Following last month's closure of Midway Newcastle, the development team responsible for The Wheelman, it has today been revealed that the remainder of Midway's UK business has been purchased for approximately £0.50 (GBP). Midway's managing director for Europe, Martin Spiess, has negotiated the bargain deal, which sees him buy both the Midway Games France and UK offices for 1 Euro, around £0.86 at the time of writing.
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The Premium Street Showdown Pack is now available for Wheelman. The download adds 5 unique races and runs 400 MS Points ($5).
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WorthPlaying:

"Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for":

# BattleForge (PC)
# Women's Murder Club: A Darker Shade of Grey (PC)
# Wheelman (PS3/X360/PC)
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411mania talks about week's game releases. Highlights include Lux-Pain, Death Track: Resurrection, Touch Mechanic, Sunday x Magazine: Taisen Action, and Cate West: The Vanishing Files.
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UK videogame releases for March 23rd to 27th sees the release of the Midway/Ubisoft title, Wheelman and Playstation Network title, Burn Zombie Burn arrives mid-week. Don King's boxing title arrives on the Wii and DS along with Afro Samurai on Xbox 360 and PS3.

Please note, release dates are about as reliable as a priest stuck in traffic behind two nuns in a Skoda, so don't take them as gospel. This is what we've been told.
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Here's the Euro releases for this week, highlights include The Wheelman, Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 for Wii and Buzz! Brain of the UK. Please note these are tenative release dates and are subject to change with little or no notice.
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Composer Rod Abernethy and Rednote Audio (www.rednoteaudio.com) announce their involvement in the production of the authentic and edgy score for Wheelman, the highly-anticipated driving game starring action-film megastar Vin Diesel as an expert driver for hire...
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PS3-Sense writes: Before the line-up of Atari began yesterday, we first were informed by Midway on their latest title, The Wheelman. After a while we could check out how the game looks, and meanwhile we're told what features the game has exactly.
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The upcoming game starring Vin Diesel, Wheelman, gets slightly pushed back about a month. Originally estimated for a February 2009 release, the release date is now set for March 20, 2009.

GameStop has a featured pre-order bonus offer, a DVD case with the game's artwork. See 3 new screenshots too!
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Today Midway released three new screens for Wheelman and announced that the official Web site for the game has been updated in preparation for the game's worldwide release, now scheduled for March 20.
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Today Midway released three new screens for Wheelman and announced that the official Web site for the game has been updated in preparation for the game's worldwide release, now scheduled for March 20. The new date will provide a more optimal launch timeframe for the open-world action driving game featuring Vin Diesel. In addition, Midway also confirmed plans for a pre-launch Wheelman demo that will be available via Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.
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Game companies have been announcing holiday products for the last few weeks and today marked the first day that PWN or DIE started receiving our virtual Christmas cards from the various games.

Midway Games sent a Wheelman holiday card which featured Vin Diesel in a Santa outfit while Activision and Radical sent a nice little video greeting from the game Prototype featuring Alex Mercer.
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Console Monster writes: "We have just added the Achievements for The Wheelman on the Xbox 360. The achievement list suggests the game will contain a fair few missions, as well as a great chunk of side missions which include Street Showdowns, Taxi, Rampage and more. The list doesn't seem too difficult to obtain a decent amount from the game though the full 1000 will prove to be a challenge for some as 100 GamerScore is rewarded for completing all the side missions with an "S" rank – and with a lot of side missions, this will take a lot of time, as well as skill.

The list contains 50 achievements worth 1000 GamerScore:

Venga Venga! - 20 GamerScore
Complete the Mission - Frantic.

Salute from Stavo - 20 GamerScore
Complete the Mission - Finding Family.

Respect from Radu - 20 GamerScore
Complete the Mission - Letting Off Steam..."
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ATARI recently announced their overview of upcomming 2009 game releases including dates.
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Today Midway released an all-new, adrenaline-fueled cinematic trailer for the upcoming action-packed open world driving game Wheelman. XE also has seven brand new screenshots.
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Wheelman creative director Simon Woodroffe has told VideoGamer.com that he thinks sandbox gaming elements such as bowling and dating in Grand Theft Auto IV are boring and not developed enough to warrant replaying.

"Yeah, there are elements of GTA in the game - and there are certainly elements of Burnout. I think our driving, the accessibility and the speed of it... that's more Burnout than GTA. But we've got an open world, a compelling story and a whole bunch of side missions - and those things are all GTA," Woodroffe told VideoGamer.com at a recent London press event. "We don't have a sandbox - you can't go bowling or go on a date. All that stuff is all well and good, but personally it doesn't appeal to me. It seems like a good idea but actually it's quite boring after a while, because in all of those mini-games, the micro-mechanics haven't been developed to a level where you'd want to play them over and over again."
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Midway has announced that the upcoming "Action-Packed Open-World Driving Game Featuring Vin Diesel" will be shipping in North America and Europe next February.
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dailygamesnews.com - Midway are in a bit of a financial struggle at the moment and in a recently issued a statement said they would be severing ties with their own licenses
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Today Midway released a new video trailer and eight screenshots for Wheelman, the highly anticipated open world driving game starring Vin Diesel as an undercover agent and highly-skilled driver who must infiltrate the Barcelona underworld.
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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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