TVGB: "When the original Army of Two was released last year, it was easy enough to pass it off as just another Gears of War clone, but really it wasn't according to EA Montreal's Alex Hutchinson. He offered a few more thoughts towards the problems of the shooter genre when we asked him what it was like coming from Maxis, the developers of Spore, to a more conventional game like Army of Two: The 40th Day. "I think in the shooter genre or RPG genre, or any of these established genres people get stuck in a rut, they're inspired by other games that are the same. So everyone right now making a shooter wants to be Call of Duty, or every time you make a third-person shooter, everyone says you're Gears of War, which isn't good.""
Microsoft Australia have just announced a special Christmas package for the Xbox 36 Elite. The bundle comes with Lego Batman, Pure, the 120GB hard drive, headset and wireless controller.
Retailer Amazon.com this week price cut 2K Games' Borderlands for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 to under $50 in a new game sale.
Xbox360Achievements.org has revealed the achievements for XBLA's upcoming release, Madden NFL Arcade. The game has 12 achievements for the usual 200 points.
Codemasters has just announced that the downloadable content – the 'Skirmish' pack – will be available for PC, X360 and PS3 tomorrow, November 5th, bundled with a title update patch.
Nine Over Ten 9/10 has posted up details on the soundtrack for Bayonetta, the video game.
On November 9th 2009, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 will invade London with its very own VIP and celebrity screening in Leicester Square, home of the 'Hollywood Premiere'. And you could be there with the stars! ...
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"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 won't be the only title moving units this holiday season."
These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade and Indie Games, full versions purchased during the week.
Kotaku writes: "Why do some games have multiplayer? Because the executives demand it, even if the developers don't want it. As explained in a recent account of goings on at Midway."