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Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway will not hit the road until September, according to Gearbox President Randy Pitchford. Pitchford confirmed with Shacknews that the game had in fact received a new release date. The game was set for release in August 26, but, while the game will finish production on time, it probably won’t hit retail until sometime in September of this year. Earlier in the day it was revealed through an updated listing on GameStop and Amazon.com that the game’s release had shifted ever so slightly.

Also revealed today is a limited edition of the game featuring the game (duh), a six inch action figure of Sergeant Matt Baker (complete with 13 different accessories so you can play dress up), a limited edition Brothers in Arms comic book from Marvel and a map of Operation Market Garden.

Source: Shacknews

Glu Mobile will extend its exclusive worldwide partnership with Activision to include Call of Duty: World at War for mobile phones. The Glu mobile version of Call of Duty: World at War will be released on major wireless carriers around the world, though a specific date was not revealed at press time. Details beyond the fact that Glu will develop and publish the game were not made available.

Glu’s previous Call of Duty game, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is currently the fourth most popular game on their web site.

Codemasters announced an interesting promotional vehicle for its alternate reality videogame Turning Point: Fall of Liberty that involves, apparently, a real-life story that inspired the not-so-real-world reality of the game. The story goes that an out-of-work mechanic named Mario Contasino accidentally struck Winston Churchill with his automobile in New York City on December 13th, 1931. The man felt very bad about the incident and kept in touch with Churchill during his two-week convalescence in New York. The two eventually became fast friends.

The game takes that small sliver of a true story and answers a series of hypothetical questions: What if that man had killed Churchill and he never spoke about Germany’’s intent to conquer the world during World War II? Would America have stayed out of the war? Would Hitler have remained unchecked and unopposed, eventually taking over all of Europe?

In the game, the answer to all those questions is a resounding YES, with Germany doing all of that. Germany’s last target in this alternate reality? The United States.

75 years later, Codemasters wants to honor Mario Contasino’s descendants, for providing the inspirational turning point for the forthcoming videogame, which has taken great liberties with the story. The company says that it has enlisted Oxford historian David McCarthy, who will set out to track down descendants of Mario Contasino. His investigation can be viewed online at www.codemasters.co.uk/quest. Anyone with information as to the whereabouts of Mario Contasino’s descendants can contact David through the site.

While it’’s pretty obvious that this is a publicity stunt, it’’s at least inventive and the story is absolutely fascinating. It will be interesting to see what Mario’’s descendants know about this event and whether or not he ever filled them in on this chance meeting with one of the 20th century’’s most prominent orators and public servants.

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty will be available the end of February for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Games for Windows.

Fireglow Games announced release dates for Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory today. The latest game in the long-running World War II real-time strategy game series will hit North America on March 10th. Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory promises historically authentic models built to scale, interactive landscapes, massive military operations, thousands of units fighting in real time, more than 300 units, joint military operations (air, land, sea), multiplayer mode for up to eight players, and five campaigns for American, British, German, Japanese and Soviet sides of the war.