Amazon.com has been known to hold various promotions that sees the price tag of highly sought after products get dropped significantly. Video games are no different as they have time and time again appeared in Amazon’s Gold Box deal-of-the-day. In fact, just today Amazon.com has posted their Gold Box deal as Dead Space 2.
While the PS3 version has already sold out, the deal still sees the price of both the Xbox 360 and PC dropped to $39.99 and $39.95. If you’re looking to get fancy, Amazon also offers the Collector’s Edition for $59.95 – a very enticing deal considering the regular game usually retails for this same price. PS3 owners will also want to make note of the Collector’s Edition deal as this version of the game has yet to sell out.
If you’re looking to get down on this do so fast because as soon as the day or stock runs out, the deal will expire.
A new teaser trailer for EA’s upcoming Need for Speed: Shift has surfaced, featuring the Formula D and D1 Grand Prix racer Vaughn Gittin Jr.
Need for Speed: Shift will be out in stores September 17th in Europe, the 18th in the United Kingdom, and the 22nd in North America. Check out the track list and car roster listed back in May here.
Electronic Arts has revealed the official boxart of the upcoming action RPG Mass Effect 2. The version you’re seeing above is for the Xbox 360, but the PC art is exactly the same.
Bioware‘s Mass Effect 2 will be out in stores sometime early next year.
The new Spore patch is now live, and comes with a number of changes, including asymmetry being implemented into the game. If you already have Spore, you just need to launch the game and the software should patch.
Don’t forget that you need the EA Download Manager to make the patch possible, though. Here’s the full changelog:
Spore Improvements:
Asymmetry is now available for creatures! Details on new Asymmetry features for Creatures and Vehicles can be found here.
This patch fixes several crashes in Space Game.
Many tuning improvements to Space Game, including reduced disaster rates at all levels of difficulty, adjustments to Hard Mode, increased limits on concurrent trade routes, as well as changes to tool unlocks for the Knights.
Creator Lineage appears correctly for all creation types shared after this patch is installed.
Cheat is included that permits Creators to export creatures in Collada format for use in Maya. Creators must acknowledge and accept a Tools EULA to perform this operation. An additional cheat has been provided to enable highest quality textures to appear on vehicles, where it is supported by user hardware.
Fixed a problem where creations would go missing if a user quits the game in any way while downloads are in progress.
Fixed a bug where achievements were disappearing.
Fixed a bug where some Sporepedia cards had corrupted backgrounds.
Fixed a problem in Space where some Grox planets were unreachable.
YouTube movies now publish as public
Galatic Adventure Improvements:
This patch must be installed again after installing Galactic Adventures, even if you have installed this patch previously.
You can now place the avatar, NPCs, and handheld objects on top of air, land, and sea vehicles in the Adventure Creator. Get more info here.
Improvements are made to the Adventure Creator, including right-click camera behavior, and User Interface enhancements.
In EP1 open gates were not working correctly when they were disguised
Some customer-reported crashes in Galactic Adventures have been fixed.
Despite the patch being announced well over a year ago, and the beta for the patch being released back in April, the preparations are being made for a final release for the 1.5 patch for Battlefield 2. Associate producer Barrie Tingle of Battlefield 2 gives word that the patch will be finalized and released very soon.
“When I get back into the office next week there will be some last minute checks (no more fixes (unless something is broken that I didn’t expect) or changes) and all being well the update 1.50 will be finalized and released officially.” Tingle said.
Changes since the beta started include a black cross hair on the TV guided missles and widescreen FoV on widescreen resolutions.
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.
EA Sports has revealed that the release date for the upcoming soccer game FIFA 10 will be October 2nd. This release date, however, is only confirmed for the United Kingdom. Release dates for everywhere else are still to be announced.
Improved in this installment of FIFA are ball physics, an updated manager mode, and other gameplay improvements.
FIFA 10 will be released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PlayStation 2, PC, Nintendo DS, PSP, N-Gage, iPhone, iPod Touch, and mobile phones. This will be the last FIFA game for the PlayStation 2.
The official EA Sports website reveals some details regarding the upcoming demos for Madden NFL 2010. Fans who reserved the game will be given access to an exclusive demo on July 23rd for Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. This pre-order exclusive demo features a Super Bowl XLIII rematch between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals with 5 minute quarters.
As for everyone else, the free demo will be released exactly one week later on July 30th, which features the Giants vs. Cowboys.
This year’s installment will be introducing cooperative gameplay, which is a breath of fresh air for the Madden series. Madden NFL 2010 will be touching down in stores on August 14th for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii, Nintendo DS, and iPhone.
Electronic Arts has supplied us with a nice trailer for their new first-person-shooter Battlefield 1943. The game launched yesterday for the Xbox 360 and today for the PS3 for a reasonable $15 or 1200 MS Points.
If you’re like me and like your FPS served with a keyboard and mouse, the PC version is expected to come out sometime in September.
Check out our review of the game in case you’re wondering if it’s worth your time.
The new Spore patch is now live, and comes with a number of changes, including asymmetry being implemented into the game. If you already have Spore, you just need to launch the game and the software should patch.
Despite the patch being announced well over a year ago, and the 
