Gamasutra reports this week's top rental charts from U.S. game rental company GameFly, representing the most requested games for the week ending January 21st, highlight both to-be-released and already released games in a unique demand-specific chart.

Burnout Paradise hangs on to the top spot for the second week in a row. Capcom's Devil May Cry 4, slated to release February 5th, made the top five twice last week --the Xbox 360 SKU in second position, and the PS3 SKU in fourth -- but this week, the Xbox 360 SKU steps back a spot to third, while the PS3 SKU fails to chart in the top 5.

What follows is a breakdown of the top titles requested by GameFly subscribers across each of the major platforms:

Xbox 360

1. Burnout Paradise (Electronic Arts)
2. Turok (Touchstone)
3. Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
4. The Club (Sega)
5. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (Ubisoft)

Nintendo Wii

1. No More Heroes (Ubisoft)
2. Endless Ocean (Nintendo)
3. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
4. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
5. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)

PlayStation 3

1. Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
2. Burnout Paradise (Electronic Arts)
3. Turok (Touchstone)
4. Unreal Tournament III (Midway)
5. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Sony)
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EA has officially announced that Burnout Paradise will be released for the PS3 and XBOX360 next month in Brazil and will cost R$199,00 (Brazilian Reais ¿ around $110 USD).

The official Brazilian release will occur simultaneously with the major local festivity, the "Carnaval". Welcome to Paradise City.
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Gamasutra reports that this week's top rental charts from U.S. game rental company GameFly, representing the most requested games for the week ending January 21st, highlight both to-be-released and already released games.

Burnout Paradise speeds into the top spot after spending last week at number three, displacing three-week leader Kingdom Under Fire: Circle Of Doom, which tumbles all the way down to tenth place.

Capcom's Devil May Cry 4, slated to release February 5th, makes the top five twice -- the Xbox 360 SKU in second position, and the PS3 SKU in fourth. In between them, holding the third spot, is the Xbox 360 SKU of Turok, while No More Heroes enters the charts in fifth.

Overall:

1) Burnout Paradise (360)
2) Devil May Cry 4 (360)
3) Turok (360)
4) Devil May Cry 4 (PS3)
5) No More Heroes (Wii)

Xbox 360

1. Burnout Paradise (Electronic Arts)
2. Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
3. Turok (Touchstone)
4. Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
5. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)

Nintendo Wii

1. No More Heroes (Ubisoft)
2. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
3. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)
4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
5. Endless Ocean (Nintendo)

PlayStation 3

1. Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
2. Burnout Paradise (Electronic Arts)
3. Turok (Touchstone)
4. Unreal Tournament III (Midway)
5. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Sony)
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January 22, 2008 - Burnout Paradise, the latest installment in Electronic Arts' crash-crazy street racing series, is now available at retail stores in North America.

Built with a new open world design and instant-connect online mode, Burnout Paradise moves the franchise in a freer, more collaborative direction than previous iterations.

"Burnout Paradise is the natural evolution of the franchise as we wanted to give the player full control to create their own personal Burnout experience," says Alex Ward, Creative Director at EA Criterion.

The game is in stores now for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and will be available in Europe Jan. 28.
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Just a few things released today. Including some Burnout Paradise content and Rock Band content.
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With just a few days left before its official release, another game's street date has been broken. The game: Burnout Paradise; the culprit: an EB Games store in St. Alberta, Alberta.

The image you see here was taken courtesy of Daelakk on QJ.NET's PS3 forums. He mentions that he was able to get his hands on a copy of the PS3 version of the game after pre-ordering it two days ago. Apparently, the store didn't realize that the release date of the game isn't until tomorrow.
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Burnout Paradise boosts onto store shelves this week as one of the most highly anticipated releases for the month of January. In addition Nintendo DS owners can look forward to Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, while PC gamers have a quality release in Pirates of the Burning Sea...

Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of January 20, 2008 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC!
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There is a Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom demo for the Europeans and there is also:

Burnout Paradise Aggression Trailer
Price: Free
Availability: Everywhere

Corbis Pretty Pinups Gamer Pictures
Price: 80 Microsoft Points
Availability: Everywhere

Continued at the source.
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Electronic Arts has told Eurogamer any similarity between the Burnout Paradise box and the cover of an album by US band Karate is "pure coincidence".
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EAUK Staff EAUK_Phenom writes:

"That map was a 'prototype' and it's from 2 years ago .

