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At E3′09 the trailer for this game was shown and although it was unimpressive and seemed to be a rip-off of smash bros. Judging by these screenshots work has been done and development has been bumped up significantly. New video of this game will be coming soon but for now enjoy the screenshots.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Michael Jackson, the child star turned King of Pop who set the world dancing to exuberant rhythms for decades, died on Thursday, the Los Angeles Times said. He was 50.
“Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told The Times,” the newspaper reported on its website.
Jackson had been taken ill at his home and found not breathing by paramedics who rushed him to a hospital, the paper said.
The paper’s report followed news of Jackson’s death first reported by the TMZ entertainment website, which said that the singer suffered a cardiac arrest. There was no immediate comment from spokespersons for Jackson.
Known as the “King of Pop,” for hits that included “Thriller” and “Billie Jean,” Jackson’s dramatic stage presence and innovative dance moves were imitated by legions of fans around the world.
His one-gloved eccentric style also earned him plenty of critics and another nickname, “Wacko Jacko.”
Jackson, who had lived as a virtual recluse since his acquittal in 2005 on charges of child molestation, had been scheduled to launch a comeback tour from London next month.
TMZ said on its website that Jackson suffered a cardiac arrest on Thursday afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. “We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back,” the site said.
Earlier, the Los Angeles Times said the singer had been rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital by fire department paramedics. The newspaper said paramedics performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the singer’s home before taking him to the UCLA Medical Center hospital.
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Jackson had been due to start a series of concerts in London on July 13 running until March 2010. The singer had been rehearsing in the Los Angeles area for the past two months.
The shows for the 50 London concerts sold out within minutes of going on sale in March.
His lifetime record sales tally is believed to be around 750 million, which, added to the 13 Grammy Awards he received, makes him one of the most successful entertainers of all time.
There were concerns about Jackson’s health in recent years but the promoters of the London shows, AEG Live, said in March that Jackson had passed a 4-1/2 hour physical examination with independent doctors.
New Yorkers and tourists in the city’s Times Square were shocked at the news of Jackson’s death.
“I don’t know what to say. It’s sad, it’s really, really sad,” said Nicole Smith, an 18-year-old student from Brooklyn, New York, in Times Square. “My mother was a fan. I listened to his music.”
“I’m shocked. I thought someone was lying to me when I first heard it. I was a fan from when he was a little boy and then he got weird,” said Sue Sheider, 51, a teacher from Long Island.
CHILD STAR TO MEGASTAR
Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana, the seventh of nine children. Five Jackson boys — Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael — first performed together at a talent show when Michael was 6. They walked off with first prize and went on to become a best-selling band, The Jackson Five, and then The Jackson 5.
Jackson made his first solo album in 1972, and released “Thriller” in 1982, which became a smash hit that yielded seven top-10 singles. The album sold 21 million copies in the United States and at least 27 million worldwide.
The next year, he unveiled his signature “moonwalk” dance move while performing “Billie Jean” during an NBC special.
In 1994, Jackson married Elvis Presley’s only child, Lisa Marie, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1996. Jackson married Debbie Rowe the same year and had two children, before splitting in 1999. The couple never lived together.
Jackson has three children named Prince Michael I, Paris Michael and Prince Michael II, known for his brief public appearance when his father held him over the railing of a hotel balcony, causing widespread criticism.
The technical guys at EA are getting the one-two punch from Fight Night Round 4 for the Xbox 360 because the game apparantly keep freezing up. According to a source from EA, the freeze up is happening to a “very small number of users of both the demo and retail versions of the game. But EA has been unable to solve the problem.
According to EA, “unfortunately we can’t recreate the freezes issues on any of our hundreds of kits.” EA also stated “The demo freeze that we investigated seemed to be hardware related, nothing within the game code could be seen to cause the problem.” and ”The problem seems lie somewhere between audio data and online configurations.” As far as the PS3 version of the game, it appears to be running fine. Stay tuned as more develops on this story.
