New Games: Parental watchdog groups, politicians and other video...
New Games: Parental watchdog groups, politicians and other videogame critics will likely have a field day with THQ’s upcoming game The Sopranos, based on the hit HBO TV show of the same name. A demo of the game provided…
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by THQ in N.Y. this week showed that the title, like the show, will have wall to wall violence, profanity and nudity. The company said the game will ship for PS2 at $39.99 and Xbox 360 at $59.99. The demo Consumer Electronics Daily saw didn’t include voice work by actors from the series but the company said the show’s cast recently completed voice-overs that will be added for the final version. Other upcoming 2006 games spotlighted by THQ included SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from Krusty Krab for PS2 and GameCube at $39.99, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS at $29.99, PC at $19.99 and Wii at pricing to be determined. Associate Brand Mgr. Sam Guilloud said the Wii version will ship in Nov., the month Nintendo’s next console is widely expected to ship. But Nintendo hasn’t announced a specific launch month -- nor has it even confirmed that the system will ship in every major market this year. The game wasn’t demonstrated on a final version of the Wii console, but Guilloud said the company had received final development kits for the console and is confident the game will be finished in time for Nov. release. Also demonstrated was Cars, based on the current hit animated Disney/Pixar animated movie of the same name. THQ is releasing versions of the title for all major platforms. Guilloud said the game will be THQ’s first children’s title for the 360 when it arrives in Nov. He added that a Wii version is expected to ship in time for the DVD release of the movie late this year… In its first week available, the PS2 version of Take-Two Interactive’s PSP game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories was the top-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended June 11. The PS2 version of THQ’s Cars, meanwhile, was #2 in its first week. Activision’s X-Men: The Official Game for PS2 -- the previous week’s #1 title -- dropped to #4… Midway Games said it acquired the publishing rights to select titles from Epic Games’ catalog of existing Unreal PC games including Unreal and Unreal Tournament. The terms weren’t disclosed. Midway also said it plans to publish Unreal Anthology for PC -- the first compilation of Unreal and Unreal Tournament titles -- this fall at $29.95 in the U.S. Included will be Unreal, Unreal II: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2004. Midway will also publish Unreal Tournament 2007, the companies said.