This is the main paragraph that stands out:

“Explore a massive, multilayered world that seamlessly blends soaring exploration in a
sea of clouds with intense ground-based adventuring that blurs the line between the
main world and traditional Zelda dungeons. Link™ soars through the skies on the back
of a noble bird and dives beneath the clouds to the continent below in an epic quest
that lays the foundation for the events in the critically acclaimed The Legend of Zelda:
Ocarina of Time.”

So it seems Skyward Sword will be telling the events that lead up to Ocarina Of Time. Along with that information, the press pack comes with some hot new screenshots:

(Click on the thumbnails to see the picture, full size)

According to NeoGaf.  The guys over at Xbox.com have accidentally revealed this years big E3 Microsoft announcements; Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and, what could be, Halo 4.

The mistake was quickly rectified, but luckily the guys over at NeoGaf managed to screenshot the page before it was taken down.

The site at first glance only appears to reveal the Halo CE remake, but on closer inspection a possible Halo 4:

“Return to the Halo universe, The news millions of Halo fans have been waiting for; Halo 4 is on the way. But thats not all…” the caption states.

Please take this with a pinch of salt however, as it could all be a huge fake, and we’ll find out for sure within the next few hours as the Microsoft E3 Press Conference starts very soon.

See the screenshot of Xbox.com below:

The following games were included:

First Party
Launch Games:

• Extreme Sports Cafe (New IP, Combines 1080 and Wave Race + Other Sports)
• Pikmin Cafe (Interfaces with Pikmin 3DS)
• Endless Ocean Cafe
• Nintendogs Cafe Kennel (Interfaces with Nintendogs + Cats)
• Mii Explore (New IP, Multiplayer Adventure Game)

Launch Window:

• Kirby’s Epic Yarn 2 (Launch Window, Multiplayer)
• Wario Ware Cafe (Launch – Launch Window?)

Future Games

• Super Mario Cafe (Late 2012/Early 2013, Paradigm Shift a la SM64)
• Legend of Paper Zelda (Mid 2012, Paper Mario version of SNES Zelda)
• Fire Emblem Cafe (Late 2012)
• Retro Studios IP (Late 2012, New IP)
• Project Sora IP (New IP)
• Monolith Soft RPG (New IP)
• Miyamoto Game (New IP)

Third Party
Launch Games

• Battlefield 3 (Extra Content)
• Street Fighter X Tekken (Timed Exclusive)
• SSX
• Super Monkey Ball Cafe
• Tony Hawk Cafe
• Ridge Racer Cafe
• Mass Effect 3 (Possibly with ME 1 + 2)
• InVersion
• Dragons Dogma
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
• Metal Gear Solid: Rising (Extra Content)
• Silent Hill: Downpour (Extra Content)
• PES 2013 Cafe (Timed Exclusive)
• Trauma Center Cafe

Future Games:

• Modern Warfare 3
• Grand Theft Auto V (Launch, Timed Exclusive)
• Dead Space Spin Off
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Cafe
• Soul Caliber V (Extra Content)
• Sonic Cafe (Sonic Generations)
• Platinum Games IP (Bayonetta 2)
• Phantasty Star Online 2 (Late 2012?)
• SEGA Game (???)
• The Amazing Spider-Man: The Game
• Rockstar Game (New IP?)
• BioShock Infinite (Timed Exclusive)
• Red Steel III
• Beyond Good & Evil 2
• Doom 4
• Madden 2013 (Timed Exclusive)
• Tiger Woods 13
• Fight Night Cafe
• Need for Speed Cafe
• Level-5 Game (New IP)
• Kingdom Hearts Cafe (Possibly KH3)
• Square Enix Game (New IP)
• Square Enix Game (???)
• Grasshopper Game (New IP or No More Heroes 3)
• Valve Game (Possibly a collection set + new game?)
• Epic Games (New IP, Bulletstorm 2 or New Gears of War Trilogy exclusive to Cafe)

While some of the first-party titles seem plausible, some of the third-party titles, such as Mass Effect 3 and Grand Theft Auto V, when combined with other third-party titles launching this year, such as Modern Warfare III and Battlefield 3, make it seem like too much of a good thing . However, NeoGaf has been right with leaks in the past. Keep in mind, it’s all just a rumor at this point. Take each title with a grain of salt. However if this were true, Would it be one of the greatest lauch line-up’s in console history?

