Burn
through Paradise City
Electronic
Arts announced the release of its latest installment to the
Burnout
franchise today,
Burnout
Paradise
.
Developed by EA Criterion,
Burnout
Paradise
puts players into a brand new, open world design in Paradise City,
where players can create their own personal driving experience,
deciding when and where the action happens. Along with the
franchise's well established fast-paced racing experience,
Burnout
Paradise
offers players a new, seamless online social gameplay experience.
Players can find their friends online with the EasyDrive Friends List
and connect with them instantly, without having to wait or exit their
game. Players can battle up to seven friends and grab their Mugshots,
or play co-operatively to complete more than 300 online challenges.
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Alex
Ward, Creative Director at EA Criterion spoke about the game's
development saying,
“
Burnout
Paradise
is the natural evolution of the franchise as we wanted to give the
player full control to create their own personal
Burnout
experience.
The
city really comes alive when players get together with their friends
online, aggressively blasting through the streets at insane speeds to
see who is king of the road. The team at EA Criterion couldn’t be
more happy and excited to be delivering a truly next generation
Burnout
title.”
Burnout
Paradise
is
available now for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 for $59.99 USD and CAD
and is rated E10+ for Everyone 10 and up. If you're not sure whether
or not the game is for you, we highly suggest downloading the demo
and trying it out for yourself.
Enter
an
Endless
Ocean
Nintendo
announced the release of
Endless
Ocean
today,
for Wii. Developed by Arika, this new game lets players explore a
vast undersea world, swimming through coral reefs, exploring ancient
shipwrecks, meeting local wildlife and searching or sunken treasure,
all at their own pace. Nintendo is promoting
Endless
Ocean
as more of an experience than a game, which makes sense when
considering the relaxed point and click gameplay style.
Players
can explore at their leisure as they dive in exotic locales, find,
identify and catalogue hundreds of different types of marine life,
including penguins, clownfish, dolphines, sharks, and even blue
whales. The more time players spend with the animals, the more they
discover about them. The game is also Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
compatible. Once players swap Friend Codes, they will be able to dive
together on the same screen, via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
Of
course, players looking for actual objectives in the game won't be
disappointed, unless they're looking for action, as they can take on
tasks and missions, finding sunken treasures, training dolphins, do
freelance photography and more.
Endless Ocean
is
available now for Wii for $29.99 USD and CAD and is rated E for
Everyone.
WOW,
10 Million
Blizzard
Entertainment announced today that it has hit a new subscription
milestone for
World
of Warcraft
.
The extremely popular MMORPG is still climbing in membership, and
subscriptions have recently passed the 10 million user mark
worldwide.
“It’s
very gratifying to see gamers around the world continuing to show
such enthusiasm and support for
World
of Warcraft
,”
said Mike Morhaime, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment.
“We’re always pleased to welcome new players to the game, and
we’re looking forward to sharing the next major content update with
the entire community in the months ahead.”
World
of Warcraft
now hosts more than
2 million subscribers in Europe, more than 2.5 million in North
America, and approximately 5.5 million in Asia. Since it debuted in
November of 2004,
World of Warcraft
has
become the world's most popular MMORPG, and was the best selling PC
game of 2005 and 2006, only being overtaken by its own expansion
pack,
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
,
in 2007. With development underway for the game's latest expansion,
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
,
it is likely that Blizzard will only be looking up for some time to
come.
