Until now, Gamefly has been all about game rentals and used game sales. Now, however, they’re entering the realm of used game trade-ins. Select Gamefly customers have been invited into a beta program for the new trade-in system, which allows you to send your old games back to Gamefly and exchange them for credit toward your monthly Gamefly fees. The trade-in values for some sample newer games include Bioshock
Source: Gizmodo
Contrary to the April 1 release that Harmonix announced earlier today for Jonathan Coulton’s “Still Alive” free downloadable song for Rock Band
ComingSoon has an update about the previously announced Gears of War
Gears of War is a bestselling first person shooter game on the XBox 360 and PC that pits human soldiers against a race of subterranean monsters called the Locust Horde. Cliff “Cliffy B” Bleszinski was the lead designer of the game, and he’s also worked on the treatment for the movie adaptation. Prior to the movie release, though, we can expect the game sequel to Gears to hit in November 2008.
Source: ComingSoon
Harmonix has announced that this week’s Rock Band
“Still Alive” releases on the XBox 360 tomorrow (April 1), but it won’t be on the Playstation 3 for a couple more weeks due to work Sony is doing on the PSN store.
Artist Evan Shaner recently posted his “Charles Shulz’s Watchmen” at DeviantArt and has been getting some well deserved attention for this awesome and no doubt Alan Moore-rattling piece. Head over to his site or to his DevArt and give him some kudos.
Source: /film
New Line Cinema and Platinum Dunes is hopping on the horror revival bandwagon with a new take on the Friday the 13th movie franchise. The new film, slated for a February 13, 2009, release, already stars Jared Padalecki of Supernatural, and now the resident slasher has been cast.
Derek Mears will be the new Jason Voorhees. He previously has appeared in The Hills Have Eyes 2 and has done stunts for a number of movies, including the Pirates of the Caribbean films and currently Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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Mayfair Games has announced that they will be releasing a new version of the Settlers of Catan board game in September. This new edition will simplify the overall game to make it more appealing to new players.
Some of the planned changes include reducing the number of different game tiles from 19 to 6, decreasing the size of the resource cards, and including plastic playing pieces instead of the traditional wooden ones. Likewise, the marketing for the new version will be towards more of a mass-market. The packaging will not have the regular game’s “oil painting-esque” look, but will be more in line with other American board games on the market. This new version also will be available at mass market, including Toys R Us stores. The new Settlers will retail for $33, lower than the $42 price point of the classic game
Source: ICV2
The viral marketing of The Dark Knight continues with yet another Joker-induced website popping up. This time the Clown Prince has defaced the recent edition of The Gotham Times with his own wicked twist, The Ha Ha Ha Times. The Joker’s postings tend to hold clues to future viral sites in The Dark Knight’s online campaign, so take a look and see if you can make anything of it.
The Dark Knight is slated for a July 18 release.
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The game is still nearly a month away from release, but the complete list of achievements for the XBox 360 version of Grant Theft Auto 4 is already circulating the net. Joystiq has the list of how you can nab your 1000 gamerscore, but beware of spoilers tucked into some of the achievement descriptions.
Source: Joystiq
Jewel Staite was a guest at the Supanova Expo in Melbourne, Australia, this weekend. During her Q&A, she mentioned that a new special edition Firefly box set is coming. She didn’t share any details about the rerelease other than that she’s been asked to provide a commentary for it in the spring. Online speculation is that this could be a high-def format of the series, but only time will tell. It seems like a no-brainer that a new Firefly release would be coming, given the first DVD set’s huge, movie-prompting success. Serenity2.net has the YouTube video of Jewel’s session.
Source: Serenity2
