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Grand Theft Auto IV pre-orders are the hawtness right now in the retail channel as huge box retailers are fighting tooth and nail to lure you into their stores to slap down your pre-order cash. And the UK retailer battle has been kicked up a notch with HMV announcing that they’ll give customers 1000 Microsoft points with any GTAIV pre-order. For those of you keeping track, that’s double the Microsoft points over rival GAME’s pre-order offer. HMV will also be throwing in vouchers worth an additional

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The marketing peeps over at Brandweek are reporting that this Summer’s sure to be a hit blockbuster movie, The Dark Knight, will see a massive marketing campaign with companies signing on to do cross-promotional tie-ins including our own Xbox 360. Sometime this Summer, Microsoft will be holding a giveaway where they’ll be handing out The Dark Knight themed Xbox 360s in both Batman and Joker flavors. Just think how twisted-crazy a Joker themed 360 would be. Details regarding the promotion are slim, but come July we’ll be informed and on a Dark Knight 360 mission. We guess our limited edition Mass Effect Xbox 360 will have to tide us over for now.

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IGN has the scoop on a few things that makes Lost Planet: Colonies‘ single player different from its predecessor and no friends, it isn’t new levels or a beefier story. Instead, Colonies will add four new player modes to the Lost Planet experience including a Halo 3‘esque Score Attack mode, a Trial Battle mode, a First-Person mode and a not-unlocked-from-the-get-go Off-Limit mode. And out of all four, we don’t know what to consider the First-Person mode. Playing Lost Planet as a FPS just sounds weird. Doesn’t it? Make the hop over to IGN to get your Colonies single player mode information fix and be sure to watch the weirdness that is Lost Planet FPS in the video above. Weird …

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The Haze exclusivity circus got itself a new act this day. After representatives at a Play.com event were shouting to the hills that Haze would forever remain a PS3 exclusive title, CVG contacted Ubisoft for comment. Ubisoft responded that Haze will remain a PS3 exclusive “for now.” In other words, the timed exclusive theory is gaining more ground. We can’t help but once again be reminded of the ridiculous back and forth regarding Assassin’s Creed exclusivity. We all know how that turned out, and it’s looking like Haze is headed in the same direction. Frankly, it’s getting out of hand. Hence, Picard facepalm.

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Update: We’ve contacted Lionhead for some clarification regarding just how the XBLA games will be released. At this point, the games could all be released as separate downloads or they could all be compiled in a single XBLA release. Final details regarding just what will happen haven’t yet been set down. Also, all the games will still be playable within the Fable 2 game world regardless of whether or not players have also purchased the XBLA versions.

After the revelation that there would be an Xbox Live Arcade game that attached to Fable 2, Peter Molyneux has now confirmed on Major Nelson’s podcast that there will actually be three Xbox Live Arcade games that tie into Fable 2. For those that missed out on the news at GDC, these XBLA games will allow players to rack up gold (or, as we learned in our own interview with Peter, debt) in Fable 2. The two newly announced games are called Wizard’s Tower and Mage Dice. Both games are developed by Carbonated Games (UNO) as was Keystone, the game announced during GDC. Pricing and release dates for the games have not been confirmed, though we suspect at least one will be available before Fable 2 releases.

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There’s nothing I’d rather see appear in a game trailer more than the words “actual gameplay footage.” Generally speaking, this short disclaimer means that what you’re about to witness is visually stunning, leaving you to worry about the controls and gameplay itself instead of having your inner graphics whore take over.

DiRT was the last racing game to come out of Codemasters, and its astounding in-game cameras and graphical flair were as impressive to me back then as the above footage for GRID is to me now. Here’s hoping it is able to up the ante.

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Filed under: Nintendo DS, On the internet, RPGs

After vowing to triple spending on game development in 2007, Disney has announced Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals, a follow up to last year’s Pokemon-inspired RPG that’s expected to ship for the Nintendo DS this fall. In the same breath, Disney also confirmed that the original title has shipped more than a million units globally and was the best-selling third-party DS game in North America last year, no doubt making the return trip to the well a no-brainer for the animation powerhouse.

Like the original, Beyond the Portals is being handled by Japanese developer Jupiter, and will include a number of additions including a new “three-dimensional perspective” and an on the web battle system. As surprised as might be otherwise, some of the new game announcement’s thunder was stolen by Disney CFO Tom Staggs, who last summer casually mentioned that Spectrobes “warrants a sequel in the games business.” Still, be careful what you wish for, as Disney marketing guru Craig Relyea calls the game “part of our plan to expand the series in the coming years.”

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Filed under: Personal computer, On the web, Casual

MTV-owned Nickelodeon recently announced plans to add a whopping 1,600 Flash games to its network of web sites. That might sound like a lot, until you take into account that the children’s network already controls roughly 5,000 web games that reach over 20 million users each month.

Sure, a good proportion of those games are probably Space Invaders clones found at the acquisition AddictingGames.com. But the Nick portfolio also includes some deep, popular virtual worlds like Neopets and Nicktropolis, and the company has announced they’ll be creating three more kid-focused, web-based MMOs in the future. When exactly did the first kids network become the first kids gaming network?

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Race Driver: Grid is the latest installment in the TOCA Race Vehicle series developed and published by Codemasters. Running on the same engine that powered Dirt, Race Driver: Grid is set in an urban environment where street racing has taken over the underground circuit.

Underground street racing? We’re surprised no one thought of this idea for a video game a long time ago. They should really look into making a movie or something. Well, at least these 20 screens look good.

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Just an informative reminder to our Forza Motorsport 2 racing fanboys (though, we doubt one is really needed), the March Automobile Pack is available for download off the Xbox Live Marketplace right this very moment.

As you probably know, The March Vehicle Pack costs a medium 400 Microsoft points and includes thirteen new vehicles for your racing pleasure. And since we know how much Forza 2 fanboys love their automobiles, we’ve added new automobile pack photos into their own gallery below for you to gush over. Thank us later. If you’ve an extra 400 points laying around, we advise supporting Turn 10 and all the hard work they’ve put into Forza 2 and its abundant DLC. Happy downloading race fans!

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