Need For Speed Might Be Over?

Due to the failing economy many business are having to make cuts and sadly people will lose jobs. This is also true of games companies such as Midway being very close to administration. The next to be hit are the untouchables EA. As a result of the declining economy they have announced that they will be cutting back on expenditure, and news is spreading across the net that it will be EA's Black Box division that get the cut.

Sadly this is the division that makes the Need For Speed titles so if this goes down the titles go with it. Due to reports of falling sales in NFS: Undercover and it not even making the top 20 in the NPD sales for November, there is also information that all future NFS projects have been canceled. EA spokesman Colin Macrae had this to say,

“These are challenging times, they’re uncertain times for our industry and across the board…We continue to be firmly rooted in Vancouver.”

Vancouver is where EA's Black Box division is located.

Could i be the end stay tuned for updates...

IGN Game Scoop Podcast - Episode 102

IGN have just released episode 102 of their Game Scoop podcast. This contains a mixture of different consoles however if your a listener of this podcast then check it out, if not then have a listen it can't hurt to download it and try. I personally have not experience with this podcast but some of the relevent 360 info covered is.

- NPD sales and the economy
- Brutal Legend Published by EA
- INterview with Fallout 3 Director about DLC

Game Scoop Episode 102

Gamespot - Wheelman Hands On

Gamespot have got their hands on Vin Diesel's newest action starring game known as Wheelman. The game is currently in development by Midway who are struggling with debts at the moment, so this may have to be their savior game. Anyway check out their preview and judge for yourself.

Gamespot Wheelman Hands On

Rumor - Rare Teasing Killer Instinct 3

Here we are again in the rumor mill and this time it's Rare's turn to step up. Apparently the image below is taken from the new Banjo-Kazooie game, where a merchant is trying to sell Banjo a copy of Killer Instinct 3 before it hit's the market. However this image is not from Rare and was uploaded by a user online.

So is this image an actuall teaser from Rare for KI3 or is it some useless Internet proporgander, who knows check it out.

The Allegeded Screen

Mercenaries 2 DLC Revealed

EA have just released information on the new Merc's 2 DLC that will be heading to the market place. The content will be called "Blow it up again" and is set for release on the 16th December 2008, however a price is still yet to be set.

Blow It Up Again DLC - Prince (TBC)
- New Missions
- Hidden Candidates
- New Game play modes

The new gameplay modes include Urban Rampage, Arms Race and Death Race.
A trailer for the new DLC also released by EA can be found below.

New Dark Void Screens

I don't know anything about this game at all but for those who are following it 3 new screen shots have emerged of the game it looks ok to me but it's hard to judge from screen shots and I have no info on the game. Anyway check out the screens and a trailer I found and see what you think.

Dark Void Screens

What I'm Playing - 13/12/2008 - 1:00AM

Well it's just before I head to bed so here's a quick run down of whats been in the machine.

I've been playing some more of Mirrors Edge I started playing through the speed runs of each level basically you must beat the level within a time limit, no easy thing to do. I unlocked The prologue and chapter 1 speed run achievements. I also unlocked the achievement for running a certain distance randomly while doing the speed run.

	Vrooom!	40
	Maintain sprint speed for 30 seconds.

However I have decided to stop playing Mirrors Edge now that I have completed the story as I can't bring myself to do the time trials and speed runs, I may start on Prince of Persia.

Finally I decided to play a few ranked games on FIFA but stopped after frustration of jammy players started to set in I couldn't find a rythm at all so I turned the console off for the night.

Anyway speak soon...