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Rumors EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Is Modern Warfare 2 now banning legitimate buyers? 66 Alright, you're sick of PC gamers whining about Modern Warfare 2 and how they're getting shafted by Activision and Infinity Ward. Dirty pirates and hackers deserve to get shafted, and that's all ... Rumor: New studio working on Call of Duty, also MMO 47 The Call of Duty franchise is already split between two studios, Infinity Ward and Treyarch, but an LA Times report seems to hint the series may soon be taken roughly by a third. The report also ... Rumor: Scribblenauts 2 and F.E.A.R 3 coming next year 40 If the latest gossip is to be believed, Scribblenauts is going to become a franchise, and it will do so as early as next year! Warner Bros. accidentally let slip its list of 2010 games, with Scri... Rumor: IWNet giving Modern Warfare 2 players viruses 89 The ghost of dedicated servers continues to haunt Modern Warfare 2, as the flawless IWNet has been apparently struck down with a Trojan virus. Infinity Ward's replacement for dedicated servers ha... Rumortoid: Modern Warfare 2 has hidden multiplayer modes 47 The first thing many hackers do once gaining access to a games innards is start screwing around. We saw that when folks shoved the developer console back into Modern Warfare 2, setting up servers... Rumor: inFAMOUS 2 will have online multiplayer 39 Cheeky job listings are a good way to find out about sequels and multiplayer, apparently. Hot off the heels of Dead Space 2's multiplayer mode being (allegedly) revealed, yet another job listing ... Rumor: Pandemic Studios to close soon 64 If sources have it right, then EA is to make Pandemic Studios no more after this afternoon.According to a Kotaku report, several unnamed sources have said that the studio responsible for Mercenar... Survey suggests Evan Longoria will be MLB 2K10 coverboy 23 The Tampa Bay Rays may have missed out on the playoffs this year, but the team’s third baseman, Evan Longoria (no relation to actress Eva Longoria) may be cashing in on his two very good ye... Rumor: Dead Space 2 to have multiplayer 51 We here at Destructoid have been hearing all sorts of rumors relating to Dead Space 2 and a multiplayer mode. From what we know, it's definitely happening, but it's nothing we can declare as fact... Rumor: God of War III to feature co-op 25 Technically this rumor has been around for quite some time, but there's some new evidence that God of War III is going to have online co-op in it. Nick McCandless, from The Gamer Access, played t... MW2's Ghost possibly getting his own game 60 Having now charged through Modern Warfare 2's single player twice I am confident that I still have no idea who any of the other guys in the squad are other than Price and Soap. I know there was w... Rumor: check out these Fallout Online screens 29 If you are going to be skeptical about one thing for the rest of the year I'd suggest it is these screens. They're from a Polish site which claims to have gotten its hands on the paperwork from t... Sorry, FFXIV 'campaign code' not a beta key after all 12 Just as I thought gamers would be getting a chance to play a "Leeroy of all trades" in some kind of Final Fantasy XIV beta packed in with first-press copies of Final Fantasy XIII, my hopes were d... Could PlayStation 3 be getting integrated Facebook? 40 By all accounts, social networking is a necessity for making your console an it-can-do-everything device. Microsoft has brought Facebook, among other Web sites, directly to Xbox 360, and it's loo... Medal of Honor: Modern Combat seems inevitable 38 World War II? That's so 1944! A few weeks ago we talked to you about Medal of Honor: Modern Combat, a name that had been trademarked by Electronic Arts and seemed to indicate that the series woul... Will GTA: The Lost and Damned come to PC? Looks like it 17 A new update (noticed by GTA4.Net) for Grand Theft Auto IV on PC all but confirms "The Lost and Damned" add-on will one day be heading beyond the Xbox 360's exclusivity. The patch added Achieveme... Killzone 3 'confirmed' on Dutch TV, Guerrilla denies all 19 A few weeks ago, we ran a rumor that said Killzone 3 was in development for a 2010 release. Now the rumor has gained more ground with a Guerrilla's animation director allegedly confirming the gam... Rock Band 3 will teach us to play for real, apparently 33 Speaking to the Chicago Tribune, Dhani Harrison has gone on the record to say that Rock Band 3 not only exists in some form, but that it's going to rock our worlds with hefty educational value. "... These sure do look like Dishwasher: Dead Samurai 2 pics 20 His name was Tom Morello. Following those off-screen pictures of (what looks to be) Halo: Reach that spread across the Internet this afternoon, 1UP stumbled across a bunch of Dishwasher: Dead Sam... Rumor: Halo: Reach weapon pics leaked 58 The first Halo: Reach images might have been leaked this afternoon via the MLG message board. User “Tom Morello,” recently created a thread showing a blurry, perhaps