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Daniel Emery writes: "But with the economy cooling, games companies like Sony shedding jobs, and a shortage of triple A titles scheduled for release, what does 2009 have in store for gamers and the video game industry?
We put that question to some of the industry stalwarts, asking them for their thoughts on how 2008 has been for them and what they think the next year will bring."

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chewy317 - 356 days 9 hours ago

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i disagree with him killzone 2 god of war 3 uncharted 2 halo wars all should be great games.

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TOO PAWNED - 356 days 9 hours ago

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He is saying that just because MS has no games for 09 and even more so because his game was already released. What an arrogant prick!

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TOO PAWNED - 356 days 8 hours ago

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Sure, sure i am sure "they will try to do everything" to release those games, but will they, that is another question.
Regardless of all of that i pointed out that main reason of his saying that is that his crappy game was already released.
Since 98 there was no better gaming year than 2007 but 2008 is head and shoulder above 2007 in terms of quality and variety compared to 2007 that was very shooter heavy, and 2009 seems to be even better than 2008.

Never liked Molyneux, after watching so many video interviews and reading interviews from his it is easy to see that he is an arrogant prick, full of himself, in love with himself. Thinks that he is better than others, classic "class difference" man.
I would like to get into MMA ring with him and do rear naked choke on him but when he taps out, i don't let him go, but instead brake his neck

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badz149 - 356 days 8 hours ago

1.4 - what?

hey Molyneux, Pachter would like to have a word with you! "GO MAKE GAMES AND STOP DOING MY JOB!!"

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Tomonobu Itagaki - 356 days 7 hours ago

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Yeah, Molyneux is so much arrogant, he makes so much promises and never fulfill any of them. He's the shame of the profession. He just should get some developing lessons.

However, he got a point on a thing: 2009 looks dry but few things has been announced yet. Let's hope some big surprises and why not a decent E3 2009.

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The Lazy One - 356 days 6 hours ago

1.6 - "superb artistry and a fantastic marketing job by Sony "

I'm pretty sure the marketing for LBP sucked pretty hard considering the game concept should practically sell itself.

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AAACE5 - 356 days 5 hours ago

1.7 - Honestly...

I haven't really payed too much attention to any of the 2009 titles coming out! Only thing I am looking foward to is FFXIII (If it comes out this year), everything else looks good, but I am not looking into those games like I would normally do. Maybe I will gain interest at some later date hopefully!

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SixTwoTwo - 356 days 5 hours ago

1.8 - Molyneux is a crackhead

Killzone 2
Resident Evil 5
Street Fighter IV
Halo Wars
InFamous
Alpha Protocol
MLB 09 The Show
Madworld
White Knight Chronicles
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Dragon Age: Origins
Heavy Rain
Alan Wake
Uncharted 2
Ratchet and Clank
Halo 3: Orbital Drop Shock Troopers
God of War III
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Bioshock 2
Final Fantasy XIII
Bayonetta
Fatal Frame IV
Monster Hunter 3

Those are just some of next years console games off the top of my head. Starcraft 2 alone destroys that entire list though.

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Pixel_Addict - 356 days 5 hours ago

1.9 - This guy has is head...

up Microsoft's perverbial a$$, he can not see that Sony has a excellent EXCLUSIVE 09 line up.

Killzone 2
Uncharted 2
inFAMOUS
God of War 2
Heavy Rain

.. and that list is off the top of my head.

Give me a break, this guy has no business making such comments... seeing how Fable 2 is really Fable 1.5.

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XxZxX - 356 days 4 hours ago

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KY is invented for a reason.

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yojoe26 - 356 days 3 hours ago

1.11 - Ha! What the crap is he talking about?

He must be talking about the 360 because I, personally, would consider Killzone 2, Infamous, White Knight Chronicles, Dragon Age Origins, DC Online MMO, MAG, God of War III, Uncharted 2, (possibly Twisted Metal, but not likely), and a slew of others, both multiplatform and exclusive, to all be AAA releases!! Maybe it's just me though...

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Tiberium - 355 days 22 hours ago

1.12 - @SixTwoTwo

How many of those are going to get delayed til 2010? LBP (a week no big deal, but still delayed), mgs4, and killzone 2 have been delayed. I'd be willing to bet GOW3 will be delayed to 2010.

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prowiew - 355 days 21 hours ago

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Im with him. 2009 lineup looks dry to me. My opinion. If you have other opinion, great. Of course there are good games coming 2009 and of course 2009 is just starting, so new games will be announce.

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EXCLUSIVEGAMER - 355 days 20 hours ago

1.14 - lol

no comment.

