To put this in perspective Halo got 9.5/10 and Halo 2 got 9.7/10

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Regardless, an insider in Japan who attended Konami’s analyst meeting today passed along this info:

• Metal Gear Solid 4’s release date announced at TGS

• Konami President Tanaka stated that release is likely Q4 March 8

• President Tanaka also stated, “we are open to taking this franchise across to other platforms.”

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Speaking at a Microsoft press conference in Amsterdam earlier today, Bungie has confirmed, once and for all, that Halo 3 will feature two to four player online co-operative play over Xbox Live.

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Adding fuel to the 360 price drop tire-fire of rumors, a recently leaked Circuit City ad shows a price drop of $50 on all models from Elite to Core.

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Epic Games VP Mark Rein recently told CVG that, despite Microsoft’s efforts to push the technology, DirectX 10 won’t see much in the way of enthusiastic adoption, largely because game developers will “have to dumb the games down for the consoles” making it “less and less economically viable to do the super high-end stuff.”

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Following reports showing that up to one-third of all Xbox 360 consoles are afflicted with the fatal hardware error termed the “Red Ring of Death,” Microsoft extended its warranty on the machine to cover such a defect for three years.

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Sony has been sued by a mysterious company over a 15-year-old patent covering parallel processing. The plaintiffs claim that the Cell CPU used in the PS3 infringes on a patent they own the rights to, but they chose not to go after IBM, which designed the CPU in the first place.

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Who wants Viva Pinata on the DS? Microsoft does. Announced at Comic Con yesterday, Viva Pinata DS will see the original game concept (ie not the party game) ported over to the DS, with the main changes a new top-down perspective and what I’d guess is an improved control scheme.

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Loot Ninja had the Today Show on this morning, for God only knows what reason. They had a segment on about video games, again, who knows why.
Their “tech guru” told consumers to stay away from the Xbox 360 because of the massive hardware problems. he advised all consumers to not buy an Xbox 360 until at least the end of the year.

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A new patent shows what looks to be a PS2/PS3 controller connecting to a PS3, offering gamers full dual-analog control of their PSP games.

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…Has Lvl-70 Priest

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God of War and Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe and Incognito Entertainment (Warhawk) founder Scott Campbell have formed Eat, Sleep, Play, a new game development studio in Utah. The company has signed an exclusive agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment America to produce games for PlayStation platforms, starting with Twisted Metal on PS2.

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It looks like Sony is busy securing the future of the ps3. No details on what the game is yet.

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Toys R Us & Walmart’s August 12 Sunday Ads confirm a $50 price cut on the Xbox 360. Images available within.
These ads confirm the Hollywood Reporter’s scoop that a $50 price cut would begin in early August. Currently, it is uncertain if the $50 price cut is only valid for the $400 Premium system.

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Summary: DX10 hardware too expensive. Vista sucks. DX10 games not much better than DX9. Developers have no incentive to make DX10 games. There you have it. Maybe devs will finally wise up and start making OpenGL cross-platform games again.

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