Call of Duty 9 in production?

Far out at least one year Call of Duty Activision is almost an obligation, then it is not surprising that Treyarch is already working on the next episode of the series, the ninth in terms of numbers. Treyarch has released a few jobs in which he claims expert at the University of Call of Duty. According to the announcement of the interviews for the job will be based on mod for Call of Duty.

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RAGE uses all the PS3 processor

RAGE, the new game from id Software, is a FPS that uses the IDTech 5, the latest engine developed from the study. Speaking of the production process in an interview with Nowgamer, Tim Willits, creative director of the study, focused on the specific use of each console, underlining the fact that id have used up all the processor of the PS3.

"Carmack and the rest of the team have analyzed the capabilities of each console, PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. They are all quite similar and are based on a multi-core, essential to ensure the constant 60fps," said Tim Willits. Speaking of PS3, Willits said: "The RAGE PS3 version uses each core console, distributing it through different tasks."

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• Media Rage 3 for Mac downloads for $13, Web Devil for $15 (22/08/2011)

Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (homepage)  Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (wikipedia)  

Many people at Gamescom 2011

Although we at Video Game Source we left before the actual conclusion of Cologne GamesCom, the event has continued to receive visitors even on Saturday and Sunday. The last day of the show, in particular, 62,000 people have reached the place of the event, forcing the organization to close its doors early after reaching the maximum capacity of the convention center.

The success of the fair grows from year to year, but we can assure you that the management is not just this year has complicated the work of journalists, which had closed only one day available to the public to take a look at the showfloor. In any case, it is time to take stock. Expect more news on this in the course of the day!

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Gamescom (homepage)  Gamescom (wikipedia)  

Housemarque announces Furmins for IOS

Housemarque, team of little gems like Super Stardust HD, Outland and Dead Nation, has announced a new game: Furmins. It is a puzzle game, as you can see the trailer below, it seems rather peculiar and challenging. Furmins is designed specifically for IOS devices and will be released in the fall on the App Store, but the price is yet to be determined.

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IOS (Apple) (homepage)  IOS (Apple) (wikipedia)  Housemarque (homepage)  Housemarque (wikipedia)  

EA: "Do not look at Call of Duty"

The Call of Duty series has become synonymous with success for years and stratospheric sales, but this year the game Activision will face his most dangerous rival of all time, Battlefield 3. Despite the challenge is awaited by all, Peter Moore, COO of EA, has thrown a bit 'of water on the fire by stating that Electronic Arts does not have to look at the sales of his rival to succeed.

Moore declared that the company's strategy is to gain ground. "If you look at last year, probably Call of Duty has raked in 90% of the market. If we could this year to reduce their share to 70% would already be a great victory." "To succeed we must not necessarily beat Call of Duty, and be competitive enough for us to establish ourselves ...

Here are the dates of Gamescom 2012

The 2011 edition of Gamescom is issuing his final roar and it's already time to think about next year. The Gamescom 2012 will be held August 15 to 19 and probably lengthen the list of records that the growing popularity of the event in Europe is establishing in recent years. The number of visitors to this edition has not yet been announced, and will not be until August 22, but the projections say that the total of last year should be clearly exceeded.

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Gamescom (homepage)  Gamescom (wikipedia)  

Cristiano Ronaldo on the cover of PES 2012

After beating the monster's last Premier League scorer, Cristiano Ronaldo replaces Lionel Messi on the cover of Pro Evolution Soccer. It will be the strongest striker of Real Madrid's new face-symbol Edition 2012, after many years of domination of the "flea". This however will not be a first for Cristiano Ronaldo, whose face had already appeared on the cover of PES 2008.

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Ronaldo (rottentomatoes)  Cristiano Ronaldo (homepage)  Cristiano Ronaldo (twitter)  Cristiano Ronaldo (wikipedia)  Cristiano Ronaldo (imdb)  Los inicios de Cristiano Ronaldo, en Fiebre Maldini (youtube)  

Harmonix working on iPhone and iPad

Harmonix has revealed it is working on a new title, direct IOS platforms, then iPhone and iPad. The name circulating for some time over the network, will be called VidRythm. The trademark was registered just last month by the team behind Guitar Hero, Rock Band and Dance Central. The title betrays the nature of the game music, but for now the developers have not wanted to reveal any details ...

Worms Crazy Golf Announced

Team 17 has announced a new installment in the Worms series long, but this time will be a little 'different from what we were used to date. Worms Crazy Golf will be released on PlayStation Network, Steam and Apple devices and in many ways will match the characteristics of his illustrious predecessors ...

only pistols, rifles and bazookas will be replaced by clubs and golf balls. The game will consist of 36 levels (the whole two golf courses), will be released by the end of 2011 and will have local multiplayer. The development team has not yet done so to know if you can even play online.

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7 Dynasty Warriors: Xtreme Legends

Tecmo Koei Europe has announced the arrival of our continent in the seventh Dynasty Warriors: Xtreme Legends, which will arrive on shelves in November in the PS3 and Xbox 360. The fateful day for fans of the series will be on 18. From that moment, fans can get their hands on new characters, weapons and modes absent in the previous chapter.

Who will have already played the original will unlock exclusive bonuses and development team has confirmed that this version will be dubbed in Japanese.

