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PlayStation 3 receives immediate price drop to $250, $300 for 320 GB models

Travis Bruno
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To close out their Gamescom 2011 keynote speech this year, Sony brought out a bit of surprising news. That the PlayStation 3 would be getting a price drop down to $250 for the 160GB model immediatly after the announcement was made. This means that right now you can go to nearly any store at this moment and pick up 160GB model of the PlayStation 3 for $249.99 in the U.S., €249.99 in Europe, ¥24,980 in Japan and $349.95 in Australia.

The 320GB model will cost $300 in the US and $449.95 in Australia and this announcement is pretty interesting considering it comes nearly to the date with the previous price drop to $299.99 which occurred two years ago. If for whatever reason you haven’t picked up a PlayStation 3 yet, it is now cheaper than ever before to do so.

Get Up And Dance reveals first batch of songs

Jack Joly
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O-Games have today revealed the first batch of tracks to be featured in their upcoming dance game, Get Up And Dance. Featuring promo videos of the songs, the setlist is a mix of classic disco and contemporary pop:

· Black Kids – ‘I Am Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance’
· Girls Aloud – ‘The Promise’
· Gwen Stefani – ‘What You Waiting For’
· Jessie J – ‘Nobody’s Perfect’
· La Roux – ‘Bulletproof’
· Marina & The Diamonds – ‘Hollywood’
· Nicole Scherzinger – ‘Poison’
· Noisettes – ‘Don’t Upset The Rhythm’
· Pussycat Dolls – ‘Don’t Cha’
· Rizzle Kicks – ‘Down With The Trumpets’
· Taio Cruz – ‘Come On Girl’
· Timbaland featuring Katy Perry – ‘If We Ever Meet Again’

Not enough is known about Get Up And Dance to ask if it can compete with the likes of Just Dance 3 on the horizon, but it’s being made, true to the name, as a social game which encourages everyone to get involved, even if you do dance like a fish out of water.

It arrives on PS3 (supporting PS Move) and Nintendo Wii on November 4th, 2011.

inFamous 2: Festival of Blood announced for October as standalone release

Travis Bruno
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Feel like inFamous 2 needed a little bit of a vampire influence? So does Sucker Punch because they have just announced that there will be a new game released on the PlayStation Network in October. Well, it isn’t a new game per-say but it is going to take a whole new twist on the inFamous 2 storyline.

New Marais has been infested with vampires and Cole has been bitten by one of them. He must then find the head vampire before the end of the night or else he will be a vampire forever. Of course there hasn’t been any footage of the game released yet so we have no footage of vampires being electrocuted to death. Then again, can vampires even be killed with electricity? During the announcement the game was billed as a brand new downloadable game, so it will likely be a standalone PSN title.

Mass Effect 3 trailer brings some combat footage

Travis Bruno
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In the latest trailer for Mass Effect 3 we are shown off plenty of combat, though the trailer itself only says that it will be Part 1. However many parts of course wasn’t said but what is shown off in the trailer is a very large amount of new combat mechanics, including a melee attack and squad leadership abilities.

The focus of the trailer is obviously on the leadership abilities as we hear the generic looking Shepherd command his crew to go behind the boxes or attack the enemies. With the Kinect capability in Mass Effect 3, expect to be yelling a lot of orders at your TV to make your crew do what you want them to do. I personally can’t wait until next year when the game is released as well as for Part 2 of this video set.

Bodycount demo now available on Xbox 360; PS3 soon

Travis Bruno
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Despite there not being a whole lot of coverage for the game, Bodycount is still going to be released in the next couple of weeks for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. To help build up a little bit of a following they have decided to release a demo for Bodycount today on the Xbox Live Marketplace. For unknown reasons the PlayStation 3 demo has not been released at this time, though will be sometime before release.

Players will enter into the early parts of the African missions and be dropped into a warzone. They will have a large arsenal of weapons at their disposal including a Super 90 shotgun and plenty of explosives. Players can earn intel by getting high scores through kills and other things. Also, what game can’t be loved when it has exploding bullets? Bodycount will be released on August 30th in North America for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. You can add the demo to your Xbox Download Queue here.

Prototype 2 evolves into awesomeness with latest trailer

Travis Bruno
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Prototype 2 has received a whole lot of teaser videos and when we first saw that the newest trailer was called the Evolution of Awesome we thought that perhaps things would change. Little did we know we were very wrong. Rather than seeing something fancy or over the top, we are only given the Flight of the Valkyries to listen to as we see slow motion footage of James Heller about to destroy a helicopter.

Prototype 2 still won’t be out until April 24th of next year so they have a whole lot of time to keep building up the hype for the game, though the eventual showing of legitimate gameplay footage could always be for the better. Still… with the pedigree of the enjoyable first installment to the series, there is little doubt that Prototype 2 won’t be just as fun, if not more.

DmC Devil May Cry gets its first gameplay trailer

Travis Bruno
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Capcom revealed their first gameplay footage for DmC Devil May Cry. Despite the huge amount of fan controversy over the look that the main character is going to have, Capcom is going to retain the whole new looking Dante that is half angel and half demon. In the gameplay footage we see both his holy and dark side used in combat.

The combat itself of course, hasn’t changed much from your standard Devil May Cry formula with plenty of juggling combat and extensive melee moves which will destroy any enemies in your path, Catch the gameplay footage below and the new Ninja Theory developed DmC Devil May Cry sometime next year.

Square Enix to change their name back to Square?

Travis Bruno
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Square Enix to change their name back to Square?

This can currently be taken as a rumor at best, but a new trademark was filed by Square Enix recently which only said the name “Square” on the file. This was found by Destructoid initially and scanned the document which you can see below. Square Enix may not be going through a name change but this evidence is a bit strange.

Over the course of the companies history it was titled on games as either Square or SquareSoft but when they purchased Enix they changed their name to Square Enix and it has been that way ever since. We have reached out to our contacts at Square Enix in the hopes for some clarification on this issue.

Trenched will be named Iron Brigade when it is released in Europe

Travis Bruno
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Double Fine and Microsoft announced at Gamescom that they would be changing the name of Trenched, which was released back in June in North America. The reason that the game had been delayed in Europe was due to trademark problem with the makes of the board game named “Trench” who intended to use the title to create some sort of video game in Europe.

In an effort to avoid any legal battles and potentially delay release of the title even longer, Microsoft will be releasing the game in September under the new name Iron Brigade. The name itself most likely is a reference to the mechs that the player uses to defend themselves and destroy their enemies. The price for the title will most likely remain the same as it was when it was released in North America at 1200 MSP.

Epic Games reveals five titles unrelated to Gears of War under development

Travis Bruno
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During a talk earlier this morning at GDC Europe, Epic Games’ company president Mike Capps happened to let slip that they are currently working on a number of projects at this moment in time. He didn’t make a big deal about the announcement but did say that they are working on “five new games at various stages of prototyping and development” and that, considering their team size hasn’t increased drastically that these games will be on smaller scale.

He also said that at the moment they were “not ready to announce anything” though he did hint that the PC is going to be the company’s platform of choice and not the other way around. Joystiq followed up with Capps and he also mentioned that they are going to be working with Chair and People Can Fly on these projects.

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