Daily Gaming Tidbits 05/27/09

• Bioshock 2 will be released on Nov 2nd, 2009 in North America. Our European friends will get it a few days earlier on Oct 30th.
• The E3 site for Brutal Legend  is up. Go there to win a real version of the Tenacious-D guitar.
• Guitar Hero 5 will be released September 1st. That’s a bit earlier than the normal Halloween release Activision has maintained in the past. I’m assuming it’s to get the jump on The Beatles: Rock Band which comes out on September 9th.
• The Kojima teaser site countdown ended yesterday. Did we find out what the next game will be? Nope. But we did get a hint. Now, the site flashes an image of Big Boss along with a new countdown that is set to end at 3p.m. PDT on Sunday, May 31.
• The MMO developer 38 Studios (owned by baseball player Curt Schilling) has purchased Big Huge Games from THQ. This is good news for me as I’m a fan of Big Huge Games and was going to hate to see them close up shop.
• Disney Interactive Studios announced a new Pirates of the Caribbean game. This one will be an action-RPG (it’s about time!) called Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned. It’s being developed by Propaganda Games (the folks who brought us Turok) & will be set prior to the movies. Look for it to hit consoles & PC in 2010.
• Ubisoft has made their planned releases for the next fiscal year public. Check it out:

Q1 (April – June 2009)
Anno
Q2 (July – September 2009)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Q3 (October – December 2009)
Academy of Champions
Assassin’s Creed 2
Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard
James Cameron’s Avatar
Red Steel 2
Rabbids Go Home
Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Q4 (January – March 2010)
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon
I Am Alive
R.U.S.E.

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