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It's not a huge surprise, but one of my favorite games Gears of War will drop in price for the US and Canada on June 4th.  The 360 version will drop to $39.99 MSRB, and the Games for Windows version will drop to $29.99.

In addition, on June 24th, a special two disc version of Gears for the Xbox 360 (for the same $39.99 price) will be released containing:

Disc One

• Gears of War (game disc)

Disc Two

• Gears of War - Map Packs 1 & 2
• Gears of War - Theme - 'Emergence Day'
• Gears of War - Gamer Pics - 'Gears of War,' 'Emergence Day'
• Gears of War 2 - Trailers - 'Duel,' 'Assault'
• Gears of War 2 - Theme - 'Bare Your Teeth'
• Gears of War 2 - Gamer Pics - 'Crimson Omen'

While this version contains both Annex mode, and the ability to earn an extra 250 gamerscore (for a total of 1250) from a previous title update, the 360 version will NOT contain the PC-exclusive Timgad level, so no console Brumak battles.

While speaking at a conference, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell suggested that a new chip that is currently in production could mean that video game piracy could come to an end.

At the conference, he explained that this stealth encryption chip (known as a TPM) is being installed on new motherboards that come with new computers, and that it will open up revenue prospects in areas such as Asia and India. In these regions, the chip will be able to "encrypt with an absolutely verifiable private key in the encryption world -- which is uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords." This will allow a huge market to develop in some sectors where piracy is a major problem.

While this could be good news for software developers, Bushnell believes that piracy of movies and music will continue to be an unstoppable force because "if you can watch it and you can hear it, you can copy it. Games are a different thing, because games are so integrated with the code. The TPM will, in fact, absolutely stop piracy of gameplay."

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Variety reports that Universal has signed a deal with Take Two to get the last year's critic's favorite video game into the cinemas worldwide. The director signed for the job is nobody else, but Gore Verbinski (Pirates Of The Caribbean and The Weatherman, an excellent indie feature). Verbinski spoke very highly of BioShock, complimenting on its narrative, style and possibilities the game holds for the big screen.

The screenwriter is John Logan, known for The Last Samurai, The Aviator and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It is currently unclear whether the Bioshock original lead, Ken Levine contribute to the project.

This is the most expensive "video game to movie" deal yet. Will it be the best?

Se lanzo en la portatil hace dos anos.

Capcom, Namco Bandai, Nippon Ichi Software, Gust, Idea Factory y Compile Heart desvelan este juego de rol.

Nuevas imagenes del juego de Media Molecule.

El veterano juego en linea prepara su desembarco en PS3.

Estara en el evento y dara una conferencia dias antes.

This Battlefield 2142 patch updates the game to version 1.50 BETA. You must have Battlefield 2142 v1.40 installed.

Kaz Hirai confia en el potencial de la consola y en su largo ciclo vital.

La banda sonora corre a cargo de este compositor

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