GamePro's Blake Snow writes about the release of the Burnout Paradise demo on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360:

Available now at the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace, the Paradise demo features three playable levels including three-person online play.

We downloaded and compared both versions side-by-side this afternoon, and after a cursory inspection, here's what we know. The PS3 version looks shinier. The Xbox 360 version has rumble. So its pretty much a wash.

More impressive, however, is the games fresh take on the genre. There are no game menus; a voice tutorial helpfully leads the way. It can take a while to get your bearings before running jumps, turning tricks, and winning races, but Paradise show promise in one of the meatiest demos released this year.
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Burnout Paradise on Live now

Welcome to the Burnout Paradise Demo. Explore Motor City, Big Surf Beach and Ocean View. Discover Jumps, Stunts and Smashes all over the map, and if you're online invite friends to join you for some challenges. Remember, this is just a small part of Paradise City. For the full Burnout experience, buy the full game coming in January 2008.

Size: 835.53 MB
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Played the Burnout Paradise demo yet? Stupidly good, isn't it? Since we got hold of the Xbox Live preview we've been having an almost illegally good time discovering the new delights of Paradise City. It's been a non-stop orgy of melting tarmac, leaping off carpark roofs, barrell-rolling across beaches and handbrake turning into parking spaces at 100 miles per hour. What's got us extra excited about the demo though is something entirely unrelated to Burnout. While it was great to discover that ... » Read More

Burnout has built a reputation over the past six years as one of the fastest, most explosive racing games around. On Thursday, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners will be able to get a glimpse of the future of the series.

At midnight on Thursday morning, EA will be putting up a playable demo for Burnout Paradise on both the PlayStation Store and the Xbox Live Marketplace.

The demo will allow players to poke around the game, to get a feel for the new open-world approach developer Criterion has taken to the game.
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EA has told Eurogamer that Burnout Paradise will be out here on 25th January.

It follows word from late October that it will be on US shelves on 22nd, complimented by demos for PS3 and 360 sometime this month.
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Dec 5, 2007 Criterion and EA are giving Burnout fans an early Christmas present; a Burnout Paradise demo arriving on either PS3 or Xbox 360 (or both!) next week. The demo's imminent arrival was signaled by a countdown timer on the developer's official website, set for Thursday, December 13 - a regular PlayStation Store update date. You'd assume then that at least PS3 owners won't have to wait longer to give the crash-em-up a spin. Going by the free-roaming nature of Paradise, we reckon the ... » Read More

Ripten writes:

"Looking at the official website for Burnout Paradise, to hit the Playstation 3 and Xbox360 early next year, we can spy some exciting news. We knew a demo was coming, but it's nice to see it coming so early."
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Nov 9, 2007 The latest trailer for EAs Burnout Paradise gives us another peek at the city's 30 square kilometres that'll become the “ultimate driving playground” when the game is released for Xbox 360 and PS3 on 22 January. Hit the movie player below to see the game in action. In a radical move away from the tried and tested event select screens of the previous titles in the series, Paradise City has no menus and, perhaps most importantly, no loading screens. Races and events are ... » Read More

Electronic Arts announced Friday that Burnout Paradise will be in stores January 22, 2008 in North America. In addition, demos for the both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version will be available in December.
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Oct 4, 2007 EA's decided it's time to open up a bit on Burnout Paradise this week. Not only did it release eight new screenshots from the game yesterday, it's sent out another eight new shots into the interweb wild today. Take a look. The screenshots show the Carson GT Concept. Burnout Paradise is out on PS3 and Xbox 360 next year. Courtesy of ... » Read More

Oct 3, 2007 It seems like we've been waiting forever for the first "proper" Xbox 360 and PS3 Burnout to turn up, and to prove that it is in fact still in development EA's thrown and handful of fresh shots in our laps. Now heading for release in 2008, EA sends word that Paradise supports Sony's new Dualshock 3 rumble controller, as well as the PlayStation Eye and 360 Vision camera. Apparently this is so you can grab snapshots and collect Mugshots of friends while they race, which sounds ... » Read More

Sept 24, 2007 EA sends word that Burnout Paradise does in fact support Sony's new Dualshock 3 rumble controller, as well as the PlayStation Eye camera. But that's OK. "Burnout Paradise will have you feeling every bump, crash, scrape, and collision using Sony's new DualShock 3 Wireless Controller," boasts the overly-enthusiastic PR, while noting the new EasyDrive online Friends List which lets players jump into a challenge with "three taps of a ... » Read More

EA Press Release:

"Burnout Paradise will have you feeling every bump, crash, scrape, and collision using Sony's new Dualshock 3 Wireless Controller with rumble feature for the Playstation 3 . The EasyDrive online friends list keeps the action flowing on the Playstation 3, as players get into a challenge with three easy taps of a button. Once the competition heats up, players can grab snapshots as they rip through opponents and collect candid Mugshots of friends and foes alike using the Playstation Eye. The Xbox 360 version of the game features Mugshots using Xbox Live Vision."
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Sept 7, 2007 The latest shots of Burnout Paradise, the fifth title in the racer-come-smash-em-up series due to be released for 360 and PS3 later this year, have just skidded onto our screens, and they look incredible. Our hands-on earlier this year, proved to us that the crashes will be the cause of more than a few heart-stopping moments, and you can imagine the carnage that would ensue after these turbo-charged gas-guzzlers smash into a wall at over 100mph. Criterion's creative director, ... » Read More

Jon and Chip Carter of Tulsa World give their breakdown of the latest news happenings in the world of gaming. They let us in on the best of show winners from this year's E3, the happenings at the upcoming Penny Arcade Expo, the Square-Enix Fan Festival 2007 and the first North American winner of the professional Championship Gaming Series.

More after the jump...
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The votes have been tallied and the Best of E3 2007 Winners have been announced.

Rock Band with 3 seperate votes took first...just barely ahead of Mass Effect who placed second with 2 votes. However, the surprise comes with the games that took the rest of the places:

Bioshock
Burnout Paradise
Call of Duty 4
Crysis
Halo 3
Killzone 2
LittleBigPlanet
Madden NFL 08
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Virtua Fighter 5
World in Conflict

Gamecriticsawards.com even broke down the tally further and the console with the most wins was...Xbox 360 (acquiring 11 wins), followed in second by the Playstation 3 (aquiring 8 votes). Third place was the PC (with 4 votes), and tied for fourth was both the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. Oddly enough, the PSP was last...not even getting one game on the list this year!
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While chatting to Criterion's Alex Ward, Gameplayer unearthed some goss on the developer's plans for downloadable content with upcoming crash-fest Burnout Paradise.
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Footage taken from game on display at E3 2007. July 17, ... » Read More

Wednesday 11 July 2007 There's one game that excites us more than any other at this year's E3. And, perhaps surprisingly, that game is Burnout Paradise, the open-world chassis-busting racer from excite-o-maestro developer Criterion. This fresh footage should have you feeling the same way. See, while we love finally seeing Killzone 2 in action, or getting our hands dirty with Mercenaries 2, nothing quite gets us panting like Burnout does. It must be something about the no-holds-barred crashes. ... » Read More

While we're grateful that we've got some hot new shots showing off some nifty looking vehicles from PS3 and Xbox 360 racer/crasher, Burnout Paradise, what we really want to see is some bad-ass wreckage. Check out all the spanking new screens in our Burnout Paradise gallery. As fans of the series will know, Burnout is all about spectacular spark storms, deliciously satisfying slo-mo pile-ups and zen driving at faster than the speed of methamphetamine. But while we've seen swift glimpses of the ... » Read More