That must have been one hot pictorial. More Anne Curtis pics soon.

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Image courtesy of Dinjo Constantino, UNO Magazine.

IGN and Gamespot were able to get their hands on the latest in the 2k basketball series:

Gamespot NBA 2k9 Preview

NBA 2K9 is better than last year’s game in every regard. Everything that made last year’s game such a success has been brought over and new features such as an improved franchise mode and online 5-on-5 should add the game’s experience. Though with all the improvements in NBA Live this year, consumers may have a difficult choice this season.

via GAmespot

IGN NBA2k9 Preview

While this was our first real look at NBA 2K9, the game is already 90 percent complete. And it showed. Animations were tight, the crowd looked better than it ever has for the series, and the basketball actually felt like the genuine article. There’s apparently a “big online innovation” announcement coming in the next few months, but online 5-on-5 play was big enough to please those in the room. There has also been “a lot of work done” to the franchise mode, but your guess is as good as ours as to what that means.

via IGN

CEO and President of game developer Crytek said Crysis cost 15 million Euros (22 million USD) to develop during a panel about the future of gaming graphics at the Games Convention Developers Conference in Leipzig, Germany. Yet despite the cost, Yerli maintained the game was profitable, adding, “if it wasn’t profitable I wouldn’t be able to stand here.”

In the past, Crytek was responsible for the first-person shooters Far Cry (2004) which ran on its CryEngine 1, and Crysis (2007), which rand on its CryEngine 2. Crysis Warhead, another first-person shooter with ties to Crysis and also built with CryEngine 2, is being readied for release this September.

Yerli gave no word on what other titles the company might produce between now and 2012, when he believes the studio’s next engine will be ready and a new generation of consoles will be available.

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Warhammer Online developer Mythic Entertainment today announced that the open beta for their highly anticipated MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR), will begin on September 7th, 2008. This means that online gaming fans will be able to enter the gritty fantasy world of WAR to experience the thrill of Realm vs. Realm (RvR) combat before the game goes live on September 18th, 2008.

“For three years we have been saying that ‘WAR is coming’ and the team has been working hard to deliver on this promise,” said Mark Jacobs, co-founder and general manager of Mythic Entertainment. “In just a few weeks, we are going to throw open our doors and invite more players into the game than ever before. They will have a chance to delve into the open beta and see for themselves that WAR has arrived and it is glorious!”

Warhammer Online Philippines naman dyan!

Players can get into the North American open beta by pre-ordering Warhammer Online from select retail partners. Participants of the North American closed beta will automatically be granted open beta access. For more information about the WAR open beta, visit www.warhammeronline.com/openbeta.

Ill try to get a video of the 5on5 online match in NBA Live 09 where each player is a actual user. Hope they thought of the bandwidth usage on that one. Oh NBA 2k9 has that too, so we’ll see who has the better implementation this year.

Here are the Sony PSP Games scheduled to be released in AUgust and Spetember 2008:

August 19, 2008 Cake Mania: Baker’s Challenge Destineer Strategy
August 22, 2008 Fading Shadows Agetec Puzzle Adventure
August 26, 2008 B-Boy SouthPeak Interactive Music
August 26, 2008 N+ Atari Platformer
August 26, 2008 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 Electronic Arts Sports
August 28, 2008 Pilot Academy Marvelous Interactive Flight

Aug-Sept 2008 Sony PSP Release Dates:

September 9, 2008 Cabela’s Legendary Adventures Activision Hunting
September 15, 2008 Air Conflicts: Aces of World War II Graffiti Entertainment Flight
September 16, 2008 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed LucasArts Action
September 16, 2008 Yggdra Union: We’ll Never Fight Alone Atlus RPG
September 23, 2008 Buzz! Master Quiz Sony Computer Entertainment Trivia
September 23, 2008 LEGO Batman: The Videogame Warner Bros. Interactive Action
September 23, 2008 My Spanish Coach Ubisoft Educational
September 23, 2008 Pipe Mania Empire Interactive Puzzle
September 23, 2008 Valhalla Knights 2 XSEED Games RPG

The San Fransisco-based studio was founded in 2003 by Bill Roper along with Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, and David Brevik, former members of Blizzard’s Diablo action-RPG team. When Flagship’s first and only released game, Hellgate: London, launched, it was plagued with bugs and wasnt really that good. The buggy launch led Flagship CEO Bill Roper to admit that the game was too ambitious and should have narrowed its focus.

Update: Flagship boss Bill Roper has admitted there’s nothing left to do with Hellgate developer Flagship other than pack up and go home with a little dignity.

“We’re working hard on how to end gracefully,” he said. “Obviously, we’ve got people we owe money to, so we’re doing absolutely everything in our power to get those people the money we owe them, whether that’s on an institutional side, lenders, or, equally as important, with our employees who aren’t there anymore.” via 1Up.

Bye, Flagship. Thank god i didnt get suckered in for that Hellgate:London Lifetime subscription.

The company attempted to fix Hellgate’s various issues and offered constant updates and fixes in the months that followed the launch. However, talks of employees leaving “in droves” began to spread via a Flagship employee blog posting shortly after. The posting has since been taken down. Exodus talks were later denied by both the company and the individual employee in a public statement. However, it was later confirmed by Roper that Flagship’s Studios did indeed lay off most of its employees, and attributed it to the fact that the company could no longer sustain its size. To add to the chaos, Hellgate’s Korean publisher, HanbitSoft, later asserted that it was keeping the rights to the Hellgate: London IP in the Asian markets as collateral for Flagship’s loans. This left the fate of the game in North America in uncertain waters. Zack Karlsson, Senior Director of Business Development for Namco Bandai, the MMO’s North American publisher, asserted that Namco Bandai may step in to keep the Hellgate: London servers running, although no official announcements were made.

Hellgate: London was not the only Flagship game to face financial cuts. Mythos, the company’s other action RPG, was put on hiatus. Shortly after, Flagship laid off Ping0, the development subsidiary that was working on Mythos. Although Max Schaefer and several Mythos team members have recently formed Runic Games, the new company has not released any detailed plans for the potential launch of the IP.

Schaefer recently told Gamecyte.com, in regards to the closure, that the company is currently trying to “take care of the final affairs.” He added, “It’s a little bit of a new experience for all of us. We don’t exactly know the ‘proper’ way to close down a company.”

I think that basically means NFS: Prostreet sucked. Here’s MAggie Q from a PETA ad for those who dont know her:

“Need for Speed Undercover features a deep and engaging story of spectacular Hollywood-style live-action that will transport players into the fictional world of the Tri-City Bay Area,” said Bill Harrison, Need for Speed Undercover Executive Producer. “Working with talent the caliber of Maggie Q allows us to deliver an unparalleled level of storytelling that will keep players engaged in between 180-mile an hour races.”

Maggie Q, who has starred in Mission Impossible III and Live Free or Die Hard, plays Federal Agent Chase Linh, a seductive handler who recruits and guides players as they go undercover. Players will take on dangerous jobs and compete in races in order to infiltrate and takedown a ruthless international crime syndicate.