The first magazine reviews are in for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and it’s all looking a bit painful so far. According to Metacritic the four reviews so far have left an average of 68 percent. Here’s who’s scored it: * OXM - 75 * GamePro - 7 * gamesTM - 7 * EGM - 56 Some of the stuff we’ve been told off the record about TFU this week really isn’t encouraging. And we’ll leave it at that.
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"Analyst Michael Pachter tells Gamasutra that a potentially supply-constrained Wii and a widening price gulf between Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 might give Microsoft a 20 percent sales boost for the holiday season -- but Sony's Julie Han asks us: "How sustainable is that in the long term?"
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Exciting. According to an interview in Spanish Ninty mag Club Nintendo, the Wii may not be getting a hard drive. Or maybe it will! Said Reggie Fils-Aime: “I want the people to have the right expectations; we have never said that it will be a hard drive nor have we mentioned how we will fix this issue, but we are going to deliver a better way to store the games.”
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GameSpot latest preview confirms that the PS3 version incorporates all the downloadable content that's been on the Xbox 360 and the trophy support includes some different achievements to those on the Xbox 360 version.
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this year's hockey offering from EA Sports not only doesn't disappoint, it raises the bar set by NHL 08 in nearly every way, from awesome new modes to slight refinements, to the already stellar controls. NHL 09 isn�t just a great hockey game, it�s one of the best sports games to be released in the last decade. It takes the right analog stick controls first pioneered in last year�s game and pushes them forward ever so slightly while pouring on features that everyone will appreciate.
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Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood goes gold, coming out September 30.
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The first third-party Wii game that would have Mr. Miyamoto bowing in awed respect. De Blob is da bomb!
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Earlier today, we picked up a report saying that EA's Dead Space (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) has been banned in Germany, Japan and China. According to Eurogamer.de, Electronic Arts has clarified to them that the report on a ban in Germany is not true. Rather, it is still awaiting classification from the USK. As for Japan and China, EA did not say anything about them.
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"Crystal Dynamics creative director Eric Lindstrom talks the challenges and joys of designing Lara's next steps forward in Tomb Raider: Underworld -- part renewal, part return to form?"
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BioShock remains a must-play game for this generation, so if you haven't checked it out yet, the PlayStation 3 version of the game is one more chance for you to give it a try. The game is coming together really well. The faithful conversion of the main game is looking good and might even be sharper in places. The additional content, challenge rooms, modes, and trophies are nice extras to have, although we obviously would have liked to see more.
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