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New PS3/360 Greatest Hits surface

Several European Amazon websites now list some new Platinum Games/Greatest Hits for PS3 as well as new 360 Classics/Platinum Hits.

Apparently the following games will be released as budget-titles in the coming months:

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Final Fantasy XIII
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Assassin's Creed 2 - Game of the Year Edition
Dragon Age: Origins
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: World at War

The dates can be seen at the source (note: even though it's a PS3 site, all the games/dates are also listed for Xbox360 + Mass Effect 2 is listed at amazon.fr).

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dkgshiz5019d ago

What? That game was terrible! How is it going to be a greatest hits game?

Solidus187-SCMilk5018d ago

Cod 4 is 49$ at amazon right now.

Darkstorn5018d ago

Dragon Age: Origins would be nice to have on my PS3 (beat it on PC, but with lowest graphical settings...).

I'm also surprised at how soon Assassins Creed II fell to a budget title. For an AAA title, 9 months is pretty fast. When is Uncharted 2 going to be added to the Greatest Hits lineup?

Colonel-Killzone5019d ago

Can someone explain to me how the greatest hits thing work out please ? I have something to say about it but not until someone explains the concept to me.

spunnups5019d ago

Greatest hits are games that reach a sales milestone, whether its 500k or 1Mill I'm not sure.

Colonel-Killzone5019d ago

So why isn't Call of duty Modern Warfare 2 or BFC2 or other various titles on the list then ?

Call of duty MW2 sold I believe over 10million and it is still 60 dollars retailers. I guess its up to the companies to decide what goes up there I guess.

Rythrine5019d ago (Edited 5019d ago )

Yeah, that's the thing. They know the game can still sell at $50-$60 that's why they won't be dropping it anytime soon.

I'm still scratching my head about Avatar though. Very surprised on that one :)

dkgshiz5019d ago

Microsoft has the platinum game thing and Sony has the greatest hits thing.

jerethdagryphon5019d ago

basically if a game has sold enough i is shiortlisted to go to greatest hits at the publishers discretion

most see it as an opertunity to get more sales out of an older title some companys

namly ones with 2 word or a contraction in there name dislike the idea of selling big titles cheap and refuse

what happens there is the new price remains hight as does the trade in price

heck i got 30£ trade for ps3 cod4 after mw2 was released.

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SuperStrokey11235019d ago

Some decent games there, might get a few once i see one of teh 2 for 40 deals that crop up all the time on greatest hits games.

Snoogins5018d ago

Some decent titles there, which sadly won't become deals over in the States for awhile. I would love to pick up an Assassin's Creed 2 and Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY versions with all the DLC.

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Please, can Call of Duty leave awful Netflix-style menus behind

Call of Duty games used to be streamlined experiences, but COD 2024’s UI could be another nightmarish clutter of streaming tabs.

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BlackCountryBob3d ago

If we’re beating that drum, can we also stop forcing anyone who wants to play only the single player to download Warzone and all updates BEFORE they are then able to do another download from the menu of the single player campaign. I don’t see why I need 150gb of downloads in several ways to play the single player mode only from a bloomin disk which should have that campaign on it already.

DefenderOfDoom23d ago (Edited 3d ago )

The UI is confusing to me because I have not purchased a Call of Duty iin like 8 years .Only bought CoD MW3 because 3 of my friends I have known since to 70s are playing zombies . But I am used it now .

smolinsk3d ago

The UI is the least of the franchise many problems these days. But yes the UI is also terrible.

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Players claim Fortnite ruined Call of Duty by letting in more corporate greed

Do you remember what gaming was like before Fortnite entered the gaming space? One of the biggest arguments was about loot boxes. Now we have conversations about crossovers, battle passes, and community outreach.

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GoodGuy0915d ago (Edited 15d ago )

Idk. Loot boxes did disappear and battle passes and in game purchases are all cosmetic. We get free weapons and maps post launch, any gameplay affecting content. I could care less about all the cosmetics.
I absolutely hated the days where weapons were locked behind a less than 1% chance lootbox pull where it'd take 5+ hours to have enough tokens to do a single pull and lazy remastered/remake maps cost you $15 each wave or $50 for the season pass that you didn't know what you'd get and these maps were only available to those that bought it so you get a smaller pool of players match with.

Tacoboto14d ago

The "good ole days" are actually what drove me away from COD and Halo 3/Reach. Halo 4 becoming a COD-like drove me away from that only a week or so after it launched and I beat its campaign.

It sucked way back then, going a month or two without playing online-shooter-of-the-moment, and then needing to buy a $15 map pack to play with the majority of the population or your favorite playlist. The "community" rejecting Spartan Points in MCC killed that game's support, too. No revenue = no support, plain and simple.

Cacabunga14d ago

That headline could easily be something Spencer could have said 😅 I had to check if it was really an opinion piece

KyRo14d ago

As times gone on, the COD battle pass has got ALOT worse so they can push people to buy the more premium battle pass which itself is a huge rip off and nearly half the price of the base game.

The cosmetics can be fine but they've taken it to far to the point of no return. Why make a military themed game then have rabbits, dinosaurs, cats, rats & z list rappers as skins? You wouldn't add a Lamborghini to a fantasy RPG to replace a horse and you would never see Mario have limb dismemberment because they know what they are. COD is having identity crisis but kids and streamer but then all

franwex14d ago (Edited 14d ago )

Call of duty can simply not copy the bad aspects of Fortnite? Or is that too out of this world? Like COD, a realistic shooter-just HAD to have Nicki Minaj running around? Or super heroes?

Inverno14d ago (Edited 14d ago )

Exactly! Trends don't all need to be followed. Plus where Fortnite got somewhat better with it's monetization, Acti got worse. Or at least Fortnite has lended itself more to the wacky stuff, and has put more effort and quality into that stuff.

jjb198114d ago

I prefer the battle passes with free maps than the $50 season pass that divided the community. I definitely feel that Fortnite had some influence on CoD having loot boxes with Blackout being introduced in 2018 with Black Ops 4.

PRIMORDUS14d ago (Edited 14d ago )

Actually Fortnite bullshit ruined Unreal Tournament. Epic are sellouts and I will never have that shitty store on my PC, fuck them and that shit bag Tim Sweeney. At least the community keeps the games alive, I still play UT2004.

StoneTitan13d ago

I mean cant really blame them for supporting the game that made them the most money and the most people player...ever?

Psychonaut8514d ago

Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance.

Ra303013d ago

100% correct! The makers of Call of Duty ran out of ideas long, long ago so they take ideas from other games like Ghost Recon, Fortnite and any other FPS game hat had success hell CoD remasters maps that they've remastered several times already then charge you again for it. Call of Duty is simply a cut, copy and paste and then put the $70 price on it every year. Activision and now Microsoft has been essentially remastering Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare every year since it was released in 2007 its to the point it's worse than the sports game like the Madden, NBA and others yearly sports franchises.
@Psychonaut85 is spot on "Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance"!

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Massive new COD Black Ops Gulf War leak lifts the lid on loadouts

The Black Ops Gulf War leaks continue with a list of weapon descriptions giving more info on what you can expect from new and returning weapons.

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