Microsoft will bring portable media player Zune’s catalogue of TV and film content to Xbox Live internationally this autumn.
While the company hasn’t announced plans to introduce Zune hardware in Europe, it says the brand will become “the premium partner” in the Xbox Live Video Marketplace. Xbox Live users will be able to stream to rent or download to own TV and film content, representing the first time the Zune service has been available in Europe.
Take-Two has reported better than expected financial results for its second quarter ended April 30, 2009.
Nevertheless, revenues fell from $539.8 million (£339m) during Q2 2008, which included the release of the blockbuster title Grand Theft Auto IV, to $229.7 million (£144.2m). Second quarter sales were led by downloadable GTA episode The Lost and Damned, Major League Baseball 2K9, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for DS and continued GTA IV sales.
Rockstar Games has announced the second Xbox 360 exclusive Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable episode, titled The Ballad Of Gay Tony.
“As Luis Lopez, part-time hoodlum and full-time assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (aka Gay Tony), players will struggle with the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price,” the company said.
Take-Two has confirmed that BioShock 2 will launch in Europe on October 30 and in North America on November 3.
While the 2K Marin developed sequel is widely expected to release on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, platforms are still listed as "TBA" on official Take-Two documentation just released.
Take-Two has delayed the releases of Mafia II and Red Dead Redemption to the first half of the 2010 business year.
That means that the 2K Czech developed PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 mob sequel, and Rockstar San Diego’s PS3 and Xbox 360 open-world wild west follow-up, will now launch some time between November 2009 and April 30, 2010. Both games had been expected to hit the market by Christmas of this year, but that is no longer a certainty.
A new report claims Microsoft will this week reveal details of a new partnership set to bring Sky TV content to Xbox 360.
Microsoft is to host a press event this Thursday in London, and Rapid TV News suggests that “the long-awaited link up between BSkyB and Microsoft’s Xbox is at last going to happen.”
An edited version of World War One shooter Necrovision has been granted an M rating by Australia’s Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC), clearing the game for release in the country.
Developed by Polish studio The Farm 51, the supernatural first-person shooter was originally refused classification on the grounds of the game containing excessive violence.
Activision Blizzard’s World Of Warcraft: Wrath Of The Lich King retained the top spot on the NPD Group’s weekly PC chart during the week ended May 16.
April’s bestselling PC game held off competition from Electronic Arts’ second placed The Sims 2 Double Deluxe and March’s top title, Sega's Empire: Total War.
