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European PSN releases for October 16th

by Jem Alexander { Oct 16th 2008 at 12:30PM }

Nothing too special this week, but they can't all be winners, right? The fact that we can now call two demos and a bunch of add-on content a mediocre update nowadays must mean that Sony is doing something right. Tempted by Eye of Judgment set three? No? How about if we remind you that it includes trophies? It's going to be tough picking what to pick up in the next few months there are just too many games. Here's the full release list:

Playable content

Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway demo (free)
MotorStorm Pacific Rift demo (free)

Add-on content

Eye of Judgment Biolith Rebellion set 3 (£6.99/€9.99)
Eye of Judgment Biolith Rebellion set 2 & 3 (£10.49/€14.99)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 "Firestone County Club" (£4.99/€7.49)
Rock Band DLC (Listed after the break)

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Dem-o-rama: Brothers in Arms, Madagascar 2

by Justin McElroy { Oct 14th 2008 at 1:15PM }

Right, so we know the inclusion of the demo for Madagascar 2 hardly makes this a dem-o-rama, but we figured as long as we were letting you know that a demo for Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway is now available on Xbox Live, we'd go ahead and mention Madagascar 2. Just ... you know ... in case.

... Oh, OK, fine. We just wanted an excuse to make that photoshop. There, are you happy now? You guys are monsters, we tell you! Monsters!

Read -- Demo: Madagascar 2
Read -- Demo: Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

X3F TV -- Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway Review

by Xav de Matos { Oct 13th 2008 at 12:00PM }

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway marks the first time the critically acclaimed World War II shooter has made its way to the Xbox 360 generation. Known for a dramatic look at the relationships and emotions of war, Hell's Highway continues the story of Staff Sergeant Matt Baker as his squad of 101st Airborne Division veterans this time as they push through the ultimately flawed plan of Operation Market Garden. How does the latest from publisher Ubisoft and developer Gearbox Software stack up? Check out our full video review.

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Hell's Highway demo burns up the XBLM

by Dustin Burg { Oct 13th 2008 at 11:00AM }

Newly available on the Xbox Live Marketplace is a Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway demo that (unlike the game's title sort of suggests) doesn't involve Satan or let you pave roads. The demo requires roughly 1.32GB of hard drive storage and should give you a taste of the look, feel and amount of violence the retail version of Hell's Highway has in store. Go ahead and give the demo a try because, really, what's the worst that could happen? A few gigs of your hard drive lost, a few hours of your life wasted and the corruption of your gaming soul?

Just how violent is Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway?

by Xav de Matos { Sep 30th 2008 at 9:30PM }

Want to know a secret? Videogame adaptations of war can be pretty violent. Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway is the recently released first-person shooter from UbiSoft that proves our point. Setting itself apart in gameplay style, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway features a light tactical overlay within its squad based system that allows players to control nearly all aspect of the soldiers under their command. According to Metacritic, if that's your thing, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway has been given generally favorable reviews; currently sitting with a score of 76. The trailer, found after the jump, showcases some of the more violent action in the game. Looking to see how insane war can be or just want to watch sheep react to physics through a grenade blast? Jump in.

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Metareview -- Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway

by Justin McElroy { Sep 24th 2008 at 10:57PM }

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway has been quite a long road but, if the reviews are any indication, it's been a worthwhile one. The critiques aren't without complaint by any means, but they're are all consistently solid, always a good sign in our metareviewing experience.

Official Xbox Magazine (90/100): "Raw, frenzied action and deep thoughts about the nature of leadership don't seem like natural bedfellows, but in Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, they join forces to deliver both gripping drama and riveting gameplay. Like the heroes it portrays, the game itself is an imperfect experience, but its better qualities are so compelling that surrender won't be an option."
VideoGamer (80/100): "Bar the jarring Action Camera, there's not a lot wrong with Hell's Highway. Rather, there's a lot good with it. It's an intelligent game made by adults for adults. It'll have a hard time going up against Treyarch's Call of Duty: World at War this Christmas, of course. But, like Sergeant Baker himself, it's going to put up a damn good fight."
Game Informer (78/100): "Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway is a competent tactical shooter blessed with a dedication to narrative rarely seen in shooters. If Gearbox can build off this success with more inventive gameplay, the series has a chance of overcoming the boredom that curses so many WWII titles."

New games this week: Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway edition

by Justin McElroy { Sep 22nd 2008 at 8:10AM }

Don't be fooled. This week's list of new releases may look like the first really big fall week just chock-full of new, great games. Well, they're new all right (most of them at least) but we're not sure there's a ton of "can't miss" games on deck.

Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway is an obvious one, LEGO Batman will probably be good, if a bit similar to every other LEGO game. Wii's got some good looking stuff too, with Wario Land: Shake It and Samba de Amigo. That's the killer, but there's definitely a fair amount of filler. Our favorite: Barbie Fashion Show: An Eye for Style. What's yours?

