Microsoft has announced a new starting price for Xbox 360 Classics in Europe, and three new blockbuster titles for the program, offering high quality experiences at outstanding value. From this month, Grand Theft Auto IV, Midnight Club Los Angeles: Complete Edition and BioShock will join the best selection of Xbox 360 games in the Classics range. A selection of titles, including Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: VEGAS 2 and Naruto: Rise of a Ninja will now be available with a Recommended Retail Price (RRP) of just £14.99.
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Orgazzle online gaming community has been launched, early August 09. This is a revolutionary social network for gaming. You can create your own NCAA Football online dynasty, or Madden online franchise. You can also join other members custom groups if you would like.
With the Tom Clancy series expanding to five titles this year with the releases of Hawx and Endwar, Ubisoft has said that it is looking into the possibility of creating a "Megagame" within the franchise in order to potentially interweave storylines between each major series.
Destructoid writes: Let the in-game advertising commence! Ubisoft (aka the EA of Europe) has signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to infuse the 360 version of Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 gameplay-reliant advertising that will take the shape of an in-game scavenger hunt promoting upcoming movie Tropic Thunder.
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Let the games begin! The doors have been opened, and thousands of gamers are now flooding into the third stop along the 2008 MLG Pro Circuit here in Orlando, Florida. They?'ll now begin to warm-up in preparation for the the Open Bracket to begin. The action is set to officially kick-off at 5:30 p.m. ET, so keep your browsers locked to mlgpro.com as MLG Orlando gets underway!
Ubisoft delivers a gift to Rainbow Six Vegas 2 gamers today. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2: Gift Pack DLC is now available as a free download from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. See the details and a trailer video for it here.
The much-talked-about patch to the hit game Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is officially available for download. I just checked it out on the Xbox 360, and I would assume it is available for the PlayStation 3 as well, though I can't confirm it. Read on for the full update details.
Xboxnowonline has noticed that the Title Update with all the promised fixes for Rainbow Six Vegas 2 have released, but where are the promised maps that were to come free as DLC?
Publisher Ubisoft has sent word that an all-new multiplayer centric content pack for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 editions of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 will be released later this July.
Two huge announcements were made at the MLG event in San Diego today. MLG and GotFrag announced a partnership during a mid-day press conference. Shiska and Lukems of Bungie made their announcement at the main stage early this evening. Many were whispering that it was probably a map from the first Halo game. Photos and more details after the jump.
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Thanks in part to the huge success of titles like Grand Theft Auto IV and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, GameStop reported a net earnings increase of 151% for the first quarter of 2008 according to sales figures released by the company.
Developer and publisher Ubisoft has announced its full year financial report, with sales rising 36 percent to 928 million euros ($1.46 billion), and a holiday quarter up 10 percent to 217 million euros ($340.5 million) on strong sales of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Assassin's Creed.
Xbox 360 Fanboy writes:
Not the greatest of news for the PC release of Rainbow Six Vegas 2, but it appears that the game contains a pretty bad flaw which causes your hard drive space to be eaten up every time the game crashes as it creates a "MemDump" file that takes up nearly 1GB of space.
Jesse Divnich, newly-installed director of Analytical Services at EEDAR, believes that there should be little disruption to overall sales of Grand Theft Auto IV, even though demand for Wii Fit - released in the UK just days earlier than Rockstar's title - appears to be extremely high.
PlayStation 3 outsold Xbox 360 for the third month in a row, but the Nintendo Wii overshot the combined sales of its rivals, according to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter.
Call of Duty 4 is "leading the way" in the first-person shooter genre, with recent competition from EA and Ubisoft "failing to inspire", according to publisher Activision.