Source: 1up

10. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – Mile High Club – 20G

Starting off the list, is Modern Warfare’s famous Mile High Club. Many gamers try for this achievement, as it’s seen as one the ultimate bragging rights for COD fans. All you have to do for this achievement is to “Sky dive to safety on Veteran difficulty”. Doesn’t sound to tough, right? Well we’re forgetting that you’re taking on an entire plane full of terrorists on the hardest difficulty level. Culminating in a hostage rescue as your intended target hides behind his hostage. Oh yeah.. I forgot to add that you have to do the whole thing in less than 60 seconds and all you have flash bangs. While it’s not the hardest achievement on the list, its definitely one that’s going to drive your patience.

9. The Orange Box – Neighborhood Watch – 35G

The Orange Box holds some very tricky achievements. I’m talking without enabling the cheats here; real achievement hunters and gamers earn there achievements without cheats. There was a few I could have chosen for this game, such as “The One Free Bullet”. Where you play though Episode one, having only fired one bullet. Or there’s “Get Some Grub” The annoying achievement that has you trying to squish every antlion grub in Episode 2. Even “Little Rocket Man” where you carry a garden gnome though out all of Episode 2 could have made this list. But the achievement that I found the hardest in The Orange Box was “Neighborhood Watch“.

This Achievement has you trying to stop 13 Striders from destroying any buildings near the end of the story in Episode 2. You have to keep up with each Strider and defend yourself from any Hunters while getting out of your car to shoot the bombs. This Achievement is incredibly frustrating that I never managed to get it after hours of trying.

8. Gears Of War II – Seriously 2.0 – 50G

It’s not that this is a really hard achievement, its just very, very time consuming. People who got the “Seriously” achievement in the original Gear Of War were most likely annoyed upon seeing this “Seriously 2.0”. You see “Seriously” had you kill a total of 10,000 people in a versus ranked match for this achievement. Well, “Seriously 2.0” takes it a step further, this time you have to kill 100,000.

The good thing is that this can be done in any mode, even single player. So it’s not just stuck to ranked versus matches; it adds up total kills and campaign kills too.

7. Dead Rising – Seven Day Survivor – 20G

This achievement is quite famous. Mainly due to the fact you have to play for a solid 22 hours straight. As the name suggests, all you have to do is survive the zombie infested mall for 7 in-game days. Which is roughly around 22 hours, real-time. What really makes this achievement so hard is that you can’t save. Meaning if you die, you have to do it all again. You can’t really take many breaks from the game, due to having to be constantly on guard of any zombies that may break your barricade. The psychopaths bosses can respawn upon a map refresh and without warning. If that’s not bad enough, Frank’s life is constantly depleting. And it can only be restored with food, which is scatted throughout the mall, but in limited supply.

6. Left 4 Dead 2 – The Real Deal – 35G

Beating Left 4 Dead on Expert isn’t easy. You need to be a master of the game, knowing which weapon is right for which situation, know the maps, and overall be a master of teamwork. So what happens when you throw in Realism Mode? Yup, this achievement, expects you to beat a campaign on Expert difficulty, in Realism Mode.

Realism mode removes the auras usually shown around players through walls. Also, the auras around items are only visible within a few feet, making the game require more communication and teamwork. Realism mode also makes bodyshots less effective to the Common Infected, meaning headshots are the way to go.

The only weapons that can kill regardless of where they hit is the M60 and the Magnum. Rescue closets are removed, making the Defibrillator the only way to revive dead Survivors. Witches kill instantly. Speech bubbles over the Survivors are disabled when speaking via the microphone, although the speech bubble still appear above the character’s icon. Doesn’t sound to tough on paper, but give it a try and see how tough this can be.

