We haven’t covered the Penny Arcade Expo at all here at DigitalBattle. It just didn’t seem interesting for the time being. However, the guys at Destructoid have written about it thoroughly, and gathered 100 photos of the Expo. Check it out here.

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As you may know, there is a Battlefield 2142 beta release available to those lucky users of FilePlanet. Since it’s out in the public, hackers of the original Battlefield 2 have already hacked the beta version, which is reportedly easy, since the game is built using the same engine.
Only a few modifications are needed to [...]

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Chinese site DigiTimes reports that Microsoft won’t be releasing the Xbox360 HD-DVD add-on in Asia. According to Microsoft Taiwan, there is no market for the HD-DVD player in the Asian region,
This is because the external HD-DVD drive is designed to play back movies pre-recorded on HD-DVD blue-laser discs, and the supply of HD-DVD movies in [...]

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Last Friday a group of protesters gathered around Take-Two’s office to show they anger against Bully, the yet to be released and still highly controversial game.
The protesters, from the group Peaceaholics, yelled, “This game is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!”. Take-Two and developer Rockstar Games previously received complains about GTA: San Andreas, for its violence and the whole [...]

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Aeropause features a walkthrough on what to do if your Xbox360 goes dead and has to be replaced. How do you transfer your content, downloads, videos, games, on to a new hard drive safely?
Usually people resort to use the “Recover Xbox Live Gamertag” option, but as they report, it might not be the best thing [...]

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Last round of screenshots and videos from the Games Convention in Leipzig, plus a few newly released screenshots of various games. The concention was very popular among fans, as we reported earlier today.
New Screenshots:
Elveon, Xbox360 (TeamXbox)
Splinter Cell: Double Agent (TeamXbox)
WoW: The Burning Crusade (3DGamers)
Hot Shots Golf, PS3 (TheMagicbox)
Halo 2 Vista (DigitalBattle)
Red Steel (VoodooExtreme)
Zelda Twilight Princes [...]

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Lonely Planet, publishers of countless video and book travel guides, have teamed up with Sony and will be releasing their books in form of interactive guides on the PSP. The guides will be delivered via a download service and stored on the Memory Stick.
The new service, called “Passport to…

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Nintendo has announced that over 2 million players have connected their DS online using the Nintendo WiFi Connection. The most popular games are Mario kart DS and Metroid Prime Hunters. The 2 million number represents unique players that have connected online, player #2.000.000 connected last Thursday for the first time.
Nintendo’s newest DS title, Star Fox [...]

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I love TheInquirer, they always have the latest insider news surrounding Sony’s PlayStation 3. This time, they report that the graphics chip, the Nvidia RSX, has once again been downgraded, from a 700 MHz memory clock, to a 650 MHz memory clock speed.
Previously the GPU was also downgraded from 550 MHz to 500 MHz. It [...]

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There wasn’t much news from Nintendo at the Leipzig Games Convention, only two new Wii games announced. Price and launch date was never talked about, besides eager journalists, bloggers, and common gamers.
However, Nintendo has announced a Wii media event held in New York on September 14. Reggie Fils-Aime will be there, hopefully announcing Wii [...]

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BFG (Big Force Gun), the most powerful gun in Doom and Quake, famously know as the “Big F***ing Gun” for its mass devastation. And for being a pain in the ass if you’re in its sight (kind of like the modern AWP/AWM sniper in Counter-Strike).
You can now, for only $79.95, own your own replica of [...]

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Leipzig Games Convention is over and attracted a record number of visitors; more than 183,000 visited the show, with some 2,600 journalists from 38 countries covering the event. Last year, “only” 138,000 visitors stopped by, while 2000 journalists covered the event. CEO of Leipzig GC, Josef Rahmen said,
“Success on this scale is unique ever since [...]

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Nintendo’s Bill Trinen speaks to GameInformer about the Wii and Twilight Princess, and says they expect the game to be rated T (for Teen). His reason is the new, more realistic looking graphics (with more realistic looking violence).
He also mentioned that Twilight Princess would include a much bigger storyline, including twice as much text as [...]

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This week all the big news came coming from Leipzig Games Convention. Few new games were unveiled, but a lot of new info, videos, and screenshots from some of the most anticipated titles. Here are some of the most popular news this week.
General News:
DigitalBattle’s Top 10 Most Anticipated PS3 Games
Battlefield 2142 Veterans Program Live
Half Life [...]

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Bungie recently released some screenshots of Halo 2 for Windows Vista, supposedly to showcase the power of the new platform. I doubt many are impressed with the screens; they look little better than Halo 1, and can in no way match recent games like Call of Duty 2, F.E.A.R., or even Doom 3. Not to [...]

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Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox360 Classics lineup, games that have been out for some time and achieved decent sales, like Perfect Dark Zero. It’s their version of Player’s Choice or Platinum series.
The first two titles to be released this October are Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo, both originally launched in 2005. The games will retail [...]

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It’s one of those games you just cannot wait to play. Nintendo released some new screenshots from the spiritual successor to one of the greatest games ever, Ocarina of Time. Check out the rest of the Twilight Princes screenshots after the jump.

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Yesterday the Xbox360 Core pack received an official price drop of £10 in United Kingdom, and now costs £199. The Core pack doesn’t include a hard a hard drive and a wireless controller. Should you chose to buy those items separately, it would cost you more that the Premium bundle (retailing at £279.99).
Microsoft contacted distributors [...]

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In an interview with Famitsu magazine, Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi said that Gran Turismo HD wasn’t the true next-gen Gran Turismo sequel. Gran Turismo HD is merely a title to showcase PS3s graphical capabilities, running at 60fps in 1080p HD resolution. He called GT HD a “port” of Gran Turismo 4, released on the [...]

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The first crisp screenshots of Battlefield: Bad Company have emerged, and a few magazine scans showing off a completely destructible environment. You can see how a house can be destroyed part by part, brick by brick. The visuals are also top-notch, using the full potential of the PS3 and Xbox360. Check out the rest of [...]

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