New Games and Accessories: In its 7th week available, Sony Comp...
New Games and Accessories: In its 7th week available, Sony Computer Entertainment’s God of War II for PS2 was again the #1-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended April…
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29… THQ signed a development deal with Big Huge Games for a new role-playing game to be released for OS3, Xbox 360 and PC in 2009. Terms weren’t disclosed and the game wasn’t named… St. Louis Cardinals All-Star first baseman Albert Pujols will be the cover athlete for Take-Two Interactive’s Major League Baseball-licensed videogame The Bigs, shipping this summer for Nintendo’s Wii, PSP, PS3 and Xbox 360 on the publisher’s 2K Sports label… Online game publisher K2 Network signed a deal with Samsung Electronics to co-publish the 2D massively multiplayer online role- playing game (MMORPG) Red Stone, developed by L & K Logic Korea. Terms weren’t disclosed. The game has already been played by “more than one million people” in Japan, the firms said. Red Stone will be released in the Americas, Turkey, India and Poland this summer as part of the K2-Samsung deal… Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) had yet to announce plans to release the Go! Cam video camera for PSP in the U.S. “but we're always evaluating opportunities to expand the features” of the handheld system, an SCEA spokeswoman said. SCE Europe will ship the camera May 16 (CED May 2 p9)… NCsoft is starting closed beta testing for the massively multiplayer online game Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa. The game is expected to launch this fall in N. America and Europe, it said. Microsoft made the classic Atari arcade games Centipede and Millipede available on Xbox Live Arcade… GameStop planned to hold midnight launch openings at more than 300 of its stores today to mark the release of Activision’s Spider-Man 3 videogame, based on the movie sequel of the same name, opening theatrically today. The retail chain will also sell an exclusive, limited edition of the upcoming Take-Two Interactive Xbox 360/Games for Windows PC game BioShock Aug. 21. The PC version will cost $59.99 and the 360 version $69.99. Both will include a behind-the- scenes DVD and soundtrack, among other items… Blue Raven Technology says the $99.95, fifteen-hour PSP battery it is selling is the “longest lasting extended battery” for the handheld system.