5. BlazBlue – Leonidas – 40G

Another achievement that sounds easy, all you have to do is beat Score Attack Mode. Only this is the hardest mode  in BlazBlue and it’s the hardest achievement in the game. The AI is much more harder than Hell difficulty. You can’t change the difficulty ether. Each battle is fixed at 2 rounds and 99 seconds each. The last four characters are all in their unlimited forms with Ragna as the final boss with a LOT of life. This achievement is really unfair towards the player, and the AI will pull out all the cheap tricks when it needs to, so you don’t win. You need to be a pretty good at BlazBlue and most other 2D fighting games to even attempt this achievement.

4. Star Ocean: The Last Hope – Ultimate Battler – 10G

This Achievement requires you to collect all 100 battle trophies in the game. All are acquired though battles and some are really easy, such as “cure an ally who has curse status”. But then you have the incredibly hard ones such as “Deal exactly 55,555 points of damage “ meaning if you get 55,556 with your attack you don’t get the battle trophy. There are 100 battle trophies in total and they’ll require a massive amount of playtime and patience to get them all. A quick Google search will find you the battle trophy list if your interested to see how hard this Achievement is. And all you get for it is a lousy 10 gamer points!

3. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter – World Champion – 40G

World Champion requires you to climb to the top of the universal leaderboard, to gain the 40G. One Problem, this achievement is near impossible to get. According to my research there’s around 19 people who have achieved this. Only 19 people out of the millions who have played it. GRAW did quite well in sales and even won the BAVGA Award for Best Game. Looks like someone forgot to award it with most hardest multi-player achievement.

To get this achievement legibly, you have to become the highest level on solo and team leaderboards, which then boosts your rank on the universal leaderboard. However a few people have done this by using a boost effort, which, whilst quicker than the legit way, still takes a good few weeks to complete. And it takes a lot of set up and communication with 4 other people who have the game and are willing to boost as much as you are to achieve.

2. Mega Man 10 – Mr. Perfect – 30G

Mega Man games are known for the tough gameplay, however this achievement is just crazy and next to impossible. “Beat The Game Without Taking Any Damage”, that’s right, beat the whole game without getting hit once. The only way you’re going to do this, is by putting the game on “easy” and lots and lots of practice.

1. Final Fantasy XI – Level Up Any Job To Its Maximum Level. – 30G

Obtaining just one of these achievements will take you around four to six months of gaming, provided you can put in around nine hours a day and that you don’t have to spend a lot of time getting a party organized. That’s half a year, for one achievement. On top of that, you have to pay a monthly subscription to keep on playing. Other achievements on this list may take hundreds of hours to complete, but the time commitment involved in this achievement and the fact you have to pay each month, puts it on a whole new level . It is inconceivable that anyone would ever get a full thousand points in this game as the servers will most likely be shut down or the end of the world would have happened.

These are some of the most time consuming and toughest achievements out there that I’ve come across. Disagree or agree with this list? Has you achieved any of these achievements? If so, let us know in the comment box below!

The film industry is dying to see how many coins a [good] Super Mario movie could knock out of the box office. In a recent interview with LA Times, Nintendo Of America’s President Reggie Fils-Aime was asked if producers still ask for movie rights for Mario and Zelda. Reggie replied with, “All the time”.

Reggie went on to say that the answer they always give is, “Thanks for your interest”. However, Reggie did say that Nintendo has spoken to certain people about certain franchise movies in more detail. Nintendo is being notoriously protective of their brands, trying to forget past mistakes  such as the Super Mario Bros. Movie. Nintendo seems to only want a movie adaptation if it will be as enjoyable as their games.

Scene from 1993's Super Mario Bros. Movie

Other companies, however, are being far less protective of their brands. Atari gave rights to movie producers to make the retro game Missile Command into a movie. Following Missile Command are rumours of a Space Invaders and Spy Hunter movie being made.

