Chart-Track's just confirmed that Mercenaries 2's gone top of the UK chart, knocking down Tiger after a top-spot debut last week.
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Chris Irvine of Telegraph writes: "A petrol station which gave away free fuel has been temporarily shut down after motorists flocking to its pumps caused traffic chaos.

Electronic Arts were giving away £20,000 worth of fuel at the station on Stapleton Hall Road, near Finsbury Park, north London, as part of a promotion for a new video game.

But the stunt angered residents and local politicians for causing gridlock during the morning rush hour."
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'Mercenaries' from Electronic Arts are hijacking a London petrol station this morning and giving away £20,000 of FREE petrol to customers.

The entire forecourt of Last Stop Ltd near Finsbury Park, North London will be completely transformed into that of a military style bunker, with jeeps, oil barrels, sandbag walls, and fully costumed actors on hand to pump the petrol for the customers...
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Drivers gained some respite from the recent hikes in fuel prices after a garage decided to give away free petrol. As part of a promotion for a new computer game, £20,000-worth of fuel was being given away free of charge on Friday.

Electronic Arts took over the Last Stop garage in Finsbury Park, north London, to promote the game Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.

By 7.30am on Friday morning more than 150 customers had taken advantage of the offer, which allowed drivers to put up to £40-worth of fuel in their tanks free of charge.
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With rising petrol prices running a car is fast becoming as hard as completing Halo 3 on Legendary. Thankfully, the kind folks at EA realise your problems, and, to celebrate today's release of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, are giving away £20,000 of petrol ... » Read More

Pandemic Studios' Mercenaries 2: World in Flames will provide the arena, as the developers battle it out with Xbox LIVE® members. Pandemic will be on hand from September 5 through September 12, giving you a chance to be one of the first to get the 50-point "Everybody Wants Some!!" achievement!
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Those who neglected to pre-order the recently released sandbox action title Mercenaries can apparently gain access to some of the game's secret costumes previously believed to be off-limits to John Q. Public. Join The Exploding Barrel as they describe the somewhat unconventional manner in which players can play dress-up with their trio of bloodthirsty killers.
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Gamerdeals.net writes:

"The highlights this week include Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (PS3, Xbox 360, PS2, PC), Infinite Undiscovery (Xbox 360), Vampire Rain: Altered Species (PS3), and FaceBreaker (Xbox 360, PS3).

Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of August 31, 2008 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC!"
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Ripten writes:

"EA and Pandemic Studios announced today, that from 6am this morning til whenever "the pumps run dry", they will fit the bill to pump your car full of gas for free -- if you can make it to 8489 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles CA before the deal goes up in flames.

Seriously, who thought mixing flames, gas, and mean looking dudes covered in tattoos together for a real life promotion would be a good idea? Because it is fucking brilliant. Give that person a raise.

A word of caution. If you are one of those people who never tips the full serve gas guy, you may want to bend the rules a bit this time. I'm guessing this is more of side job for the guys shown above, as their full time gig probably involves crushing people's skulls with their bare hands. Just a suggestion.

Full press release with details as well as a live feed of the event after the jump."
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Take a look at the alternate costumes for Mattias, Chris & Jen in Mercenaries 2: World In Flames.
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Special Features may be the reason why you buy this game.
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"The achievements for Mercenaries 2: World in Flames have been unveiled. The list confirms the ability to destroy buildings and objects using a variety of weapons; races and co-operative play. The list contains 40 achievements worth a total of 1000 GamerScore with 17 of the achievements being secret.

Tattooed Millionaire – 25 GamerScore
Earn $1 million.

Partners in Crime – 50 GamerScore
Play co-op with a friend.

Pipeline - 20 GamerScore
Capture all outposts for a single faction..."
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Electronic Arts is forcing new level of cooperative play. After Army of Two Mercenaries 2 also wont support cooperative play between PAL and NTSC but also between different language versions. Polygamia found that:

"Cooperative online play with the PAL game discs 'English, Spanish,
Russian' and 'German, French Italian' is not supported against players with
the PAL game disc 'German, English', cross region play with NTSC is also not
supported."
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Sean Hollister from GameCyte writes: Over three years in the making, and with just a single month before its commercial debut on August 31st, we thought we'd heard everything there was to hear about Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. The game's huge. It has online co-op. You can blow $#!^ up. But while exploring Pandemic Studios' next-gen playground of destruction at E3 2008, we noticed something new: lots and lots of billboards, with the word "Massive" embedded in placeholder text near the bottom of each.
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The work of Brain Zoo Studios, a leading digital media animation studio, will be showcased across the show floor at this year's E3. Fans anticipating the mysterious Alpha Protocol from Sega for the PC and next-gen consoles will be treated to a cinematic showcase produced by Brain Zoo Studios for the title. Additionally, the highly anticipated Pandemic titles Mercs 2: World in Flames and the all-new Destroy All Humans: Path of Furon cinematics are on display in respective publisher booths, all animated by Brain Zoo Studios. Read the full press release on GameVortex.com
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Electronic Arts today unveiled the games it will feature at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2008. The games - scheduled to ship on multiple platforms in 2008 and early 2009 - include riveting graphics, deep stories and online, socially connected experiences. EA's portfolio covers many genres and platforms for core gamers and new players alike. Veteran players will love the feature innovations in our core titles; new players – women, young people and adults – will have a wide selection of highly accessible games like MySims Kingdom, LITTLEST PET SHOP and FaceBreaker a new Arcade-style Boxing game from the new EA SPORTS Freestyle brand.
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MWgamer has 4 new screen shots of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is the upcoming sequel to 2005's Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, due for release in the US on August 31, 2008 and in Europe on September 6, 2008,
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Videogamer writes: "The PS3 version of upcoming open world blast-em-up Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is unlikely to support Sony's online 3D hub Home.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com at a recent EA Games label event in London, Pandemic's Cory Lewis said the studio was currently focused on online coop and doesn't know enough about Home "to be deep in it".

Home, which is scheduled to release as an open beta this Autumn, has suffered from a number of delays as Sony refines the service. In April Sony announced plans to expand the PlayStation Home Closed Beta test into summer 2008 in order to "refine the service to ensure a more focused gaming entertainment experience than what it is today"."
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Videogamer writes: "Upcoming open world action game Mercenaries 2 would be a "tough fit" for the Nintendo Wii, according to developer Pandemic.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com at an EA Games label event in London recently, Pandemic's Cory Lewis said that porting it over to Nintendo's motion sensing console "feels wrong".

"I think the Wii would be a tough fit for that product," Lewis told VideoGamer.com. 'Not to say it won't ever happen. But just porting it over to the Wii feels wrong. I know the guys, the senior leaders at Pandemic, like Josh (Resnick) and Greg (Borrud) and Andrew (Goldman), they're very committed to when we come out with a Wii product it's going to be created for the Wii. It's going to really take advantage of what it offers, not just grabbing this and throwing it over there kind of thing.'"
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A third game in the popular open world series Mercenaries is "inevitable", developer Pandemic has told VideoGamer.com.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com at an EA Games label event in London recently, Pandemic's Cory Lewis decline to offer any clues as to the third game's setting.

"The guys are honestly right now neck deep in making this one shine and try not to get distracted," he revealed. "I'm sure the director Cameron Brown is already sitting at home on the weekend taking long showers and brainstorming new ideas but nothing that's too distracting at this point. There will definitely be more to talk about soon I'm sure as we start to come up with ideas. We're definitely looking to continue the franchise let's say that. There are no plans obviously but it's an IP that we're really proud of and huge fans of ourselves. We just want to keep being in that universe. It's inevitable."
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