I’ll forgive his making of Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End even though it’s the mostly wasteful 2 + hours i have spent in my life but he did direct Armageddon…one of my fav. movies. But word and work has it that Jerry is making Prince of Persia, that wonderful game that evolved from PC, into a movie. Gah…should I anticipate or should I digress?

Jerry Bruckheimer has a style, and that style is big and loud. The producer has helped create films from Top Gun to Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and TV shows like C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation and The Amazing Race, developing a reputation for unapologetically entertaining fare and blockbuster hits.

Now Bruckheimer is following fellow filmmakers like Steven Spielberg and John Woo into the world of game development. MTV Games today announced that it has partnered with the producer to launch Jerry Bruckheimer Game Studio. Described as “a game incubation studio,” the operation will conceive games but won’t actually develop them.

“It’ll be an idea [house],” Bruckheimer explained to GameSpot. “We’ll work with other developers and studios to hire an executive team and come up with something we feel is interesting. We’ll work with them just like we do with writers and directors [in film] and television–it’s about getting the best and the brightest.”

As for who the best and the brightest could be, MTV Games isn’t ruling out anyone. The publisher’s vice president of electronic games and interactive products, Bob Picunko, said the deal allows them the leeway to secure the best talent they can find, whether that means working with an independent studio or going through fellow publishers to get access to their internal teams.

That flexibility appears to be a theme incorporated throughout the agreement. Picunko said Bruckheimer’s team could wind up making console games, PC titles, handheld, or even mobile games.

“We’ve left the palette relatively open,” Picunko said. “Our hope is to have the first effort be a big game that people will be lining up at midnight to buy it the night before it comes out, but all options are on the table right now.”

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His style may be loud, like in the PoC:AWE, it was really just loud and nothing else. Oh well, I guess we’ll have to see when it goes post production.

The game sale hiked up 2.63billion dollars worth just in November alone!

Earlier this week, analysts weighed in with their predictions of the US game-industry sales for the month of November. Today, the industry-standard research firm NPD Group weighed in with the real deal, reporting a staggering $2.63 billion in non-PC game hardware, software, and accessory revenue for the month. The total pushed the game industry’s year-to-date total to $13.12 billion, and puts it on track for a record annual total of $18 billion to $19 billion, according to NPD analyst Anita Frazier.

“If the year had ended on December 1, 2007 would be up 5 percent versus last year,” said Frazier. “Thanksgiving fell earlier in the reporting month this year than it did last, which certainly helped fuel part of the incredible 52 percent increase over last year.”

Though Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all tried to spin their “Black Friday” sales last month, the latest dispatch from the console-war front leaves no doubt as to the victor. Over 981,000 Wiis were sold during NPD’s November reporting period, besting the Xbox 360’s 770,000-unit total and more than doubling the Playstation 3’s 466,000-unit tally. Sony’s most venerable platform, the PlayStation 2, continued to outpace its younger brother with 496,000 units in sales.

Nintendo’s dominance of the handheld space was even more staggering, with the DS’s 1.53 million-unit haul almost tripling the 567,000 PlayStation Portables sold during the period.

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When I first saw this game previewed, it reminded me so much of the Tomb Raider series. I guess it’s been a while since anyone came up with a Tomb-raider kind of games but still - it is sort of a rip off, but in a good way.

The game looks pretty impressive in the trailer and being only a PS3 games, I feel that they are limiting their market by doing so because of PS3’s poorer sales in relative to the other consoles.

Anyway, check out the trailer and tell me if you don’t think it looks like Tomb Raider’s chronicles.

For MONTHS after it’s been delayed, over and over again Rockstar Games released another trailer of the game - probably to tease. I think we’ve been teased enough, we want to play.

From the big screen to your consoles, Ratatouille: Food Frenzy is sure to send you into a kitchen frenzy juggling kitchen chores and catching wild snails. One gripe is the graphics are horrible and the overall layout of the game seems somewhat a missed. I just can’t quite put my fingers into it but I feel like videogame has taken a 10 year back leap when I see this game. Anyway, the game is only out on DS so i am not tooooooo annoyed by it. if it came out on the Xbox or the Nintendo or the PS with such horrible graphics, I’d probably have it bombed.

