Anyone else excited to see this movie?

TLB reader Lawl has sent me quite the conspiracy theory. I emailed him back calling him crazy as usual, and told him to I need proof. Minutes later he hit me back with something I wasn't expecting to see - the image above. Where the fuck is the PS3 graphic? If you search Rockstar Games' support database, you'll only find an Xbox 360 version of GTAIV listed, not a PS3 one as well. It's been established that Grand Theft Auto IV is coming to both PlayStation 3, and the Xbox 360, but that each will have original downloadable content over time, so why wouldn't each be listed on their support page?

Has Microsoft worked its money magic yet again and stolen away another game from Sony's PS3? Well, Take Two Interactive, the publisher for the GTA series, isn't doing so well right now financially. In fact, they even postponed a financial meeting until tomorrow, where they're probably going to get a lot of shit from shareholders. That's where Lawl's theory kicks in - tomorrow is also the day that the GTAIV trailer is revealed, as well as the other half of Microsoft's big announcement - the first part of course being the not so surprising Xbox 360 Elite. Coincidence?

Thanks to Lawl on Arrogantics for the rumor tip. Has Microsoft really gained GTAIV as an exclusive title? This is obviously a huge rumor, and could be written off as simply careless site updating on Rockstar's behalf, but with the big puzzle pieces still missing in tomorrow's puzzle, it's time to play the speculation game. Your thoughts? Entirely possible? Pissed? Meh?

1UPs comparison

So the way they break it down is that the two are only $8 different in value. Kinda makes you look again at buying a PS3 eh?

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games Announce LEGO® BATMAN™: THE VIDEOGAME

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Will Publish Games On Multiple Platforms in 2008

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games will bring LEGO® BATMAN™: THE VIDEOGAME to next-generation and current generation platforms and the PC in 2008 with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment serving as the game’s North American publisher, including all sales and distribution functions.

In LEGO BATMAN: THE VIDEOGAME, TT Games brings the world of DC Comics’ Caped Crusader to life in an entirely new way. Players can explore a richly interactive LEGO Gotham City as Batman and Robin, capturing infamous villains – and even take control of the villains themselves.

“Batman spans several generations as one of the most popular DC Super Heroes, and LEGO BATMAN will appeal to several generations of gamers who grew up idolizing the Dark Knight and playing with LEGO toys,” said Samantha Ryan, Senior Vice President, Development and Production, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “Working with TT Games, we are confident they will continue their LEGO games’ success with this title, and we will expand our publishing endeavors with the introduction of the LEGO BATMAN franchise.”

“We’re sure our fans will be excited to know that we have the same fantastic team at Traveller’s Tales responsible for LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Star Wars II working on LEGO BATMAN,” said Tom Stone, Director of TT Games Publishing.

“There’s a special magic to the LEGO incarnation of Batman that makes him accessible to a younger generation of his fans," said Paul Levitz, President, DC Comics. “We look forward to the videogame version extending this fantasy.”

The LEGO BATMAN: THE VIDEOGAME story unfolds with Batman’s greatest foes escaping from Arkham Asylum and creating mayhem throughout Gotham City. Tracking criminals, including The Joker and The Penguin, players will utilize Batman’s gadgets as well as build and operate fantastic vehicles in one or two player cooperative gameplay.

Goody goody goody! I love the TT Lego games. I think them doing a Batman game is going to be lots of fun. I will be picking this one up for my 360, I can almost guarantee it!

You really don't need much transportation to get around in Crackdown. Swallow a few hundred agility orbs and leaping from one side of the map to the other is effortless. But, now that most gamers have started replaying the game simply due to lack of anything better to do until the Halo 3 beta goes online, the team at Real Time Worlds is prepping their downloadable content -- and it could include some surprises.

Speaking to Eurogamer, producer Phil Whilson mused on how they had originally ruled out including airborne vehicles into Crackdown because of the focus on player agility and possible engine limitations. At the end of development, however, they realized the engine could certainly handle allowing players to rule the skies:

"Since nothing's announced for the forthcoming downloadable content I have to be careful what I say about it, but flying vehicles are something that we initially decided to steer well clear of. As it happens that latter concern was irrelevant because, as you can see in the finished game, the existing engine can handle immense draw distances and rapid streaming... so airborne antics is definitely not off the table going forward."

Also arriving in an upcoming content patch are new game modes (including one co-op one that was actually influenced by a YouTube video) and the ability to reset gangs for players who'd rather continue playing with their current character, rather than starting over.

Being able to fly into a gang member and kill them would probably get me to play this game. But for now it is sitting in it's GameFly sleeve awaiting my decision of sending it back, or waiting for the Halo 3 Beta. What do you guys think? Will it be worth the wait?

http://www.mcvideogame.com/game-eng.html

It's early Monday morning and I know you don't want to get to work at your job. You'd much rather slaughter diseased cows, sell the contaminated burgers to children, start brainwashing commercial campaigns, and then use your profits to destroy the environment and pay corrupt government officials to overlook all of the above. It's not 1080p and there's no achievements to be unlocked, it's just a flash game that could easily waste half an hour of your time.

Gameplay involves managing crop fields, slaughter houses, McDonalds employment, and financial offices. When one of the four areas gets out of hand its little yellow light will flash to get your attention, and as the seasons and years pass it all gets harder and harder to handle. I kept getting rich quick, and then hitting bankrupt hard - it took me a while to figure out that you're allowed to demolish the entire forest and even the guy's retreat in it. The sooner you're an asshole, the better, I suggest taking advantage of the brainwashing children schemes as soon as you open up more than one register. And for some reason the cashiers puke on themselves when they're bored, don't be afraid to fire their acne asses.

You can play the game here, but be prepared for an evil Ronald McDonald to show up often and yell at you for bankrupting the company.

"To: Capcom, We (The people that have signed this petition) feel very left out in your decision to make Devil May Cry 4 a Multi-Platform title, and hereby agree to boycott your sale of Capcom affiliated games. This is due to your decision to turn your back on your most faithful gaming company. For years we have enjoyed games, we have reaped the benefits of your committment [sic] to Sony. We find it absolutely demoralizing for not only the gamers, but also Sony itself. We want you to know that will not, and should not stand for your actions, and therefore withold [sic] our option of buying your product."

Ok wow these people are seriously demented. Why should the fact that Capcom has made one of their more popular games available to MORE people without denying the original users, be a bad thing? If I own a PS3 by the time it comes out, I'll probably still buy it on a PS3. They are not disallowing me to play it on a Sony platform, they are just allowing all the owners of the 360 to play it also. This isn't a loss for the gamers out there, but a gain. Companies can't make a profit if the user base isn't there.