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Rumor: EA sets Pandemic Studios Australia free

by Alexander Sliwinski { Jan 14th 2009 at 8:50AM }

Electronic Arts has bid adieu to Pandemic Studios' Brisbane office, according to a "reliable source" speaking to Kotaku. The site reports that the studio has been "set free" and tasked with finding a new publisher, as opposed to being shut down completely.

EA acquired the Australian branch of Pandemic during its acquisition of BioWare last year. The studio is best known for the Destroy All Humans! series, but was rumored to have been working on other unannounced projects. We'll update if any new information arises.

Update: EA's Mariam Sughayer issued the following response: "In December, EA announced a cost reduction initiative that will impact facilities and headcount. We do not expect to make any more public announcements until our earnings call in early February. Outside of our scheduled earnings call, we aren't providing any new information on the status of individual facilities."

Fanswag: Destroy All Humans bobbles [update]

by Dustin Burg { Dec 3rd 2008 at 12:00PM }

Update: This giveaway has completed and big congrats to ttocs, monkeyninja, Major Suckage, Xerone, and Ben for their bobbly win!

This week, Crypto crash landed on the Xbox 360 in Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon and to celebrate, we're giving away a handful of Crypto'riffic "Wacky Wobbler Bobble-Heads". You know, because everybody needs a Wacky Wobbler. Simply comment below to enter the giveaway. Also, big thanks to the Destroy All Humans crew for donating the bobblehead goods and to learn more about Path of the Furon (and win some prizes) hit up CryptoEnhance.com.

We all know Crypto loves to use wacky weapons to destroy humans, but what would your ultimate human destroying weapon be? Leave a comment on this post telling us what zany weapon you'd use to wreak havoc.
You may leave one comment per calendar day, eastern time. Posters of multiple comments during the same day will be disqualified. We'll accept entries until 10:00PM eastern Wednesday, December 3rd. You must be at least 18 years old to enter. This giveaway is open only to residents of the U.S. and Canada (excluding Quebec).
On Thursday, we'll pick five winners via a random drawing.
Five grand prize winners will receive a Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon bobblehead worth $15.
Complete giveaway rules can be found here.

Shipping this week: Scaling, scailing edition

by Richard Mitchell { Dec 1st 2008 at 10:30AM }

With week after week of nothing but big releases (and a short breather last week) it looks like it's finally time to round out the big holiday gaming schedule. The biggest release this week is, without a shadow of a doubt, Prince of Persia. After the Prince took a questionable turn to the Dark Side (which followed his jaunt to the Emo Side), Ubisoft decided the entire series needed a refresh and the result is available this week. Here's hoping the Prince manages to scale those obstacles with panache and aplomb rather than falling to his death with all the grace of a stone. Here are all of this week's releases:

Prince of Persia
Destroy All Humans! Path Of The Furon
The Tale of Despereaux

[Via Joystiq]

New Destroy All Humans: PoTF trailer

by Richard Mitchell { Nov 29th 2008 at 12:00PM }

We tried to get around it. We really did but, honestly, there's only one thing we can say about the new Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon trailer (embedded after the break). That thing is this: The game features some kind of rainbow gun. We can't really discern if the gun actually fires rainbows or rather a much more sinister projectile that leaves rainbows in its wake. We're inclined to think it's the latter, given the ultimate goal of the game (which seems obvious, considering the title). There are other powers and weapons featured in the trailer but, come on, it's a rainbow gun. What more could you need?

Continued →

Destroy All Humans! PS3 still coming to Europe

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Nov 28th 2008 at 1:45PM }

THQ has informed Eurogamer that the PlayStation 3 version of earthling annihilation sim Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon, isn't quite as canceled we were lead to believe. It's still on track for a European release, joining its Xbox 360 sibling on shelves next year, February 13th. Is that enough time to sort out those "development issues?"

A spokesperson for the publisher explained: "Due to the game being shipped earlier in North America on 2nd December a decision was made to proceed exclusively with the Xbox 360 format in that market." If you were to ask us, we'd say the European strategy for releasing outside the holiday period and on twice as many platforms seems like the smarter one. If you were to ask us.

Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon will come to Europe

by Alan Tsang { Nov 28th 2008 at 12:45PM }

Looks like you guys over on the Old Continent will get a chance to destroy some humans on the PS3 afterall. A THQ UK representative told Eurogamer that Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon will still be arriving on Europe as scheduled on February 13th of next year. "Due to the game being shipped earlier in North America on 2nd December a decision was made to proceed exclusively with the Xbox 360 format in that market." Americans looking to join Cryptosporidium on his murderous adventures will just have to import.

Path of the Furon canceled on PS3, becomes a 360 exclusive

by Dustin Burg { Nov 26th 2008 at 5:00PM }

Shacknews reports that THQ's upcoming (and cow probing) Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon has been canceled on the Playstation 3 citing "development issues" as being the main reason. Though, THQ is still commited to releasing the Xbox 360 version the first week of December, making Path of the Furon a 360 exclusive. Maybe not an A+ blockbuster exclusive, but it's an exclusive none the less. Enjoy the latest game trailer as a makeshift exclusivity celebration.

