Developer Realtime Worlds has (according to a credible source) bought back the license for the urban MMO All Points Bulletin game from publisher Webzen with the possible idea of selling it back to Rockstar as Grand Theft Auto: Online. RealTime would only say they resecured the rights to "give themselves some options." Many guess that these options would be either to: A: develop the license themselves; or B: sell a framework for a GTA MMO to Rockstar.

RealTime Worlds released Crackdown last...

Dedicated Grand Theft Auto IV players will be pleased to know that the "100% Club" contest at the Rockstar Games' Social Club has been extended by a fortnight.

The competition, which challenges players to receive 100% completion in the single player section of the game, will now end May 19. Those who manage to pull off the weighty task will be awarded with a "Key To The City", a limited edition Rockstar Games branded key with a $50 value.

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"Sony was being too ambitious with the non-gaming applications of Home and delayed the project to focus on gaming, SCEE president David Reeves has told CVG.

In a brief interview at the recent PlayStation Day event in London, Reeves admitted that Sony wants to make sure the gaming parts of the service, like trophies and Home-to-game launching, are ready before it goes public.

"It is definitely coming out in autumn," assured Reeves. "Whether that's October or November, I don't precisely kn..."

Recently ThreeSpeech asked their members what questions they wanted to ask Evan Wells at Naughty Dog. Now they have selected the best ones and put them to the man in this exclusive interview. There is some interesting stuff in there, but by far the highlight is his discussion of Naughty Dog's next project, he mentions that the next game might not be Uncharted and that a new Jak is definitely a possibility. This is just half the interview though, the rest will be posted tomorrow

The latest LittleBigPlanet trailer from Sony's GamerDay. One of Sonys big games to come out this fall. It has been confirmed for an October release for Europe. There will also be a closed beta this summer. Click the link to view the trailer.

How could Pandemic possibly release another LotR game you ask? Well, by making it similar to their Star Wars: Battlefront games (in spirit) and calling it LotR: Conquest. This new title will allow players to fight in any of the battles in the Lord of the Rings series and have it go any number of ways depending on how well they do and a variety of other factors. Up to 150 characters (including Sauron) could be onscreen at any one time, and basically the entire Middle Earth universe will be you...

"Second hand prices for Suikoden are sky high on eBay, maybe not as much as Suikoden II, but some time in the future gamers will get to search for the original 108 Stars of Destiny.

However the rating doesn’t indicate we’re going to see Suikoden anytime soon. Castlevania Chronicles was rated last year and it still hasn’t percolated as a digital download in any region."

Well looks like I'm dominating the Resistance 2 news market, today's item is three new screenshots of what appears to be the multiplayer map labeled Scotia. Set in Northen California the screens are from the same map in the gameplay teaser shown yesterday, which is good considering the bad quality and fast pacing of the demo.

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"Retail sources have informed us today that the Australian market will not be seeing the release of the Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 bundle that was announced in February. The bundle in the US will include a limited edition 'hagane' coloured 80GB PS3, a Dual Shock 3 controller and, of course, a copy of MGS 4, all for $US 499.99.

Sources also told us that the recently released GTA IV 40GB bundle didn't fair so great in Australia on release, which may have influenced the decision (although that bun..."

"Rockstar Games has released a GTA IV patch for Playstation 3 today that prevents Gamespy’s servers from being overloaded and therefore reduces the impact on those servers that were causing the game to stutter and lock up. We continue to monitor the performance of the game both on and offline and will provide further updates as necessary. We want to assure everyone that, together with our hardware partners, we continue to strive to give our fans the best possible interactive entertainment expe..."

"Mentioned during the closing minutes of the PlayStation Day keynote speech, Movement is an interesting idea that is being sadly under-reported. Sure, it's not a game, but the idea of made-for-PSN TV shows is something that definitely piques our interest. The gist is that two British blokes, Spencer and Martin, travel around Europe in a VW Camper van in search of unsigned bands, documenting their progress as they go.

The program will feature many different kinds of music, including French e..."

