Pacific Crest Securities' Evan Wilson says new version of Nintendo's portable complete; holiday release torrent creating retail woes.

Wilson notes that not all games will be affected by insufficient retail space. "Clearly, the end-of-year squeeze creates limited space at retail, which limits the size of initial orders of games with less publicity and reorders of games with lower quality." He anticipates games with high preorder rates such as Guitar Hero III, Call of Duty 4, Assassins' Creed, Mass Effect, WWE, and Rock Band to be less affected by insufficient retail space. "Titles that could be at risk of getting squeezed," he continues, "include Haze, Kane & Lynch, and Uncharted."
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11 Nov 2007

Worldwide PS3 releases for the week of November 11

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PS3 - Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - Worldwide PS3 releases for the week of November 11

US Games

* Assassin's Creed
* Kane and Lynch: Dead Men
* Need For Speed: ProStreet
* WWE Smackdown vs RAW
* Beowulf: The Game

EU Games

* Assassin's Creed

Asian Games

* Heavenly Sword
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7 Nov 2007

Kane & Lynch - Havana screen blowout

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Nov 7, 2007 These latest Kane & Lynch: Dead Men screenshots to escape Eidos are action snaps from the game's twelfth chapter, Havana.You can get your eyeballs on the shots ...
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7 Nov 2007

COD4 Co-op, New Nintendo Handheld & More in Pro-G Rumour mill

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PS3 - Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - COD4 Co-op, New Nintendo Handheld & More in Pro-G Rumour mill

Pro-G's writes:

"Co-op play for Call of Duty 4
The Rumour: While Call of Duty 4 is a truly amazing single and multiplayer FPS, it's lacking one thing: co-op play. Well, we've heard that it might not be missing forever.

Verdict: Adding cooperative play to a game post-release isn't unheard of. Rare added co-op to Kameo and with downloadable content being all the rage these days, we wouldn't put it past Infinity Ward to deliver the goods. Don't bank on it though.

Plausibility rating: 2/5"
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7 Nov 2007

Developing for PS3 is "fun", says Kane & Lynch/ Hitman dev

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PS3 - Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - Developing for PS3 is

Speaking to Pro-G in an interview yesterday, Morten Heiberg, of Hitman developer IO Interactive, said that while the assets were very similar across the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions of the game, the team had experienced some challenges "getting up and running" on Sony's next-gen console.

He said: "It's a new platform for us. It's our first PS3 game. It's a challenging platform to develop on, but it's also one that has a lot of potential that's just waiting to be unlocked as people get to know it better and as developers get more skilled at utilising the machine."
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6 Nov 2007

Hugely elaborate Kane & Lynch mailer arrives

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Nov 6, 2007 Any publication that covers entertainment tends to get a lot of weird promotional stuff in the mail, and GamesRadar is no exception. Today, though, we received what might be the most elaborate promo for a game we've ever seen, coming in the form of two plastic bags filled with ominously sealed evidence envelopes and a letter marked "URGENT PLEASE READ." The whole package was put together to accompany a reviewable copy of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - the über-gritty crime shooter ...
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4 Nov 2007

Ask the developers: Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

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PS3 - Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - Ask the developers: Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

Have you got some questions you'd like to ask IO Interactive about Kane & Lynch: Dead Men? If so, this is your chance to have your questions answered...
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31 Oct 2007

Kane & Lynch's gold heist moved up to Nov. 14

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PS3 - Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - Kane & Lynch's gold heist moved up to Nov. 14

Though "Black Friday" isn't until the day after Thanksgiving, November 20 was shaping up to be doomsday for gamers' wallets. The Tuesday will see Rock Band, Mass Effect, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and Time Crisis 4 all hit store shelves the day after the PC Unreal Tournament III goes on sale.

However, today the November 20 herd was thinned by one. British publisher Eidos Interactive has announced that its anticipated crime-action game Kane & Lynch has gone gold and will ship six days early on November 14. The M-for-Mature-rated game will ship simultaneously for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
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15 Oct 2007

Kane & Lynch: Playboy Interview

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PS3 - Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - Kane & Lynch: Playboy Interview

Creative advertising 101. In an effort to beef up their gaming coverage, Playboy Magazine will be running the following advertisement/interview with Kane of the upcoming Kane & Lynch video game. The piece will be titled "A candid conversation with a convicted killer about a final assignment that left 25 dead and why he looks forward to his own execution".
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9 Oct 2007

Io: Why the **** does everybody do deathmatch?

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PS3 - Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - Io: Why the **** does everybody do deathmatch?

By now you've probably heard all about Kane & Lynch's intriguing multiplayer mode, 'Fragile Alliance', which puts 8-players in the middle of a bank heist and lets them be as greedy or backstabbing as they fancy.

Lead designer Kim Krogh explained to CVG last week that Io Interactive had to keep the mode under wraps because it's "fairly easy to duplicate", and it was worried that other developers might steal it's ideas. "When we talked about this a couple of years ago it was like 'f**k, why didn't anyone do this before?!'" he said. "It seemed really obvious."
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