GamesRadar - 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand

Dropped 50 Cent game now published by THQ (News)

Oct 11, 2008

DarkZero: Remember that 50 Cent game that was going to be published by Vivendi? Remember that it got dropped when Activision threw many other titles to the wayside (like Ghostbusters and Brutal Legend) after they merged with Vivendi? Well, now it seems the game has found a new publisher.

50 Cent sequel not cancelled, despite reports (News)

Sep 19, 2008

Sources close to Swordfish Studios have told GamesIndustry.biz that 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand has not been cancelled, despite internet rumours.

50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is Dead, Dead, Dead (News)

Sep 19, 2008

Remember 50 Cent II, the sequel to discography-cum-video game 50-Cent: Bulletproof? The game that Sierra named 50-Cent: Blood on the Sand? The one that has a love-interest, slick graphics and tons of blood?

Yeah, it's dead. Caught in the unflinching cogs of big video game business, mergers, and close downs, we hear. Victim of a flooded genre and a potential publisher with one too many shooters on its hands.

Worst Rock-Star cameos of all time (Feature)

Sep 11, 2008

Question: Does anyone really care about the real musicians signed to appear in Guitar Hero: World Tour? Don’t respond out loud - use our handy comment feature below. Shouldn’t the focus of games like Rock Band and GH be on you pretending to play an instrument? Case and Point: In Guitar Hero III, any moment given to taking in the mannerisms of Tom Morello, or the expressionless rock face of Slash is time spent not playing. ...

E3 08: 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand - Trailer (Video)

Jul 16, 2008

20 Most Rabidly Patriotic Games (Feature)

Jul 4, 2008

To celebrate Independence Day (the holiday, not the movie), we’ve scoured our encyclopedic minds for the most patriotic games to be developed. But that wasn’t funny enough. So, we dug deeper to find the most rabidly patriotic games every developed. Ya know - the ones with so much love for Old Glory that it starts to get a little ridiculous. Behold - our results!

America's ArmyUS Army | 2002Any game can add the word ...

OXM: 50 Cent will be the 'Burnout' of FPS games (News)

Jun 13, 2008

50 Cent: Blood In The Sand game director Julian Waddows says he wants his game to do for shooters what Burnout did for racers.

And the way he wants to do that is my exaggerating what is there. "We wanted to do for the shooter genre what Burnout did for racers," he says in an interview with Xbox World. "What Diablo did for RPGs. We wanted to take all that makes the genre fun and exaggerate it."

50 Cent 'Really Excited' By 'Blood On The Sand'; Video Game's Music, Love-Interest Details Revealed (News)

Jun 11, 2008

MTV gets details on 50's feelings about the game, the music and even some details about the in-game love-interest.

50 Cent: Blood On The Sand - Trailer (Video)

Apr 29, 2008

50 Cent: Blood on the Sand (Screenshots)

Apr 28, 2008

Sierra Spring Break 08: Fiddy locked at 30 frames a second, online co-op confirmed (News)

Apr 28, 2008

During the 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand demo videogaming247 were privy to at Sierra Spring Break 08 in Mallorca last week, game director Julian Widdows confirmed that the game will be locked at 30 frames a second and that two-player online co-op would be featured.

"If someone was joining now their Gamertag would appear over that player's head," he said, pointing at one of Fiddy's "crew".

"It's drop-drop out, absolute hot-swap....

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Sierra Spring Break 08: 50 Cent team took out "n-word," although it may still be added (News)

Apr 28, 2008

Julian Widdows, game director of 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand, has told videogaming247 that developer Swordfish Studios removed the "n-word" from the final script, but that it may make an appearance in the final game.

"In the original scripts we actually took it out," he said, speaking at the Sierra Spring Break 08 in Mallorca.

"We'll see how the finished game works out. In the first game it was included as it was all part of the street environment so it was deemed acceptable, but watch this space on that."

We interviewed Widdows later that day and brought up the subject again.

