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For those that might not know what Aion: The Tower of Eternity is, be prepared to be drooling.

This is the latest trailer from the G-star 2007 gaming exhibition in Korea.

Another Aion trailer from G-Star.

The Korean software company, NCsoft, known for their top notch MMORPG games is bringing one of the most anticipated games to the masses real soon.

The closed beta testing in the states will begin early 2008 and will be released later in the year.

The new and mysterious Spiritmaster is a wonderful addition to the game. The Spiritmaster’s ability to summon and control elemental spirits of Earth, Wind, Fire, & Water is very powerful and necessary to win battles against your foes.

The Earth spirits are strong in defense abilities.

The Fire spirit in ranged attacks.

The Water spirit for healing.

The Wind spirits for melee attacks.

You cannot control different elemental spirits at the same time.

For those that have read all the way to the bottom, here’s a treat, dancing Aion characters.

Europeans have it good, maybe too good and that’s why the “Devil May Cry”…

Capcom will be releasing Devil May Cry 4 on the Xbox 360 and the PS3 in January 2008 but they have also made an announcement that they will release a mobile version of Devil May Cry in Feb. 2008 for the European market. The mobile game will be available from all major European mobile phone operators and from Capcom.

The mobile game will feature over 10 hours of gameplay and over 45 missions. The game is set in the underworld and will feature 3D environments and characters.

Dante will be able to use the Rebellion sword and the Ebony and Ivory pistols and a “Style” rating at the end of each stage where the player can take advantage of special combos and multiple weapons to maximize their high scores.

The path the player chooses to take in the game will lead to different routes and new puzzles and new enemies as well as new weapons.

Alienware and Intel are teaming up to bring an online game called Hyperblast to the netizens.

Hyperblast is a futuristic race track well players race against AI (artificial intelligence) drones. You can avoid the drones or kill them with weapons and weapons upgrade throughout the racecourses.

The courses become harder but the upgrades in the course are based on getting Intel tech upgrades in the game.

The game is reminiscent of the old 80s line based race games. The good thing about playing this game is that you have a chance to win Hyperblast t-shirts or if you finish the final track, you’ll be eligible to enter the grand prize draw to win a fully loaded Alienware Area-51 m9750 extreme gaming notebook with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor!

The bad part is that its only open to residents of European Union member states, Norway and Switzerland. The choice for a US Hyperblast page is listed in the game site but I am not sure why the US is not part of the contest.

The game prize will be held on Feb. 29, 2008.

To play: Hyperblast Game

For full terms and conditions: Rules 

All you pizza eating, grease loving, game players may now be in heaven.

In a news release today, Domino’s and Microsoft will be giving away 10 Xbox 360 consoles and Project Gotham Racing 4.

Between Dec. 1 - Dec. 12, participants can enter by going to Domino’s website.

The “XII Days of Xbox” contest will receive,  a 48-hour trial of Xbox Live Gold, and will instanly receive Xbox prizes.

Contest rules:

• No purchase necessary
• Must be at least 13 years of age
• Enter between Dec 1 - Dec 12

Enter at Dominos.

The mercenaries are back, and they want payback!

In Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, the mercenaries go to fight a war against a power-hungry tyrant trying to take over Venezuela’s oil supply.

Pandemic Studios will bring their game to the Xbox 360, PS3, and PS2 while I-Play working with Pandemic Studios will bring out a mobile version of the game.

All the console games will be released with the mobile version at the same time.

David Gosen, President of I-play said, “Pandemic Studios is a AAA developer, and we are excited to be partnering with them to bring the Mercenaries franchise to mobile. We are thrilled that Pandemic Studios has chosen I-play to expand the Mercenaries universe.”

Josh Resnick, President of Pandemic Studios said, “I-play is a leader in the mobile market with a successful track record of developing and marketing game franchises. With this partnership, Pandemic Studios is excited to have I-play bring the Mercenaries 2: World in Flames experience to life on mobile devices. We can’t wait to let our fans unleash Mercenaries-style destruction while on the go.”

The game’s ETA is Feb. 2008

Sony has released a firmware upgrade for the PSP to version 3.73 today.

The new firmware will fix the issue of the UMD drive occasionally freezing and failing to reload data.

Download the latest firmware from Sony.

News from 411mania.

For those that are members of the online games portal site alaplaya, Christmas might be coming early.

The gamin portal is celebrating because they now have over 100,000 gamers signed-up since its launch three months ago.

The site will be giving away over £8,000 in cash giveaways. Registered users can win £350 a day through the online advent calender. The contest runs till the day before Christmas. Those registered users who do not win the daily big prize will still walk away with some smaller prizes and it promises to leave no-one empty handed when they log off.

The portals main games - Audition (a dance battle), Fantasy Tennis, and Come on Baby ( a racing game with the characters being babies.)

Audition is a popular online game created by Nexon of Korea. You might recognize the company if you’ve ever played Maple Story.

The manga/manhwa style graphics in the portal are suitable for all ages as well as fun and addicting in its playfulness.

The time has come for you to once again place your butt in the captain’s seat and control a large armada fleet to conquer the universe once again.

As in Spaceforce: Rogue Universe, the turn-based strategy game starts with you building a space station. The station will allow you to build structures to produce resources, captains, and ships.

The game features:

• 3 campaigns with 24 missions
• Includes elements of adventure, management, action, RPG and tactics
• Build resources from asteroid mines and use them to build up your captains and fleets
• More than 120 individual captains with unique (specialties?)
• Capabilities to develop over 200 cutting-edge technologies and to upgrade fleets
• A 3D animated world with sharp graphics and storyline with side quests
• Special features of each race
• An addictive RPG elements
• Editable multiplayer and map provided

Take a look at the vid and see what happens when you fall off the map.

You’re in limbo, baby! This vid was posted in August so they might have a fix, than again maybe not…

Seeing Chow Yun-Fat in such earlier films as “A Better Tomorrow”, “The Killer”, and off course “Hard Boiled” you can’t help but be in a dream like state of amazement over the way his character could hold two guns and make a shootout so cool.

The term, “Ballactic Gunfire” was probably used for the first time to describe the way Chow Yun-Fat fired off his guns in some amazing gun fights.

All this wouldn’t have been possible without John Woo, the director, who has made Chow Yun-Fat into an international star and has made holding two guns a requirement in any movie that has a shootout.

With John Woo’s entrance into Hollywood, he has created Lion Rock Productions and Tiger Hill Entertainment to produce movies and games.

His company, Tiger Hill Entertainment, has brought to us our beloved Chow Yun-Fat character Tequila from “Hard Boiled” to Xbox 360 and PS3 fans a much needed and refreshing shooter game titled “Stranglehold.”

Stranglehold has been released for some time now but Europe is finally getting the game now. To help with the launch of Stranglehold for the European market, Midway is pretty much following the marketing campaign in the states.

Until mid-Jan., users will be able to create their own mini-short films with over 160 classic films, texts, and sound bytes to be edited together for a 90 sec. short film about Stranglehold.

The contest will run for eight weeks, and awards will be given out every week to the best short films created.

The winners will receive a limited edition game console with a Stranglehold design and the grand prize winner will win a luxury trip for two to Hong Kong.

Midway will also give away games signed by the director, John Woo, to some lucky registered users that have participated in the voting.

To enter, go to www.massive-d.com and create your own Stranglehold short film. The contest runs till mid-January.