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evilmonkey501 - 355 days 20 hours ago

1.15 - I agree with him

there are no xbox games this year on my radar.....however my ps3 is looking pretty good....

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dylz - 355 days 19 hours ago

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molneux doesn't even know the ps3 exsists how would he know about god of war and killzone

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HateFanboys - 355 days 18 hours ago

1.17 - '2009 is looking dry'

Yeah, for the 360, lol!

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thereapersson - 356 days 9 hours ago

2 - That's what happens when all your prospects are soley on the 360

Maybe if you'd diversify yourself a bit, Molyneux, you wouldn't be making those statements.

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MURKERR - 356 days 7 hours ago

2.1 - ^totally agree, 2009 is looking bleak for 360 exclusive wise

its going to be an interesting year for all console owners to say the least

i cant believe killzone is out NEXT MONTH

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thereapersson - 356 days 7 hours ago

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The wait is nearly over, and I'm glad. KZ 2 will be MINE, come end of February!

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Bob Dole - 356 days 5 hours ago

2.3 - @murkerr

You've got to expect there will be some timed multiplat exclusives bought by them as a last resort. Who knows, maybe they'll have something genuine hidden up their sleeve. *crosses fingers*

And yes KZ2 gives Bob Dole such a boner. He will satisfy himself plenty when that game comes out :)

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EXCLUSIVEGAMER - 355 days 20 hours ago

2.4 - im gonna have to agree.

sony creates alot of great content but some want them to drop the price for people that cant afford it, but at what cost? Its not like these people will buy as many games as someone who can afford a ps3, a hdtv, sound system, home theater whatever.I say keep the same price until winter. To me the same people complaining about price, are the same who complain about waiting for games. Yet alan wake was a launch title.LOL.LOL. This year there are aloooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooot of great games coming out for this system.

wii is over. at least it looks nice.

microsoft better be hiding some good surprises this year.um gow3? halo? rare? anybody there? OR more bad surprises?

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NickIni - 356 days 8 hours ago

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"‘Next year, well, it's all looking a bit dry. All the triple A titles came out this Christmas and while there is stuff in 2010 we can look forward to, off the top of my head I cannot think of anything next year that really excites me."

It's because there's no games he's behind being released in 09.

This is also the person who thought: "PlayStation 3 has been disappointing to say the least."

Despite Little Big Planet, Resistance 2 and MGS4 all being excellent games and far from disappointing.

Though I understand why he's sore about LBP. The majority of the 27 people on the Media Molecule team were employed by Lionhead before, but they split and formed their own company. He is one person who would have likely wanted to have seen LBP fail hard.

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Jenzo - 356 days 8 hours ago

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"One of my personal favourites was Little Big Planet; superb artistry and a fantastic marketing job by Sony - yet it didn't make the numbers."

Sounds like he really hates LBP ;)

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NickIni - 356 days 7 hours ago

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It's called reading in between the lines.

Like I mentioned, the majority of MM were once part of Lionhead, chances are, he knew a lot of them personally, but do we see a congratulations to them?

"fantastic marketing job by Sony" - seems pretty sarcastic. Unfortunately, as usual, Sony's marketing was sub-par.
"yet it didn't make the numbers." - Fable 2 sold really well. Gloating?

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Jenzo - 356 days 7 hours ago

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I don't think he's that sly, I think he's referring to how Sony used LBP in it's E3 presentation and the TV ads for the game.

Also, he thanks Media Molecule in the ending credits of Fable 2.

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SprayandPreycom - 356 days 8 hours ago

4 - personally fable 2 aint all that

and to me everyone in the game is just creepy ...

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ThatCanadianguy420 - 356 days 8 hours ago

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I stopped playing Fable 2 not even three days after i bought it.

My first saved file my son was frozen in the middle of the town
(oakfield? oakville?) anyways..i started over..then i got to the part where i have to bring hammer and that mage guy up to that tower,then the MAGE froze and i said f**k it.

That game really pissed me off.

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DeathroW22 - 356 days 8 hours ago

4.2 - Fable 2, imo.

Is the 360's exclusive GoTY. I would say L4D but i don't really class it as exclusive if it is out on PC.

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callahan09 - 356 days 6 hours ago

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Fable 2 is definitely my 360 game of the year. I like it a lot. Couldn't say I love it, because it's got some pretty horrendous load times, some downright strange design issues, and quite frankly pretty bad character movement controls and dog A.I. Those flaws keep it from being as perfect as some reviews said (X-Play and Eurogamer for example), but I did and still do enjoy playing the game very much.