Many lives spared: PS3 'Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon' canceled

by James Ransom-Wiley { Nov 26th 2008 at 4:45PM }

It's a wonder the UFO soaring toward retail next week has made it through such a rocky atmosphere intact. Well, not entirely. Identified as Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon, the vessel has shed half of its cargo, with THQ confirming to Shacknews that the PlayStation 3 version of the game (flying under all radars) has been canceled due to "development issues." Put another way, PS3 owners can consider themselves spared from the latest sequel in the good-idea-gone-bad franchise. So, about that new focus on quality ...

THQ refuses to Destroy All Humans! on PS3

by Andrew Yoon { Nov 26th 2008 at 3:45PM }

The PS3 version of Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon has been mysteriously canceled a week before its release. Originally scheduled for December 1st, the game will now ship exclusively on Xbox 360. According to THQ, "development issues" have been blamed for this cancellation.

Perhaps those "issues" involved forgetting to actually start development of the PS3 version. Or perhaps THQ just didn't care. Or maybe it's because THQ fired everyone that might've even worked on a PS3 version. Regardless, we doubt many of you are feeling the loss.

[Via NeoGAF]

Destroying all humans begins this December

by Dustin Burg { Nov 11th 2008 at 5:15PM }

THQ and Sandblast just revealed that Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon will make its way to retailers the week of December 1st. We're sure your copy is already secured with a pre-order.

Path of the Furon will be the first Destroy All Humans title to grace the Xbox 360 and will feature fully destructible environments, multiplayer support and co-op. Maybe its reception will be warmer than the original's lukewarm reviews and maybe Crypto will finally realize that probing cows does absolutely nothing for his human species research.

XBLM receives new human-destroying, intellivision-like Xbox Originals

by Dustin Burg { Sep 15th 2008 at 2:00PM }

Per last week's announcement, two new exclamation point loving Xbox Originals just released to the XBLM and both are patiently awaiting your 1200 Microsoft point purchase. The new achievement-less titles (that NEVER gets old), Destroy All Humans! and Intellivision Lives!, can be found under the "New Releases" section of the Marketplace. If you can't decide which title to buy, maybe you can opt to pickup both OR (as we suggest) ignore them completely. But maybe that's being a bit harsh?

Destroy All Humans! Intellivision Lives! New Xbox Originals Sept. 15!

by Randy Nelson { Sep 11th 2008 at 11:30PM }

It's high time for some real talk about Xbox Originals. Specifically, who's choosing what makes the cut? Not that Destroy all Humans! or Intellivision Lives! are bad games by any means. It's just that, when you think of a service that could be offering the best, exclusive games from a system's previous generation on the current one via the interwebs, you'd hope they'd be more ... original and memorable.

As it stands, we're getting a complete mish-mash of revered and forgettable moments from the annuls of the original Xbox. How about some Panzer Dragoon Orta or Star Wars: Republic Commando before the likes of Kabuki Warriors? Ahem. Ranting aside, both Destroy All Humans! and Intellivision Lives! hit the Xbox Live Marketplace on September 15 for 1200

($15) each. We'd love to hear which Xbox games you would have join the ranks of the Xbox Originals in comments.

Destroy All Humans! and Intellivision Lives! to become Xbox Originals

by Dustin Burg { Sep 11th 2008 at 8:15PM }

Holy exclamation points! Microsoft just announced that both Destroy All Humans! and Intellivision Lives! are set to become Xbox Originals, releasing next Monday, September 15th. Exclamation point!

As is customary with all Xbox Originals, both titles will release to the Xbox Live Marketplace for 1200 Microsoft points apiece and require some hard drive gigage. For those who aren't familiar with either title, Intellivision Lives! is a collection of over 60 old-old-school Intellivision games while Pandemic's Destroy All Humans! is all about doing alien related activities like probing humans and flying around the city in a UFO wreaking havoc. (!!!)

Some humans destroy Destroy All Humans! PSP

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Aug 5th 2008 at 9:30PM }

It seems the folks in charge at THQ have decided to disappoint all humans who were anxiously awaiting the PSP outing of Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed. Though ~~the three of you~~ absolutely nobody will lament this particular cancellation, IGN reports that it was at least done for the right reasons. Said a THQ representative: "Basically, the PSP version was cancelled because of control issues."

With the game being designed specifically for the Wii, "the controls simply didn't translate well, and instead of pushing out the product with translated controls, it was cancelled." From the player's perspective, it sounds like it was the humane thing to do, but we wonder how many PSP games would be left if all developers adopted this particular stance on controls.

[Via PSP Fanboy]

Destroy All Humans! PSP gets canceled

by Majed Athab { Aug 4th 2008 at 6:30PM }

We hate to wake you up from an afternoon catnap, but we need to let you know that Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed for the PSP has been canceled. Oh wait, you never heard of this title? That's probably because we last reported on it about a year ago.

It is quite difficult to be excited about a game you don't hear much about, and so it comes as a non-shocker to hear that the game has been canceled. IGN reports that a THQ rep made this statement: "Basically, the PSP version was cancelled because of control issues ... When it was ported over to the PSP, the controls simply didn't translate well, and instead of pushing out the product with translated controls, it was canceled."

This must be bad news for Destroy All Humans! fans. For the rest of us who didn't have any vested interest in seeing alien "Willies" unleashing, we can all rest a little easier now.