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Tron fans can now mark their calendars, as Disney has announced that the upcoming videogame spinoff will be arriving ten days before the film.

Disney also unveiled a sizable collector’s edition, which will retail for $130. The main attraction is a model light cycle, which comes complete with a special display case for the model and a drawer for the game. The collector’s edition will only be available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game.

Tron Evolution will detail the events taking place between the original film and the upcoming Tron Legacy, which is due in theaters December 17. The film will reference events that take place in the game, but will be their own standalone experiences.

While Grand Theft Auto may be the biggest name in crime games, you don’t get more gangster then the mob. Mafia first debuted way back in 2002, and it is time for a sequel. Mafia 2 tells the story or Vito Scaletta, an Italian immigrant and US soldier on leave after getting wounded in World [...]

Gamers everywhere were intrigued when they first heard the concept behind Kane and Lynch. There is nothing like a good crime game and the multiplayer modes seemed extremely promising. You and your buddies try and rob a bank with one of you being a snitch. The robbers had to rob the bank while trying to [...]

Battlefield 3, long rumored, is finally on its way. We always assumed DICE was secretly tinkering with this while making the Battlefield Bad Company series, and while there’s been off-the-cuff remarks from ex-DICE personnel, EA itself hasn’t formally acknowledged the game until last week’s announcement of the BF3 beta being bundled with the limited edition of Medal of Honor. But that’s all that’s been said about it — so we’re still pretty much in the dark as to what we’ll get with Battlefield 3.

All we know is that BF3 seems to be a multi-platform release (by virtue of being bundled with Medal of Honor), so it will not only be on PC, but also on PS3 and 360. That, and it’s likely to use the Frostbite 2.0 engine (as good as Bad Company 2 was, it was still technically Frostbite one-point-something). So it’s safe to expect even more destructible terrain, and perhaps better tools for supporting more user-mods on PC. But what else do we actually want in it? In basic terms: a delightful blend of Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 2. Basically, we want the aesthetics and destruction of BC2 with the scope and scale of BF2. At the moment, we’re going to roll with a near-future setting; even though BC2 does a pretty good job with the modern-to-future gear, we’d like those aesthetics to be brought into a deeper and more interesting game in BF3. Anyhow, here are some more of our humble suggestions to DICE.

Releasing in September, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole has been developed by Krome Studios (Xbox 360, Wii, PS3) and Tantalus Media (DS). Like every good movie tie-in game, it’s coming out for every console you can possibly handle. We’re sure an iPhone game is just around the corner. The pr folks say: [...]

Check out TimeGate Studio’s three-week sale of Section 8 for PS3: From Tuesday, July 27 to Tuesday, August 17, players can download the game from PSN with different discounts each week, so be sure to get in early. I played the game as it came through GrE HQ, and let me tell you, it’s damn fun. [...]

Check out TimeGate Studio’s three-week sale of Section 8 for PS3: From Tuesday, July 27 to Tuesday, August 17, players can download the game from PSN with different discounts each week, so be sure to get in early. I played the game as it came through GrE HQ, and let me tell you, it’s damn fun. [...]

While the past two weeks were packed with big named titles, this week is a little sparse. There are expansions for Tropico 3 and The Sims, as well as “off brand” sports games Backbreaker and Pure Futbol. Of everything that hits store shelves after Memorial Day weekend, Alpha Protocol was easily the most advertised.
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Exclusives on the PlayStation 3 have a higher average Metacritic score than those on the Xbox 360, according to an analysis on IndustryGamers. The comparison found that 360 exclusives have an average score of 66.6%, while the PS3 exclusives average at 75.6%. The 360 does have a much larger number of exclusives, however, at 218 to the PS3’s 60.

The year-by-year breakdown shows a steady decrease of 360 exclusives, which makes sense. Developers were reluctant to put their games only on the PlayStation 3 when it first launched, due to a smaller install base. The two are slowly reaching parity, and are now achieving roughly the same number of exclusives above a 70% score. Xbox 360 still has far more exclusives in a given year below a 70%, but that’s not exactly something to brag about.

One could say this has something to do with Sony’s studio culture and how it cultivates exclusive titles, but the explanation might be more simple. The findings could be attributed to the law of large numbers — as the number of tests increases, the probability of a consistent average increases too. The PlayStation 3’s lack of exclusive games in the study means that outliers have a greater impact on the average. The 360 had a head start at launch, and a larger install base that gave it more exclusives per year for quite a while.

Atlus has been firing on all cylinders lately.  The great minds behind the PS3 titles Demon’s Souls and 3D Dot Game Heroes have decided to throw another piece of awesomeness your way.  In celebration of the release of the Ultimate Edition of Zeno Clash via Xbox LIVE Arcade, they have decided to for a very limited time, release the complete soundtrack for download, free of charge.

The press release describes the tracks as follows:

“Remastered, and in some cases recomposed, every track is presented as a complete composition and a perfect reflection of the gorgeous and grotesque nature of the adventure in the world of Zenozoik.” — Atlus PR

Obviously this is an attempt to bolster the sales of the Zeno Clash game on XBLA, but is that really a bad thing? After all, the tracks are fairly interesting and hell, who is really going to turn down free tunes?  I know I am not going to miss out.

If you want to download the tracks you can go over to Zeno Clash’s official site and click on the soundtrack tab.  Then proceed down to the left hand corner of the page to the “Limited Time Offer.”  You could even listen to the tracks in browser if you like.

I believe that if you look up “win-win scenario” in the dictionary, you would find this scenario described.  It works as great press for Atlus and free music for the consumer.  Once again Atlus has knocked it out of the park in the fan-service department!  Now if you don’t mind, I have some new tunes to check out…

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