Sonic Dev Admits Reason Why Recent Sonic Games Have Suffered

Ever since Sonic Adventure 2 on the Sega Dreamcast the hedgehog has suffered some pretty poor releases. Sonic fans have been hurting for a long time now with titles like "Sonic Riders" and more recently "Sonic The Hedgehog". What little good will gamers had left for the blue blur is quickly evaporating thanks to Sonic Unleashed, an otherwise decent Sonic game ruined by brawling levels that turn Sonic into a werehog combatant. So why exactly do the development team keep screwing things up exactly? David Clayman caught up with a member of the development team on Sonic Unleashed and asked them exactly this.

Gran Turismo 5 in Christmas 2009

Sony's chief executive in southern Europe, James Armstrong, revealed in a statement to Spanish newspaper El Financiero that we can expect the game to arrive (in Europe, at least) Christmas 2009.

Fifa 09 Update Patch

EA has been hard at work on a patch for FIFA 09 and have now announced the general fixes of said patch. They state they are aiming for a release next week and among the issue's fixed are:
- Fixed side-stepping issue
- Improved advantage rule
- Fixed Stadium 23.Maj lag issue
- Fixed join issue in Online Team Play Lobbies

Rockstar "not sure" when GTAIV content is coming!

Arstechnica writes: Before Grand Theft Auto IV's release, Microsoft paid $50 million to secure the exclusive rights to a large batch of downloadable content. To this day, no information about that content has been divulged, except for a tentative release date of fall 2008. Even that single piece of information appears to be moot now, as Rockstar has commented that it is "not sure" when the content will go live.

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Gears of War 2 debuts to 2,100,000 Units Day 1

According to early retailer reports, and user polls, Gears of War 2 is shaping up to be one of the biggest Xbox 360 titles to date, putting it in very similar territory to blockbusters 'Halo 3' and 'Grand Theft Auto IV'

Using the aforementioned data, Gears of War 2 looks to have debuted to midnight and Friday sales of 1,400,000 units in North America, and 700,000 units in 'Others' territories. This would be roughly 20% lower, by comparison, to Halo 3's massive debut, which wound up with 3.8 million units sold it's first week on the market.

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COD5 to Sell Accelerated Experience Points to Gamers

During yesterday's analyst call, Activision revealed a plan to make more money from the COD franchise by selling something called "Day One Advantage" that will buy you fasterexperience points to use in the game.