New Doom 3 For Xbox 360 And PlayStation 3 Supports Head-Mounted Displays 
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High Scores And Egos: There's Always A Bigger Doodle Two clips here, both from the Killzone 2 beta, both showing a great deal of multiplayer footage, both showing that the game (or at least the MP parts) is looking surprisingly great. Like a long-delayed, future-noire Call of Duty 4.
If you bothered to turn your Wii on tonight, you’ll have been prompted to perform a system update. It’ll take your Wii to version 3.4. Version 3.4 does nothing new except, and I quote, “automatically remove” any “unauthorised modifications to save files”. That’s your edited Twilight Princess save files, users of the Homebrew Channel, so as with most firmware updates, you’d do well to stay away from this one if you want to continue getting any expanded use out of your Wii.
Nintendo unleashes Wii Menu 3.4, updates ToS and removes save files [Wii Fanboy]
Bad idea or not, there were plenty of people at both Microsoft and Ensemble Studios who thought making a Halo MMO was a good idea. So many, in fact, that prior to the game’s cancellation, it had actually been given the green light to enter full-blown production, and it was only “some reorganisation at Microsoft” that killed the project off.
Oh dear. We thought that the only offensive thing to be found in LittleBigPlanet was Sony’s over-zealous policing of intellectual property laws. Looks like we were wrong. It gets a little more offensive than that. What’s the matter, Media Molecule, sandwiches and/or burgers just too vanilla for you?
If you’ve turned on your Xbox 360 this evening and been greeted with a request to update your system, only to find the New Xbox Experience loading unexpectedly, you’re not the only one. Kotaku readers are coming out of the woodwork, firing up the tips line with reports that the NXE is arriving a little earlier than promised. That’s without pre-notification from Microsoft that they’d been accepted into the early preview program. Last minute round of invites? Someone flip a switch they shouldn’t have?
Video game publishers can pounce on that white hot Arena Football League licence, now that EA has opted not to renew its deal with the faster-paced, indoor-only take on American football. According to a report from the Sports Business Journal, EA has had just about enough arena football, coming to the end of its three-year agreement with the league and choosing not to invest in the AFL.
For the last 14 years the denizens of the USENET group rec.arts.int-fiction have been keeping the Text Adventure flag flying with hundreds of new games and an annual competition to find the best of the year’s crop. 2008 has seen 35 new entries with some real standouts both in quality of puzzles and a willingness to stretch the definition of text adventures/interactive fiction.
As adult gamers in Australia, we all know the pitfalls of having a draconian ratings system. But, it’s easy to forget that we incredibly mature-minded aged souls aren’t the only ones who sit themselves in front of a screen and stare at pretty graphics for sometimes hours on end.
The folks over at Babblebaby have put together a list of what they claim are the top music games suitable for ankle biters. It’s an interesting selection and should come in handy for parent-gamers, now that the horrendously long Christmas school holidays are just around the corner. [Babblebaby]
According to job feelers extended by Square Enix, the company has designs on building a brand new development studio in the United States, specifically Los Angeles, California. The solicitation for developers notes that the new Square Enix team will be working on “an action-oriented original IP game” with the Xbox 360 and Wii listed as the target platforms.
It’s that time of the year again, the season when video game marketing departments ask the art staff to whip up a naked version — as if someone on staff didn’t have one squirreled away — of the heroine or sidekick appearing in their latest non-triple A game and send it to Playboy magazine. The men’s mag has shipped its December issue with the fifth annual “Girls of Gaming” pictorial, full of nekkid video game starlets in sexy, sometimes Sapphic situations.
