To celebrate Assassin’s Creed PSP debut, Sony has announced that they will be released a limited edition PSP bundle appropriately entitle the Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines PSP Entertainment Pack.

This bundle will go on sale in November for $199.99 and include:

• White PSP-3000
• Assasin’s Creed: Bloodlines
• Currently unannounced UMD movie
• 2GB Memory card

So, it looks like despite the impending release of the PSP Go, Sony is staying true to their previous hardware and UMD format.

Ubisoft‘s Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines will be out for the PSP on November 10th, 2009.

A few days ago we were shown the updated guitar controller that would be bundled with Guitar Hero 5 and today Activision shows us yet another peripheral, the drums.

There’s not much to say about this set besides the fact that it’s, well, a drum controller. Although, it will apparantly allow for use with 2 kick pedals if you’re into that kind of thing.

Guitar Hero 5 will be made available for the Playstation 3, Playstation 2, Xbox 360 and Wii on September 1st, 2009.

via Joystiq

Resident Evil 5 made its console debut over 4 months ago and only now can we put our fingers on a solid date for the game’s PC rendition.

Capcom has officially anounced that the game will be hitting shelves for the PC in North America on September 14th and in Europe on September 18th.

Ripten reports that the PC version will feature an upgraded Mercenaries mode with 3x more enemies along with new customes and higher resolutions. The most interesting part about the PC version, however, is that it will feature support for Nvidia’s 3D video cards.

Resident Evil 5 in 3D? I’m down.

While we were notified of the XBLA release date for Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Playstation 3 owners were effectively left in the dark.

Luckily, we now know that the game will be re-released for the PSN on August 15, a few weeks after the XBLA, for $15. The game will reportedly also ship in a retail form for the PS3, priced at $20, and feature a DVD with wallpapers, a manual, 2,000 Capcom Unity points and 1-month of access to Marvel Digital Comics.

If you haven’t already played Marvel vs. Capcom 2 when it was first released in back in the early 00s, now’s a perfect chance to get down on this classic title.

Read (Joystiq)

Just in case you haven’t already spent enough time on World of Warcraft, Blizzard has recently launched the WoW Mobile Armory iPhone app effectively giving players their WoW fix on the go.

If you’re familiar with the World of Warcraft Armory currently available online, you’ll be familiar with this as it incorporates all of said online application’s features into a handheld package. This means you’ll be able to check up on character, guild and arena data along with check your guild’s calender.

Additionally you’ll be able to find out everything you need to know about items, zones and dungeons featured in the game. Best of all, it’s free!

via Kotaku

THQ has given the system requirements for their upcoming PC title Red Faction: Guerilla. The publisher has also announced the release dates, which will be September 11th for an international release, and September 15th for North America.

Minimum:

• OS: Windows XP / Vista
• CPU: 2.0 GHz Dual-Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2)
• Memory: 1 GB RAM / 15 GB of Hard Drive space
• Video Card: 128 MB 3D Video Card w/Shader Model 3.0 Support (Nvidia GeForce 7600/ATI Radeon X1300)

Recommended:

• OS: Windows Vista® for DirectX® 10
• CPU: 3.2 GHz Dual-Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2)
• Memory: 2 GB RAM / 15 GB of Hard Drive space
• Video Card: 256 MB 3D Video Card w/Shader Model 3.0 Support (Nvidia GeForce 8800/ATI Radeon HD3850)

Read (Red Faction Underground)

Stalin vs Martians, is one of the most innovative game titles to date. No, not the game, just the title, yes, the title of the game, “Stalin vs Martians”. It stands out quite nicely among the PR created stuff like “Prototype”, “InFamous” and “Velvet Assassin”. As for the game, Stalin Vs Martians, it’s useless and utterly ridiculous.

In Stalin Vs. Martians, henceforth to be known as SvM, you take control over the Red Army (back when there still was a Red Army, in 1942), and you fight an invading force of Martians. That’s right, Hitler and the Germans are on hold, Stalingrad is second priority, as you, Stalin himself, commands units against the invading green-skinned, baddies from Mars. Actually, there is no story in the game. How the Martians got there, why they’re fighting the Reds instead of the Nazis, all of that is absent from the game, you’re simply ordered by the game to fight Martians. Why? Who knows. And with a game like this, who cares, really?

The game is a standard real time strategy game, no, actually, it’s not, it lacks some of the most basic RTS features. This is done in order to “preserve simplicity”, according to the developer. Or a press release. Either way, the RTS element sucks, because, well, the units don’t care what you order them to do. Command them to attack, and they just stand around there. If it was the real Red Army, they would have been executed — all of my units would have been executed — because they failed to follow my orders. You play as Stalin, after all. But the units could care less. Even when the basic stuff works, the gameplay is utterly boring and repetitive.

But once, just for once, for a brief moment lasting no longer than five minutes, something shocking happened: I actually had fun playing the game. Then the game started lagging. Then the frame rate showed periodic, random drops that would make it completely unplayable. And then there’s the bugs.

How a game this buggy got to be released as beyond me. It feels like an alpha build, something that should be tested internally for months, then released as a beta, then tested for several more months, then, hopefully, released. But all of that is an understatement of how buggy the game is.

The developer clearly had a thing in mind with a title like that: don’t take us or our game too seriously, gives us a break. No, I won’t. When the most basic features of your game are lacking, when it’s downright unplayable at times, and when it’s filled with so many bugs that would make any programmer instantly fired, you don’t get a break, no matter how unserious your game is.

Even if you are a fanatic Communist and Stalin fan, I still wouldn’t recommend this game. If you’re insane however, and need to prove your insanity to others, just tell them you’re playing Stalin vs. Martians. In fact, tell them it’s the best game ever.

The Good:
The title

The Bad:
Dated graphics
Repetitive
Buggy
Laggy

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Tour de France 2009: The Official Game hits Xbox Live

Quake Live has been patched today with a large list of changes. Changes range from bug fixes to competitive gaming server options.

Select organizations will now be able to launch private servers directly from the official Quake Live website, meaning league play will become a lot easier to handle. These private servers will “include extensive competition features such as calling timeouts, locking teams, aborting matches and designating match referees.”

New commands and prerequisites for game modes have also been added, making customization go even further with the game. Several user interface changes have also been made to the website.

Make the jump for the very extensive changelog.

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EA has revealed a new trailer for the game, this time with a catchy song and full on robot dances. The trailer gives brief, humorous descriptions about the classes in the game and dazzles you with a bunch of bright colors. Anyways, the trailer is pretty entertaining so check it out.

Already with one million players, Battlefield Heroes is looking to be a very popular free-to-play game. Be sure to check out our review on Battlefield Heroes in case FPS veterans are iffy on the cartoony presentation of the game.