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• Dynasty Warriors 7 (16/06/2011)

Dynasty Warriors 7 (wikipedia)  

GamesCom 2011: Konami announces Nura Rise of the Yokai Clan

Konami GC 2011 to present, which will begin in a few hours, a new fighting game based on the animated series Nura Rise of the Yokai Clan. To develop it will be a team to which they will, the Arc System Works, Guilty Gear series is famous for and BlazBlue. The game, scheduled on Xbox 360 and PS3, will be released in Japan in November, will have 16 characters and will be in 2D.

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David Cox on two new projects

David Cox, producer of the exceptional Castlevania: Lords of Shadow has finally started to work on a new game ... rather, two "I'm very busy. Never before had I happened to be working on two projects so important. For now, unfortunately, I can not say what it is," says Cox, via Twitter. There are many possibilities that one of these games is really a direct sequel to Castlevania last, but to have some confirmation (or denial) we will probably have to wait for the GC Konami conference, scheduled for tomorrow.

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David Cox (artist) (wikipedia)  

New rumors about Resident Evil 6

Resident Evil 6 will almost certainly be officially unveiled at the Tokyo Game Show to be held in September, but already time t the network is filled with rumors about the game. The last in order of time was born of a curriculum published by an artist, this Justison Shannon, who said he worked on the game for the realization of some CG movies.

Apparently the pre-production of this new chapter in Capcom's series began in 2009. The study is the work that Shannon Justison Third Floor Inc., which in the recent past has collaborated on films like Iron Man 2, Thor, the Smurfs and many others. Recall, for the record, that the movie Resident Evil 5 were made by Just Cause Productions, a partner of the Third Floor.

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• Resident Evil Director: Games Deserve Better Film Adaptations (11/08/2011)
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Resident Evil (wikipedia)  

Four new videos for The Lord of the Rings: War in the North

Snowblind Studios Warner Bros. Interactive have a new trailer inviting viewers to travel into the past and the future of each of the three heroes that inspire The Lord of the Rings: War in the North. Unfortunately, this operation requires the launch of a Flash executable, which we can not do from our site.

Nevertheless, it would be a shame not to offer four separate videos, which we do below. So here we present the video: The Lord of the Rings: War in the North will be available on the 1st of November for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

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Signoria (wikipedia)  Nord (French department) (geolocation)  Nord (French department) (wikipedia)  

Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil

Bloody Disgusting has confirmed the site and the next film in the series Resident Evil, Retribution, Milla Jovovich will resume her role of Alice. The news was far from obvious since after Resident Evil: Afterlife the same Jovovich had declared its intention to abandon his role. Perhaps the decision to change has helped her husband Paul WAS Anderson, director of upcoming movies, and even the last, which is slated for September 14, 2012.

Atari to sell Cryptic Perfect World

It 'came just hours ago, the formalization of the sale by Atari Cryptic Studios team. The study was acquired by the Chinese company Perfect World, a manufacturer of MMOs, which has paid about 34 million euros. Atari will use the money received from the sale of the developers of City of Heroes and Champions Online to pay the debt accumulated by BlueBay Credit, but also to create social games and Mobile.

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• Cryptic Now In A Perfect World (31/05/2011)

Atari (wikipedia)  

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Blu-ray

The movie Mortal Kombat: Legacy, which was launched on YouTube in several parts to celebrate the release of the latest chapter of Mortal Kombat will be released in Blu-ray. The film was divided into nine episodes, where it appeared people like Jax, Sonya, Scorpion and Sub-Zero. The Blu-ray, which was not confirmed any European version will be published on 8 November in the U.S. by Warner Bros.
The price of Blu-ray, with its exclusive content, will be $ 19.98. In addition to the film documentary, the disc will also contain the Mortal Kombat Legacy: Fights, dedicated to the creative process and the fatality of history. Other special features will be Mortal Kombat Legacy: Fan Made, Mortal Kombat Legacy: The Expanding Netherrealm, Mortal Kombat: Mysticism and Mortal Kombat: Gear.

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Blu-ray Disc (wikipedia)  Mortal Kombat (homepage)  Mortal Kombat (wikipedia)  

New details on Final Fantasy XIII-2

The director of Final Fantasy XIII-2, Motomu Toriyama, who has uncovered some previously unpublished details of the game starting to Mog, which will have an important role in this spin-off. While Final Fantasy XIII the furry animals were seen only sporadically in some billboards in FFXIII-2 will be the protagonists of two "things" and called Moogle Moogle Throw Hunt, on which, however, Toriyama did not want to reveal much except that we will be helped by in their finding of special items.

Aonuma wants the film of Zelda

When we hear about film adaptations of video games taken from our intestines react more violently. Eiji Aonuma, director and designer of the current saga of Zelda, Nintendo Power told the magazine he'd like to see made a film series on the ten-year adventure. Aonuma commented, "I always thought it would be nice to see a real movie about Zelda.

Of course I have neither the time nor the resources to implement it even if I could, and I do not know if it would be good." At this point we make a question: what would you see actors and actresses fit well in a hypothetical cinematogrefico Zelda? The first to come near the name of Will Smith to win a juicy link to lifetime bans.

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Ubisoft announces the demo for Drivers

Ubisoft starts the countdown to the release of Driver: San Francisco, scheduled for September 1, 2011, announcing the single player demo will be available by August 10 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation3. "The series has always been characterized by Driver chases at high speed and the ability to dart freely around the streets of huge cities," said Geoffroy Sardin, head of marketing and sales at Ubisoft.