In the latest podcast (Episode 14), they talk about it (and the airport) and hint that they may consider this for downloadable content (DLC). They're very secretive about what DLC will be released, although they do say that it's going to be something "special", and that only releasing new cars would be boring - so I expect it to be new game modes or a new area . I hope so, anyway. I guess we'll just have to wait and see!

It would be awesome if it was the airport, though."
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Thats right, Xbox classic Burnout 3: Takedown has today been added to the Xbox Originals collection and is available to download for 1200 Microsoft points. What a way to warm up for Burnout: Paradise which is due out soon.

Read source for full news story.
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EDGE review scores Februari 2008 edition:

Nights: Journey of Dreams (Wii, Sega): 6
Soul Calibur Legends (Wii, Namco Bandai): 2
No More Heroes (Wii, Grasshopper Manufacture): 9
Geometry Wars Galaxies (Wii, Sierra Entertainment): 7
Burnout Paradise (PS3/Xbox 360, EA): 9
Soldier of Fortune: Payback (PS3/Xbox 360, Activision): 4
The Club (PS3/Xbox 360, Sega): 7
Pain (PS3 PSN, Sony): 6
Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow (PSP, Sony): 6
R-Type Tactics (PSP, Irem): 6
Dragoneer's Aria (PSP, Koei): 4
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The Burnout: Paradise demo (which was released early December 2007 elsewhere) has now been released on the Japanese XBOX Live Marketplace for free.
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Yet some more themes, gamerpics and video's have been released onto the Xbox Live Marketplace. Not a lot but still something so let's take a look.

- Battlefield: Bad Company Squad Theme: 150 MS Points and available everywhere.

- Battlefield: Bad Company Squad Gamer Pics: 140 MS Points and available everywhere.

Burnout 3 classic is also due for release on Monday. See source for full details on Marketplace upadte 12/1/08.

Are you buying Burnout 3? Let us N4G readers know by leaving a comment below.
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Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey picks what he believes will be the biggest sellers of 2008.
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Cooper, over at Operation Burnout, has pointed out that the news on the Burnout Paradise demo has been updated to say that the online freeburn will be removed from the demo in build up to the release of Paradise.
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Three new achievement lists have been added to Console Monster for upcoming games. The games are Burnout: Paradise, Conflict: Denied Ops and The Club.

Burnout: Paradise Achievements (50 Achievements for a total of 1000 GamerScore):

Lookin' Good ¿ 5 GamerScore
Repair your first wrecked car

Watt? - 10 GamerScore
Set a Time Road Rule on Watt St

It's Showtime - 10 GamerScore
Set a Showtime Road Rule East Crawford Drive

Conflict: Denied Ops (44 Achievements for a total of 1000 GamerScore):

Campaign Completed (Easy) - 50 GamerScore
Complete campaign mode with any combination of single player and co-op on Easy difficulty.

Campaign Completed (Normal) - 75 GamerScore
Complete campaign mode with any combination of single player and co-op on Normal difficulty.

Campaign Completed (Hard) - 100 GamerScore
Complete campaign mode with any combination of single player and co-op on Hard difficulty.

The Club Achievements (50 Achievements for a total of 1000 GamerScore):

Sharp Steel - 10 GamerScore
Complete the Steel Mill on any difficulty level in Tournament.

Hard Steel - 20 GamerScore
Complete Steel Mill on Insane level.

Splash Down - 10 GamerScore
Complete Ocean Liner on any difficulty level in Tournament.

The rest of the achievements can be viewed at the source!
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Operation Burnout forum member, supercarFTW! has pointed out that the Japanese version of the Burnout Paradise demo features a different car. The Nakamura Ikusa GT features in the Japanese demo as opposed to the Hunter Calvary in the US and European versions.
Anyone with a Japanese Playstation Network account can download the demo for free to try out the car themselves.

UPDATE: Confirmed that the Japanese 360 version of the demo also features the different car.
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Jan 4, 2008 EA has boosted the online servers for its Burnout Paradise demo, doubling the number of players in a race from four to eight. Sweet. This comes as part of temporary enhancements made to the demo's online gameplay, which will last from today until January 14. In addition to the increased number of online players, EA has also added 13 new Freeburn challenges. That's "3 challenges in 5, 6 and 7 player sessions, and 4 new challenges for those playing in 8 player sessions," EA ... » Read More

Criterion Games have announce that between January 4th and January 14th the maximum number of players for the online freeburn in the Paradise demo will double to 8 players.
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