Thursday-March-18-2010
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Sales Top 2.3 Million
Post by ：Shirley 21:37:08 Source： 1up Editor：Shirley
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has been pretty well-received by critics and fans alike, but is that positive buzz translating into sales? With more than 25 million people already invested in the competition, you may not have expected DICE's shooter to take retailers by storm. According to EA's internal figures, however, that hasn't been a problem; they're reporting over 2.3 million copies of Bad Company 2 sold in the roughly two weeks since the game launched.
Blizzard wants you to get a friend into the StarCraft 2 beta
Post by ：Shirley 21:30:31 Source： joystiq Editor：Shirley
Has your former friend Billy been playing StarCraft 2 for the longest time before you've even had a chance to check it out? Well, you probably should have opted in for the beta last year, but we're not here to point fingers. We're here to tell you that Blizzard has sent out a wave of fresh beta codes to everyone who's already in the beta, so you should hold off on throwing that brick through Billy's window and make with the nice-nice.
Thursday-March-18-2010
The monsters you didn't see in BioShock
Post by ：Yukicheng 03:29:59 Source： Joystiq Editor：Yukicheng
The world of Rapture as it appeared in the first BioShock may have seemed totally complete, but Irrational Games revealed some elements that were kept behind the development curtain from us -- basically, monsters. The company revealed some rejected enemy designs from its "Vault," including some mutants that were much more ... mutated than the Splicers we saw in the final game.
Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days Scheduled for August 24 Release
Post by ：Yukicheng 03:26:34 Source： 1up Editor：Yukicheng
Got a soft spot in your heart (or maybe your head) for Kane and Lynch? It looks like you're going to have to wait just a bit longer for the sequel. Publisher Square Enix just announced Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days for an August 24 release in North America.
Thursday-March-18-2010
The Monster Hunter Freedom series (called Monster Hunter Portable in Japan) is one of the few international "killer apps" that the PSP can lay claim to without sounding desperate. Every game in the lineup has shifted at least a million copies in Japan, with the most recent one -- 2008's Monster Hunter Freedom Unite -- selling over 3.5 million units and sharing the 2008 Japan Game Award with Nintendo's Wii Fit. It therefore makes sense that a new Freedom game announcement is huge news in Asia, as it became when Capcom announced Monster Hunter Portable 3rd at a fan event held in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Thursday-March-18-2010
Microsoft: Skipping Blu-ray was key to 360's sales success
Post by ：Yukicheng 02:59:59 Source： Firingsquad Editor：Yukicheng
According to Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg, leaving Blu-ray out of the Xbox 360 has been one of the keys to the console's success. The way Greenberg sees it, this has allowed them to price the 360 for substantially less than PS3. Greenberg tells Edge magazine: "Sony bet on the physical disc, and there are costs associated with that, the fact that we're able to offer a console starting at $199 is a benefit of not being burdened with that cost."
Thursday-March-18-2010
Sega Aiming to Reestablish Respect for Older IPs
Post by ：Yukicheng 02:54:14 Source： 1up Editor：Yukicheng
Between the first Sonic the Hedgehog reboot, Golden Axe: Beast Rider and other less than stellar titles, Sega’s original IPs have taken a bit of a beating. No more though, the publisher said in a recent interview with Computer and Video Games.
"It’s important that our old IPs are respected, [and] we need to deliver a good product," said Sega’s Mike Hayes. "And in some instances we have done that - look back at when we re-did Sega Rally. It scored well and was moderately successful commercially. But then with other great franchises like Golden Axe we didn’t produce a great game at all."
Wednesday-March-17-2010
SecuROM Being Removed From Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on Steam
Post by ：Shirley 03:36:59 Source： 1up Editor：Shirley
Owners of the Steam version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 have a nice surprise coming with the release of the newest patch: Removal of the game's SecuROM DRM. That update is in addition to a number of other fixes and changes included in the patch, version 522175, which range from better notifications when failing to join a multiplayer server to the server browser now sorting by lowest ping by default.
Wednesday-March-17-2010
MGS: Peace Walker Out June 8 with Limited Edition PSP Bundle
Post by ：Yukicheng 00:54:07 Source： 1up Editor：Yukicheng
Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker -- the PSP Metal Gear game that Hideo Kojima says easily could have been called Metal Gear Solid 5 -- will be released in North America on June 8, and it's coming alongside a limited edition PSP Entertainment Pack.
Tuesday-March-16-2010
Sonic fans remix Sonic 4 intro, get way too excited
Post by ：Shirley 23:54:07 Source： Gamedaily Editor：Shirley
Oh, Sonic fans. Every time a new Sonic is announced, you joke about not getting fooled again and you promise that, this time, you won't be taken in. And we believe you -- why would you go back to Sonic after everything he's done to you? But then a few weeks go by, and suddenly we click a link and find you remixing the 10 seconds of intro screen music that's been revealed from Sonic 4.
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