On the COD4 forums an admin talks a bit about the new Bullet Penetration system that works with Deep Impact. Read the full article for the details.

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The following ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ content is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace:

Name: Trailer 2: Looking For That Special Someone (HD)
Price: Free
Availability: Not available in Asia or Mexico
Dash Details: The hugely anticipated, new installment in the ground-breaking Grand Theft Auto series is set to arrive in October 2007. Watch the second HD trailer now. Grand Theft Auto IV is now finally on the horizon.
Size: 46.3 MB (approx.)

Name: GTA IV Theme 1
Price: Free
Availability: Not available in Asia or Mexico
Dash Details: The hugely anticipated, new installment in the ground-breaking Grand Theft Auto series is set to arrive in October 2007.

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Robert Ludlum, the famed writer of the Jason Bourne series, is currently working in partnership with Sierra Entertainment to bring a unique derivation of The Bourne Identity to the Xbox 360. The movie version of The Bourne Identity faired very well as a movie, getting very high ratings and box office attention, so hopefully The Bourne Conspiracy will follow in its footsteps.

Jason Bourne, now a rouge government agent, doesn’t remember his past life of high-risk, confidential missions. Bourne must rid his life of those who hunt him, be it the hounding U.S. government that seeks to reclaim him or sects of dangerous terrorists. The Bourne Conspiracy will likely be a title that revolves around the instinct of survival, as Bourne must avoid detection and use his supreme hand-to-hand combat skills and firearms abilities.

Though The Bourne Conspiracy will not arrive until summer of next year, be sure to check out the movies and novels if you haven’t done so: The Bourne Ultimatum, the next chapter in the film series, will hit theaters throughout the United States on August 3rd.

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• A Near Collision between two cars caused a pedestrian to proclaim loudly “That was f***ud up”
• As Niko approached several people milling in a large group, he sort weaved in and out of them. At one point, he even pushed a pedestrian gently out of his way.
• As Niko continued descending a small hill further down the road, we noticed the way his weight seemed to shift backwards a little, as though he was saving himself from just pitching forwards and setting off into a run. He looked exactly like someone walking down a hill does.
• Another example of the wight shifting was shown later, when Niko began running - looking much like a normal person does instead of some unrealistic videogame representation. He leaned a little to the left and right, depending on which direction Rockstar took him, rather than his top half staying stationary and only his legs moving, as per previous GTA games.
• The sight of Niko just walking up some steps managed to impress too.
• The Rockstar team did inform us that that fire escapes and other stuff can be used within the game. We saw a ton of these around Broker and we’re sure they’ll come in handy, at least in terms of roof access for sniping missions in the finished game, if sniper missions remain, of course.
• Rather than the rags to riches story of old games, GTA IV looks more like a rags to better rags story. The idea is ostensibly for Bellic to keep afloat in Liberty City, rather than walking the streets with tons of cash dripping out of every pocket. After all, if Niko had accumulated over half a million dollars, it’s a little far fetched for him to want to carry out other missions. He’d be set for life from that point on and could provide for both himself and his brother. We therefore imagine GTA IV will have a much more realistic approach to funds and how much you’ll ultimately have to spend them throughout the game.
• Little focus on building business empires this time - it makes no sense to continue living a criminal life if you’re pulling in lucrative results at your pizza parlour, nightclub or taxi rank.
• Unlike other GTAs, IV will have a lesser known voice cast and music that isn’t distinctly popular or obvious to the 2007 settings. Expect many unsigned bands or indies to show up.

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The web team at Xbox has been busy working on a redesign for Xbox.com that is going to go live Tuesday. While there are no new features in this update (it’s just a visual redesign) there are a couple of things worth mentioning:

• A new look for all of the content pages.
• Redesigned navigation
• One click access to the My Xbox section (see the examples above)
• New search function using LIVE search
• A bunch of other little things to make it easier to use

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• Settlers VI (PC) -- 7 September
• Dark Messiah: Elements (Xbox 360) -- 7 September
• Brothers in Arms: Double Time (Wii) -- 21 September
  

• Naruto: Rise of a Ninja (Xbox 360) -- 19 October

November

• Assassin's Creed (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) -- 9 November
• Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) -- 16 November
• Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (Wii, DS) -- 16 November
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (Xbox 360, PC) -- 16 November
• Haze (PS3) -- 23 November
• Haze (Xbox 360, PC) -- 30 November

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- Microsoft starts first at 6.30pm GMT+0:00. (Fact)
- New Crimson Skies game to be announced.
- Bungie working on new title/series not related to anything in the Halo/Marathon Universe.
- Epic Games to show some gorm of Gears of War 2 Trailer.
- Microsoft have bought the Star Wars Battlefront 3 rights. Trailer/Demo to be shown.
- Rare to show off Banjo Kazooie 3 (Banjo-Theerie).
- Rare to announce 2 new games.
- Rare to announce Kameo 2.
- Lionhead Studios show more of Fable 2.
- Microsoft to fund a new game based on Jason Bourne. It’ll be based on the books and not the film with Matt Damon.
- Team Ninja to show off Ninja Gaiden 2. Labeled 360 Exclusive.
- Apparently there’s news of a Metal GearSolid Game for the 360. May or may not be the 4th Installment.
- Dead Rising 2 to be shown. May not be ready.

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