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Video Thirst: Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Beta Starts On September 3rd, Exclusive To PS3

by Ernice Gilbert on August 10th, 2011, under Hot, News, PS3, Ubisoft

Ubisoft has released a video giving a chronological wrap up of all the Assassin’s Creed products released thus far, and also news that come September 3rd, the game’s beta will go live exclusive to PS Plus and Uplay members.

Report: EA Gets Ready For War, Plans To Release BF3 Close To Modern Warfare 3

by Ernice Gilbert on May 12th, 2011, under Activision/Bilzzard, EA, Hot, News

EA’s gone mental about this whole Battlefield 3 versus Modern Warfare 3 “battle”. The publisher has said in the past it believes the DICE-developed Battlefield 3 is a better game, with a better engine, and people simply need to know this. So, with guns ready to blaze, the publisher’s made the decision to release the aforesaid title close to Activision’s juggernaut, Modern Warfare 3.

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Officially Unveiled, First Screenshot Released

by Ernice Gilbert on May 5th, 2011, under Hot, News, PC, PS3, Ubisoft, Xbox 360

After a barrage of strange videos, Ubisoft has fully blown the lead off Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, release also the first screenshot of the game.

Video Thirst: Battlefield 3 Director’s Cut Fault Line Gameplay Trailer Released

by Ernice Gilbert on April 23rd, 2011, under EA, Hot, News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360

Although the Battlefield 3 Fault Line trailer went live last week, DICE has more to talk about concerning the popular video. This time executive producer Patrick Bach gives commentary as he plays the game – interesting stuff.

Get it below the break.

The Battle Is On: COD vs BF3 Marketing To Cost Over $200 Million Says EA

by Ernice Gilbert on April 7th, 2011, under Activision, EA, Hot, News, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360

Clash Of The Titans? No. Too small – step aside. Clash of the gaming gods? Yes indeed. Activison’s Call of Duty is the number one game in the industry at the moment, but EA’s coming hard at it with DICE’s Battlefield 3. In fact, the war is so big that over $200 million dollars will be spent advertising those two titles alone.

It’s on.

Report – Modern Warfare 3 To Be Released In November, Being Developed By Sledgehammer, IW And Raven Software

Your next Call of Duty fix is scheduled for November, only this time, there’ll be three cooks in the kitchen.

NPD Numbers Quencher: Xbox 360 And Kinect Help Drive Industry Up 8% For November

by Ernice Gilbert on December 10th, 2010, under Hot, Microsoft, News, Uncategorized

If there’s one thing you can’t take away from the Xbox 360, is that in North America, it is king. So much so that coupled with Kinect, the console help lift the gaming industry by a respectable 8 percent for the month of November, with total sales coming in at $2.99 billion, that’s a rise of 8 percent over November of last year.

So say thanks to the Xbox 360, as, according to the NPD’s Anita Frazier, it “accounted for over 40% of total industry sales driven by the successful launch of Microsoft’s Kinect.”

That’s massive.

Video Thirst: Kinect TV Spots Released — Run Forest, Run!

by Ernice Gilbert on September 26th, 2010, under Hot, Microsoft, News

Microsoft’s released three ads for its motion sensing device set to land in households this November, we have the full quencher for you past the break.

Video Thirst: New Blood Stone Trailer’s Action Packed

by Ernice Gilbert on September 21st, 2010, under Activision, Hot, News

James Bond’s a man who can do the impossible. This is no ordinary world, and you need someone extraordinary to handle the crooks spread across from east to west.

Someone whose gun-handling skills make even the most trained sniper cry for his mama, a boxer who’d send Mike Tyson on an ear-biting rampage, and make Hulk Hogan leave MTV forever.

Good tidings we bring you, oh earthlings, James Bond can do all the aforementioned and then some, the proof’s in the trailer past the break.

Kinect Accessories Detailed And Priced

by Ernice Gilbert on August 25th, 2010, under Hot, Microsoft, News

Since Kinect is hitting store shelves this November, surely you’d expect to see some accessories complimenting the peripheral?

The official list, priced and detailed past the break.

Reports Are Claiming MS Will Drop Kinect Voice Controls At Launch, MS Denies Reports

by Ernice Gilbert on August 24th, 2010, under Hot, Microsoft, News

There are some confusing reports circulating gaming’s web. First, at Gamescom, MS’s marketing manager for Xbox Live EMEA Robin Burrowes told MCV that the platform holder “will be announcing when voice control will be turned on in due course”.

As soon as the piece went live, Microsoft fired back. Its response past the break.

For Kinect, Dance Evolution – The Full Quencher

by Ernice Gilbert on August 19th, 2010, under Konami, Microsoft, News

At Gamescom, Microsoft’s focus has been all on Kinect. Apparently, the hardware giant thinks its motion control peripheral will usher in the next huge step in gaming once it launches later this year.

To accomplish this, however, you need games that will prove without a shadow of doubt the device really works, something Microsoft has been doing ever since Kinect was announced. Their latest showing: Dance Evolution.

Zombie Mode Coming To Black Ops, Of Course

by Ernice Gilbert on August 13th, 2010, under Activision, Hot, Treyarch

The rumors have been coming from all parts of gaming’s web concerning a Zombie Mode for the upcoming Call of Duty title. Black Ops. Best Buy had it and then pulled the thing from the site, then, GameStop did the same thing and on and on.

Treyarch got tired of the whole mess and decided to go ahead and confirm its existence.

Splinter Cell: Conviction Coming To A PS3 Near You

by Ernice Gilbert on August 9th, 2010, under Hot, News, Ubisoft

We’ve heard the talk many a times haven’t we? Rumors running wild around gaming’s web claiming we’ll soon see a version of Splinter Cell: Conviction on PS3.

The rumors are yet raging, apparently, and according to Amazon.fr, not only will said title make PS3 its final destination, Ubisoft is prepping an full blow trilogy of it and Prince of Persia.

Kinect Is “Next Generation Experience” Now Says Greenberg

by Ernice Gilbert on July 21st, 2010, under Hot, Kinect, Microsoft, News, Xbox 360

Kinect will be available in November, and although the price has many gamers perturbed, Xbox front man, Aaron Greenberg, said he’s not worried. Maybe it’s because he thinks Kinect offers a “next generation experience”? You never know.