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July 31, 2008 – 10:29 pm, Frontier Developments head David Braben chats about his company’s mysterious open-world action title The Outsider

Source: Videogaming247

July 31, 2008 – 10:20 pm, Too Human has gone gold and will arrive August 19; Xbox Live demo downloaded by 900,000
July 31, 2008 – 10:00 pm, Godfather 2 slated for an early 2009 release, EA CEO John Riccitiello announced at today’s investor’s conference
July 31, 2008 – 5:41 pm, A mature and well-written analysis of this year’s E3 and its games, provided by Scott Alexander of Playboy

Source: Playboy.com (NWS WARNING!)

July 31, 2008 – 5:20 pm, iD details Rage gameplay

Source: Shacknews

July 31, 2008 – 5:06 pm, The ESA has publicly released its annual report, detailing the organization’s lobbying efforts, research ventures, and anti-piracy actions, in an attempt to prove its worth

Source: TheESA.com

July 31, 2008 – 5:05 pm, The Shack has a first-look at Wolfenstein

Source: Shacknews

July 31, 2008 – 5:02 pm, Take-Two enrages 17 concerned British citizens with Grand Theft Auto IV TV spots, UK Advertising Standards Authority couldn’t care less

Source: ASA.org.uk

July 31, 2008 – 5:02 pm, John ‘Mixed Metaphors’ Carmack on Rage engine development: “We are approaching the ‘light at the end of the tunnel,’ going into the home stretch”

Source: Shacknews

July 31, 2008 – 4:58 pm, Action-crime MMO All Points Bulletin not Realtime World’s only game in development, Colin Macdonald confirms

Source: Eurogamer

July 31, 2008 – 12:06 pm, Episode One, ‘A Boy Learns What Fear Is’, of American McGee’s episodic Grimm now available for download from GameTap for free

Source: GameTap

July 31, 2008 – 11:58 am, Double Fine Productions “very close” to securing new publishing deal for Brutal Legend, with what’s being described as a “non-traditional publisher” and a more “unique” arrangement

Source: Variety Blog

July 31, 2008 – 11:56 am, Demos for Madden 09 and Facebreaker now available on Xbox Live Marketplace in all regions and on the PlayStation Network
July 31, 2008 – 11:53 am, In an interview with Shacknews, AIAS president Joseph Olin discribed gaming journolists as “lazey” and lacking “critical analases”

Source: Shacknews

July 30, 2008 – 8:20 pm, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 blasts onto Xbox Live Arcade for 800 MSP ($10 USD) in all regions
July 30, 2008 – 6:28 pm, Latest Mass Effect PC update provides patch, free Bringing Down the Sky downloadable content

Source: Mass Effect Galactic Codex

July 30, 2008 – 6:25 pm, Registration for E for All has begun; event runs October 3-5 at the LA Convention Center

Source: E for All Exp

July 30, 2008 – 6:17 pm, Microsoft’s Shane Kim on the lack of Xbox 360 MMO’s: “We haven’t been successful, but there’s nothing to say those titles can’t be successful on 360″

Source: Edge Online

July 30, 2008 – 6:10 pm, Sony PlayStation 3 firmware update 2.42 now available, improves “the playback quality of some PlayStation 3 and PlayStation format software”
July 30, 2008 – 6:08 pm, Google has been testing “AdSense for Games” for past several months

Source: VentureBeat

July 30, 2008 – 6:04 pm, Delayed: Ubisoft’s Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway pushed from August to September 26; bombs away for HAWX in 2009
July 30, 2008 – 4:29 pm, Development has officially begun on Ken Levine’s “crazy ambitious” new unannounced title, with the help of much of the original BioShock team

Source: Videogaming247

July 30, 2008 – 3:49 pm, Nibris will be in attendance at Leipzig Games Convention next month, allegedly showing off its games

Source: Nibris.net

July 30, 2008 – 1:42 pm, Game critics, including those from Wired, The Washington Post, and Newsweek, pick the best games of E3 2008

Source: Kotaku

July 30, 2008 – 12:30 pm, This week’s Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee teaches us indifference

Source: The Escapist

July 30, 2008 – 12:28 pm, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 beta now underway

Source: EA.com/redalert

July 30, 2008 – 12:08 pm, Editorial: Microsoft needs to be nicer to its indie XBLA developers

Source: Gamasutra

July 29, 2008 – 6:17 pm, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith more popular than Real Aerosmith; game grossed $25m in first week, band’s last album netted about $2m

Source: Tom Chick

July 27, 2008 – 3:53 pm, The complete history of videogames

Source: SomethingAwful

July 27, 2008 – 3:52 pm, Bethesda is building an army

Source: BethBlog