Have a new Army of Two

Electronic Arts is working on a new game in the series Army of Two. According to the official website of the publisher, EA is currently looking for a senior producer and a Lead Environment Artist "for the franchise Army of Two", assigned to the team of Visceral Montreal Games. The new game will be the third installment of the series, and after Army of Two Army of Two: The 40th Day

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It 's the right time for a new Nintendo console?

The big N could anticipate Sony and Microsoft, with all the advantages of the case as revealed by several sources, it seems that Nintendo will announce the successor to the Wii at E3 this year or even earlier, with the launch of the console set for the end 2012. The house of Kyoto has not made any comments about it, but the line-up presented to the press, given the small number of Wii titles, was just thinking the announcement of a new console soon.

Xotic summer on XBLA

Xotic, arcade shooter developed by the authors of Scene It?, WXP Games, will debut in summer on Xbox Live Arcade. Xotic is set in a colorful "bio-organic environment" in which the player must create combos using power-ups scattered around the levels. Included in the game some elements from the RPG genre, such as XP earned points that can be spent to purchase new items and upgrades.

"Instead of always running and shooting the same enemies with the same weapons in this game you will explore a unique environment," says the CEO of the co-publisher TikGames, Anatoly Tikhman.

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Xbox Live Arcade (wikipedia)  

The Cursed Crusade in new images

Some screen shows the game in action Atlus has made available some new screenshots of The Cursed Crusade, his next action RPG set in medieval times. In the screen shows various moments of the game and allow an insight into the graphic detail, although all will be then tested in action.

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The Cursed Crusade (wikipedia)  

Streets of Rage 2 on the App Store

SEGA has announced the arrival on the App Store a classic era Mega Drive Streets of Rage 2. Porting the title originally published in 1992 costs € 2.39 and includes a multiplayer mode via bluetooth as well as Japan's version of the game (known as Bare Knucle II). In the spring also Streets of Rage Golden Axe 3 and 2:03 come on Apple devices, lets you know the publisher.

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Streets of Rage 2 (wikipedia)  

PS3 reaches 50 million units sold

Move over 8 million Sony has confirmed the figure of 50 million PS3 sold around the world released by NPD, revealing also that Move has sold 8 million units. The latest official data on the prevalence of the Xbox 360 in January and is about 50.8 million units. In short, the two consoles are paired in sales, but we must consider the Japanese market, where Xbox 360 has always struggled.

Any other data released by Sony is about 480 million PS3 games sold worldwide and 75 million accounts and assets in 59 countries. Source: VG247

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NPD: DS beats the 3DS to March

In March, the best-selling platform in the United States was the Nintendo DS, Pokémon encouraged by the publication of Black / White (2 and a half million copies) dominated the software charts. In an interview with USA Today, Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime, has revealed that 3DS has sold just under 400,000 copies as of March 27, the day of the launch of the console in North America.