2KSports announced today the cover athlete for their NHL 2K9: All Star Rick Nash of the Columbus Blue Jackets.  Sadly, there is not actual cover art yet, instead we get the above logo.


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If you like the music from Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, then you may be interested in a release coming from The Evil Genius Green Lantern on 05.20.08.  From the press release directly:

Today, Rockstar Games and Future Green Entertainment are proud to announce the release of an original production album from The Evil Genius DJ Green Lantern featuring music from and inspired by Grand Theft Auto IV.

Containing eight brand new tracks crafted exclusively for DJ Green Lantern's "Liberty City Invasion" radio show on the in-game radio station “The Beat,” as well as eight new songs directly inspired by Grand Theft Auto IV, The Evil Genius DJ Green Lantern has created an epic urban soundtrack.  This special album release features an incredible lineup of hip-hop, reggae and R&B superstars including heavyweights Busta Rhymes, Wyclef, Fat Joe, Styles P and Fabolous as well as up-and-coming artists Mavado, Uncle Murder and Future Green Entertainment’s own Johnny Polygon, Qadir and more.

Singles include “Where’s My Money” from Busta Rhymes and “Nickname” from the brand new artist Qadir. The perfect summer anthem “I’m So Fly,” featuring Fat Joe and Fabolous is inspired by Grand Theft Auto IV and while included on the album is not in the game.

 “The Grand Theft Auto games have always featured stunning soundtracks and the amount of eclectic music in Grand Theft Auto IV goes above and beyond anything we have been able to do before” said Sam Houser, Founder and Executive Producer of Rockstar Games, "DJ Green Lantern’s contributions give the soundtrack a true New York flavor and we’re excited to be releasing his full album to fans.”

“From making mixtapes, to being on the radio, to touring with the biggest artists on the planet, and then for the biggest video game title to solicit me to create exclusive music is something most people could only dream about, it’s like a graduation,” said Green. “Rockstar Games understood what I bring to the table as far as not just presenting music, but creating music.”

Green Lantern originally came to prominence in the mixtape scene by consistently featuring exclusive self-produced music with hip-hop superstars like Eminem, Jay-Z, The Beastie Boys, Mike Shinoda's Fort Minor, D-Block, Busta Rhymes, Mobb Deep and many more.  This led to an acclaimed career as a proper music producer in his own right which has yielded such Billboard hits as "Number One Spot" by Ludacris and "In The Ghetto" by Busta Rhymes featuring Rick James as well as the street hits Akon "Ghetto" feat. Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac, Uncle Murda's "Bullet, Bullet," and many more. Green Lantern can be heard every week nationally on his Sirius Satellite Radio show. 

The Evil Genius Green Lantern makes his official production album debut with the release of Liberty City Invasion: Music from and Inspired by Grand Theft Auto IV. It will be available at all major digital retailers on May 20th with a physical release coming soon.

Grand Theft Auto IV is currently available for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system and the PLAYSTATION® 3 computer entertainment system.




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Today is GameTap Thursday and you can find the following new releases today: Five Card Deluxe and Outpost Kaloki.  Also, as an FYI, GameTap has a budding Indie Games section and they currently have 18 games to check out which include Gumboy, Blast Miner, and Shadowgrounds Survivor.  And finally, to make the free games list step up to 122, Gametap has added Battle of Europe to its list.


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Penny Arcade has release some more information about their game today, On the Rain Slick: Precipice of Darkness - Episode One along with screen shots of the RPG Adventure game.

From the press release:

"On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is an RPG-Adventure game set in the comic-book-meets-pulp-horror-meets-H.P. Lovecraft deranged 1920s universe of New Arcadia, delivering mature and compelling entertainment to gamers via accessible episodic delivery. The creative collaboration between Penny Arcade creators Mike ‘Gabe’ Krahulik and Jerry ‘Tycho’ Holkins, legendary game designer Ron Gilbert and veteran producers Hothead Games results in a 100% authentic Penny Arcade experience that pushes bizarre characters, outrageous combat, and adult humor to the precipices of darkness. 

Players join Gabe and Tycho, the crime-solving team of the Startling Developments Detective Agency, to combat savage enemies and solve mysteries hidden deep in the sinister heart of New Arcadia. The ominous 1920s landscape features distinct artwork and characters designed exclusively by Krahulik and brought to life by the Hothead team."

The game will be available via Xbox LIVE Arcade for about 1600 MSP.  And with this being an episodic game, your player stats will be carried over from episode, to episode.  The biggest thing of all, Fruit Fucker will be in the game.  Life is now complete.
 



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Cliffy B and company released some game play footage of Gears of War 2 today.  I was recently asked what my thoughts were on the game play footage that was released and felt it was good enough to post here as well.

"Well I just rewatched the footage again and it looks just like Gears of War to me, which is not a bad thing, it is what I would expect. There are new character animations which is always nice to see in a sequel. The apparently "up to 100 locusts" at once thing that we got a 1 second glimpse of apparently is getting its ass kicked in development because when you peer over the side of your vehicle to pick off a few of them, it looks like they were just placed on the screen. It's as if they are too random.  It's hard to explain what I'm seeing here but it looked fake.  Again though, this is the type of stuff I would expect from a sequel, still in development obviously, and needing to get the hype machine running.

Oh and Cliffy B apparently has made some money for he's been working out (he looks too buff to scratch his own back), is sporting an out of date faux-hawk and apparently gets his teeth whitened."

If you're interested in looking at the images released, and the videos can be found in the Epic Games/GearsOfWar2 Directory in our download section of the site.


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