Orgazzle online gaming community has been launched, early August 09. This is a revolutionary social network for gaming. You can create your own NCAA Football online dynasty, or Madden online franchise. You can also join other members custom groups if you would like.
With the Tom Clancy series expanding to five titles this year with the releases of Hawx and Endwar, Ubisoft has said that it is looking into the possibility of creating a "Megagame" within the franchise in order to potentially interweave storylines between each major series.
The much-talked-about patch to the hit game Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is officially available for download. I just checked it out on the Xbox 360, and I would assume it is available for the PlayStation 3 as well, though I can't confirm it. Read on for the full update details.
Xboxnowonline has noticed that the Title Update with all the promised fixes for Rainbow Six Vegas 2 have released, but where are the promised maps that were to come free as DLC?
Publisher Ubisoft has sent word that an all-new multiplayer centric content pack for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 editions of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 will be released later this July.
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Thanks in part to the huge success of titles like Grand Theft Auto IV and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, GameStop reported a net earnings increase of 151% for the first quarter of 2008 according to sales figures released by the company.
"So far since the launch of the new PS Store, European has seen it's fair share of good quality updates. Certainly, the situation appears to be much better than before and SCEE seem to be coming good on their promise that they would 'sort the situation out' by the Summer.
Developer and publisher Ubisoft has announced its full year financial report, with sales rising 36 percent to 928 million euros ($1.46 billion), and a holiday quarter up 10 percent to 217 million euros ($340.5 million) on strong sales of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Assassin's Creed.
Not the greatest of news for the PC release of Rainbow Six Vegas 2, but it appears that the game contains a pretty bad flaw which causes your hard drive space to be eaten up every time the game crashes as it creates a "MemDump" file that takes up nearly 1GB of space.
Jesse Divnich, newly-installed director of Analytical Services at EEDAR, believes that there should be little disruption to overall sales of Grand Theft Auto IV, even though demand for Wii Fit - released in the UK just days earlier than Rockstar's title - appears to be extremely high.
PlayStation 3 outsold Xbox 360 for the third month in a row, but the Nintendo Wii overshot the combined sales of its rivals, according to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter.
Call of Duty 4 is "leading the way" in the first-person shooter genre, with recent competition from EA and Ubisoft "failing to inspire", according to publisher Activision.
MCV: Ubisoft has plans to make its Tom Clancy franchise a true heavyweight in the wider entertainment world after the series reached a spectacular 52 million in lifetime unit sales.
Following last year's link-up with Ubisoft on Assassin's Creed, LOVEFiLM has announced a similar partnership with the publisher on Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 - a move which it is hoped will continue the momentum for the company's game division.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 takes the top spot on the Gamefly Top Ten 'Most Queued' list. Not surprisingly, Super Smash Bros. Brawl continues it's reign at the top of the Nintendo Wii list, while PlayStation 3 gamers have Dark Sector queued up at the top.
VG247 is reporting that Rainbow Six Vegas 2 has now sold 2 million units. The news comes in a Ubisoft press release raising financial guidance for 07/08.
There's a battle going on at the top of the charts between Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Army of Two and Call of Duty 4...
Apparently, the bugs that gamers have been experiencing with the PS3 version of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 are not confined to just the PS3 version. Many gamers have reported that they were unable to connect to servers, the game would freeze and require a restart, and many reports of connections being dropped caused Ubisoft to look into the issues.