Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (PSP)
Unravel the aftermath of the Keyblade War in this engaging prequel.

GameStop and Best Buy customers will be the only players to get invisibility and tag modes this year; Wal-Mart preorders receive Oddjob-themed “Cheater” apparel.

Last month, Activision announced a Goldeneye 007 bundle with a gilded Classic Controller to promote its upcoming remake of the seminal Nintendo 64 first-person shooter. The publisher’s picked up its promotional activities today, revealing a trio of retailer-exclusive enticements for players to pick the game up when it arrives November 16.

Ideal for Oddjob players with low self-esteem.

Gamers who pick up the title at GameStop or Best Buy can receive exclusive codes to unlock the game’s invisibility and tag splitscreen multiplayer modes, respectively. The invisibility mode (available with preorder) gives players the ability to become invisible for a limited amount of time to sneak up on opponents, while the tag mode makes whoever is “it” unable to score any kills until they touch another player.

The modes are said to be exclusive until December 31, 2010, suggesting they will become available to other players after that date. Both the GameStop and Best Buy codes will need to be authenticated online through the Wii before the modes are unlocked, an Activision representative told GameSpot.

The third retailer-specific incentive is a T-shirt offer available to those who reserve the game from Wal-Mart’s Web site or purchase it from one of the chain’s brick-and-mortar locations at launch. The shirt features the distinctive silhouette of strongman Oddjob’s lethal bowler hat, along with the caption “Cheater.” Playing as Oddjob in the N64 GoldenEye was frequently frowned upon by players, as his shorter stature made for a harder target and gave him a distinct advantage in matches.

For more on GoldenEye, check out GameSpot’s previous coverage.

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Expects it to be profitable.

Take-Two has backed divisive gangster game Mafia II and hit back at comments from an analyst that it will fail to be profitable.

The parent company of Mafia II publisher 2K Games said it was "very proud" of the title, and described developer 2K Czech as "extremely talented".

Eurogamer gave Mafia II 4/10 in its review.

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Halo: Reach (X360)
Catch a ride!

Take-Two "has strongest IP portfolio in the biz".

Open world cowboy game Red Dead Redemption has "sold in" over 6.9 million units worldwide, Take-Two has revealed.

The Rockstar Games title, which launched on 18th May, was "the key factor" in a strong quarter for the US company.

Strong sales of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, Grand Theft Auto IV, NBA 2K10 and Borderlands also helped.

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Advancements "worth waiting for".

1940s detective game L.A. Noir has been delayed to "the first half of calendar 2011", Take-Two has announced.

Publisher Rockstar Games previously said it was due out this autumn. L.A. Noir was originally announced in 2005.

The confirmation comes as no surprise: rumour of the game's delay hit the internet in July.

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Publisher more than triples quarterly sales to $354.1 million; L.A. Noire officially delayed to first half of next year.

Take-Two is riding a little higher in the saddle thanks to the success of Red Dead Redemption. Today the publisher released “significantly better than expected” financial results for the quarter ended July 31, saying the critically acclaimed open-world Western had sold-in 6.9 million copies to retailers worldwide.

With shipments nearing 7 million and more DLC on the way, Red Dead Redemption won’t be riding into the sunset for some time to come.

Company-wide, revenues for the quarter totaled $354.1 million, more than triple the $94.9 million in sales Take-Two posted for the same quarter the previous year. It also posted a net profit for the quarter of $5.9 million, a dramatic improvement from the $56.5 million loss it chalked up for the same period of 2009.

The numbers were so positive that Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick believes the current fiscal year will mark the first in almost a decade that Take-Two has posted a full fiscal year profit without the benefit of a major Grand Theft Auto release. To accomplish that goal, the company still has a ways to go before the October 31 end of its fiscal year. Through the first nine months of the fiscal year, Take-Two is still running a net loss of $11.2 million. Despite that, the company is at least heading in the right direction; at the same point of its last fiscal year, Take-Two was running a net loss of $116.9 million.

Beyond Red Dead Redemption, Take-Two said sales were led by Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, Grand Theft Auto IV, NBA 2K10, and Borderlands. Digital distribution is also a focal point for the company, as Feder said that the publisher has multiple new Borderlands and BioShock 2 add-ons in development, in addition to the already announced slate of Red Dead Redemption content.

The news of Red Dead Redemption’s sales success wasn’t surprising, but neither was the news of a delay for Rockstar’s L.A. Noire. Originally announced in 2005, L.A. Noire is now expected to see release sometime in the first half of calendar 2011.

