Beijing 2008

Bring home the Gold! Compete in Beijing 2008™ - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games alone or online as you strive to break records in 38 events across ten official Olympic sports including track and field, aquatics, gymnastics, and cycling!

• Over thirty official events and national teams: Represent the country of your choice and compete in such sports as track and field, aquatics, gymnastics, cycling, judo, table tennis, and canoe-kayak for the highest honor across ten authentic-looking stadiums.
• In-depth Olympic Games and Competition modes: In Olympic Games mode, players organize their daily schedule and customize their national teams with agility, power, stamina, and speed for competition in 38 events. With up to three friends, players can participate in either single or multi-event challenges in Competition mode.

• New gameplay mechanics: Controls vary across events, including a time-based system where timing, power and angle are essential, a rhythm-based method that requires increasing and sustaining speed, and a targeting system to aid players in accurately hitting targets.

• In the zone: Players are pulled right into the athlete's mind, getting them closer to the action and giving them time to accurately control every move.

• Global online competition: Face challengers from other nations, compete in exhibition events, and track your progress on the leaderboards, which allow you to prove yourself before the world.
• Capturing the Olympic spirit: As the exclusive official videogame, Beijing 2008™ offers an authentic look and feel of the Games, ultra-realistic recreations of the Beijing stadiums, and a chance to soak up the atmosphere from the Olympic host city in your own home.

Unreal Tournament 3

The return of the world's premiere first-person shooter comes to Xbox 360®. The full power of the Unreal Engine 3 is unleashed, taking graphics, gameplay, and challenge to a whole new level. Players engage in intense battles with other human players online, or against Unreal artificial intelligence that sets the industry standard. With the most powerful futuristic weapons and vehicles available, this is FPS action at its best!

• Next-gen gaming: Unparalleled graphical and physical realism from the award-winning Unreal Engine 3 technology delivers the most compelling first-person shooter experience to date, online and offline.
• Vast arsenal of weapons: Detonate your opponent from a distance with the ever-popular Shock Rifle or blast away at close range with the Flak Cannon. Over two dozen upgraded and enhanced weapons and vehicles are provided.

  

• New single player campaign: The Necris invasion has begun, and your clan was one of the first to be slaughtered. Head to the front lines and join this epic battle to defend humanity while taking your revenge.

• New and favorite characters: Fight side-by-side with or compete against new and returning characters from the Unreal universe, all with enhanced abilities and distinct personalities.

• Online innovations: All the award-winning online features of previous Unreal Tournament games are included, along with seamless loading of servers, improved matchmaking, cooperative online campaign play, an all-new Warfare mode, and more.
• Exclusive Xbox 360 features: New characters, a two-player split-screen mode, and five additional maps are provided for the Xbox 360 experience.

Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution

Hall of Fame Game designer Sid Meier has been called "The Father of Computer Gaming" with such early hits as F-15 Stealth Fighter, Railroad Tycoon, and Pirates. He put computer gaming on the map in 1991 when he delivered Sid Meier's Civilization to the gaming world, launching the "God Game" genre and creating one of the most award-winning and immersive games on the planet. Civilization remains one of the world's top-selling game series with over eight million units sold, and is recognized by the press as one of the greatest game franchises ever created.

In Sid Meier's Civilization® Revolution™, strive to become the Ruler of the World by establishing and leading a civilization from the dawn of man into the space age. Wage war, conduct diplomacy, and discover technologies as you go head-to-head with some of history's greatest leaders. Build the most powerful empire the world has ever known …

• Civilizations:Choose from 16 Civilizations throughout history (from Africa to Germany to America to China) to lead to victory. Defeat a rival civilization and add an exhibit to your Hall of Achievements, paying homage to your great accomplishments.

• Intense combat: Triple your strength by combining up to three units into one powerful army and destroy your enemies. When your units win tough battles, they will become veterans and then elites. Choose from a list of powerful upgrades that will give elite units even more strength to dominate in war. Your Army wears a distinct uniform representing your Civilization, so you will easily see them on the screen as you lead them into battle.
• Xbox LIVE play: Up to four players can battle as teams, head to head, or have a complete free-for-all online. Auto-matching, ranked games, leaderboards, and achievements make the online play more versatile and fun than any previous version of Civilization. Additionally, Xbox Live and PSN users will be able to download multiplayer maps and scenarios post launch.

• Custom made for the console: Developed from the ground up to take advantage of the hardware, Civilization Revolution introduces an intuitive control scheme, advanced physics, cutting edge visuals, 5.1 surround sound, and the non-stop action that console fans have been craving.

• Newcomers and longtime fans: Guided tutorials teach the necessary tools that will put you on the fast track to global dominance.
• Game of the Week: Each week, a new map will be highlighted that you can compete in. Finish the game with the highest score you can achieve, and have it posted to the "Civ Game of the Week" leaderboard.

Too Human Demo Next Week

Microsoft has announced that, as part of their annual "Bringing it Home" series, the Too Human demo is coming to Xbox live next week (via IGN). No word yet about what else will be available, but expect the usual videos, themes, gamerpics and other random surprises. So how does Dyack's epic stack up to the hype? Find out yourself next week. Hopefully it will be good, it has only been in development for nine years.

Game Details:
This third-person epic action game from renowned Canadian developer Silicon Knights. As the cybernetic god Baldur, players are thrust into the midst of an ongoing battle that threatens the existence of mankind. An ancient machine presence has forced the hand of the gods, and now Baldur is charged with defending humanity from an onslaught of monstrous war machines bent on the eradication of human life.

Experience a nonstop barrage of action powered by the seamless integration of melee and firearms combat, plus deep role-playing game elements fueled by breathtaking visuals. Battles unfold in awesome scale as players engage with vast numbers of enemies. Gamers can also take it to the next level by playing the entire game individually or cooperatively via Xbox LIVE®.

Bungie Teases New Halo Game?

The Pieces are Coming Together. Over the past few days, there have been rumors that a new Halo game will be announced at next week's E3 and today we have enough clues to believe the rumors are indeed true. First, Kotaku discovered that in Bungie's latest podcast, Brian Jarrard and Luke Smith teased about something being revealed at E3.

Brian: Isn't there something going on on July 14th or something like that?
Luke: Yeah, around then.
Brian: Somehow that's sticking in my head for some reason. Guess we'll have to see.
Luke: Yep, we'll just have to be patient. Who could say?

Furthermore, the I Love Bees web site has resurfaced today, leading us to believe that there's definitely something going on.