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• Dead Rising Wii vs. 360 comparison
  The first video of Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop was released yesterday. The general opinion of the video seemed to be negative, especially due to the lack of zombies on-screen. Take a look at the video to see how Chop Till You Drop compares to its original counterpart on the Xbox 360.
  
  
• Are Sony successfully digging PS3 out of a hole?
  The problems with the Sony Playstation PS3 are well documented and are why the PS3 is running third and last for sales in this generation of the console wars.
  However they have gradually got their act together and are catching up. But do they have what it takes to be a winner again?
  
  
• Move Over World of Warcraft, WAR is Coming
  TGR - "I had never even heard of Warhammer until just over a year ago. I had never seen the army pieces you could paint up or even played any Warhammer PC games. So when a fellow World of Warcraft guild member said it was going to be the best MMO ever because it was being developed by Mythic Entertainment, the people that made Dark Age of Camelot, I shrugged it off. I was too busy playing Ultima Online and never got into Dark Age of Camelot. He kept babbling on and on about "Realm vs. Realm" and capturing keeps with siege weapons. World of Warcraft was my game of choice and addiction at that time; I couldn't imagine playing any other MMORPG. Time traveling forward to the present, my love of World of Warcraft is done. It was a great game, but it wore me down to a nub. All my time in the game was spent chatting in the trade channel, waiting for the arena queues to pop and raid groups to fill up. So, I didn't hesitate one second when I received that golden ticket in my email that told me to come join the WAR."
  
  
• Interview With A GameGirl: RayChul
  I sat down with one of the queens of the Game Girl movement. We chat it up about her trip to Comic Con, her site GameGirl.com and what it takes to get your own Gamer Girl.
  
  
• Tired of Hearing About Too Human
  Loot Ninja writes:
  
  "I caught myself just now in a bit of a conundrum, you may ask what that might be and it is that I was excited about playing Too Human for quite some time now, but there has been so much press and fan fair that it is getting to the point of annoying."
  
  
• Quantic Dream confident Heavy Rain has 'no competitors'
  Ps3Fanboy-The lid on Heavy Rain will be blown off this week at Leipzig Games Convention. To get you ready, check out this newly released interview from Gamereactor TV, taken after Sony's secret behind-closed-doors showing at E3 earlier this year. The interview doesn't reveal much: it shows the same screenshots that were leaked a few weeks ago, and all video footage is of the game's very early tech demonstration. It's interesting to see how confident Quantic Dream is about their upcoming project, saying games like Uncharted only managed to get "some" things right. Other than that, they promise that Heavy Rain has "no competitors."
  
  
• Fox News: We report? about 5 years late
  Fox News weighs in on America's Army, the video game... About five years too late and Sarcasticgamer.com calls them on it.
  
  From the article: "What I do care about is how horribly misinformed and uninformed these professional journalists are about the fastest growing and highest grossing form of entertainment in the world. At what point are news organizations going to catch on and stop assigning the guy who stands in hurricanes to talk about how the wind is blowing really hard, to cover a story about gaming?"
  
  
• Sony Has Lost More on the PS3 Than it Made on PS2
  1up:
  
  "Speaking at the Games Convention Developers Conference this afternoon, industry veteran Dave Perry (most known for his studio Shiny Entertainment and its games Enter the Matrix and Earthworm Jim), gave an overview of the games industry as he sees it today."
  
  
• Leipzig: Making of Gears of War 2
  Mike Capps presents "The Making of Gears of War 2" at the 2008 Leipzig Games Convention. Learn more about Epic's upcoming third-person shooter on the Xbox 360.
  
  
• Heavy Rain for PS3 at Sony Conference tomorrow
  We have just seen a small part of Sony Computer Entertainment conference rehearsal here at Game Convention in Leipzig, and we are almost certain that a new trailer of Heavy Rain for the PlayStation 3 with ingame footage was broadcasted.
  
  
• TGR: Rumor Killers: New Xbox/PS, PS3 Price Drop, Too Human PC?
  Are we about to see the next generation of consoles? Will the Ps3 see a price cut soon? Is Too Human eventually going to see a PC port? All this and more on this week's edition.
  
  Rumor Killers is your preeminent source for anything questionable in the gaming industry. TheGameReviews takes no hostages in their search for the truth. If there is an answer out there, they will guarantee you they won't stop searching till they find it. Each week, TheGameReviews.com brings you two editions of the Rumor Killers: Tuesday and Friday.
  
