G4 has reported that Activision might still want Infinity Ward making the Call of Duty Series

Even though Infinity Ward studio heads Jason West and Vince Zampella are now confirmed to have left the company, Activision says Infinity Ward is "central to Call of Duty's future."

"Jason West and Vince Zampella are no longer with Infinity Ward," explained Griffith, reiterating what we now publicly know. "Infinity Ward remains central to Call of Duty's future and we rely on the combined talent, expertise and leadership of the team there for its success."

So, even though 2 of the studio heads of IW are gone, Activision may still want Infinity Ward to make Call of Duty. Modern Warfare 3? Call of Duty 7?

Do you know what makes a good game trailer? Slow motion rag-doll physics and classical music. Do you know what the launch trailer for EA's Battlefield Bad Company 2 has? Slow motion rag-doll physics and classical music. Oh, and explosions - they're there too. Enjoy!

Microsoft has announced an Xbox 360 Splinter Cell: Conviction Special Edition Bundle.

The bundle, due to be released in early April, will contain a standard edition copy of Splinter Cell: Conviction, a 250GB console and 2 Wireless Controllers.

The Call of Duty developers seem to be in trouble with publisher Activision

G4 have reported that some bouncer type's showed up and refused to explain why they were there. People at the studio were "confused" and "worried". Infinity Ward studio heads Vince Zampella and Jason West reportedly met with Activision this morning and have not been seen by Infinity Ward staff members since. (This does not mean they have been kidnapped)

These screens below show that Jason West has possibly been let go from Infinity Ward, more info to come.

Remedy Entertainment has release some nice new screens of Alan Wake, the upcoming 360 horror game, on their Facebook page, but now conveniently here at Game Attic for you to feast your eyes upon!

The game's out May 18 for the US and May 21 for the UK.

Enjoy.

Lost in Nightmares is the first of four DLC releasing this year for Resident Evil 5. The next bit of extra content containing extra chapters is called Desperate Escape which is coming out early March and the 2 other packs I mentioned are costumes packs. All can be found here. I have decided to purchase all the DLC because I have had Resi 5 since launch but coming out on March 9th is Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition which contains all the DLC on the disc. Each DLC costs 400 and the Costume Packs are priced at 160.


Lost in Nightmares is a new chapter that shows one of Chris and Jill’s old missions, it is not very long. On Amateur it took me 20-25 minutes but on Veteran it took me well over an hour. The mission takes place in Ozwell E. Spencer’s (Founder of Umbrella) mansion and it looks exactly like the one off the first Resident Evil. As soon as I started I was taken back to when I first played Resident Evil and it felt brilliant. The first half of this DLC takes place in the main part of mansion and you don’t have much combat, more running around finding pieces of paper and a crank.

There are a few boss fights later on but they seem to have re used a boss of the Resident Evil 5 storyline, of course the boss has had a few mild changes. When it got to final confrontation I was actually surprised it was ending, it was just starting to get better. After you have finished Lost in Nightmares you have the chance to give Mercenaries Reunion a go. This is basically Mercenaries but with different characters such as the famous Barry Burton and the evil Excella Gionne, unfortunately not in her Urboros state.


I have put a few hours into the new Mercenaries mode and I am still enjoying it. I need to finish Lost in Nightmares on Professional mode still and this time I will run through as Jill because as soon as you complete it once on any difficulty you get the option to choose Chris or Jill which is nice as some people do prefer Jill. This is also like the first game where you also there had the option between Jill and Chris.

I love the Resident Evil series and Resident Evil 5 did deliver. This DLC is a great addition, it’s just a bit disappointing how short it is and that it could have been much longer. I would not recommend buying this DLC unless you play Resident Evil 5 on a regular basis. I hope Desperate Escape is just that little bit longer when it comes out next month.

8/10

Bizarre Creations has released its latest Blur trailer in which the team discusses social gameplay aspects and how the game 'brings people together.'

NeoGAF is reporting that a beta for the game will be available from the 1st of March. It comes after Fileplanet revealed a 'top secret Xbox 360 beta' will come out on that date.

Enjoy!

Here's the first gameplay trailer for the new Transformers game. Luckily it's not a tie-in game with any of the films, so it could be half decent, however, this trailer didn't really do anything for me, but hopefully some of you guys will like it.

Enjoy.

Oh dear. Just as we thought the worst of the recession was behind us, and that the game industry was one of the survivors over the last 2 years, comes this.

GAME has confirmed it will close 43 stores, laying off 247 staff across its UK operations.
The news comes after the company had seen its sales over the Christmas period, fall by 18%.
They will close 12 GAME stores, all 25 stores based in branches of Debenhams, and 6 Gamestation stores. Tough market conditions coming in 2010 are to blame for the closures.

In a statement to Gamesindustry.biz, the company said: "The majority of the identified sites are located close to another one of our stores, and we will help each customer affected by a closure to transfer to their nearest store as well as our online offerings,"

"We will provide extensive support to the teams in each store. However, with deep regret, we have had to offer redundancy to 247 employees. We will do our utmost to redeploy roles if possible, and have started consulting with all affected employees in the 43 sites."

Rockstar has released five more screenshots of Read Dead Redemption, a day after we saw a new video featuring the ladies of the game.

Feast your eyes on them below, this game looks to be a stunner.

SEGA has sent over some screenshots and the boxart for the upcoming Alpha Protocol. Although the picture below shows the PC version, it'll look exactly the same for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

Blur the new racing game from Bizarre Creations and Activision have today tweeted that you will be able to tweet in game. This new racer looks brilliant and now with twitter in game that adds even more excitement!

I really can't wait for this to be released so I can get some racing and tweeting done. Release is set for Spring 2010.

Rockstar has released a new trailer for its forthcoming western epic, Red Dead Redemption, this time focusing on the female species in the game.

Far from what you would expect a lady from days of old to be like, these babes pack some heat. Be warned when crossing them in the game.

The game's out April 27/30 US and UK.

Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix's latest installment in the extremely popular franchise, will hit Xbox users with an epic install of 18.3 GB. This news will destroy any chance of an arcade user has of installing the game, as the Xbox's 20 GB hard drive actually only has about 17 GB that you can actually use.

Arcade user be prepared to either face long load times, or buy a bigger HDD when the game hits shelves on the 9th of March.

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Fret Nice

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Lazy Raiders

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Dr. Diggabone's getting too old for archaeological digs, or so he says. But truth be told, he’s just plain lazy… Unlock the Full Game and send the Doctor or your Xbox LIVE Avatar on a gravity-defying quest through 75 mazes by spinning and flipping the world. Beware those thieves, minions and traps, though. Without any challenge, you'd just grow lazy… and we wouldn’t want that, now would we?