G4 and their hit show "X-Play" have announced their complete list of nominees for the "X-Play Best of 2008" awards show that will premier in a one-hour special on the network Tuesday December 9, 2008 at 8pm est/pst. The show's hosts Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb will be revealing the selections from the 20+ categories in the sixth annual special.
In a year when most businesses tried to figure out how to stay alive, the video game industry thrived thanks to two things: great games, and you. So give yourself a pat on the back; your thirst for single-handedly saving the world with magic, guns, and fast thumbs has kept the gaming industry going strong when all else seems to be going wrong.
The latest gossip on Grand Theft Auto IV DLC, a Harry Potter Lego game, and LittleBigPlanet as we finally start our holiday shopping.
It's not really surprising that game sequels sell better than new intellectual properties. Didn't expect it to be this lopsided, though: seven of the eight best-selling games in the past twelve months have been sequels.
Speaking to VideoGamer.com at a recent press event in London, Wheelman creative director Simon Woodroffe revealed that Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV has changed what gamers expect from an open world action title.
Gamerdeals.net writes:
Technology site T3.com has published a list of the 15 funniest internet videos - and whaddyaknow - our GTA IV Naked Gun video made the grade. Head on in to get to their list, which also contains South Park's Guitar Hero moment and the excellent voice-over parody of WWII film Downfall. ...
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GI.Biz writes: "The new downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV is set to be available in stores as well as via Xbox Live, according to a new listing on the website of US retailer GameStop.
Developed by series creator Rockstar North and set in Liberty City, The Lost and Damned features a new main character, Johnny Klebitz, and a plot that intersects with the storyline of Grand Theft Auto IV offering an entirely fresh way to explore Liberty City.
GamingPolitics:
Say what you will of Jack Thompson, he always pays his bills. And he sure will do his damndest to let you know about it, too.
Rockstar's confirmed that GTA IV 360 DLC The Lost and Damned will feature "new multiplayer modes, weapons and vehicles".
Niko Bellic is back.
CVG.com writes: "Take-Two chief Strauss Zelnick says that the company's looking to exploit a subscription-based pricing model for its AAA titles.
It's November in Scotland. That means two things. Surging haggis sales thanks to St Andrews Day and the Scottish BAFTA awards.
Speaking at a presentation at the BMO Capital Markets Conference in New York City today, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick revealed that the highly-anticipated downloadable content for GTA IV may not make it until next Spring.
Ripten writes: "A few weeks ago, we ran a story about LittleBigPlanet's Metacritic user score: a measly 6.3. We spoke to the site's founder Marc Doyle about the matter and were informed that it was only that low due to rampant fanboys on the warpath, attempting to sabotage the PS3 and its games. This inevitably continued with more low user scores: Gears of War 2 and Resistance 2. Well, it seems that now, fanboys have started trying to influence the critic's score, by flaming LittleBigPlanet on the site's forums.
James Parkin reports:
Arstechnica writes: Before Grand Theft Auto IV's release, Microsoft paid $50 million to secure the exclusive rights to a large batch of downloadable content. To this day, no information about that content has been divulged, except for a tentative release date of fall 2008. Even that single piece of information appears to be moot now, as Rockstar has commented that it is "not sure" when the content will go live.