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BlackTar187 - 355 days 18 hours ago

4.4 - Worsse part about fable 2 and i liked it

I had to restart after 8hrs each time because I kept getting the slow mo walk glitch it was awful the 2nd time I tried to stomach it and nearly died from boredom

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Fishy Fingers - 356 days 8 hours ago

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Whaaa? That's rubbish, personally this Febuary alone could top any of last year (MGS4 aside). For me, this gen has topped itself each year, this year should be no different, great line up of titles on the way.

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thereapersson - 356 days 8 hours ago

5.1 - See my comment above for my thoughts on this matter.

I personally think it's a rather ridiculous statement to make. As far as I'm aware, there are a bunch of big-name games coming out this year that could easily top last year's offerings. Just because a lot of the exciting exclusive games aren't on the 360 doesn't mean the year will be "dry", as he put it.

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TOO PAWNED - 356 days 8 hours ago

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Well there you have it, his statement makes no sense. He is so arrogant that he thinks "My opinion=fact". Like someone said January-March looks like Q4 line up. REsident 5, SF4, Killzone 2?! Just those 3 sound awesome to me. I hate peter Molyneux! I might make new account with user name "IHATEMolyneux"

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Strife Lives - 356 days 8 hours ago

6 - Oooh boy. . . .let me take this in. . . .

Hahahahahaaaa. Ok. Mr Molyneux.I love Fable 2,but when ur going through. . .I tasted the overhype.the family system is boring.99.9% of the time,you get home and theres a present from ur wife.its so one dimensional,yet that aspect was whord out so badly.then the one button combat works well,but. . .after you go through the game 1nce. .u just want more.I could go on and on,but I wont.Fable 2 at the end of the day deserved 8's at max. . .but,it got 9's and 10's.Its far far far from an open world game,that they portrayed.theres load screens in every area. But,heres the same dev,saying 2009 has a dry lineup. hahaha. Let me see,We get Killzone 2,GT 5,Forza 3,Tekken 6,Mass Effect 2,God of War 3.Etc etc.I think he needs to go bk and fix the effin bugs in fable2 that made me start over twice after 25hrs of play! ! ! . . .and when I finally finished it. .I was like. .thats it? Oblivion is more fun.really.

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FaZtKiLLaR - 356 days 8 hours ago

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I had to restart couple times my self after about to 2hours of gameplay
but once i got it to work main quest only took like 4 hours 8 if u count the restarts and i thought i was taking my time

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FaZtKiLLaR - 356 days 8 hours ago

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he must be mad that lion head employees made a 10times better game than he did
He needs to quit promising so much and overhype everything he makes because fable 2 failed
that game could been made on wii and looked better

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pippoppow - 356 days 6 hours ago

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seems like a veiled attempt to downplay the competitions 09 gaming lineup and had to take a shot at the ps3 by saying "PlayStation 3 has been disappointing to say the least". PS3, Wii and the PC have more big game releases coming out than in the past year or two. I'm sure if a Lionhead studios game was in the pipe for an 09 release he would be saying the opposite.

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Strife Lives - 356 days 8 hours ago

9 - Fanboyism aside

Really.Fable 2 was terribly terribly overhyped.The dog mechanics was really bad.overall the game seemed like it was atleast another 6 - 8 months from release.They promised dynamic weather,seasons Etc.NONE OF THAT IS IN ! ! Your choices affect gameplay? Um. . . .I think he was speaking about another game.For crying out loud,it rains in the same area 24/7. Yet they said dynamic weather. . .thats just terrible.And I was conned into buying that piece of trash game. In fact,I say dont buy it if you are thinking about it,buy my favorite rpg this gen instead,Mass Effect.That game is epic.That game took effort. But Mr Molyneux. . . .It might sound like an understatement,but you sir,you just suck.and your games are,Im sad to say, AVERAGE ! ! or just below.btw,I forgot about Resi5 in my last post :D

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Hiruma Youchi - 356 days 7 hours ago

10 -

KZ2(ps)
SF4(multi)
SO4(X)
RE5(multi)
HR(Ps)
HW(X)
HOSDT(x)
UC2(Ps)
GOW3(ps)
AW(X)
SCC(X)
MW(wii
RE(wii)
TC(wii)
GTA4 DLC(X)

09 aint dry.

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Bob Dole - 356 days 5 hours ago

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You know you could just spell em out... seriously. Bob Dole doesn't know what half of those abbreviations stand for. Surely they're awesome though.

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Gambit07 - 355 days 21 hours ago

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I'm guessing he had a nerdgasm typing that.

