic all-format software chart in its first week on release.Call of Duty: Black Ops holds onto second place, with last week’s number one, PS3 racing sim Gran Turismo 5, falling back to third.
Nintendo’s Donkey Kong Country Returns climbs two places to eighth in its second week on sale.
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Konami dreams up Professor Layton clone.
The phenomenally successful DS puzzle series Professor Layton has already inspired so many not least Ant and Dec. But Konami takes the biscuit the Japanese company has taken the lid-off what looks like a clone.
Swap the top hat-wearing Professor Layton for Doctor Jean-Pierre Lautrec, and the loyal Luke Triton for young assistant Miss Sophie Coubertin, and boom: welcome to Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights for the 3DS.
It’s described as a “treasure game”, according to Siliconera, set in 19th century Paris. Yes, 19th century Paris.
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Is a “VERY, VERY large application”.
The biggest game in terms of filesize on the App Store has to be Riven, the resurrected 1997 sequel to point-and-click adventure game Myst.
It weighs, virtually, a gargantuan 1.01GB.
What’s more, you’ll need roughly 2GB free to install the game.
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Chicken Payback! Kung Fu Fighting!
Just in time for Christmas, Ubisoft has released new downloadable tracks for phenomenally successful Wii party game Just Dance 2.
They are:
Grab them from the Wii Shop Channel for 300 Wii Points each around £2.10. “Crazy Christmas” by Santa Clones is a free download from 17th December (today) to 27th December.
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Multiplayer-focused FPS download only.
The decision not to sell Section 8 sequel Prejudice in shops has been made; TimeGate will offer the game online only, for 1200 Microsoft Points on Xbox 360 and $14.99 on PC and PS3.
Pound sterling and Euro prices weren’t given, but 1200 MSP usually translates to £9.99/£12.99 on PS3.
The decision, TimeGate no doubt hopes, will have gamers scratching their heads and asking how a jam-packed game like this isn’t on shop shelves and priced at £40. That probably won’t happen, but there is a lot on offer in Section 8: Prejudice, which serves as a neat reminder of how far the console download space has come.
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Only eight of 14 promised games released.
Last month a group of developers got together to launch the Xbox Live Indie Games Winter Uprising, promising a deluge of quality games in the first week of December. Alas, it seems things didn’t quite go to plan.
The initiative originally promised that “the first week of December is going to be the best week of gaming the service has ever seen.” However, of the 14 games slated for release, only eight have actually made it out of the gate so far.
The campaign’s organiser Robert Boyd, told Edge Online, “Several of the big hitters in the promotion haven’t been released yet for a number of reasons a bug found at the last minute, an incorrectly checked feature on the game description, or just plain not being finished yet.
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Microsoft to end 2010 with 11 days of deals on Super Meat Boy, Castle Crashers, Carcasonne, and more starting December 21.
Get the full article at GameSpot
“XBLA readies year-end sale” was posted by Brendan Sinclair on Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:02:00 -0800