For those of you not in the know, a speedrun is the act of a player attempting to complete a videogame (or a portion of a game) as quickly as possible. Players doing speedruns will usually use tricks or exploit parts of the games mechanics (without using cheats) to achieve seemingly impossible fast times.
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Remedy showed off their upcoming psychological thriller, Alan Wake, recently at the Intel developer forum.
The game was running on quad-core processors, using the “multiple cores to stream in data seamlessly in the background” – however it works, the results are stunning!

Today Bethesda Softworks announced that it’s best selling game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the Xbox 360 and PC will now be a launch title for the PS3 in November. Also The Elder Scrolls Travels: Oblivion will be released on the PSP in Spring 2007.
“Oblivion features a powerful combination of free-form gameplay, unprecedented graphics, [...]

Ensemble Studios and Microsoft have been working together on the new Halo RTS (Halo Wars). This is a pretty new game and little is known about it, the one thing we have got our hands on though is the new teaser trailer.

Nintendo have released the official box art design for their latest console the Nintendo Wii. Ok so it’s nothing exciting but hey, it’s a box!

Here it is, Ubisofts Red Steel box art for the Nintendo Wii. Also confirmed at the bottom of the box is the Teen rating. Red Steel is not your ordinary first person shooter, it takes a much more ‘hands on’ approach requiring you to slash and point the Wii’s motion-sensing controller to control your character.
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Whilst the third installment of the Halo series is still in the works, Bungie have revealed the final Halo 3 logo.
Bungie have also posted up an interesting article on the making of the logo, giving a detailed insight on the design process and the amount of work that went into producing it. From the article:
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Koei Canada’s Fatal Inertia is an aerial combat racing game for the Playstation 3. Similar to Wipeout and F-Zero but with the difference that items are used not to damage other players but to create a variety of physics-based effects. Fatal Inertia is still on track for the Playstation 3 launch come November 19th.

Here’s the first screenshots to be released for the upcoming Forza Motorsport 2.
The games looking pretty slick so far, then again, what developer could resist touching up their screens before they hand them out? So who knows if the final build’s gonna live up to these beauties. Lets hope so…

Sega’s upcoming next-gen Sonic title (simply called Sonic The Hedgehog) is shaping up to be quite a beauty if these screenshots are anything to go by (which, lets face it, in most cases they aren’t).
Sonic the Hedgehog is due to be released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 during the 2006 Christmas holiday season.
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