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Ok everyone, just in case you missed it GTA 4 is out.

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Ok, so everyone knows that TNA wrestling is miles better than WWE and it looks like this pattern is set to continue in the wrestling videogame battles too. Gametrailers.com has the world exclusive new video of TNA Impact the videogame from Midway on their site and we’d like to share that with you on our site.

TNA is coming to consoles this summer and it definitely will be a title I’ll be keeping an eye on.

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Criterion have announced another update coming to their free-roaming speedfest Burnout Paradise.  The update, codenamed “Bogart” will be released at the end of this month and features a huge number of bug fixes and general improvements to the game on both 360 and PS3 (see below).

10 ten problems reported by users that have now been fixed 

• PS3 game can crash when a player is taken down and the player that has performed the Takedown leaves the game.
• The game indefinitely displays “Connecting to Paradise City Servers” if it’s having problems communicating with the rebroadcast server.
• Disconnecting the controller before a race begins can mean that race timings can be manipulated with players who didn’t cross the line first being awarded the win.
• Repeatedly joining and leaving a game with 8 players can cause the game to hang.
• Hammering the A (360) or X (PS3) after unlocking a car can cause the game to hang.
• East Crawford and Watt St achievements cannot be achieved if the player goes online and sets road rules before attempting them.
• Audio distortion when using 5.1 / DTS and looking back at the car.
• Enhanced 360 streaming performance stops instances where the game seems to pause for a second or so.
• Total time driven in player stats would stick at 145 hours.
• VoIP connection problems with 8 player games. This is now live on the Paradise City servers.

The following enhancements will also be added say Criterion

• We fixed Head-on Takedowns as these seemed generally unfair and unrealistic. Unfair low speed Takedowns have now been eradicated.
• Increase online race timer timeout so players have a greater chance of finishing the race.
• Fix drifting bug when drifting and boosting. There wasn’t any real control on the brake so players would grind around the walls of the corners. Giving you all better control of the car.
• Stabbing the boost has too much of a jerky behaviour in the car handling, when in Stunt Run.
• Surround sound fix - Centre speaker was 4dB louder, ruining the mix. The speech has now been positioned correctly.
• Increase the # of search results returned for online games.
• Increase Picture Paradise timer so it doesn’t kick in so quickly.
• Post event ticker commentary is not now displayed for disconnected players.
• Show player the number of Complete Challenges easily by listing X/50 in the Challenges menu.

Other issues that have been fixed

• Instances where Barrel rolls were not registering correctly in Stunt Run.
• Takedowns online were not counting towards the Total Takedowns.
• Some instances where Revenge Rivalries desync & don’t get fixed until players are updated online.
• Some instance where the Host couldn’t change the game access if the game was created through an invite.
• Online challenge issues where the challenge couldn’t be completed if it was started at the exact time that a player left the game.
• Incorrect rivalry updates when European players played against English or Japanese players. Online connection issues.
• Rich presence on 360 didn’t change correctly when there is a change in the game parameters.
• Instances where Friends were not being displayed on the mini map.
• Some online race start points face the players in the wrong direction.

How’s that for a patch eh? Keep your eyes peeled for the update on Xbox Live and PSN.

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Gametrailers.com will have the exclusive first video of Resistance 2 on their show this Friday (April 11th).

Along with this they’ll also be showing Darth Vader and Yoda in the upcoming Soul Calibur IV and Star Wars Force Unleashed.

This is good ya?

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We’ve all heard about how much fun Rock Band is from our American cousins who’ve been playing the game for months now. We brits have had to wait paitently on the sidelines and make-do with Guitar Hero. Well no more! (well, for 360 owners anyway).

Yes fans, EA have finally announced the official European release date for Rock Band as May 23rd. However, they’ve also announced that this is only for the Xbox 360 version of the game and that PS3 and Wii owners are going to have to wait a couple more months to get their freak on as the title is a timed exclusive on the 360.

The game will launch with 67 songs included on the disc, including 9 exclusive to the European version. The DLC that has filled up the US Marketplace will then be made available for download here and EA have promised that future DLC releases will be simulataneous for both the US and European markets.

The full track listing for the game is listed below for your rocking pleasure:

Exclusive tracks

• Blur “Beattlebum” (English)
• Oasis “Rock ‘n’ roll star” (English)
• Tokyo Hotel “Through the Monsoon” (English)
• Muse “Hysteria” (English)
• Les Wamaps “Manu Chao” (French)
• Indochine “L’Aventurier” (French)
• Playmo “New Wave” (French)
• Die Toten Hosen “Hier Kommt Alex” (German)
• Juli “Perfekte Welle” (German)
• H-Block X “Countdown to Insanity” (German)

Non-exclusive tracks

1960’s:

• Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter”

1970’s:

• Aerosmith “Train Kept a Rollin”*
• The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
• Boston “Foreplay/Long Time”
• Mountain “Mississippi Queen”*
• The Police “Next To You”
• David Bowie “Suffragette City”
• Black Sabbath “Paranoid”*
• Blue Oyster Cult “Don’t Fear The Reaper”
• The Ramones “Blitzkreig Bop”
• Deep Purple “Highway Star”
• KISS “Detroit Rock City”
• Molly Hatchet “Flirtin With Disaster”
• The Outlaws “Green Grass & High Tides”*
• Sweet “Ballroom Blitz”

