Okay…how many sites online goes poetic on a game that slashes and kills? Never until now, that is. Assassin’s Creed is such a game because of it’s fluid beauty and old age charm. Set in the 12th century, an assassin with a mysterious past (as they always do) is your character. Your aim is to listen to your person who your work for and your duty is to exterminate. There is no such thing as excess gore because ripping out your nemesis’ guts is against the law in real life, but all glory in virtual.

As I echo one of the reviews, “Assassin’s Creed is a beautiful and exciting experience that you’ll remember for years to come.” I cannot wait to get the game on my XBox 360. The game, btw, is rated 9.0 out of 10. IGN may not be as generous but expect it to be on ‘their’ high side of the scale.

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If you like racing games, you’re going to love Burnout Paradise. Check out their trailer:

It is going to hit stores in Jan 22 of 2008 so be prepared. Console of choice is, yet again the XBox 360. Geez, the XBox360 is churning out a lot of good games lately. Sony better pick up their pace - it’s pointless to be all egoistical about their blu-ray if it won’t sell. I know Burnout Paradise is coming out on PS3 too but I am talking about generally. XBox360 beats PS3 in popularity, hands down. Okay, maybe I am bit harsh - but maybe Sony PS3 came out a little too early. I am glad they lowered their price for a start though.

Tomb Raider, the bodacious adventurer who succumbed to a doubtful ending in Tomb Raider 3 has now released Tomb Raider: Anniversary in the XBox 360 console and the Wii.

This week, Eidos is releasing to retail the Xbox 360 version of Tomb Raider: Anniversary. And while it typically doesn’t take much for the buxom heroine to turn heads of her own accord, Eidos is capitalizing on the increased attention anyway by announcing that Wii gamers will have a chance to go hands on with Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Anniversary on November 13.

Similar to the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and PC versions already out, Crystal Dynamics’ redux is a fleshed-out version of the original Tomb Raider, which celebrated its 10th anniversary earlier this year. Bringing Lara into the 21st century, Crystal Dynamics is implementing the same engine used in last year’s Tomb Raider: Legend. The Wii version will also feature fully integrated motion-sensing controls.

As with the Xbox 360 version, Tomb Raider Anniversary is rated T for Teen and will retail for $39.99. For more on the game, check out GameSpot’s previous coverage and its review of the PS2 edition of the game.

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OMG it’s been almost 10 years since I’ve last seen Street Fighter. And now Street Fighter IV is coming out again. Fantastically, Capcom has been teasing us bit by bit with some videos here and there via it’s site. Hot Damn! When is it coming out? I still know how to do Chun Li’s Helicopter Kick and Ryu’s uppet cut! Holy, i sound like a geek now but I don’t care because i used to play Street Fighter everyday after school!

So what if I am a girl? :P

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Check out their first trailer guys!

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We do not know yet which console it is going to come out on. *crosses fingers* XBOX PLEASE!

I love role playing games and Hellgate looks like it’s bent for my wrath! It’s only available on PC - where’s the XBox360’s dudes?? Anyway, it looks like a cool game, with a great story line.

Check out their trailer:

I WANNA PLAY~

We know that the Nintendo DS and the Wii outsells the PSP Slim, normally. Well, normally. However, in the past 3 weeks it seems that PSP Slim’s sales have shot up unexpected. Currently 580,000 sets have been sold, which is quite a feat considering how slow sales have been for Sony in general.

For a long time, the Japanese hardware sales charts have been predictable–Nintendo DS Lite on top, Wii outselling the PlayStation 3 in a ratio of 4-to-1. But the last three weeks have seen a phoenix-like rising of the PlayStation Portable, as it grabbed and held the top slot.

According to figures released by Famitsu, the new, lighter version of the handheld has already shifted approximately 580,000 units in Japan–no mean feat considering the portable version 2.0 was released there just two weeks ago on September 20.

The first week saw 250,000 new-model PSPs sold. But even the week before the PSP slim’s Japanese launch saw the PSP selling well due to the release of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, along with 77,777 limited-edition bundle packs.

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The Tokyo’s Game Show 2007 is now hot and running. This event garners support and visits from game developers, gamers and big names in the gaming industries. So this is definitely THE place to be seen if you wanna meet your favorite videogame character, yes cosplay fanatics will be there as well.

Anyway, here’s an article from Gamespot about the event:

TOKYO–It’s official; the annual madness that is the Tokyo Game Show has begun. The next four days will see the sprawling venue of Makuhari Messe taken over by developers, gamers, geeks, and cosplayers.

