Megaton News

Electronic Arts publishers of major video game franchises such as Madden NFL 10, and Mirror’s Edge, have revealed new downloadable content for their free to play online murder simulator Battlefield Heroes, that will allow you to kill Michael Jackson like characters.

Originally they were going to charge for these Michael Jackson costumes, but due to a misinterpretation of customer outrage they have decided to simply promote the game by giving them away for free.

Steam is having a sale on one Ubisoft game every day of the week for one week. Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed for $10. A steal for one of the best selling shit games of this generation. Here’s a list of other Ubisoft titles available on Steam, perhaps tomorrow we’ll be lucky enough to get Grey’s Anatomy: The Video Game for 50% off or CSI: NY® – The Game for only $20. Only one downside to this amazing event, Steam doesn’t carry this shit:

Rockstar has made it official, Rockstar Vancouver is working on Max Payne 3 for the HD consoles and PC. To be released winter of this year, they say they’re moving the story of Max Payne in a “new direction”. Sam Houser of Rockstar said “This is Max as we’ve never seen him before, a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever. We experience the downward spiral of his life after the events of Max Payne 2 and witness his last chance for salvation.”

Variety is reporting… 

Twentieth Century Fox has Mark Wahlberg in the crosshairs for “Max Payne,” a live-action adaptation of the bestselling Rockstar videogame that will begin early next year. John Moore will direct.Wahlberg is negotiating to play the titular cop who is haunted by the tragic loss of his family and has little regard for rules as he investigates a series of mysterious murders. He finds himself up against an adversary bent on destroying Max and the streets he protects.

PR:

Turok, the epic, sci-fi first person shooter, will be released in spring 2008 for Windows PC, Touchstone announced today. Touchstone previously announced that Turok, one of next year’s most anticipated games, will be available for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. Developed by Propaganda Games, Turok for consoles will be available at retail stores on February 8th, 2008.

With all the Nintendo Megatons dropping tonight don’t forget you can now access all of The Orange Box on Steam. Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal hopefully you preloaded.

Apparently Epic can’t live up to the standards set by Shadowrun. Shacknews is reporting:

Still, in an IRC chat conducted yesterday featuring numerous members of Epic’s UT3 team, Epic VP Mark Rein finally confirmed that the game will not feature cross-platform multiplayer–at least at launch.

“The biggest challenge in doing cross platform play is syncronizing [sic] the builds such that the build on the PC is 100% compatible with the build on the PS3,” said Rein. “Unfortunately (or fortunately) when you [develop] games on console you have a lengthy certification process to go through each time you release anything new.”

“We looked at how this would impact our ability to respond quickly to things happening at internet speed on the PC side of the equation and realized that this would not be in the best interests of our very loyal PC userbase,” he went on, “because we would constantly be holding on to updates to wait until they passed cert on the console platform.”

Rein was sure to note that the feature may see release later on, “after the game has settled down,” but “even then the likelihood is small.”

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