LEGO Systems and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has announced a worldwide license agreement for TT Games Publishing to continue developing the highly successful LEGO based videogames across multiple platforms. Operating as part of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of WBHEG, TT Games is the publisher and developer behind the award-winning hit LEGO videogame franchises including, LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Batman: The Videogame and LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, which have sold close to 50 million units worldwide.
Activision-Blizzard have today released an updated release schedule for their autumn/winter line-up. Within the schedule are release dates for all of Activision-Blizzard's highly-anticipated releases throughout October, November and December 2009, including DJ Hero, Band Hero and possibly one of the strongest releases of 2009, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Here is the best game deal I have seen all week, felt I should share the wealth. Fry's Electronics is slashing the price of Lego Star Wars collection, an excellent game, from the MSRP of $49.99 down to a measly $19.99! I highly recommend picking up this game, especially for the price. Casual and hardcore gamers alike will love this game. Hurry sale ends on Tuesday. If you don't live near a Fry's electronics (i.e. Eastcoast gamers) you could always use Frys.com who also have the game on sale. I also recommend getting Best Buy to price match Fry's if you local store is out of stock. Enjoy the deal of the week.
An excerpt from the latest issue of NGamer, an interview with Traveller's Tales' Arthur Parsons: NGamer: Do you see the wider DC universe making it into Lego form? The Justice League could be good. Arthur Parsons: Whether any more of the DC universe makes the transition into Lego depends largely on the success of Lego Batman, and on whether Traveller's Tales, Warner Bros. and Lego want to make any other characters into Lego games. I'd love to make a sequel to Lego Batman because it was immense fun to work on.
From the article: As if fans really need another reason to get psyched about the upcoming animated Star Wars: Clone Wars film, Toys R Us is having an in-store midnight sales event featuring Clone Wars products and also giving away four five-feet tall Clone Wars action figures. Toys R Us is also offering free shipping on select items including many LucasArts videogames including Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Thrillville and Lego: Indiana Jones. Several videogames include a buy-one-get-one-half-price offer. Also: To help promote the event, Toys R Us is also giving away four life-size (as in five feet tall) action figures. Depending on the week, you could win a large-scale Anakin, Captain Rex, Obi-Wan or Ahsoka figure. You can enter once per day via the Galactic Star Wars Sweepstakes web site.
VG247: Traveller's Tales boss Jonathan Smith has kicked off this year's Nordic Game by just telling attendees that the Lego Star Wars series has achieved sales of 18 million units to date.
PS3 Fanboy writes: More games! While the US doesn't get Gran Turismo 5: Prologue until next week, they have Dark Sector as a consolation prize. What's the consolation prize for that? Here's the full release list: US Games: Dark Sector [Free digital comic at amazon.com] Viking: Battle for Asgard [Circuit City is offering a free $10 gift card with purchase.] EU Games: Gran Turismo 5: Prologue Everybody's Golf: World Tour Viking: Battle for Asgard 40GB PS3 + GT5: Prologue Asian Games: Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga The Golden Compass
Jan. 2, 2008 -- MSNBC tallied in their Game of the Year readers' votes between December 19 and 27. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare garnered 33 percent of the over 17,000 votes and is MSNBC Readers' Game of the Year. The runner-up was Bioshock at 22 percent of the votes. The second runner-up was Mass Effect at 10 percent. Here are MSNBC readers' picks for the best in each genre: ¿ Best sports game: Madden NFL '08 ¿ Best racing game: Project Gotham Racing 4 ¿ Best casual game: Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree ¿ Best family game: LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga ¿ Best music game: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock ¿ Best handheld game: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass ¿ Best role-playing game: Mass Effect ¿ Best action/adventure game: Bioshock ¿ Best shooter: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare View the full report for the runners-up in each category.
Here are the winners and runners-up for all the categories: Game of the Year: BioShock Runners-up: Rock Band, Mass Effect, Super Mario Galaxy, The Orange Box Most Innovative: Rock Band Runners-up: Portal, Assassin's Creed, Crush, Super Paper Mario Best Writing: Mass Effect Runners-up: BioShock, Portal, Assassin's Creed, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Best Adrenaline Rush: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Runners-up: God of War II, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Project Gotham Racing 4, Halo 3 Best Jiggle Factor: Heavenly Sword Runners-up: Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Conan, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary Guiltiest Pleasure: LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga Runners-up: Stranglehold, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, Overlord, Mario Strikers Charged Best Portable Game: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Runners-up: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow, Silent Hill: Origins, Dead Head Fred Worst Game: Vampire Rain Runners-up: Jackass: The Game, Lair, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s, The Eye of Judgment, Hour of Victory [ Judges: Scott Alexander, Damon Brown, John Gaudiosi, Scott Jones, Marc Saltzman, Scott Stein and Scott Steinberg ]
MSNBC video game section has been polling gamers about their favorite games in a number of categories, trying to narrow down the search for the Game of the Year. On Thursday the site put up the poll to decide which of the finalists, culled from the best of each genre, should be named the game of the year. The finalists are: ¿ Madden NFL 08 ¿ Project Gotham Racing 4 ¿ Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree ¿ LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga ¿ Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock ¿ The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass ¿ Mass Effect ¿ Bioshock ¿ Call of Duty 4 At the time of this writing Call of Duty 4 was leading with 31 percent of the vote. BioShock was close behind with 22 percent and Mass Effect was in a distant third with 8.6 percent. [ Words: Kotaku's Brian Crecente ]
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