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Another shooter game that looks very decent too. It’s definitely a game to check out esp when the rating is still pending. Maybe they could do what that low budget horror flick did …by saying their movie is “UNRATED”! Anyway, check out the trailer for Turok here:

and visit their official site.

Another cool site to visit, completely unrelated to Turok is the 30 days of Night’s movie site. You can play a game there where vampires vs. humans. It’s like Halo 3 but with more gore and less mobility because it’s just an online movie game thing. It’s still cool. Check it out.

Japanese efficiency, I tell you. Nintendo moved 1Million system in one week. Yes, 1 million Nintendos sold from Xmas shopping already. Gawdd…no other consoles have done that. But that’s because Nintendo is significantly cheaper than the PS and XBOX. Oh well…

The 2007 holiday-shopping season is less than one week old, but console makers are already beginning to spin their sales numbers. Yesterday, Sony reported that North American PlayStation 3 sales have tripled since the period beginning November 2–when the new $399 40GB model was introduced–through November 24. Though the company didn’t report exact sales numbers, extrapolation from NPD’s October report puts the figure at somewhere around 322,000 units sold in the US and Canada in three weeks.

Now, Nintendo has revealed its sales figures in the US for the “Black Friday” week of November 18-24. The seven-day period was Nintendo’s best ever in the US, with over 1.03 million systems sold in the 50 states. Of those, 350,000 were $249 Wiis, and 653,000 were $129 DSes. The latter figure eclipsed the record set in 2005, when over 600,000 Game Boy Advances were sold during Thanksgiving Week. On November 23, two new DS colors–rose and gold–were introduced via bundles with Nintendogs and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, respectively.

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I am waiting for Mass Effect to arrive on my doorstep. Mass Effect is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare for the Xbox 360, which was released worldwide in November, 2007. The game takes place in the year 2183, with the player assuming the role of an elite human soldier named Commander Shepard, set out to explore a vast universe on his/her ship, the SSV Normandy.

Check out the trailer, gamers:

Not only are the visuals closest to the human facial feature ever, the game will be a blast. I just know it.

A little delay on Epic Games’s latest, Unreal Tournament III. For those of you waiting for the game, read on:

After yesterday’s delay of Haze, it looked like the only third-party PlayStation 3 exclusive left on the 2007 release schedule was Namco Bandai’s Time Crisis 4. Today, though, owners of Sony’s recently discounted console got a welcome surprise: After being all but officially postponed to 2008 last month, the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament III is now confirmed as shipping this year.

“We got news last night that Unreal Tournament III has been approved by SCEA and has been released to North American manufacturing,” said Epic Games Vice President Mark Rein in an e-mail to game journalists. Earlier this month, the outspoken executive said that, despite Midway’s pessimism, he was “confident” the game would arrive in 2007. Sony also continued to list it as arriving this year in its release schedule.

Rein went on to say that UTIII publisher Midway Games was currently weighing its release strategy for the shooter, which arrived for the PC this week. (Check back later today for a full review.) However, since many in the US have already left for the extended Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the company doesn’t have an official release date for the game.

“My guess is that Midway will start shipping the title to North American retailers on Monday, December 10th,” said Rein. “It could show up in stores as early as December 11th but more likely toward the middle of that week.” Unfortunately, due to “localization-related tasks,” Rein doesn’t expect the PS3 UTIII to arrive in Europe until early next year.

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Industry trackers, NDP, is putting a figure to October’s gaming tally on games and related softwares close to 1.1billion. This is just for October alone? Geezus. It is 73% higher than Oct 2006. I guess it must be 1) the great games XBox has to offer 2) the Great games in general but mostly because of Xbox. :)

The holidays are here again, as the game industry opened the fourth quarter in a big way, according to the industry-tracking NPD Group. The firm today released its US retail sales figures for October, and NPD analyst Anita Frazier put the industry’s yearly growth-to-date in perspective.

“This year sales have already achieved the annual sales number for 2005,” Frazier said, “and the two biggest months are yet to come. I think we’ll see not only record-breaking revenues but record-breaking year-over-year growth when the final numbers are tallied.”

Game sales for October were up 39 percent to $513.9 million, with hardware sales up 127 percent to $469.7 million. Factor in accessory sales, which Frazier said increased sharply alongside the hardware sales, and the industry as a whole for the month took in $1.1 billion, up 73 percent from October 2006.

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