Shacknews - Your source for the latest video game news http://www.shacknews.com/ 30 Marking the franchise's first appearance on PCs, Criterion Games today announced that it will be porting Burnout Paradise to the platform. The open-world racing game was originally released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The PC version of Burnout Paradise will include unspecified expanded multipla... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52600 2008-05-09T07:23-06:00 People looking to try out the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company before its June 23 release will be able to do so June 5, with a single- and multiplayer demo hitting the Xbox Live Marketplace and Playstation Store that day, publisher Electronic Arts has announced. The single-player portion of the ... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52599 2008-05-09T05:14-06:00 Codemasters has announced that it has secured a license to create Formula One racing games, after Sony recently opted not to renew its deal. With the new license, Codemasters plans to develop a new F1 game for multiple platforms including PC, for release in 2009. News that Codemasters has picked up... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52598 2008-05-09T04:56-06:00 Let's kick off the Shacking for this glorious Friday. In Grand Theft Auto 4 news, it's always good to see the game's critics flat-out lie about that which they are critiquing. Do those who have played GTA4 think it glamorizes crime? In more enjoyable news, Nick brought us a new Replay Couch, which y... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52601 2008-05-09T04:55-06:00 Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy director Gore Verbinski (pictured left) has been tapped to direct a feature film adaptation of 2K Games' BioShock, Variety reports. The film will be developed by Universal Studios, which green-lit a multimillion-dollar advance to BioShock publisher and property o... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52597 2008-05-09T01:41-06:00 Parents Television Council public policy director Dan Isett claimed in an interview that Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, X360) awards points for drunk driving, before confessing that he hadn't played enough of the game to verify it himself. digg_url = 'http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52596 2008-05-08T22:00-06:00 So I promise myself to put aside a few hours for GTA 4 very soon. I keep wanting time to play it but silly nonsense keeps getting in the way. I NEED TO KILL HOOKERS. Oh plus I gotta check out that GRID demo. The platypus is wack AMD going for 12 cores Google losing employees... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52594 2008-05-08T20:00-06:00 To promote the new console port of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, publisher Activision has released a pair of videos advertising tie-in products that may help to cure some common gamer ailments. Interested in a consolized version of ET: QW? Take a walk down your local PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 ai... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52595 2008-05-08T18:37-06:00 Nvidia content relations VP Roy Taylor said that PC gaming has moved beyond reasonable justification for pirating PC games. The executive suggested that it was unfair to steal content from the same developers who are struggling to keep the PC gaming market alive in a market dominated by surging c... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52593 2008-05-08T18:00-06:00 Crackdown (X360) developer Realtime Worlds bought back the rights to its upcoming crime MMO All Points Bulletin (PC, X360) in hopes of selling it to Rockstar for use as a Grand Theft Auto MMO, according to a rumor reported by Eurogamer. While such a rumor would typically seem ludicrous, Grand The... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52592 2008-05-08T17:05-06:00 New to the PlayStation Store this week is a playable demo of Free Radical's shooter Haze (PS3), plus an expansion to Q-Games PixelJunk Monsters as well as Rock Band and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock downloadable content. Available free of charge, the Haze demo is said to provide a sample o... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52591 2008-05-08T16:05-06:00 Growing publisher Activision today reported that its year-to-date 2008 net income totaled some $344 million, a significant increase over its 2007 take of $85 million. The record profits were pulled from a total revenue of nearly $2.9 billion, up from $1.5 billion the previous year. Activision's ... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52590 2008-05-08T15:24-06:00 Publisher Electronic Arts is looking into the development of a Wii fitness game, Eurogamer reports. Speaking at an event, EA Sports president Peter Moore remarked on the opportunities created by Nintendo's Wii Fit, already launched overseas and aimed for release in North America on May 19. "We... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52589 2008-05-08T15:19-06:00 In this week's edition of Replay, a Couch mainstay serves us a good time, the TF2 Scout picks a fight with Ronald McDonald, and a few interesting mods fill in the holes. Check it all out. G-Man Video of the Week: You Got Served After a motion capture experiment went horribly, horribly wrong, B... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52588 2008-05-08T14:30-06:00 Valve announced today that Queasy Games' stylistic shoot-'em-up Everyday Shooter is now available on its downloadable PC gaming service Steam. Originally designed by indie developer Jonathan Mak as a downloadable game for the PlayStation 3, Everyday Shooter is a top-down, non-scrolling shoote... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52587 2008-05-08T14:10-06:00 Publisher AQ Interactive today announced that the universally maligned Xbox 360 action title Vampire Rain will be ported to the PlayStation 3 as Vampire Rain: Altered Species. The publisher provided no media along with the announcement; the above screenshots are from the Xbox 360 version of t... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52586 2008-05-08T13:58-06:00 Following the cancellation of Blackstar (PC) earlier this year, developer Spacetime Studios announced that it has acquired the rights to its space-faring MMO from former publisher NCSoft. "After two years of development, the Blackstar universe is quite near and dear to our hearts," said Spacetime... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52584 2008-05-08T13:15-06:00 North American internet provider Comcast is evaluating a monthly bandwidth cap and charging users that exceed the limit, according to dslreports.com. At present, the company is considering an download cap of 250GB a month, with a $15 charge for every 10GB that exceed the limit. The plan is simila... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52585 2008-05-08T12:41-06:00 Publisher Sierra has announced that video game based off the upcoming film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor will hit PlayStation 2, Wii, and Nintendo DS on July 22, a few days shy of the movie's August 1 release. The Nintendo DS version of the third-person action title is being handled b... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52583 2008-05-08T11:44-06:00 Publisher THQ announced today that it has acquired the license to create a game based on Marvel's "burgeoning, kid-friendly" Super Hero Squad property. Aimed at young children, the Marvel Super Hero Squad franchise presents happy big-headed renditions of classic Marvel characters, such as Spider-... http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52582 2008-05-08T11:19-06:00