Vin Diesel's The Wheelman is screeching onto PC, 360 and PS3 this autumn, and it's the game that Midway believes will help the firm improve its sales performance in Europe.
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Shaun Himmerick, executive producer on upcoming open world driving game Wheelman, reckons the game's vehicle melee system is "guaranteed" to be copied in future games.

Vehicle melee in Wheelman, developed by Midway Newcastle in conjunction with Tigon Studios, Hollywood actor Vin Diesel's video game production company, involves darting your car in any direction with the right thumb stick in order to smash opposing cars off the road and send them spinning into the air.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com at Midway's recent Gamers' Day in Las Vegas, Himmerick revealed that developer Midway Newcastle's focus testers have said they can't believe vehicle melee isn't in Burnout.

"What I will guarantee will get copied by other people is the vehicle melee," he said. "When we have our focus testers in they literally say, "oh I can't believe Burnout doesn't have this!". It's so instinctive, driving then suddenly slam it left, bam! Take that car out, send it flying. I guarantee that's the one that will get stolen."
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Vin Diesel. Two words that strike fear into the heart of all film-lovers. But when it comes to videogames, the Diesel-meister has a much better rep - a serious gamer, Vinnie (as we like to call him) was heavily involved in the development of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, and the result was one of the best games on Xbox. The lisping muscle mans latest project is The Wheelman, and while the movie is bound to be complete crap, the 360 spin-off could well be another winner. A ...
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Point your eyes now at this first ever trailer for Midway's The Wheelman, a Driver-meets-Stuntman looking actioner starring Vin Diesel, who also takes the leading role in the film of the same name later this year. Hit the Movies tab above and launch the video player for the footage. There's precious little detail around on actual gameplay but we do know The Wheelman is entirely set in sunny Barcelona, and that there'll be on-foot missions running alongside the in-vehicle hijinks - which ...
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Deep Shadows today announced that full-fledged support for multi-core processor systems, based on Intel Threading Building Blocks 2.0 (TBB), has been implemented in White Gold: War in Paradise and Precursors. Due to the optimization of Vital Engine for Intel multi-core technology, the FPS rate in both titles was raised by 40% and the background resource loading was made totally transparent.
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A trailer for White Gold, a new game from developer Deep Shadows, is giving us our first glimpse of gameplay in what's being described as a spritual successor to the developer's Boiling Point. Like Boiling Point, White Gold is a free-roaming shooter - with RPG elements thrown in - but this time around the action takes place in the sunny Caribbean. You can see in the trailer that Deep Shadows' new Vital Engine 3 that's powering the game is capable of producing very pretty environments - ...
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Well that didn't take long. Less than 24 hours after being spotted on an ESRB website listing, Electronic Arts has officially announced the return of Wing Commander on Xbox Live Arcade. Excitingly, our suspicions of online dogfighting have also been confirmed: Wing Commander Arena will support a massive 16-players online, in what EA is calling the largest "melee experience to date on Xbox LIVE Arcade." As you can probably imagine, Arena has players teaming up to attack each other in ...
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An updated ratings page on the ESRB website has revealed a number of new Xbox Live Arcade games - including Wing Commander Arena, the latest in the legendary franchise being developed by EA. We're looking forward to 16-player dogfights. EA was unavailable for comment when contacted earlier, but as usual we'll sit by the line and let you know if we get any confirmation back. Also listed on the site are two new titles from Vivendi; Carcassonne and Switchball, both rated ...
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ActionTrip's 2007 Game of the Year voting poll registered 10673 participants. 1809 registered users voted for Call of Duty 4, 1279 for Halo 3, 1192 for Assassin's Creed, 837 for "None of the Above", 716 for BioShock, 710 for Crysis, 627 for The Orange Box, and so on. The rest of the results can be viewed in ActionTrip's voting poll section.

¿ People's Choice: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
¿ Runners-up: Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, Crysis, Half-Life 2: The Orange Box

¿ Game of the Year (ActionTrip Staff): Portal
¿ Runners-up: Mass Effect, Halo 3, BioShock, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, The Witcher

¿ Best Action Game: Halo 3
¿ Runners-up: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Half-Life 2: The Orange Box, God of War II, BioShock, Crysis

¿ Best Strategy Game: World in Conflict
¿ Runners-up: Supreme Commander, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

¿ Best RPG: Mass Effect
¿ Runners-up: The Witcher, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer

¿ Best Sports Game: FIFA 08
¿ Runners-up: SSX Blur, NHL 08, Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2008

¿ Best MMOG: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
¿ Runners-up: Tabula Rasa, The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar

¿ Best Rhythm/Music Game: Rock Band
¿ Runners-up: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

¿ Babe of the Year: Joanna Krupa
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According to a Konami insider, the forthcoming PS3 version of Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007, will have a massive quality gap over the Xbox 360 version.

It will also be running at 60 FPS, have online play and take up over 18GB, no doubt making full use of the enhanced capacity of Blu-ray.

The news came from a forum post on the Japanese game site Ruliweb by an apparent Konami employee who is a team member working on the soccer game. Still this is very much a rumor at this moment.
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