1980’s:

• Rush “Tom Sawyer”*
• Bon Jovi “Wanted Dead or Alive”
• The Clash “Should I stay or Should I Go”
• Faith No More “Epic”
• Pixies “Wave of Mutilation”
• R.E.M “Orange Crush”
• Iron Maiden “Run To The Hills”

1990’s:

• Foo Fighters “Learn To Fly”
• Metallica “Enter Sandman”
• Nirvana “In Bloom”
• Stone Temple Pilots “Vasoline”
• Weezer “Say It Aint So”
• Smashing Punpkins “Cherub Rock”
• Radiohead “Creep”
• Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
• Hole “Celebrity Skin”
• Garbage “I Think I’m Paranoid”
• Soundgarden “Black Hole Sun”

2000’s:

• The Hives “Main Offender”
• Queens Of The Stone Age “Go With the Flow”
• The Strokes “Reptilia”
• Jet “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
• OK Go “Here it Goes Again”
• Nine Inch Nails “The hand That Feeds”
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps”
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers “Dani California”
• Coheed & Cambria “Welcome Home”
• Fallout Boy “Dead on Arrival”
• The Killers “When You Were Young”
• New Pornographers “Electric Version”
• Unlockable Tracks:
• Anarchy “Blood Doll”
• Bang Camaro “Pleasure (Pleasure)”
• Crooked X “Nightmare”
• Death of the Cool “Can’t Let Go”
• Flyleaf “I’m So Sick”
• Freezepop “brainpower”
• Honest Bob and The Factory-to-Dealer Incentives “I Get By”
• The Acro-bats “Day Late, Dollar Short”
• The Konks “29 Fingers”
• The Mother Hips “Time We Had”
• Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld “Timmy and the lords of the Underworld”
• Tribe “outside”
• Vagiant “seven”

Track listing originally posted on CVG.com

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In a totally surprising move, Sony have attacked the 360 and put over their own machine the Playstation 3.

This latest verble bashing given by the Japanese giant sees them proclaiming that MS may have ‘punched themselves out of the fight’ by releasing all the big titles for the 360 in the first 2 years of the console’s life. Meanwhile, Sony themselves say that the recent momentum in sales for them coupled with titles like MGS4, GT5 Prologue and various new IPs they have lined up provide both a good base for existing users of PS3 whilst demonstrating that they still have a lot left to offer that we know about (Home, Little Big Planet, Motorstorm 2) and lots of new things we don’t yet know about.

Whilst I believe that the PS3 still has a lot of untapped power I wouldn’t say the 360 has shown us everything it can do yet either - not by a long shot. The recent demo of the new features in Unreal Engine 3 prove that it’s software that will be making the biggest changes to gaming this gen, not hardware. The majority of multiplatform titles look almost identical on both consoles, including titles like Burnout Paradise that was developed first on the PS3, then ported to the 360.

In the end, the conclusion I reach is that both consoles are great and we should all just enjoy gaming (unless you’re Anne Diamond, or her sons).

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So you’ve burned around the streets, beeches and mountains of Paradise City and taken all of the advice offered by DJ Atomika but there’s still more to do in Burnout Paradise, well, there will be more to do later this year, that’s according to the developers of the game Criterion.

They say, on their official website, that the updates they’ve got planned are so significant that they’ve had to give them code names, because the usual number updating system just don’t cut it for these guys. The three updates will be rolled out later this year and in the order of ‘Cagney’, then ‘Davis’ and then ‘Eastwood’. But what could all this mean? Will we see new areas added onto the map, new events becoming available, different vehicles being added in? Maybe there’ll be weather additions or a day/night cyle? Who knows?

I would assume, at this stage, that these updates are coming for both the 360 and PS3 versions, though Criterion haven’t actually specified this as yet.

Guess we’ll just have to wait and see, in the meantime - get online and get those multiplayer challenges done!

Posted by Ian 

Kazunori Yamauchi, the creator of legendary racing series Gran Turismo has revealed that patch, to be made available later in the year, will finally add vehicle damage to the cars along with a several new ‘community building’ features for the online portion of the game.

I tried out the online racing for myself for the first time last night and had a great experience in doing so. The matchmaking was quick, the racing was lag free and it was just plain fun.

GT5 Prologue was released in the UK on March 28th and has become the fastest selling PS3 title to date.

If you’re not picked up a copy yet, I highly recommend you do so (Mark).

For more details on this story head on over to CVG.com.

Posted by Ian 

Sony have now confirmed that the PSN store will indeed get a new lick of paint in mid-april and CVG have the first official screens up on their site.

I’ve not borrowed them for our site as it appears this was a bit of an exclusive, so instead I’ll just give you the link straight to them on CVG.com

Click here to view the screens and read the CVG article

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Eurogamer.net have a very nice article up at their site detailing all of the games released this week across all formats and we’ve gone and ‘borrowed’ the list for our site too so you can check them out for yourself:

Click on over to Eurogamer’s site to read their rather nice article in full

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