A rather lengthy document detailing EA’s financials has highlighted the fact that a new Need For Speed game is set for release at some point in 2007. When Pro-G contacted EA no other details on the game were available.

The report also boasted of 15 wholly owned new titles set to be released in the next year, including another Sims game and five original releases: Army of One, SKATE, Playground, Boogie, and an unnamed Spielberg game for the Wii.

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Kotaku, via translations from Magazine Pelaaja, reports that Ubisoft’s next Splinter Cell game will be called Conviction and will see the game’s protagonist become a fugitive.

Pelaaja reports that the game begins with Sam discovering that Anna Grimsdottir (the person in charge of gathering evidence for Third Echelon) is in danger so the master of stealth once again joins up with Third Echelon to help out.

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Ubisoft has announced fourth quarter sales of €197 million, beating projected sales by €45 million. The better than expected sales are attributed to a number of factors.

Firstly Ubisoft points to strong sales of two key titles which launched during the quarter: GRAW 2 for Xbox 360 has moved 1 million units and TMNT across its eight release platforms has sold 1.1. million units.

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Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2001 ELSPA Ltd
Entertainment Software (All Prices) Week 16, 2007

1: POKEMON RANGER
2: TMNT: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
3: WII PLAY
4: HARVEST MOON DS
5: RAYMAN 2: THE GREAT ESCAPE
6: DR KAWASHIMA’S BRAIN TRAINING
7: TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 07
8: PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME
9: COMMAND & CONQUER 3: TIBERIUM WARS
10: BRIAN LARA INTERNATIONAL CRICKET 2007
11: GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY STORIES
12: VIRTUA TENNIS 3
13: MEDAL OF HONOR: VANGUARD
14: THE SIMS 2
15: UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2006-2007
16: HEROES OF MIGHT & MAGIC IV
17: F.E.A.R.
18: MOTORSTORM
19: NEW SUPER MARIO BROS.
20: TOM CLANCY’S RAINBOW SIX 3 GOLD

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Despite the huge performance advantage high-end PCs offer over the GameCube, the recent PC port of Resident Evil 4 was far from spectacular in the visuals department, looking worse than the GameCube and even PS2 version.

Although running in higher res than the console versions, it was the lack of lighting and effects that really stood out. Thankfully a new patch has been released which goes a long way to addressing the problem, adding greatly improved lighting and effects. There’s also a fix for a bug which crashed the game when skipping cutscenes.

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Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2001 ELSPA Ltd
Entertainment Software (All Prices) Week 15, 2007

1: TMNT: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
2: POKEMON RANGER
3: RAYMAN 2: THE GREAT ESCAPE
4: TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 07
5: COMMAND & CONQUER 3: TIBERIUM WARS
6: BROTHERS IN ARMS: ROAD TO HILL 30
7: BRIAN LARA INTERNATIONAL CRICKET 2007
8: GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY STORIES
9: DR KAWASHIMA’S BRAIN TRAINING
10: PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME
11: UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2006-2007
12: GUITAR HERO II
13: VIRTUA TENNIS 3
14: THE SIMS 2
15: MEDAL OF HONOR: VANGUARD
16: TOM CLANCY’S GHOST RECON
17: THE SIMS 2: PETS
18: HEROES OF MIGHT & MAGIC IV
19: THE SIMS 2: CELEBRATION STUFF
20: NEED FOR SPEED: CARBON

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