I have to say, I've seen some pretty dubious "breaking news" in my day, but drunken officials revealing console launch dates? *Cough*... Well, why not, we'll play along with it. So, as the story goes, a thirsty Nintendo rep apparently had too much Sake to drink and, in his ethylic euphoria, hinted that the Wii would launch (...)

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Need for Speed Carbon, A 'Reinventing' Hybrid // UPDATE

There's this thing about EA's press releases that never ceases to amaze me... and that's the sheer amount of BS. Superficial superlatives aside, there's not much left in there about the latest game in their long-racing NFS series - Need for Speed Carbon. Thankfully, though, Game Informer already managed to score a preview revealing (...)

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Official Prey Servers Are Up. Why Only Deathmatch? // UPDATE

I'm eagerly looking forward to this weekend, when I can hopefully get around to playing yesterday's Prey demo, but in the meantime I'm sure there's plenty of Deathmatch freaks out there who wouldn't mind fragging over a couple of official servers, for a change. (...)

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The Brits from CVG - you know, the guys that launched that rumour about a PS3 version of God of War - are back with more mythological stories about everyone's favorite hero-turned-god, Kratos. They've been talking with the game's director Cory Barlog (no more shady inside sources!), and one of the things he revealed (...)

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Despite recent rumours stating otherwise, Microsoft official John Porcaro (Group Manager, PR & Communications at Microsoft US) made it pretty clear that there are currently no plans for a Xbox 360 price drop this fall, thus blowing away all hopes for a cheaper Xbox 360 by the time Sony's and Nintendo's next-gen consoles (...)

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Cipher Complex Military Game Coming To PS3 And Xbox 360

"A brutal shot of adrenaline" is what developer Edge of Reality promises to deliver with its first completely original title, Cipher Complex. The project was announced for next-gen consoles PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, as an intense, cinematic military combat game, (...)

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He's fast, he's blue, he's sold over 44 million games... and he just turned 15 years old! That's right, it's SEGA's iconic Sonic the Hedgehog, leetly known as the "blue dude with the 'tude". Born on June 23, 1991 as the fastest, most technologically advanced character for the SEGA Genesis console, Sonic continues to innovate (...)

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QuakeCon 2006, X06, GCDC, And More Game Gatherings

Plenty of announcements this week regarding several game gatherings, starting with the NOT-cancelled QuakeCon 2006 (which now has a date and place!), and continuing with Microsoft's X06, this year's GCDC in Leipzig, the Nordic Game 2006, the Korean Game Conference 2006, and the 2007 Independent Games Festival. (...)

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A report on F13.net claims that NCsoft's US office underwent a big layoff earlier this week, citing a posting made on a developers-only message board. GMs (Game Masters), Tech Support and QA employees are said to have been the main target of this restructuring, though the precise figures from the initial report (...)

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Guild Wars: Factions Dragon Festival Begins Next Week

Since we talked about the new World of Warcraft Midsummer Fire Festival earlier this week, it was only fair to allow some editorial space for a similar event taking place in AernaNet and NCsoft's duty-free MMORPG. The Dragon Festival is a summer festival exclusively reserved for Guild Wars: Factions players, taking place (...)

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