While the silence surrounding the Team Bondi-developed project caused some to assume it wouldn’t be making its original October deadline, word of L.A. Noire’s delay first emerged from analysts and retailers last week. Take-Two CEO Ben Feder said in a postearnings conference call with analysts that the company showed the game off to a great reception at a recent GameStop manager’s convention and expressed confidence that the extra time will result in another critical and commercial hit for the company.

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Kirby’s Epic Yarn (Wii)
Nintendo announces its new Kirby game for Japan and shares a sweet trailer with some must-see gameplay sequences.

3D-enabled hyperrealistic racer, sci-fi shooter join God of War: Ghost of Sparta, Little Big Planet 2, and a PlayStation Move smorgasbord at Japan’s biggest gaming expo.

With the 2010 Tokyo Game Show just two weeks away, the major game publishers are starting to tout which titles they will be showing off at the massive expo. More than 180,000 people are expected to turn up at the Makahuri Messe just outside Japan’s largest city, and one company–Sony–is intent on displaying its latest and (it hopes) greatest game releases to the throngs of attendees.

TGS attendees will be able to get behind Gran Turismo 5’s steering wheel.

Front and center will be the PlayStation Move, Sony’s camera and LED-controller-based motion control system. There will be nearly 20 playable Move-compatible games on the show floor, including Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, Resident Evil 5: Alternative Edition, and Little Big Planet 2.

Two Move titles, Killzone 3 and Power Smash 4, will also be playable with 3D graphics. As shown at Sony’s press briefing at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Sony is aggressively pushing its 3D titles, including the Sly Cooper Collection, MotorStorm 3, and the long, long, long-awaited Gran Turismo 5–due out worldwide November 2.

Last but not least, Sony will be displaying its latest wares for the PSP, which has seen its sales fall to quintuple digits in the US. Leading the charge will be Sony’s God of War: Ghost of Sparta, along with Konami’s Winning Eleven Soccer 2011 and
Sega’s PSP Yakuza game, tentatively titled Yakuza Panther Shin Akira.

A full list of games appearing on Sony’s platforms at the Tokyo Game Show is below, and GameSpot will be on hand at the event, which runs from September 16 to 19.

PLAYSTATION MOVE TITLES



Capcom

Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition



Electronic Arts

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11



Namco Bandai Games

Big 3 Gun Shooting



Sega

Power Smash 4



Sony Computer Entertainment

Little Big Planet 2

Killzone 3

Heavy Rain

Hasurakingu

Beat Sketch!

City rupture

EyePets

Champion Sports

Flee! Flee! Bowling

Echochrome 2

Move in Party

I’ll Work! Ape Escape

Superstar TV

Studio Shooting

BLOQ Tsumiki

SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs 4

Heroes on the Move (tentative)



3D TITLES

Sony Computer Entertainment

Gran Turismo 5

MotorStorm 3 (tentative)

Killzone 3

Sly Cooper Collection

Hasurakingu

PS MOVE TITLES IN 3D



Sega

Power Smash 4



Sony Computer Entertainment

Killzone 3

EyePets

BLOQ Tsumiki

Hasurakingu



PSP TITLES

Capcom

3rd Monster



Konami Digital Entertainment

Winning Eleven 2011



Level 5

Cardboard Troopers



Namco Bandai

God Eater Burst

Three Tales of The World: Radiant Mythology



Square Enix

Lord of Arkana

The 3rd Birthday

Wheel of Fortune Tactics

Yakuza Panther Shin Akira

Phantasy Star 2 Infinity

God of War: Ghost of Sparta

Patapon 3 (tentative)

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Ubisoft readying downloadable multiplayer shooter from developer of The Ship; game built on Valve’s Source engine set for release this fall.

Upon its maiden voyage, Outerlight’s 2007 debut The Ship received critical praise for its unique take on multiplayer shooters, where each person on a cruise ship has to hunt a specific passenger while avoiding his or her own stalker. The developer’s long-awaited follow-up will soon see the light of day, as Ubisoft today announced that it will release Outerlight’s Bloody Good Time for Xbox Live Arcade and Steam this fall.

Ubisoft hopes Outerlight’s next game is a Bloody Good Time.

Billed as a new intellectual property, Bloody Good Time takes place on a variety of movie sets, with environments like a beach house or a Las Vegas hotel. The game will see up to eight players slaughtering each other in those locales with traditional weapons (guns) and more unique fare (an exploding remote-controlled rodent). The players themselves will also stand out, with Ubisoft describing them as B-movie archetypes like “the bikini beach babe, the creepy clown, and the super jock.”

Like The Ship, Bloody Good Time will run on Valve’s Source engine. Source has powered a number of successful interpretations of the first-person shooter genre, including Portal, Team Fortress 2, and Counter-Strike: Source.

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