VG247: Is that a decision you guys have to make, or is that upstairs?

Julian Widdows: That's upstairs. However, we obviously have our own thoughts and feelings on that and they're shared with [Vivendi Games].

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Sierra Spring Break 08: 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand isn't set in desert, moniker was "chosen by the marketing team" (News)

Apr 28, 2008

Speaking to videogaming247 at the Sierra Spring Break 08 in Mallorca last week, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand game director Julian Widdows said that the game's naming was a marketing decision - not one level in the shooter is set in the desert.

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Mark Rein "blown away" by 50 Cent (News)

Apr 1, 2008

CVG writes: "We all wondered what the "fantastic" UE3 game was all about at Swordfish Studios, when Epic VP Mark Rein said he was "blown away" by an early preview last year. It turned out to be 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, and as it happens, game director Julian Widdows was well chuffed by the comments.

"When we heard he was coming we were like 'oh no, we're gonna get killed!' But he was over the moon, we're chuffed about it," Widdows told CVG in an interview.

'We're obviously an Unreal Engine 3 licensee and he just came in for a visit and said 'oh my god, I can't believe you're working on this, it looks phenomenal'. That was it; it wasn't anything particularly formal, he came in to say hello to his licensees and was blown away by it. That was great for us.'"

50 Cent: Blood on the Sand (Preview)

Apr 1, 2008

10 minutes into being shown 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand by developer Swordfish Studios (who thankfully had nothing to do with the terrible Bulletproof) we got the strangest feeling that this self-proclaimed 'long awaited' sequel might actually be, well, a pretty decent arcade shooter. ...

50 Cent sequel details arise (News)

Mar 27, 2008

The first details have emerged on the new 50 Cent game, called 'Blood on the Sand', via a tasty scoop on MTV's website.Developer Swordfish Studios won't say what 50 is doing in this 360 and PS3 follow-up or where it takes place, but by the look of his desert camo the ghetto action goes down in the, err, desert. MTV also says it's inspired by Epic's Gears of War (isn't everything these days?).There's drop-in, drop-out co-op with all of ...

Surfer Girl: Admits she's wrong, new Ubisoft game, new Simpsons game and more (News)

Mar 27, 2008

Surfer girl writes: "I learned a few days ago it was a sequel, not spiritual successor (yes, that information was wrong), coming to PS360, official announcement later this year, release next year. I chose to believe this and not believe the new Swordfish-developed UE3-powered 50 Cent game is set in the Middle East featuring gameplay similar to Gears of War. At least I did not believe this report as being fact. Finally, Ubisoft has a fashion design casual title and a team at EA RS is currently working away at a new Simpsons title"

50 Cent: Bulletproof Game Called out by Hip-Hop Artist, Former Child Soldier (News)

Mar 27, 2008

A Sudanese hip-hop musician who escaped a life as a child soldier takes rapper 50 Cent to task over his video games in an upcoming album in a song titled "50 Cent".

50 Cent II Confirmed in a Vivendi Press Release (News)

Mar 27, 2008

Steve Wysowski from XboxFocus.com writes:

Yeah, even if you attempted to shield yourself from all news relating to a "possible" 50 Cent: Bulletproof, you are now going to have to accepth the hard truth. 50 Cent II is a reality, as Sierra Entertainment (a division of Vivendi) just released a press release confirming the game today.

50 Cent: Blood on the Sand Details, First Images Revealed (News)

Mar 26, 2008

Three years ago, 50 Cent was "Bulletproof." Now he's leaving "Blood on the Sand." The hop-hop star is getting a new video game this year, one that takes him to new platforms, a new game developer and a whole new role. And for anyone who wasn't satisfied with 2005's multimillion-selling "Bulletproof," the game's producer hears you. This one is going to be better.

"Blood on the Sand" is something more exotic, more Hollywood blockbuster. This game sets 50's character against a cabal of international gangsters on a far-flung, bullet-riddled adventure.