Gallery: Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway

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Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway armed and ready, deploying Sept. 23

by James Ransom-Wiley { Sep 15th 2008 at 5:30PM }

No one ever said paving Hell's Highway would be easy, but Gearbox has wicked the final bead of sweat from its brow, relieved to announce that the next Brothers In Arms is complete and will ship on September 23rd. Today's definitive confirmation brings to an end a number of construction setbacks -- officially totaling umpteen -- that delayed the project for two years. That's right, remember when Hell's Highway was on your holiday 2006 list?

While development was on par with real-world highway building, Hell's Highway is, unfortunately for its creators, not an actual roadway surface, but a World War II shooter -- a genre that has seriously diminished in relevance over the past 24 months (not that highways aren't also struggling -- gas is how much per gallon now?). The best thing about Brothers in Arms imminent release might be reassurance that we're one step closer to playing Gearbox's Aliens game.

Gallery: Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway

Get all the Ubidays 08 content at Big Download

by Xav de Matos { May 30th 2008 at 3:30PM }

By now you've undoubtedly seen the trailers for Beyond Good & Evil 2, Prince of Persia and Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X., but more than likely you've only witnessed the Ubisoft library in standard def blurriness. Well our little brother site , Big Download has you covered with high-def downloads for all of Ubisoft's upcoming games.

Head over to Big Download now, or click on each title below to bring you to its respective download page.

Beyond Good & Evil 2
Teaser

Prince of Persia
Teaser
Speed Drawing (Prince)
Speed Drawing (Elika, the Prince's new ally)

Shaun White Snowboarding
Intro
Trailer

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Trailer

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Trailer

Download the Ubidays 2008 trailers here

by Ross Miller { May 29th 2008 at 10:30AM }

If you're interested in owning an HD copy of the Beyond Good & Evil 2 teaser trailer (and really, who isn't?), our file sharing friends at BigDownload (Update: and GameDaily) are offering all the HD trailers from yesterday's Ubidays 2008 event as, erm, big downloads. Check out all the trailers below, including two Prince of Persia speed sketches of the Prince and Elika (here's a game: count the number of times the artist changes brush settings).

Beyond Good & Evil 2 teaser (217 MB)
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway trailer (111 MB)
Prince of Persia teaser (62 MB)
Prince of Persia speed drawing: Prince (9.4 MB)
Prince of Persia speed drawing: Elika (13 MB)
Raving Rabbids TV Party gameplay trailer (59 MB)
Raving Rabbids TV Party teaser (55 MB)
Tom Clancy's EndWar trailer (111 MB)
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. trailer (181 MB)
Shaun White Snowboarding intro (150 MB)
Shaun White Snowboarding trailer (110 MB)
Soul Calibur IV Yoda gameplay trailer (25 MB)
Soul Calibur IV Darth Vader gameplay trailer (31 MB)
Soul Calibur IV cinematical trailer (106 MB)

Rabbids, Persian Princes and Beyond Good & Evil 2? Check out all our coverage (and a bountiful amount of screenshots) from Ubisoft's Ubidays 2008 event.

Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway in August, multiplayer redesigned

by James Ransom-Wiley { Apr 17th 2008 at 2:30PM }

Ever since BIA went MIA last fall, we've been waiting for an update on the construction of Hell's Highway. Turns out the interstate paved with the hardened souls of the damned will open this summer, as a new trailer (embedded after the break!) announces Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway is "Coming August 2008." And yes, Nazi neck-stabbin' confirmed, finally.

In addition to today's video announcement, Gearbox has apparently been working on a "totally redesigned online component" for the game, reports Eurogamer. Hell's Highway will supposedly feature "dozens" of players on each team and somehow incorporate the squad-based gameplay that defines the single-player campaign (that is, if you're willing to take orders from foulmouthed tweens).

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Brothers in Arms: HH slated for August [update]

by Dustin Burg { Apr 17th 2008 at 12:30PM }

Update: Wouldn't you know, the August release is true. Confirmation of the release is revealed at the end of the new Hell's Highway "Face Stab" trailer which we embedded after the break. Thanks, Mr Gooooly.

So, here's the story. Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway has been on the fast track to delays-ville, where its release date has been speeding through delay after delay since 2007. Then, last September, we learned that 2007 would see no Hell's Highway release and a general 2008 release was set. Now, according to Gamersyde who didn't list their news source (for shame!), Ubisoft is slating Hell's Highway for an August (European?) release. But so far we've spotted everything from April to May to June release rumors across the interwebs, so we don't know how much validity we can give to this latest August rumor. Though, if this August release turns out to be fact, you can color us impressed. We have $20 riding on the game being delayed into 2009.

[Thanks, Hooligunn]

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