Shipping Out: Sept. 7 – 11, 2009

Those of you longing to rock out as one of the Fab 4 will get your chance this week with the release of The Beatles Rock Band - this week’s headline game release on multiple platforms including the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 along with two unique guitar peripheral packages.

Other highlights include Mini Ninjas, Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days, DiRT 2, Darkest of Days, LittleBigPlanet GOTY, and Wallace & Gromit Episode 2 on Xbox Live Arcade. The full list of this week’s releases can be found below:

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This week at retail: Sept. 1 - 5, 2009

This week at retail we’ll see a parade of tiny ninjas, hunters, super heroes, cruise ship personnel and rock gods. Highlights include Champions Online, Gears of War GotY Edition, Guitar Hero 5 for various platforms, and Section 8:

Week of September 1, 2009:

- Battlefield 1943 - PC (EA)

- Cabela’s Outdoor Adventure - Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2 (Activision)

- Champions Online - PC (Atari)

- Champions Online Official Strategy Guide - for PC game (Brady Games)

- Cruise Ship Vacation Games - Wii (Activision)

- Gears of War 2 Game Of The Year Edition - Xbox 360 (Microsoft)

- Guitar Hero 5 Guitar Kit - Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2 (Activision)

- Guitar Hero 5 Standalone - Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2 (Activision)

- IL 2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey - Xbox 360, PS3 (505 Games)

- Mini Ninjas - Wii, DS, Xbox 360, PS3, PC (Eidos)

- Muramasa: The Demon Blade - Wii (Ignition)

- Section 8 - Xbox 360, PS3, PC (SouthPeak)

- Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny - PSP (Namco Bandai Games)

Mini Ninjas demo this week

Along with the release of Shadow Complex on Wednesday, Xbox Live Arcade fans can take the demo of Eidos and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s cute action platformer Mini Ninjas for a dry run. The Mini Ninjas demo will also be made available for PC and PS3 if that’s your cup of tea.
The PC demo will be available for download from the official website www.minininjas.com at 1 am PST, August 19th. The Xbox 360 demo will be available on the same day via Xbox LIVE Marketplace and the PS3 demo will be available through PlayStation Network on Thursday, August 20th.

Mini Ninjas will be released from September 8th across North America, September 11th in the United Kingdom and PAL territories and October 9th in France and Germany. The game will be available on Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, Games for Windows and PS3.

Mini Ninjas to be released this September in most regions

Eidos Interactive announced that IO Interactive’s new adventure Mini Ninjas will be released on September 8 in North America, September 11 in the United Kingdom and PAL territories and October 9 in France and Germany. The game will be available for Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, Games for Windows and PlayStation 3. Sorry PSP owners. IO is better known for the Hitman seires and Kane & Lynch.

The game will be published in Europe and PAL territories by Eidos Interactive and co-published in North America by Eidos and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

Learn more about Mini Ninjas at the official webpage

The Rundown: Jan. 19, 2009

Welcome to another exciting edition of The Rundown. We start out the week with a rumor about layoffs at Warhammer Online developer Mythic Entertainment, a new WiiWare game from Aksys Games, Sony Online Entertainment’s latest acquisition and much, much more. Find out more after the break.

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