Last month, THQ reported some not-so-awesome sales figures for its second annual entry into the UFC Undisputed franchise -- to the tune of an almost 50 percent decline from sales for last year's first stab at game-ifying the sport.
In a recent discussion with the print version of MCV (via CVG), Jon Rooke, the company's UK marketing director, provided one possible explanation for the decrease: "That's largely down to Red Dead Redemption," Rooke explained.
Though Undisputed 2010 has managed to ship a sizable 2.6 million units, Rooke stated that the title hasn't "delivered the broader sales yet." He added, "Rockstar have probably taken a fair amount of our market share. They shipped 5m units, taking a lot of consumer dollars." We know exactly what he's talking about: We picked up Red Dead Redemption instead of UFC because we heard the former had really great wrasslin' -- but we were unfortunately greeted with hours of rustlin' instead.
The last time we saw Master Chief in Halo 3, he was sailing off somewhere in the depths of space, passed out via cryosleep, and slowly headed towards a mysterious planet. Who would’ve thought we’d get to see man wake up?
A lot of people, actually, including 343 Industries’ creative director Frank O’Connor who says Master Chief’s return is definite. “We’d have to be the world’s biggest assholes not to follow through,” O’Connor said in a Comic-Con interview. “We certainly haven’t seen the last of Master Chief.”
While anyone can figure you’d have to have ice running through your veins to want to end the Chief’s story at Halo 3, it’s nice to hear that Halo: Reach doesn’t signify the end of our favorite spartan.
NAMCO BANDAI GAMES IS TAKING THE FIGHT TO THE STREETS WITH TEKKEN® X STREET FIGHTER. Two Fighting Game Giants Clash in the TEKKEN® Universe for the Duel of the Decade.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., (July, 2010) – One of the greatest rivalries in gaming history is heading towards an explosive showdown as NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc., announces that TEKKEN X Street Fighter is in development. Set to change the fighting game landscape forever, players will get the best of both worlds, pitting the might of the greatest video game fighters of all time against each other within the TEKKEN® universe.
TEKKEN X Street Fighter will invite Street Fighter® characters into the TEKKEN universe for the very first time. Each Street Fighter character will receive a TEKKEN visual makeover while keeping their fighting style and special moves fully intact. Once there, players will discover for themselves whether they’re really a match for the lethal power of the TEKKEN alumni.
“The ultimate dream match-up is about to be realized. With this astonishing collaboration, a new chapter in fighting game history begins,” said Katsuhiro Harada, TEKKEN series director, Namco Bandai Games Inc. “The Street Fighter and TEKKEN development teams have a great relationship. However, I see this new project not as a collaboration, but as the competition of the century between two legendary fighting game franchises.”
Spanning over a 14 year legacy, TEKKEN is among the most popular and well-known gaming brands in the world with the entire franchise selling more than 39 million units globally to date.
Top of the list is HAWX 2, the sequel to the arcade flight-action game based in the Tom Clancy universe. We loved the first game for what it was and can't wait to see what the next game holds. We'll have our own trailer too, so keep your eyes open for that, but you can expect to see the game released on 3 September this year across all platforms.
RUSE too has been dated, again, despite it being pushed back, brought forward and pushed back again. Assuming it's not playing RUSE with itself and its release date again, we can expect to see that a week after HAWX on 10 September.
Driver San Francisco has been slated for Q1 of next year. So we reckon late April.
A new version of Freestyle Dash has been released to update some of the bugs found in the earlier FSD2.0 alpha release.
'To ensure our auto-updater works, and to fix some of the bugs found in FSD2.0 alpha, we've put a new version online.
To get it, turn on the updater notification in the settings screen. For users without a network connection, we will release this update via the website in 5 days or so. The update is always called default.xex, rename it to whatever you named your xex if you dont have rev 1021 in about screen.
Click the link to view the entire list of updates and what's fixed in the new release.
Here is the most recent list of upcoming content scheduled for the Xbox LIVE Marketplace
Summer of Arcade kicks off this week. First out of the gate is Limbo, followed by Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Castlevania Harmony of Despair, Monday Night Combat and we finish it off with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Also remember that if you purchase all five titles, and you’ll receive 1200 Microsoft Points back. Complete schedule and details here
Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week:
Week of July 26 - Borderlands Add-Ons:
Secret Armory, 400 Microsoft Points
Zombie Island, 400 Microsoft Points
The Underdome, 400 Microsoft Points
Week of August 2 - Forza 3 Cars And Track Packs
AutoWeek Car Show Pack, 240 Microsoft Points
Hot Holidays Car Pack, 240 Microsoft Points
Jalopnik Car Pack, 240 Microsoft Points
Nürburgring GP Track Pack, 240 Microsoft Points
The Road & Track Car Pack, 240 Microsoft Points
**Special pricing available for Xbox LIVE Gold Members
Xbox LIVE Games on Demand:
July 27: The Lord of the Rings: Conquest
July 27: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008
July 27: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009
Xbox Avatar Marketplace:
July 22: Dragon Age: Origins
July 23: Halo:Reach
Xbox Game Add-Ons:
July 27: Alan Wake: The Signal, 560 Microsoft Points (If you purchased a new copy of Alan Wake, don’t forget to check your game case for a token card to download this debut Add-on at no cost, only on Xbox LIVE)
July 27: Skate 3 After Dark Pack 400 Microsoft Points
July 27: Super Street Fighter IV Costumes Pack, 1200 Microsoft Points
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TingedAce released a new version of XNand Healer GUI. It started off as an uncrippling tool but now changed into a general purpose NAND dumping tool that should really aid the first part of the JTAG'ing process.
What's new/fixed:
- Much improved user interface including progress bars during NAND analysis
- Ability to cancel NAND analysis
- One-click bad block remapping
- Added dialog to let you choose how much of the NAND to dump just before reading
Well that didn't take long did it? Some enterprising folks from China have made available the first ever cooling system for the Xbox 360 250GB. Slipping onto the bottom of the box, this sleek cooling system promises an 'anti skidding' system and a 'shockproof system' in addition to the 'high density thermal design'.
Three developers from bundle unbox and talk about the Halo: Reach Limited and Legendary Editions as well as the Halo: Reach Limited Edition Xbox 360 bundle.
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