Video Game publisher Mastiff announced the launch of the step editor for Pump It Up: Exceed. Free and available for download from Xbox Live, the step editor is exclusive to the version of Pump It Up: Exceed for the Xbox® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. The step editor allows players to import their favorite music via Xbox Soundtracks and create their own choreography, and to create or modify steps for existing songs in the game.

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Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s leading video game publishers, announced that the Heroes of the Pacificâ„¢ video game for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft has shipped for retail; the game will also be available for PC in October 2005. Heroes of the Pacific is a dramatic World War II aerial combat-action game developed by IR Gurus of Australia.

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Set the dial to http://www.xbox.com/en-US/pgr3 and www.bizarreonline.net for adrenaline-pumping tunes from dozens of today’s hottest acts including Bloc Party, Death Cab for Cutie, Hot Hot Heat, Queens of the Stone Age and The Chemical Brothers. Read the rest of this entry

Electronic Arts, the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company, announces the release of FIFA Soccer 06 under the EA SPORTSâ„¢ brand. FIFA Soccer, one of EA’s top-selling sports franchises, includes major enhancements to the gameplay and management modes, making FIFA Soccer 06 “The TOTAL SOCCER Experience.” The game is available in stores in Europe today, and worldwide the first week of October.

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Powered by the same technology as used by military organizations the world over, Operation Flashpoint Elite is set to be the most realistic war game ever experienced on consoles. Coming this November, exclusively for Xbox® video game system from Microsoft, you can see it in action now in the new video, available online at http://www.codemasters.com/flashpointxbox (in Downloads).

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The “Funk Doc,” Redman, headlines an eclectic NYC inspired soundtrack for Activision, Inc.’s upcoming True Crime®: New York City video game with two all-new original songs and the debut of “Rush The Security” from his upcoming album Red Gone Wild, scheduled for release on November 8. Redman will also appear as an unlockable character in the gritty drama, which is slated for release this fall.

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Eidos Inc., one of the leading developers and publishers of entertainment software, announced that after business review it has scheduled the release of its third person urban action game 25 to Life for 2006. The product will be available for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Xbox® video game system from Microsoft and PC.

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Now pirates have always been cool, from crushing your eye socket with a plastic eyepatch from the joke shop, to yelling “haharrrgh!” from some sort of waterborne vessel. Which makes it surprising that we don’t see many pirate games around these days. Pirates is the best I’ve release I’ve seen for this genre, mixing free-roaming gameplay and a classic storyline.

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Marvel Entertainment, Inc. A leading global character-based entertainment and licensing company, today announced the promotion of David Maisel, 43, to Vice-Chairman of its Marvel Studios division and Executive Vice President – Corporate Development of Marvel Entertainment. Mr. Maisel, who was previously President and Chief Operating Officer of the Marvel Studios division, will report directly to Marvel’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Maisel will be based in both the Beverly Hills and New York City offices of Marvel.

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DreamCatcher Games, a global publisher of interactive entertainment, announced that the company’s highly anticipated stealth action game “Cold War” has been released in North America for PC and Xbox.
“‘Cold War’ will put gamers at the edge of their seat, as stealth and action fans are thrown into a world of secret gadgets and classified documents as they find themselves alone to prevent a potential international conspiracy,” commented Product Manager, Byron Gaum. “With its original setting and premise, ‘Cold War’ is slated to become one of the sleeper hits of the year.”
Rated “T” for Teen by the ESRB, “Cold War” follows the story of Matt Carter, an American freelance journalist, who finds himself in the midst of an international conspiracy that aims to take control of the U.S.S.R. Twelve hours after arriving in Moscow for a routine story, Carter is stripped of all his possessions, beaten unconscious and thrown into the KGB’s political prison. Using only recovered weapons and improvised gadgets, he must now evade and overcome elite Soviet forces and defeat the conspiracy before he is sent to a Siberian prison camp or killed.

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