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Eidos’ Ian Livingstone, recently named Wookiee Life President or Square Enix Proconsul or something, gave a kitchen-sink interview in which sequels for nearly every major Eidos IP were tipped, teased or confirmed.
Qore annual subscribers are already getting the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves multiplayer beta vouchers via email. If you are a Qore subscriber you will be getting this in the next few days or you already did. Hurry up and buy the episode if you want to participate in the beta.
Activision has confirmed to Joystiq that the title is in development and will release sometime during the second half of this year. Activision could not confirm any songs, and only said the game will contain Van Halen’s “greatest hits,” as well as guest acts such as Queen, Weezer, blink-182, The Offspring, Queens of the Stone Age, and more.
According to Microsoft, minimum hardware specs for running Win 7 are as follows: 1GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 16GB of disc space for 32-bit version, 20GB for 64-bit version and a DirectX9-compliant graphics card. This means almost every PC manufactured after September 2002 should run Windows 7 – something that we haven’t seen in the past. If this is true, owners of older computers can delay the purchase of their machine until they are able to save up for the DirectX11-compliant, multi-core computer.
For Xbox Live Gold members playing Microsoft’s next experiment, Achievement points — lots of them — will be free.
1 vs 100 has one thing in common with every other Xbox 360 game. The massively multiplayer Xbox 360 game show will have Achievements. And that means that even people who don’t want to play it can mine it for Achievement Points.
Are you expecting Sony to make the megaton announcement at E3? You know the one we’re talking about. The price cut? Well, THQ doesn’t share that vision. At its investor call earlier today, THQ’s Brian Farrell cast large doubt on a PS3 price announcement at the annual trade show. “We’re not expecting a price cut at E3, but we do expect one later in the year.”
Killzone 2 has more than 1.5 million copies sold at retail. The surprisingly good release in Japan has help Killzone 2 break through the 1.5 million copies sold mile-stone. In the first week in Japan Killzone 2 sold as many as 42,500 copies. This is a great deal, and specially in a country where FPS games are not very popular. Of these 1.5 million people that play Killzone 2, 1.04 plays online.
The popularity of Nazi zombies is cemented forever in video game sales history thanks to Call of Duty, as Activision announces more than two million downloads of the Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 1.
Capcom is going to make its PlayStation Network presence a lot more robust as it begins releasing ports of PS1 titles and providing downloadable versions of previous PSP titles throughout the year. Joystiq spoke with Capcom’s Chris Kramer, who let them know that the company would be listening to what the community wants and figuring out internally what titles to release