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SL1M DADDY - 356 days 7 hours ago

11 - Sounds to me like...

Molyneuxs' ego is getting between him and his better judgement.

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Cajun Chicken - 356 days 7 hours ago

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I respect this guy as he was behing Bullfrog; I guess what he means is in innovation, if you look at it, we've all had some great titles in '08.
Spore, LBP, Boom Blox, Braid, Mirrors Edge, etc.
From what has been revealed so far, there isn't really many games with real, deep, innovation involved in 2009.

It just looks like we're playing sequels this next year, not many new IPs on the horizon. I'm not bothered, but for a top game designer that likes bringing new things to the table, it could bother someone like him.

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Gambit07 - 355 days 21 hours ago

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Flower says hi.

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Marquis_de_Sade - 355 days 19 hours ago

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I agree, this is what I thought as I read the article.

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mastiffchild - 356 days 7 hours ago

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Anybody bleating about their own industry like that esp during hard economical times is a toss pot. I always Liked PM before this, even though Fable I can take or leave as irrelevant, but to do down a year full of great games from your peers is nothing short of a disgrace.
Pete mate, do us a favour and shut it if you got nothing good to say and stop being so damn arrogant and attention seekingb it isn't comely.

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Highatus - 356 days 7 hours ago

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Molyneux writing 'Fables' again? oh for 'Petes' sake?

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1 Kush_Reaper | 356 days 8 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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Sir_Ken_Kutaragi - 356 days 7 hours ago

1.1 - This site is still Broken???

They always miss out some words???
He said -

'2009 is looking dry for the xBox 360', says Molyneux

;)

This lot don't look dry to me for 2009 -
Uncharted 2, GT5, KillZone 2, God Of War 3, Heavy Rain, FF 13 Versus, MAG, White Knight Chronicles, Flower, InFamous:Molyneux You Was Famous in the Past, EyePet:pp, New Team ICO game, Jak 4(Maybe), Fat Princess[Gabe Newell], Ratchet&Clank:Search for Clank, More COOL LBP DLC, DC Universe Online, PJ:Dungeon, Resident Evil 5(with PS3 Exclusive Stuff), FF13(Better 1st Version)...etc etc... ;-P

That List makes me Wet!!! ;-D

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gamfreak - 356 days 8 hours ago

2 - Lol

@Molyneux and Gayble.

Look at that nerdy face... Hahaha.

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DeathroW22 - 356 days 8 hours ago

3 - Molyneux is a legend..

leave him alone :(

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Jenzo - 356 days 8 hours ago

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PS3 fanboys acting like PS3 fanboys.

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thereapersson - 356 days 7 hours ago

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lmao Jenzo, it's the Open Zone. What do you expect?

BTW, when you have 360 fanboys like this running around the website, you really can't say much:

http://n4g.com/up/68501/com...
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Jenzo - 356 days ago

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You actually track them? =)

I don't need to namedrop cause the 'Sony crazies' always dominate the open zone. Just take a look around.

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Graphics Whore - 355 days 19 hours ago

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Jenzo, I find your comments odd when you yourself have been glowing green. You're a huge Xbox fanboy.

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FaZtKiLLaR - 356 days 8 hours ago

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looking dry for 360

btw he didnt mention Halo odst(only game im getting)

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Gazman1982 - 356 days 1 hour ago

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I think this dude need to shave his eyebrows so he can actually see the 2009 game lineup !!!!!

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Magic_The_Celt - 356 days 1 hour ago

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if it wasnt for the PS3 2009 wouldnt even be worth it man

Holy shít, i f*cking love you sony:

Uncharted 2
Killzone 2
Heavy Rain

we know for a fact there coming and possibly God of War III

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FaZtKiLLaR - 355 days 23 hours ago

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I think Gow 3 will come out in 09 i hope they shock us at e3 say gow 3 coming next month GT5 in December world wide

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razorbladelight - 355 days 18 hours ago

7.2 - "I f*cking love you Sony"

WOW!!!

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Marquis_de_Sade - 355 days 19 hours ago

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"its like he's saying his game was the best thing to come out last year"
No, it's really not.

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smurfie4 - 355 days 22 hours ago

9 - you can't be serious.

There's a gang of software coming this year.

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Shane Kim - 355 days 20 hours ago

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"Allright Peter, you've got the cheque, the camera is rolling in 5. Get out there and show them old chap". *Slaps Peter on his behind*

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jaybdemented - 355 days 20 hours ago

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peter is the man but hes way off. i think 09 going to blow 08 out of the water. he just needs to make black and white 3.

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