IndustryGamers.com held an interesting phone conversation with John Carmack and Fallout 3’s success was the instrumental key in this major deal. There’s also possibilities of cross-pollination meaning that games such as Oblivion now have better access to the Id Software Engine and what this means is that better and bigger games are on the way. Next in line will be Brink , Rage, Quake Live, and the infamous DOOM 4. Check out the full interview below
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IndustryGamers: As I’m sure you know, id has a lot of passionate followers. Why don’t you start off by telling me why your fans should not freak out about this move?
John Carmack: Nothing’s changing on the software side of things. No structural changes here at id, no switching around of the top guys. We have our teams still plugging away on the Doom 4, Quake Live and Rage. Down the road, what this means is that all the future titles will have more publisher resources and we can build out a third team to work on id properties.
IG: ZeniMax, why do you see this as a home run for your company?
Robert Altman: Because it’s id software! These guys are among the best in the world, they invented the FPS genre. They have the smartest guy in the industry working at the company, which is a big plus. For our part, we’ll provide the resources to help those guys to expand and make AAA games.
IG: So were there any other players for id software, or was ZeniMax the only serious bidder?
JC: Throughout our entire history, we’ve had an endless stream of buyout offers, none of which we followed up on for a variety of reasons. We did have a long term plan for expanding out, but the ZeniMax deal came a long and we decided this is what we wanted to do to boost our plan in the short term.
We had all of these tentative steps to growth in building a third team. We were a profitably private company, but we were growing cautiously and certainly not at the rate of some of the larger studios out there. With Zenimax, we can grow out more aggressively. We have two teams now and we’ll develop out a third team in relatively short order. We think that three studios is the maximum; we can keep a handle on that number. We don’t want to potentially get four and five studios and get unmanageably large.
IG: Does Bethsoft have any interest in working with things like id Tech 5?
JC: The two teams are big and well-established, so we don’t expect there to be any serious ditching of software, but there will be cross-pollination. What we can cherry pick, we will. However, the Beth team stays the Beth team and the id team stays the id team; they will retain their own technology and there will be no company-mandated engine.
IG: Would there ever be something like a Quake RPG, or will the teams keep their IP mostly separate?
JC: We’ve got our plates pretty full right now. There might be some interesting opportunities down the road, but there’s nothing slated at the moment. We really liked Fallout 3, though, and the success of that definitely had an impact on ZeniMax’s ability to make this acquisition.
IG: John Romero seemed somewhat shocked over the news at first, but now he wishes you all the best. You still talk to John on occasion or does he just do his own thing?
JC: I get an email every now and then and will see him at conferences on occasion, but we don’t have a close working relationship. Like most of the people in this industry, I wish him the best.
IG: Final question, what can we expect from id Software in the short or medium-long term?
JC: Nothing changes for id in the short or medium-long term. Doom 4 and Quake Live are underway and rolling strong. Instead of the question of “who’s going to publish Doom 4?” we know it’ll be ZeniMax. It really should just be positive things resulting from this, and the less I have to deal with business stuff and the more I can get back to coding, the better!
IG: Guys, thank you for your time.
When The Last Remnant was announced, it was originally planned to be released on the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The 360 and PC versions were released already, so where is the PS3 version? According to a Japanese gaming blog called Makonako, there’s a strong possibility that game may never be release on Sony’s PS3.
Makonado was covering a Square Enix investors meeting on June 24th, 2009. According to the source, Square Enix Yoichi Wada was a bit hesitant, when someone asked him a question about the status of The Last Remnant for the PS3. In a response Wada did not confirm that the PS3 version of the game was cancelled, instead he explain that the company needs to be profitable. He also stated that a multi-platform title (The Last Remnant) will not perform well on a new system (PS3) when the original version (Xbox 360) wasn’t a huge hit in the first place. The Square-Enix booth at this year’s E3, The Last Remant was no where to be found, so I think it’s safe to say to the PS3 owners, that this game is not coming out.
So what do you guys think, is it a disappointment that this title is still not out on PS3 or you do not care?
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Ign.com
SNK’s multi-platform fighter game was originally planned to be release on July 7, 2009, but that has changed. KoF XII will now be release sometime in July. So what is the reason? Well SNK decided to delay the title so they can improve on some of the fighting mechanics.
SNK’s KoF XII is 100 percent hand-drawn and is already release in Japanese arcades. Hopefully the Western release date won’t be effected that much, we will have to wait and see.