camera-phone-snat... German rating boards lists Phoenix Wright for the Wii! 31 Capcom's classic DS game, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, may possibly be heading to the Wii if Germany's recent USK rating is to be believed. The game has been listed for Nintendo's white waggle b... Rumortoid: Walmart to sell Xbox 360 w/ $100 card for $200 36 If the rumors turn out to be right, you'll be able to waltz run into your local Walmart soon and nab an Xbox 360 and a $100 shopping card for $200. This rumor came from a retail tipster that sent... Marvel trademarks 'Iron Fist,' game, film could be in the works 11 Recently, Marvel Entertainment went out of its way to trademark "Iron Fist" for use in a number of things. But most relevant to your interests, of course, may be for videogame cartridges, discs, ... Retailer training quiz drops details on Mass Effect 2 DLC 12 If a recent Microsoft Expert Zone quiz for retailers has it right, Mass Effect 2 will be supported with downloadable characters, specific combat content, and full episodic content.This morning a ... Rez on the PSP? Q Entertainment brought it up! 21 Hey, it wasn't me. Q Entertainment brought it up. And yes, I'll take Rez classic on my PSP. Now would be great, thanks. Check out the following tweet from Q Entertainment:Porting Rez HD to PS3 wo... Left 4 Dead 2 supporting Avatar rewards (Update) 26 According to some detective work on the part of the Steam community, it would appear that Left 4 Dead 2 will be one of a handful of games supporting Xbox Live's "Avatar Awards" scheme, ... MIstwalker artist may have accidentally revealed new game 24 This is a bit of a stretch, but Mistwalker is such a quiet studio that we'll take whatever bones we're thrown. The Internet, hungry for any new information from the Japanese RPG developer, has de... Could The Who: Rock Band be on the cards? 25 Most of The Who's greatest songs -- or, the band's greatest songs that work well in a rhythm videogame for four distinct players -- have already appeared as downloadable content for Rock Band. So... Rumor: Gearbox working on Xbox Live Arcade game 15 Twitter appears to be the glass house of the Internet, and the latest to casually throw the gossip stone is a Gearbox Software level designer who has been heavily indicating that the Texas studio... Rumor: Modern Warfare 2 gets third-person (Update) 51 Modern Warfare 2 is, first and foremost, a first-person-shooter, but leaked gameplay footage seems to reveal that Infinity Ward's latest guaranteed success will be providing some out of body exp... Rumor: Next Boom Blox to land on 360/PS3 33 Superannuation, some of the best internet Matlocks around, have discovered something very interesting. It's a job listing for the team at EA that makes Boom Blox. It's pretty straight forward for... Rumor: Killzone 3 in development for 2010 release 70 The Official PlayStation Magazine has dropped a huge rumorbomb on the astonished heads of PS3 fans, naming Killzone 3 as one of its "secret games of 2010." According to the magazine, a ... Rumor: Voice of Mario teases new Mario game 41 I wonder if Nintendo is pissed at Charles Martinet right now? The company is known for it's secrecy, and their tendency to keep new games unannounced for as long as possible. It's hard to imagine... BioWare slips, says ME 2 is possibly PS3-bound (Update) 49 Rumors of Mass Effect 2 on PS3 continue to persist. This time the rumor fires are being fanned by a lone comment, a possible slip of the tongue, made by BioWare’s Jay Watamaniuk during a pr... Rumor: PS3 cross-game chat coming with next firmware 66 We've been around this block a few times, but the mystery surrounding this chapter of the PS3 cross-game chat story makes it all the more tantalizing. Yes, cross-game chat for the PlayStation 3 h... Rumor: New, more powerful DS coming in 2010 77 Nintendo released the DSi just this year, but there are already rumors that a brand new system is in the works, and this could be a very big one. Gossip has surfaced concerning a new generation o... Rumor: inFAMOUS 2 voiceover auditions, Cole being recast 37 inFAMOUS was a game with a few flaws, not least among them being the rather silly voice of main character Cole. He basically sounded like the illegitimate love child of Solid Snake and Dr. Claw, ... Rumor: Mass Effect 2 hitting PS3 85 There are a lot of times when you hear a rumor about a single platform game going multiplatform and you brush it off as the desperate gasping of those who only own one system really wanting the o... Resistance 3 billboard on movie set reveals NYC setting 44 You can't blame Sony for thinking about its marketing ahead of time, but I'm sure they probably didn't expect this.  Pictures taken from the set of the upcoming film action/sci-fi film ... GameStop says God of War: Collection delayed, Sony denies 18 According to GameStop, God of War: Collection isn't releasing until March 2010, missing its late 2009 launch date by quite a few months. GameStop tends to be more right than wrong when it comes t... Could a virtual Avatar arcade be in the works? 