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MMMM mmmm! Nothing says rock and roll down south like a bucket of fried chicken! Kentucky Fried Chicken y’all!

KFC and Guitar Hero World Tour. I guess its a play on words - finger licking good chicken and fingers licking chords of the guitar. From now until November 24, 2008, KFC has teamed up with Guitar Hero World Tour and partnered with Dave Barley, a top Guitar Hero player, for a KFC Rocks contest. With the recent launch of the newest Guitar Hero game, the contest allows players and non-players alike a chance to earn some cool prizes like a year’s supply of KFC chicken, fully loaded box meals and…

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Certain Best Buy stores across the United States are going to be holding midnight launch parties for the PC/PS3/Xbox 360 game Fallout 3 on October 27, 2008. Only a few select locations in certain states will be participating in this event though, and the Rockville, Maryland store would really be the one to visit. The development team behind Fallout 3 will be at that Best Buy, to talk to fans, autograph things, talk with DC 101 FM and help with the contests and giveaways.

The 12 stores which will actually be open at midnight on October 28, 2008 to sell and celebrate Fallout 3‘s release are as follows…

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I just received a message from Gaia online today that asked a strange question: “Hi Lucy, What do Neopets, MapleStory and Habbo all have in common?“

Out of curiosity I logged into my Gaia Online account to see what Kate Pietrelli, an account manager for TriplePoint (Gaia’s PR agency), is typing about and, sure enough, along the top of the page is the option to send an instant message my fellow Gaians…

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The Wii might be the best console in the market but it trails the other consoles in overall online experience. The WiiWare online game downloading service is expected to turn a corner and enhance the online component of the Wii experience. The service has engendered a lot of buzz since Nintendo first unveiled its WiiWare plans.

This excitement increased when news of developer Engine Software’s WiiWare title, Project Bang, was announced. The game’s release was announced for March 2008, which led to speculation that WiiWare might release in North America and Europe during that time. In actuality, only the Japanese release dates had been announced.

Nintendo had previously announced that the first WiiWare games will appear in March 2008, though the launch plans for Europe and North America haven’t been divulged. It is such a huge launch for Nintendo and so it is understandably irked by Engine Software’s announcement missing the vital words “in Japan,“ fueling the speculations. A Nintendo rep dismissed the US/Europe release rumor in a statement to TechNewsWorld. 

Engine Software has clarified, putting it all down to a case of misinterpretation. It has apologetically conveyed that it failed to explicitly state in the announcement that WiiWare is scheduled to release in March 2008 in Japan only. As it didn’t specifically mention Japan, most people thought that the game downloading service would launch in other territories also.

Read [TechNewsWorld] Site [Engine Software]

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There was never any doubt that Halo 3 would rewrite video game history, at least not in Microsoft’s mind. Microsoft is so confident of Halo 3’s potential success that it is training its eyes on a few records set by previous games in this haloed series.

The cumulative sales figure of Halo 1 and Halo 2 is an impressive 11 million copies sold, and Microsoft expects Halo 3 to single-gamedly better the combined sale of the two games. Microsoft’s Chris Di Cesare said they were well ahead of where they were with Halo 2, and on course to outsell the previous two games…

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The land of the stiff upper lipped has officially received its long-awaited Xbox 360 price cut. Microsoft today announced that the Xbox 360 would be cheaper, effective August 24, 2007, to coincide with the launch of the title Bioshock.

Both the Core and Premium versions will be cheaper at £179.99 and £249.99 respectively, making the Core 360’s price identical to the Wii’s. This should appease the Brit gamers who were sobbing about not getting a 360 price-cut along with the US. There is more in store for them as the Xbox Elite will also launch on Friday, August 24, 2007, at a lower than expected price point of £299.99.

Microsoft hopes to woo more mainstream and first-time gamers with…

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Michael Pachter, a videogame analyst from Wedbush Morgan Securities, has thrust the blame for the delay in the launch of Grand Theft Auto IV on the PS3, creating one of the most agonizing delay the games industry has ever witnessed. However, he is no fanboy and seems to have done his homework pretty well before putting the blame on Sony’s mean machine. He believes that the Xbox 360 version o the game is up and kicking and that it is the PS3 version, which…

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