Wheelman

Following last month's closure of Midway Newcastle, the development team responsible for The Wheelman, it has today been revealed that the remainder of Midway's UK business has been purchased for approximately £0.50 (GBP). Midway's managing director for Europe, Martin Spiess, has negotiated the bargain deal, which sees him buy both the Midway Games France and UK offices for 1 Euro, around £0.86 at the time of writing.

The Premium Street Showdown Pack is now available for Wheelman. The download adds 5 unique races and runs 400 MS Points ($5).

WorthPlaying: Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for: # BattleForge (PC) # Women's Murder Club: A Darker Shade of Grey (PC) # Wheelman (PS3/X360/PC)

411mania talks about week's game releases. Highlights include Lux-Pain, Death Track: Resurrection, Touch Mechanic, Sunday x Magazine: Taisen Action, and Cate West: The Vanishing Files.

UK videogame releases for March 23rd to 27th sees the release of the Midway/Ubisoft title, Wheelman and Playstation Network title, Burn Zombie Burn arrives mid-week. Don King's boxing title arrives on the Wii and DS along with Afro Samurai on Xbox 360 and PS3. Please note, release dates are about as reliable as a priest stuck in traffic behind two nuns in a Skoda, so don't take them as gospel. This is what we've been told.

Here's the Euro releases for this week, highlights include The Wheelman, Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 for Wii and Buzz! Brain of the UK. Please note these are tenative release dates and are subject to change with little or no notice.

Composer Rod Abernethy and Rednote Audio (www.rednoteaudio.com) announce their involvement in the production of the authentic and edgy score for Wheelman, the highly-anticipated driving game starring action-film megastar Vin Diesel as an expert driver for hire...

Just when we were thinking about how long it had been since the last 360 vs. PS3 debacle, The Wheelman's Executive Producer Shaun Himmerick has come along to save the day. When asked by ThisXboxLife.com what it had been like to develop simultaneously for Xbox 360 and PS3, Himmerick replied: The politically incorrect answer is that the PS3 is a huge pain in the ass. Anyone making a game, if you're going to make it for both [360 and PS3], just lead on the PS3 because if it works on the PS3 it'll work on 360. The easiest way to look at it is, the 360 has one big chunk of memory, but the PS3 has two chunks of memory that in total are the same size as the Xbox, but because they're split you can't share memory the same way. That will bite you in the ass, and it bit us in the ass bad.

PS3-Sense writes: Before the line-up of Atari began yesterday, we first were informed by Midway on their latest title, The Wheelman. After a while we could check out how the game looks, and meanwhile we're told what features the game has exactly.

The upcoming game starring Vin Diesel, Wheelman, gets slightly pushed back about a month. Originally estimated for a February 2009 release, the release date is now set for March 20, 2009. GameStop has a featured pre-order bonus offer, a DVD case with the game's artwork. See 3 new screenshots too!