The Metal Gear Solid 4 Limted Edition will be available in PAL regions. It will cost £79.99, and come with the following:

• 6″ Old Snake ‘Olive Drab’ action figure
• “The Making Of Metal Gear Solid 4″ documentary on Blu-ray Disc
• Official Metal Gear Solid 4 soundtrack

"Anyone looking for some free Rock Band tracks had best go out and pre-order either the South Park Season 11 DVD or Disturbed’s new album from Best Buy, as it has been revealed that both will be carrying some free DLC.

The two songs you might want for free from pre-ordering the Disturbed album are:

* “Inside the Fire” by Disturbed
* “Perfect Insanity” by Disturbed

Interestingly, the South Park DVD will carry different tracks, this time featuring three songs in an as yet unrev..."

Every week certain songs already released on Rock Band will come down in price, from $1.99, to $0.99.

Here’s the release schedule for the promotion:

5/6/08-5/12/08:

* Crushcrushcrush - Paramore
* Rock ‘n Roll Band - Boston

5/13/08-5/19/08:

* Shockwave - Black Tide
* Sugar Magnolia - Grateful Dead

5/20/08-5/26/08:

* We Care A Lot - Faith No More
* All the Small Things - Blink 182

5/27/08-6/2/08:

* Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd
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"Resistance 2 came out for its first public viewing at Sony's PlayStation Day in London, and we took the opportunity to try it out. While only a limited multiplayer demo, what we played left us with plenty to be excited about. Considering a good six months' worth of development time remains to polish and perfect things before this fall's release, the game already looks impressive, easily equaling the standard of the original. That amounts to no small feat for a game supporting 60 players runni..."

"Killzone 2 information has been thin on the ground throughout the game's development. However, Sony and Guerrilla Games threw PlayStation fans a bone yesterday when they not only gave media a chance to play the game, but finally ended speculation around its ship date. An intended February 2009 ship date in Europe was confirmed during the Sony keynote address. SCEE representatives at the game's booth were quick to point out that they could have had the game on shelves this year but chose not t..."

Yesterday Gamersyde upload the first part of gameplay of Killzone 2 from Sony's Gamer Day. They have uploaded the second part of the video, and sure enough, its as amazing as the first video!

Click on the link to view the video.

""DOOM is part of the id Software DNA and demands the greatest talent and brightest minds in the industry to bring the next installment of our flagship franchise to Earth," said Todd Hollenshead, CEO, id Software. "It’s critical for id Software to have the best creative minds in-house to develop games that meet the standards synonymous with our titles."

We are looking for talented, ambitious and passionate individuals eager to join our accomplished team of developers working on the industry..."

"Rockstar parent Take-Two has splurged the news that GTA IV has topped a massive $500 million in sales in its first week of release.

It's additionally confirmed that GTA IV's sold around six million units to date, approximately 3.6 million of which went on opening day.

That means GTA IV has broken all entertainment records for day one and week one sales by dollar value, according to the publisher. Should you want some kind of comparison, Halo 3 did $300 million in its first week (althoug..."

"PixelJunk Eden's the latest game from PixelJunk, the studio that brought us the Desktop Tower Defense-ish game PixelJunk Monsters on PSN. New screens from Eden have been released.

We've no idea what's going on in these screenshots, but according to some blurb that's accompanied them PixelJunk Eden is a "truly innovative platform game" involving leaping and swinging between lush alien vegetation.

It "constantly evolves over time as you move through the perfectly realised undergrowth, hu..."

A number of unlucky gamers have had to wait that little bit longer before properly immersing themselves in the experience that is GTA IV, due to a number of technical hitches which have caused online problems and even entire system crashes. However, Eurogamer.net has been informed by a Sony employee that a patch is due to be released today which (hopefully) solves these problems. As was presumed, the crashes are thought to be due to the extreme strain put on Gamespy servers in the release of ...

New screenshots have arrived for Sony's stealth-based survival horror game, and it's looking entirely gritty and gruesome (just the way ya like it). The game is due out in July (odd time for a title such as this, no?).

With the most awaited title for the PS3/XBOX360 being released last week, Take-Two have released the sales data for the game on the two consoles....

In total, GTAIV sold 6 Million Units globally, bringing in an estimated $500 million, and of the 6 million units sold, over half (3.6 Million to be close to the exact value) were sold on it's opening day (estimated $310 million).

Console wise, the current standing is that the XBOX360 has managed to sell 20% more consoles than the PS3 (at le...