The poll is voted for by members of the gaming public, and it makes me worry about the sanity of some them. I mean, Runescape being higher than Goldeneye 007? Really!? Here are the top 50 video game properties as apparently loved by you: the gaming public. If you don’t agree with the way things stack up, what would your top ten be?

1. Halo
2. Call of Duty
3. The Legend of Zelda
4. Guitar Hero
5. Metal Gear
6. Super Mario Bros.
7. World of Warcraft
8. Gears of War
9. Super Smash Bros.
10. Grand Theft Auto
11. Pokémon
12. Resident Evil
13. Fallout
14. Half-Life
15. Sonic the Hedgehog
16. Counter-Strike
17. Runescape
18. FIFA
19. Kingdom Hearts
20. Final Fantasy
21. Pac-Man
22. Madden NFL
23. The Sims
24. Tomb Raider
25. WWE Smackdown Vs. RAW
26. Rock Band
27. LittleBigPlanet
28. Saints Row
29. The Elder Scrolls
30. God of War
31. GoldenEye 007
32. Bioshock
33. KillZone
34. Skate
35. Left 4 Dead
36. Need for Speed
37. Chrono Trigger
38. Gran Turismo
39. StarCraft
40. Ratchet & Clank
41. Pong
42. Tom Clancy branded games (Splinter Cell, H.A.W.X etc)
43. Star Wars: Battlefront
44. Battlefield
45. Diablo
46. Lego Batman
47. Mario Kart
48. Burnout
49. Crash Bandicoot
50. Pro Evolution Soccer

It appears that Black Ops will allow players to visit many different time periods and settings; one of which is more than likely to be Vietnam. Vietnam has been rumoured to be in the next Call of Duty game for quite some time now. Judging by the trailer, it seems that at least part of the game will take place there. Gameplay-wise, it is extremely hard to make out any real additions or changes. The trailer hints at an intriguing twist on the Call of Duty styled story too. Some of the sequences suggest that a ex-soldier has been drugged and is being questioned about past events. I suspect players will play though his memory to advance the story. Call of Duty: Black Ops is currently slated in for a November 9th 2010 release date.

Check out the trailer below:

The trailer comfirms that the Hulk, Iron Man, Ryu, Morrigan and a certain character from Resident Evil. Watch the trailer to find out who it is.

GameStation added the “immortal soul clause” to online purchases earlier this month stating customers granted them the right to claim their soul. While all shoppers during the test were given a simple tick box option to opt out, very few did this, which would have also rewarded them with a £5 voucher. The store claims this shows 88 percent of people do not read the terms and conditions of a website before they make a purchase. Bosses also say they will not be enforcing their rights and will now email customers nullifying any claim on their soul.

Marvel VS Capcom 3

“Marvel vs. Capcom 3″ will be announced in May. According a confident “leak” by a poster named Henaki at Team Spooky. Henaki also claimed that a PC version of “Super Street Fighter 4″ would be unveiled sometime soon. He may be believable on both fronts, as he leaked the entire “SSF4″ fighter roster before it was public.

Team Spooky is a video game based blog that often runs live stream events. A few days ago, Team Spooky were posting news and stories from Capcom’s yearly event known as “Captivate”, which is used to distribute information to the press and takes place in Hawaii. Currently the editor or Marvel.com is in Hawaii on business. This only makes the earlier leak about Marvel VS Capcom more believable. Team Spooky also claim that Capcom sent out a few letters to specific venues after the leak, telling them not to post anything.

To top this rumour off, Capcom have apparently bought a new sub domain at VSCapcom.com. Also just recently, the official Marvel VS Capcom Twitter page went active with updates after going months without any updates at all. Team Spooky also claim that, there will be one new character from the Resident Evil franchise in this game.

