Strategy Informer - Electronic Arts announced the public beta test for Battlefield: Bad Company multiplayer on Xbox 360. This public beta test is only for gamers from North America or Europe who has Xbox Live Gold account.

Just go to FilePlanet,  there are a limited amount of keys, but they will also be available through IGN.com, GameSpy, TeamXbox, Planet Battlefield and Voodoo Extreme. So if you are too late for the FilePlanet batch, keep checking those sites. Additionally, for those in North America, Gamestop will offer 5000 keys.

IGN - According to the report, Namco is looking into the development of arcade titles which link up with Nintendo Wii gaming console, exchanging data between the home and arcade.

This event take place after Namco closed down 60 of their Namco Japanese Arcade Center, which was cause because people tends to play Wii rather than Arcade games.

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Complex - Microsoft is dropping 500 copies of the new Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) games for Xbox 360 Elite System. These copies is a very limited edition since there will only be 500 of them.

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Engadget - Sony Inc recently announced that the next PS3 firmware update (v2.20) will add the new interactive features to the console. Playstation 3 owners should expect downloadable video content, interactive movie-based games, and the always intriguing "more" when the software is released in "late March." In other words, in the next 11 days. The update will also allow you to copy photos and music playlists over USB from your PS3 to your PSP.

Destructoid - While the question remains as to how long Harmonix and MTV Games will continue to support the current iteration of Rock Band, it’s evident that they’re committed to providing additional game content on a frequent basis. Prior to the game’s release, I was told -- in so many words -- that there would be no "f**king around" when it came to downloadable content, and there’s no question that they’ve delivered.

The Onion - The incident involving 13 years old boy's limp-wristed attack on his classmates in United States raise concerned among parents. Parents blaming several violent games in Nintendo Wii for that incident. They claimed that those games are a prissy little menace to the society.

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IGN - EGA Europe Ltd. today announced gamers can sample the highly anticipated Condemned 2 video game from esteemed development studio, Monolith Productions, via a demo released on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

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gamezine.co.uk - Games industry analyst Michael Pachter has claimed Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) will sell six million copies in its first week of sale.

He also predicted GTA IV will be responsible for recouping $450 million (£221 million) of Take2's expected $1.073 billion (£0.52 billion) revenue in 2008, generating a total of $135 million (£66 million) of the firm’s overall profit.

Capcom announced that its developing Plunder for the Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC. Developed by Certain Affinity, known for their previous work on the Halo series, Plunder is a real-time multiplayer strategy game that puts players in command of a pirate ship with the goal of destroying your enemies and capturing towns for your pirate faction. Plunder is currently scheduled for release this summer.

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Microsoft recently said that the world-known game console Xbox 360 will not support Blu-Ray. "Xbox is not currently in talks with Sony or the Blu-ray Association to integrate Blu-ray into the Xbox experience," Greenberg told Reuters in an interview."

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