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It has been dropped. It's not canceled, yet. One of five things will happen with the game. 1) Activision opts to publish it later after further negotiations. 2) Activision pseudo-publishes the title through its value label. 3) Activision sells off the Sierra brand or otherwise spins off a new label or company to handle this stuff. 4) Activision shops individual games to individual publishers or finishes its contractual requirement with devs and allows them to do it. 5) The games are canned. Seeing how Ghostbusters is near completion, it's doubtful that it will be canned, it's too costly to out right cancel it right now. We may not be seeing it until next year though.

Something big had to happen for them to drop Ghostbusters. We were going to get a demo in September, and the game was supposed to ship in October. Thank god they didn't drop Prototype too.

http://www.gamespot.com/video/943284/61941...tage-show-demo- Here's 4 of the 5 games. Braid, CC, & BC are definite must buys for me. The Fable Pup game will also be released on August 13. If you preorder Fable 2 from Gamestop, the Pup game will be free.

Yes. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/37636.html

Here's some new release dates for several big XBLA games: * July 30: “Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2” – The latest version of the wildly popular retro shooter offers screen-melting intensity and insane new features, including six action-packed gameplay modes, new enemies, scoring strategies and a diverse list of exciting Achievements. “Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2” is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and will be available at 800 Microsoft Points. * August 6: “Braid” – From acclaimed developer Jonathan Blow, “Braid” is a mind-bending and artistic puzzle-platformer where the player manipulates the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. “Braid”is rated E10+ for Everyone 10+ by the ESRB. * August 13: “Bionic Commando: Rearmed” – The classic 8-bit side-scroller reports back for duty in a stunning remake, complete with all-new HD graphics and features that put 2D gaming back on the map! “Bionic Commando: Rearmed” is rated M for Mature by the ESRB * August 20: “Galaga Legions” – The legend lives on with “Galaga Legions,” a reimagining of the classic arcade shooter. Featuring table-turning game dynamics and updated graphics, the game was created by the team behind the bestselling “PAC-MAN Championship Edition” from Namco Bandai Games. “Galaga Legions” is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB. * August 27: “Castle Crashers” – Award-winning studio The Behemoth brings red hot arcade adventure to Xbox LIVE Arcade with “Castle Crashers,” featuring hand-drawn characters and an array of weapons to choose from as you defend your kingdom and save the princess. “Castle Crashers” is rated T for Teen by the ESRB.

The Resistance 2 beta will start late September. The only ways to get in is to either pre-order the game or buy Qore Ep. 3. I got this information through an email and conformation from an Insomniac dev over at NeoGAF.

New trailer for MUA2. It comes out in 2009.

Being good in BC is worthless when your teammates die constantly, depleting the spawn count to 0 (and one more idiotic decision, when it reaches 0, you lose, even if you're still alive). If it was a time limit, like in Team Fortress 2, the game would be better, until you lose connection/can't connect to EA's servers.

I'm not complaining about spawn campers, I'm complaining about the unfair win conditions the Attackers have vs. the Defenders. Even if your team captured all but one crate and had a higher kill count then the Defenders, the Defenders still win. It's like playing Conquest, where one team must capture every capture point to win, where as the other team wins if they drain your spawn pool. The game would be so much better and balanced if there was a time limit instead of a kill limit or if the Defenders had a spawn pool, that when depleted, made the Attackers the victor.

No, it's harder to win as an Attacker because you win only when you take all the crates, where as the Defenders win when they deplete the Attackers spawn pool.

Why is that? It's probably my favorite multiplayer game of 08 so far. I hated it too. First of all, I spent more time trying to connect to EA's god awful servers than I played online. And when I did manage to get online, I quickly found out that the game favored the Defenders way too much (I played about 20 games, defenders won every game).

I've been playing Devil May Cry 4 for the past two days; the combat is good, but the platforming nearly kills the game.

http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/891/891275p2.html Major Nelson confirmed on his podcast that Avatars aren't required and that the party system works for every game with Live capabilities. He also confirmed that game installs will work for every game and would never be mandatory.

It seems that the big reveal of the new Halo from Bungie was delayed because MS had to trim their conference down to 90 minutes, so instead of shoehorning the big Halo reveal or have it revealed outside of a conference, MS wants to do the game more justice and give it a proper debut. So I guess MS isn't an unethical, uncaring, evil corporation after all.

Halo fanboys are now becoming just as annoying and pathetic as Nintendo and MGS fanboys. Now they're swearing off MS and canceling their Gold accounts, all because MS stopped Bungie's big Halo reveal.

It's funny seeing the overreaction from the fanboys. They're saying "fuck ms", preparing to write nasty letters to MS, and suggesting that Bungie publish their own games, cutting ties with MS. By the way, here's Prince of Persia: http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/890/890664/vids_1.html

The format for E3 is the same as it's always been. Press conferences on the first and second day, game convention for the second, third, and fourth day. You all need to watch G4, IGN Livewire, and Gamespot. They're doing live shows on the convention floor, featuring lengthy live demos of all the big games. Personally, PoP, Mirror's Edge, and Far Cry 2 have been my Games of the Show so far.

G4 just demoed the new Prince of Persia game and it looks great. The combat sequences look like cutscenes you'd find in a JRPG, really cinematic. The platforming hasn't changed, which is great.

Nintendo's conference sucked (outside of AC and WiiSpeak), and Sony's was underwhelming. The games I was hyped to see in action were either shown in a trailer (InFamous) or not shown at all (Killzone 2). Insomniac's games were easily the highlight from that press conference.

New Prince of Persia interview w/ gameplay.

New Prince of Persia trailer. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/239474.html

It looks like the jumps are semi-automatic, like in Assassin's Creed. The stuff you can interact with are highlighted in Red, so if you see a red pipe on another building, just run and tap up on the D pad when you come to the edge of the building and you'll automatically land on the pipe. The longer jumps are made clear by the red platforms.

I know some of you have been dieing to see Mirror's Edge in action, well here it is! This is from the EA press conference. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36297.html