  
• House of the Dead: Overkill and MadWorld banned from Germany
  While the latest announcement of House of the Dead: Overkill was an exciting announcement for most, Germany will be missing out on the game. Likewise, the same goes for MadWorld. SEGA delivered a brief press release a short while ago with unfortunate news: House of the Dead Overkill and MadWorld will not head to Germany.
  
  
• Too bad for Too Human
  Globe & Mail looks at Too Human and Bionic Commando Rearmed, says the hyped Xbox 360 exclusive turns out to be a lacklustre dungeon crawler starring a frustratingly death-prone Norse god while the remake of Capcom's classic is just as satisfying now as the original was 20 years ago. From the story:
  
  "...My biggest beef is that my hero-supposedly a god-dies much too frequently for my liking. A combination of unintuitive controls and unfair enemy tactics (I was constantly, frustratingly under attack by both long range weaponry and melee warriors) led my protagonist to perish some 59 times in the game's first two dungeons. That's about once every six minutes of battle, according to the game's exhaustive statistics page. And every time he died I was forced to sit through a 15 second animation showing him being raised into the heavens by a valkyrie before being resurrected someplace nearby to re-enter the fray, as though nothing had happened.
  
  In other words, death is an annoyingly regular occurrence with no real consequences. Which made me wonder: What purpose was my god's excessive mortality supposed to serve? Battle drama would have been heightened had he been apt to kick the bucket less frequently but with more serious repercussions-like having to restart at a save point...."
  
  
• Top Ten: Most Annoying Villains
  You know those villains that you really want to just kick the snot out of? Those bosses you wish you could beat up forever even after the boss battle is over? Well here is a top ten list of my personal most annoying villains. Keep in mind, most of them are somewhat modern.
  
  
• There's not going to be an Xbox 720 or a PS4?
  Sarcasticgamer.com comments on the crazy rantings of one Alex St. John and his predictions of a PC gaming future...
  
  From the article: "Alex St. John is, apparently, 'the guy who talked Microsoft into the console business in the first place', which is probably true, given how small a company Microsoft is, and how they can't afford any advisers other than 'Advice 4 U' employee, Alex St. John. Makes total sense.
  
  You know what makes even more sense? Listening to this guy ramble on about what's "next" for the consoles?
  
  Details on St. John's predicted console apocalypse, after the jump."
  
  
• TF2 Heavy Update: Arena Mode Detailed
  New details on Team Fortress 2's Arena mode have been unveiled, shedding light on the multiplayer shooter's newest gametype set to arrive with tomorrow's release of the Heavy class update.
  
  According to the update's website, the gametype "keeps the class diversity of Team Fortress 2 while focusing goals around combat between two teams." Rounds are won by eliminating every member of an opposing team, or securing a map's central capture point, which becomes unlocked after 60 seconds of play.
  
  
• The Conduit at PAX
  High Voltage Software has announced that The Conduit, a fast paced First-Person Shooter currently in development for Wii console, will be featured by Nintendo at this year's PAX convention. The Conduit is a First-Person Shooter where players battle fierce alien invaders in a highly detailed 3D world using a dynamic control scheme only possible on Wii. Eric Nofsinger, Chief Creative Officer at High Voltage Software, had this to say about the news, "PAX is...
  
  
• Too Human trilogy 'very exciting', says Microsoft
  MCV: Microsoft has confirmed that it is committed to releasing a trilogy of Too Human games ? and compared the narrative pull of the story to Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings.
  
  
• Emily is Not Real: The End of "Real" Actors?
  PC World writes "I have seen the future of computer-generated video game animation, her name is Emily, and Emily is not real -- or is she?"
  
  
• Gamervision: Top Ten Reasons to Own an Xbox 360
  GV reports:
  
  ''I'm sick and tired of people complaining about the "Console Wars." Sure, it was good and fun when I was seven, but hearing people write off the Wii as a "child's toy" or say that there isn't anything worth buying on the PlayStation 3 is annoying and I am sick of the ignorance. So I have taken it upon myself to go through all of the current generation (consoles and handhelds) and give the ten best reasons each one is worth owning.
  
  The list isn't in any real order, more of a "loose order," so before you're at my throat about something being number two when it should really be number three realize that these aren't in any real order, just sort of ascending in importance. Oh, and before any idiots call me a fanboy for this, here is the Top Ten Reasons to Own a PS3 and the Top Ten Reasons to Own a Wii.''