To kick things off, Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai delivered a keynote titled “A Look At Our Business Strategy Toward New Growth: The Expanding PlayStation World.” Hirai used his floor time to not only examine that strategy, but to announce the much-anticipated return of rumble with Dual Shock 3 controllers for the PlayStation 3.

There will be three other sessions as part of the the business conference arm of TGS, including an international session on the Xbox 360. Titled “Future Direction of Xbox 360 and Examples of Hardware Functions,” that panel will feature Microsoft’s Phil Spencer, Ensemble Studios’ Bruce Shelley, and Bungie Studios’ Jonty Barnes.

This year, the event’s organisers at the Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association are expecting the show to be bigger than ever before, with 1,735 booth units (1,701 in 2006), 217 exhibitors (148 in 2006), and 702 titles shown (573 in 2006). However, CESA is cautious to predict a record number of visitors, with an attendance estimate of 180,000 pipped to attend this year (compared to 192,411 in 2006).

This year’s TGS also has a record number of overseas exhibitors–97 from a total of 19 different countries including USA, UK, China and Germany–showing the event is increasingly gaining an international presence.

For the complete coverage, visit Tokyo Game Show 2007.

Thanks to fantastic games released in the past month, the gaming industry hit an all time high clinching almost 1 Billion dollars. And this is just in the US.

Today the NPD Group, North America’s primary source of game-retail statistics, released its sales figures for August. As has increasingly become the trend, the numbers beat analysts’ expectations.

The month saw $993 million of US retail revenue from non-PC game software, hardware, and accessories, up $67.5 million from July’s $925.5 million haul. The figure also marked a massive 46 percent year-on-year increase from August 2006’s $679 million, which suggests that having all three next-generation consoles in play is helping the industry to grow.

On the $302 million console hardware front, August saw Microsoft drop the price of the Core, Elite, and Pro Xbox 360s by a respective $20, $30, and $50. As a result, sales of the now- $279, $449, and $349 consoles shot up by 100,000 units, going from a combined 170,000 units in July to nearly 277,000 during August.

“The price cut was a big help, as was Madden 08 and BioShock,” NPD analyst Anita Frazier told GameSpot. “Taking the price cut prior to Halo 3 set the Xbox 360 up nicely to have a very strong holiday season.” NPD now estimates that from the 2005 launch to the end of last month, 6.3 million Xbox 360s have been sold in the US.

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After much buzz about the gore and violence of the game, Gamespot decided to give the game a chance because, really, if you ask yourself why would you keep away just because it has a lot of gore and violence? There was a big hooha about the game not being able to be sold on shelves because it was rated Adult instead of just R, or something like that. But all that rating and violent mish mash aside, this game looks pretty awesome. It’s like Dawn of the Living Dead and you’d be whacking zombies except you’re not. You’re whacking human villains carrying guns and rambo knives for revenge and self protection.

Oh and you’ll be doing all the action on a Wii too.

Manhunt 2 is the follow-up to the original Manhunt, released on consoles and PCs back in 2003. The original game was a twisted tale filled with violent action, as well as stealthy gameplay, and the follow-up looks to deliver more of the same grisly goods. With all of the controversy that has surrounded Manhunt 2 in the past few weeks, it would be easy to write off the game as another episode of “Rockstar behaving badly.” But that wouldn’t really be fair to the game, which–as we discovered in a recent hands-on session–is shaping up nicely as an entertaining, if sometimes ultraviolent, tale of redemption.

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Just as I was writing about how Sony was giving a little incentives, today I got wind that the console i sold out! Well, since they hacked $100 off the original price of $599 for the 60Gg, i guess it made it all more appealing to the mass. Hey, you can buy a lot of things with $100 bucks - you can have at least 2 more games to play on your PS3 :)

On the eve of this year’s E3 Media and Business Summit, Sony announced that it would be dropping the price on its flagship 60GB PlayStation 3 to $499, a $100 break over the console’s original $599 price point. Initially heralded as a positive and necessary step in spurring lackluster sales of the console, the price cut received one significant caveat several days later. Speaking to a Norwegian gaming news site, Sony Computer Entertainment America president Kaz Harai noted that a $499 PS3 would only be temporary, as once the current supply of 60GB PS3s had run its course, Sony would be offering only its $599 80GB PS3.

The price drop was quickly interpreted as a fire sale of sorts, as Sony cleared out its inventory of 60GB PlayStation 3s to make room for its new line of larger hard drive consoles. The strategy has also proved to be successful for Sony in North America. In July, the first month after announcing the price drop, the PS3 for the first time outsold archrival Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console by 2,000 units in Canada and nearly doubled its preceding month’s performance in the US, spiking to 159,000 units sold from 98,000 the month before.

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