One of our loyal X3F Army tipsters has outed himself as an employee of GameStop, but to make up for it he sent us a camera phone image of a few release dates. While you should take these dates with a grain of salt some of them are accurate, specifically Ninja Gaiden 2, Soul Calibur IV and Civilization Revolution.
Fueling the fire of the Sega's Sonic Unleashed leak is a release date of November 4 for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and PS2. EA's NFL Head Coach 09 is slated for a September 3 release and based on the release of the original in relation to Madden, the time frame seems accurate. A few titles we haven't heard much from are Bethesda Softworks' Rogue Warrior (November 10) and Edios Interactive's Shellshock 2: Blood Trails (September 1), which is being developed by the team at Rebellion.
Other dates include Sierra's Prototype from Radical and the Xbox 360 exclusive Splinter Cell: Conviction from Ubisoft which are dated for October 21 and October 2 respectfully.
Remember, pre-order focused retailers tend to guess-timate releases on a regular basis to structure their sales goals for the final two quarters of the year. However, some of the names on this list make us really glad we have a rumor category.
[Thanks, Travisto]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-28-2008 @ 1:13AM
timesplitter88 said...
Thats definately not fake. I could notice that GPOS layout from a mile away lmao.
But you just gotta keep in mind, gamestop makes up street dates all the time. if you didnt offically hear it, then it aint real lol.
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3-28-2008 @ 1:21AM
ZEBRA NINER said...
Prototype! w00t!
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3-28-2008 @ 3:21AM
DaMan09 said...
On Prototype:
Wikipedia says otherwise? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_%28game%29
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3-28-2008 @ 6:45AM
Boff said...
You got some of the dates mixed up there Xav. I blame the dodgy American way of writing the date!
Sonic Unleashed is Nov 4th
Shellshock 2 is Sep 1st (My birthday!)
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3-28-2008 @ 7:22AM
todd said...
Thought Prototype was a summer/fall 08 and looks like SC:C is pushed from March, man I really wanted that game love the series.
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3-28-2008 @ 9:38AM
HazyCloud said...
What about Rapala's? I see it on thie list! :)
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3-28-2008 @ 11:22AM
Xav de Matos said...
@Boff: Ah yes, looks like my "stupid" skill was acting up again! Also, thanks for pointing that out without using a :) or ;)
That's annoying.
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3-28-2008 @ 4:35PM
Aegis said...
I don't know if it means much, but doesn't "NFL Head Coach 09" come out in August? Unless the copy of Head Coach in the Madden anniversary edition is a special before launch deal, it doesn't seem that the list is completely accurate.
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3-28-2008 @ 6:57PM
brodsky2809 said...
I work at gamestop too and I can tell you that most of the release dates are educated guesses sent from the publishers.
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