34 Based on a survey Joystiq received by way of a tip, all signs are pointing towards "yes."Similar to the arcade spaces found in PlayStation Home that you all know and desperately love, M... Project Natal to be priced 'like anything else' 60 Gizmodo posted this tidbit about Project Natal which is so vague that it could mean anything from what we think it means to a prediction that the birds outside my window could at any time transfo... Is the PlayStation motion controller called Sphere? 34 We already know that there's a PlayStation motion controller in development (and damn you Nintendo for making this crap a fad, I want to sit in a lazy pile on my sofa with a controller in my hand... Rumor: Medal of Honor going 'modern combat'? 23 It's like Electronic Arts is in the Stone Age with their Medal of Honor games and its World War II setting. It's been two years since Infinity Ward updated their game with Call of Duty 4: Modern ... Rumor: Digital rental of PSP games coming? 20 The PSpgo has been getting some flack from us, though when it finally landed I think we gave it a pretty fair shake. One of the great things about it is that the downloadable game service over PS... Sega's Daytona USA being revived with a new name? 18 Get out your robotic vibrato singing voice, as classic Sega racing game Daytona USA could be making a comeback in some form.Some recently uncovered artwork for an arcade game called Sega Racing C... Rumor: Alpha Protocol getting a major delay 29 Spy thriller RPG Alpha Protocol was supposed to be shipping to stores in the last week of October. We were all going to get our hands on the exciting action of the spy world and see if their whol... NFS: Shift crashing on Xbox 360, tries to access PSN!? 55 This is absolutely hilarious. A ridiculous and peculiar glitch in EA's new racing title, Need for Speed: Shift, has allegedly been unearthed, and it's amazing. The title supposedly contains a gam... Rumor: Super Street Fighter IV accidentally revealed? 54 A Gamepro Germany writer took a picture with Street Fighter IV's Yoshinori Ono doing some Hadoukens during TGS this this past week. Nothing strange about that at all. But look in the background. ... Leaked Sega doc discusses PS2 & Dreamcast on PS3 151 If this is true, then somebody has slipped up big time. A planning document has appeared on Sega's PR site that, for all intents and purposes, confirms the existence of PlayStation 2/PlayStation ... GRIN's Final Fantasy title not dead, just not with GRIN 18 When our sources told us Swedish-developer GRIN (Bionic Commando, Wanted: Weapons of Fate) was working on an Final Fantasy spin-off action title for Square Enix, we were stunned. But when then st... Wii price cut rumors point to September 27 drop date 44 Okay, we get it, the Wii is having a price cut. Quite why Nintendo feels the need to deny it when we know it's happening is beyond me. Sony and Microsoft do this as well, where the evidence is po... PS3 Slim/Uncharted 2 bundle is NOT a real thing (Update) 35 Based on the an FCC listing spotted awhile back, we should have saw this one coming -- there's a PlayStation 3 Slim with a built in 250GB hard drive coming to retail sooner, rather than later.&nb... Game Informer hints at upcoming 'Epic Mickey' reveal 23 The Internet flipped its lid this past July when concept art from what's said to be Warren Spector's upcoming title was leaked. The game, likely called Epic Mickey, pictured a dark, steampunk vis... Frank?! Rumor: Tatsunoko Vs Capcom characters leaked? 79 Don't everybody go crazy. This is still in fetal rumor form at the moment, but a post on the Shoryuken.com forums has pointed out that Capcom's Japanese character site for Tatsunoko Vs Capcom may... Rumortoid: AGENT landing in 2010 14 At E3 this year the Sony press conference had a bit of very good news for the company. The PS3 would play exclusive host to Rockstar's upcoming game AGENT. Those in attendance saw the word agent ... Rumortoid: DSi-exclusive retail games coming this fall 16 A new rumor is floating around the Internet that promises we'll be seeing the first hints of DSi-exclusive retail games very soon. According to a report from Kotaku, these games will only work on... Rumor: LEGO Rock Band tracks exportable, DLC leak extravaganza 18 Wired's Chris Kohler has worked some magic, coercing from a high-level Harmonix source information that you're not supposed to know about the future of the Rock Band series... one day before Guit... Rumor: Movie composer Hans Zimmer to score Modern Warfare 2 24 Damn, talk about a budget! If this is true, I'd love to see the final number on the budget for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. When you want to talk about the big-time composers in movies, Hans Z... Okamiden to be revealed in next week's Famitsu 42 There have been rumblings as of late, regarding something called "Okamiden," which Siliconera first discovered upon poking through some of Capcom's trademarks. The company was found to ... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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