Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer.
Updated on the fly:
Enthusiast:
- Call of Duty 5 subtitled World at War, detailed in OXM; set in WWII Pacific theatre; features online co-op over Xbox LIVE (Official Xbox Magazine via CVG)
- iPhone gets first original game in September, an action-adventure named Kroll (Joystiq)
- Crytek clarifies “no more PC exclusives” statement; they will produce no more PC exclusives after Crysis: Warhead (Next-Gen)
- Despite downsizing, LucasArts to continue production of current-gen Indiana Jones (Joystiq)
- 2K Games announces Civilization IV: Colonization, a stand-alone reimagining of Sid Meier’s Colonization using the Civ IV engine (BusinessWire)
- PSP Yggdra Union remake coming to U.S. September 16, with both Japanese and English voiceover (VerticalWire)
- Eastern European publisher 1C Company announces first console titles, including swashbuckling adventure Captain Blood and revamped WWII flight sim IL-2: Sturmovik: Birds of Prey (Gamasutra)
Industry:
- Xbox business to become profitable this year, says Microsoft exec (San Jose Mercury News via Kotaku)
- Shareholders to vote on Activision Blizzard deal on July 8th (Activision, Inc.)
- Analysts ridicule perception that iPhone could challenge the DS in handheld gaming market (GameDaily)
- Analyst, journalist and attorney discuss “The Impact of Activision Blizzard” (Gamasutra)
-> Pachter suggests Activision might pursue real-money trading in WoW
Film: Leonardo DiCaprio to play Atari founder Nolan Bushnell (Variety, The Hollywood Reporter)
Trendwatch: Emily Short talks interactive fiction’s resurgence, best practices (Guardian Unlimited)
Gaming and Society: Former Killzone dev talks progress on games for charity (MTV Multiplayer)
Rumoriffic:
- “Reliable source” says LucasArts will cease internal development, fire 100 more after completion of Force Unleashed; LucasArts denies rumor (Shacknews)
- WoW to introduce achievement system in Lich King expansion? (DeathKnight.info via CVG)
O RLY? “Girls have better things to do” than download mobile games, says THQ wireless marketing director (CasualGaming.biz via CVG)
Here’s to progress… Fire will purge the devil’s pixels from our souls (Daily Press via GamePolitics via Destructoid [from whom we shamelessly ripped the heading])
Look: LEGO’d video games (Flickr via Digg)
Prize Patrol: Honor your father by kicking his ass at SSBB, win a Wii (BusinessWire)
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