BlackSite: Area 51

Xbox 360 Only has just posted the reviews and rumors from the latest edition of the US Official Xbox Magazine. This months' reviews include Assassin's Creed, Beowulf, Scene It?, Soldier of Fortune, Blacksite and Gripshift. Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360, Ubisoft): 8.5/10 Scene it? (Xbox 360, Microsoft): 8/10 Soldier of Fortune Payback (Xbox 360, Activision): 4.5/10 Golden Compass (Xbox 360, Sega): 6/10 MX vs. ATV Untamed (Xbox 360, THQ): 5/10 Beowulf (Xbox 360, Ubisoft): 6/10 GripShift (Xbox 360, Microsoft): 5.5/10 N+ (Xbox 360, Metanet/Slick): 7/10 Screwjumper! (Xbox 360, THQ): 7/10 NCAA 08 March Madness (Xbox 360, EA): 7/10 College Hoops 2K8 (Xbox 360, 2K Sports): 8.5/10 Blacksite Area 51 (Xbox 360, Midway): 6/10 The US OXM also features a rumor section, this month with three very interesting rumors. - Bethesda's (Elder Scrolls: Oblivion) online debut will be a launch title for the next Xbox. - The new Ghost Recon game is still a few years away. The game will not go further on in the Advanced Warfighter part, and the game also doesn't take place in cities anymore. - Ubisoft is planning some radical changes for the new Sam Fischer game.

This week's top rental charts from U.S. game rental company GameFly, representing the most requested games for the week ending December 3rd, highlight both to-be-released and already released games in a unique demand-specific chart. This week's top five all-platform requests show little movement once again, after last week saw the list barely ruffled. Assassin's Creed still takes the top spot for a third week with Mass Effect in second for its second week in a row. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which spent the last two weeks at number four, slips a bit to the fourth spot to make room for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men to move up one spot into the fourth spot, but that's the only movement -- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune stays at number five, where it entered last week.

Dec 3, 2007 BlackSite's creative director has departed Midway following his candid post-mortem of the FPS, in which he described the development process as "so f***ed up." According to a report on ShackNews, Midway execs have described Smith's post-mortem as "his public resignation." "With a year to go, the game was disastrously off rails," Smith explained of BlackSite. Amidst a number of criticisms leveled at the game's development process, he described the fact that the team was given only

Blacksite Demo 2 is out on Xbox Live Marketplace and the demo is 988.11 MB MB it is not available in India and it is rated T for Teen and here is some information about the demo: Battle against a strange insurgency through the streets and backyards of a small American town crawling with alien life.

Surfer Girl has new rumors: ¿ Burnout for Wii ¿ Two works-in-progress at Retro Studios (developer of the Metroid Prime series) ¿ Ninja Reflex ¿ A new direction for the next Tony Hawk game She also writes a little about she thinks of BlackSite: Area 51.

NeoGAF member egmfan89 has posted score from latest EGM magazine: Mario and sonic olympics: 6,7,6 Geometry wars galaxies: 8.5,7, 8.5 Fire Emblem: 9,9, 8.5 Need For speed pro street: 8.5, 7.5, 7 Tony hawk: 5.5, 6.5, 7.5 Manhunt 2: 4, 5, 7 CoD 4: 9.5, 8.5, 9.5 Blacksite Area 51: 6, 5, 6 Kane and Lynch: 7.5, 7, 7 Uncharted: 3 8.5s

Midway announced today that Blacksite Area 51 has gone gold and will be in stores Nov. 12th for Xbox 360 and PC with a PlayStation 3 version expected in time for the holidays. Another demo for Xbox Live is scheduled to be released soon, and a PS3 demo will be released later this year.

Midway scrambles to wrap up production on BlackSite: Area 51 in time for the holidays.

Midway also confirmed to Eurogamer this afternoon that Blacksite: Area 51 will launch on PC and 360 in November. However, it will definitely not be joined by the PS3 version, which looks like it might not show up until next year. But unfortunately Midway remained coy over revelations that the promised online co-operative play had been dropped from the final game, after IGN unearthed its absence in a recent hands-on play test.

In an interview in UK videogame trade paper MCV, a Midway representative has made the interesting claim that BlackSite (its forthcoming sci-fi FPS) will actually benefit from going up against Halo 3. "BlackSite will absolutely benefit from the popularity of Halo, and stands a fair chance of hitting number one," Aidan Minter, European brand manager for the company told MCV. And while we're not going to say he's wrong per se, it does seem like a fairly bold claim, don't you think? With a TV ad