"Following last month's closure of Midway Newcastle, the development team responsible for The Wheelman, it has today been revealed that the remainder of Midway’s UK business has been purchased for approximately £0.50 (GBP). Midway's managing director for Europe, Martin Spiess, has negotiated the bargain deal, which sees him buy both the Midway Games France and UK offices for €1, around £0.86 at the time of writing."
"Best Buy Co. Inc. next week will hold a new game sale for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360.
Beginning May 10, the title Wheelman for the PS3 and Xbox 360 will be discounted to $30.
Additionally, NBA 09: The Inside for the PS3 will be price cut to $10.
Finally, customers who pre-order Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will recieve $10 off any game priced $39.99 or more.
The Xbox 360 sold 330,000 units to rank third in Mar. U.S. sales, while the PS3 sold 218,00..."
"New model. Original Parts.
That’s the tag line for Vin Diesel’s sequel film Fast & Furious, currently on film screens at the same time as his driving video game Wheelman has been released. And, strangely enough, the tag line applies to the game as much as the film.
You see Vin Diesel’s Wheelman may be a new game from his very own studio Tigon, but it uses parts from original best sellers of the various driving genres like Burnout, Driver, and the GTAs. The question is if Wheelman..."
Quite a release week, for PC gamers especially. First we get (finally) Dark Sector, initially planned for simultaneous release, then The Last Remnant, Battleforge..life's pretty good. Although we can't recommend you pick up Dark Sector as it contains that horrid Starforce DRM.
There isn't really much exclusive stuff (not a bad thing, really), with PS3, Xbox 360 and PC owners alike receiving Stormrise, Wanted, and Wheelman, with the latter two seeing Legends of Wrestlemania.
DS owners ca...
"Today, Midway and Ubisoft announced that Wheelman has gone gold for the Xbox360, the PLAYSTATION3 and PC. Wheelman is scheduled for a March 24th, 2009, ship date in North America and a March 27th, 2009 street date in Europe and is rated 16+ by PEGI."
"Ruffian Games today announced a significant boost to their creative capabilities with the appointment of industry veterans Steve Iannetta and Ed Campbell as Lead Designer and Senior Designer respectively.
Steve joined VIS Entertainment in 1996 and has since worked with Red Lemon Studios, Realtime Worlds and Midway Newcastle. He entered the industry as a graphic artist before moving into design and has held a number of senior roles including Senior Mission Design on Microsofts Crackdown a..."
"Midway Games Inc. have announced that it has entered into a strategic relationship with Ubisoft to publish Wheelman, the highly-anticipated open-world driving game starring action-film megastar Vin Diesel as an expert driver for hire."
"Vin Diesel, the muscular, bald, gravely voiced actor who started his own video game studio Tigon in 2002, looks ready to make a mark on this year's video game-scape. His studio is involved in at least two Xbox 360/ PS3/ PC games that will be released this year which feature his likeness.
Will the new games match that quality and success, or will they fall short of current-gen standards? And even if they are great titles, with the big-name console exclusive games like Halo 3: ODST and Kil..."
"Maybe the news about the delay of Midway's The Wheelman got you all down and dolor. But that's okay, because we feel for you here at Blend Games. So we're going to make it up to you with some fresh new screenshots to flip that frown upside down."
"Looks like The Wheelman will finally see the light of day on February 20th with ship date of the 16th for the Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms. It stars a virtual Vin Diesel as the titular character of the 'wheelman'. It is based off of the movie of the same name, The Wheelman is being developed by Tigon Studios, Diesel's video game game company which also worked on the cult-favortie..."
"...the on-foot shooting is going to need a lot more work to compete with the likes of todays games. The driving is fairly intense but it gets boring to watch if you're not actually playing. Watch the trailer and youll see what I mean. While youre at it, you can check out some of the screenshots as well."
With the third quarter results coming up for Midway, things aren't looking so bright. They're expected to lose $0.70 in net loss, 20 cents more than expected. Since their not doing so hot, Midway has revealed that they will be canceling less important games.
"Whether its the checkpoint based Midnight Club; the free-for-all Burnout; or the elephant in the room, Grand Theft Auto, open world driving games have an undeniable charm. For those of you who count yourselves among the ranks of gamers who want more than the flat tarmac of the race track, look forward to this fall because Midway is bringing its latest game, Wheelman to the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Developed by the Vin Diesel-founded Tigon Studios and starring Vin Diesel himself, the game is a..."
It seems as though Midway Games is tired of it's financial slump and has a plan to turn it around by using it's Hollywood connections to develop movie tie-in titles during 2008.
A while ago a rumor spread that Unreal Tournament 3 will be delayed but it was passed off as nothing. Now, Midway has released their press release with a financial update. On it they state that some of there games are delayed until 2008. The games that are being delayed are: Unreal Tournament 3, a next generation installment of the NBA Ballers franchise, TNA iMPACT!, and The Wheelman.
Midway Games Inc. a leading interactive entertainment publisher and develper, today announced the company's product line up for the E3 Media and Business Summit, taking place July 11 - 13 at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California.
This years line up is one that will get any gamer excited, and includes the following games:
Stranglehold - (PS3, XBOX 360, PC)
BlackSite: Area 51 - (PS3, XBOX 360, PC)
Unreal Tournament 3 (PC)
Ultimate Mortal Kombat (Nintendo DS)
Cruis'n (Wii)
Aqua Tee...
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