Official Story:

A new Marvel VS Capcom game would be great and would be what many fans would love to see. However its really hard to confirm if all of this is true or not. Henaki leaked the Super Street Fighter 4 character roster before it was made public and his information was correct. So he is a reliable source of information. The Captivate event and what happened there, only adds strength to the rumour. Then with the added Marvel VS Capcom twitter page getting a bunch of updates and Capcom buying a new sub domain all points to its going to happen. The only thing I’m not entirely sure on is the news about a new character from Resident Evil. I’m going to bet my money on that this is true and we can look forward to a new Marvel VS Capcom game very soon. Keep your finger’s crossed fighting fans. In fact watch out for the next few days, as this is when Capcom will be announcing new games and information to the press.

UPDATE: Capcom have comfirmed Marvel VS Capcom 3. It is reported that it will be a classic 2D fighter with improved visuals. A couple of old favorite fighters are confirmed for the 3rd installment. They are Wolverine, Hulk, Magneto, Spider-Man and Storm. Capcom said they will be blowing fans out of the water with the sheer number of characters that will be in ‘Marvel Vs Capcom 3′. Expect more news to follow.

Portal 2 for PS3?

So I’m in my local supermarket browsing the magazine section, when I spot a certain UK PS3 magazine, called “PSM3”. On the front of this magazine, I saw the words “Portal 2”. Now where as the first Portal, which was included in the Orange Box was ported from the PC to the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, I do recall reading that Portal 2 was only stated to be on the PC, Xbox 360 and Mac(which valve are now fully supporting).

Since Valve’s last games, Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 didn’t make their way onto the Playstation 3. It looked like Portal 2 wasn’t it to make it onto the PS3 either. Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve has stated many times before in the past about the problems with the platform’s Cell processor being difficult to work with and outsourced PS3 porting duties for the Orange Box to publisher Electronic Arts.

Well now it seems EA are also going to be publishing Portal 2 onto the Playstation 3; at least according to “PSM3” anyway. Portal 2 is listed on the front cover of the magazine under “36 must-play PS3 games” along with Fallout: New Vegas, Brink, Crysis 2, and the Medal of Honor reboot.

Official Story:

I asked Valve and sadly the Valve spokespeople had nothing to say. I didn’t hear back. I doubt Portal 2 will be on the Playstation 3, especially since Gabe Newell dislikes the console so much. But at the same time, six months ago, if you would have told me that Valve will have a fully working Steam and games running on a Mac, I wouldn’t have believed it. So perhaps there is just a slight chance that PS3 owners wont be missing out. As to why “PSM3” had it on their cover…well who knows. There could be many reasons why, false information or perhaps a simple typo. PS3 owner’s, don’t hold your breath for Portal 2.

BioShock: The MMO

According to a “mysterious source”, game site Destructoid is reporting that 2K Games is working on a massively-multiplayer online title based on the world of BioShock. This rumour has popped up briefly before. When 2K made interest in the past of the MMO genre. Bioshock has been named as a potential franchise candidate for exploitation before.

Official Story:

Sadly, this is all the information I could dig up on this rumour. Since it’s from a “mysterious source”, we don’t know how reliable it is. So for now, take it this as just a rumour. Sadly, I’m going to guess that the only people who know if this is true or not are 2K Games themselves.

Sonic 4 and Dreamcast Games for Xbox Live Arcade

Someone has been a bit naughty and leaked a few unreleased Xbox Live Arcade games out onto the internet. Including Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I. The good news however is that we get to take a little peak at the new upcoming games for Xbox Live. The following games have been confirmed by the leak:

• Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1
• Sonic Adventure
• Crazy Taxi
• Metal Slug XX
• Neo Geo Battle Coliseum
• Raystorm HD
• The King Of Fighters 2002 Unlimited
• Quake Arena Arcade
• Hydro Thunder Hurricane

As you can see, some of these are Dreamcast ports, which is great news. Also it’s rumoured that there’s a few other games yet to be leaked.

Official Story:

True, we just don’t know when Microsoft are planning to release the games to the public.