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Posted by Ian

GT5 Prologue is almost upon us (this friday its released) and I for one am super pumped about it.

This is my primary reason for uploading these nice new images of the game, well that and to show off our nice new Gallery widget.

Hope you like.

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Nintendo’s next big Wii release is only a few weeks away now. Mario Kart will launch in the UK on April 11th and to celebrate that fact (and give you the chance of playing the game before it’s actually out) GAME are holding a tournament in their stores. The tournament will start on April 5th and the winner from each heat will then win a £250 experience day voucher and a trip to Mercedez World, Brooklands on April 12th for the launch party and grand final of the tournament for a chance to win the grand prize of a Mario themed VW Beetle.

All players entering the tournament will be given a certificate with their name and lap time printed on and will also be entered into a prize draw to win a £50 GAME voucher.

Time to get your shells out.

To find out more head over GAME’s website by clicking here

Posted by Ian 

Quick, eject that copy of Talledega Nights and get your PS3 online to download the latest 2.20 firmware update.

Yes, that’s right the recently announced update is now available for downloading direct to your machine and with it comes loads of new blu-ray features.

Here’s a link to the full article relating to the firmware update on eurogamer.net

In addition to adding all kinds of fancy schmancy features to future blu-ray movie releases the firmware upgrade also allows Sony’s wonder box to play WMV files and DivX files that are over 2gb in file size.

Personally that’s of no use to me whatsoever as my PS3 absolutely refuses to be friendly with my Windows Home Server.

Toss

Posted by Ian

WTF is up with Britain? Rocketing fuel prices on an almost weekly basis, the worst customer service in the world (most of it is farmed out to poor middle-east countries) and now retailers charging a higher price for GTA 4 on the ps3 than they are for the 360 version.

Yes, that’s right, major high street retailer WH Smith has posted the cost of the upcoming mega-crime-a-thon fest that is GTA 4 and its £5 more on PS3 than it is on the 360 (even though no official price point has been given to retailers yet). The same thing happened a couple of weeks ago with Devil May Cry 4 costing £10 more on the PS3 than it’s 360 counterpart (and with a 22 minute install routine to go through on the PS3 version).

Videogame retail giants GAME and Gamestation have also said they they expect the PS3 version of GTA 4 to cost more than the 360 version. This isn’t good considering that the 360 version has the DLC coming and you get free MS points (worth real money) if you pre-order.

Things like this really wind me up and make me wish I lived in another country - stupid Britain.

Click here for the full story as reported on videogaming247.com

I have GTA 4 pre-ordered on 360 already - as does Rob.

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Posted by Ian

Woooooo - the first map pack for the best online shooter ever (in my opinion) is only a few days away (for 360 owners at least).

Infinity Ward have confirmed that the GOTY edition of COD 4 will go on sale on April 3rd 2008 and will include a download code to get the bonus maps. This, coincidently, is also the date that the map packs will be made available for purchase via the gift of Xbox Live Marketplace.

Quoting directly from Kotaku (who are quoting from Inifitity Ward),

The Variety Map Pack includes four new multiplayer maps. “Creek” is a wide-open village ravaged by combat where concealment is the difference between life and death. In “Broadcast,” fight throughout an enemy communications building with confined corridors and wide-open parking lots. “Chinatown” is a foggy downtown district, lit only by a full moon and the neon glow of the city. “Killhouse” features a desolate training warehouse filled with a variety of building mock-ups and soft and hard cover points.

PS3 owners will have to wait a little longer than 360 owners to get their hands on the map pack, 21 days longer to be precise (that’s April 24th - now put your socks back on). Still at least you know when you’ll be getting it. Spare a thought for poor PC owners. They’ve currently been left in the dark with no specified date for the map pack. Ironic really, seeing as it’s usually PC gamers that enjoy the benefits of new maps first usually.

In your face PC dudes.

For more details on the map pack click here