Ian Fisher writes: The cycle continues as the latest popular video game destined to become a major motion picture is EA’s sci-fi horror game "Dead Space". This project seems to be a bit farther along than EA’s other film ventures such as "Army of Two", "Dante’s Inferno", and "The Sims" as a director has already been attached to the project. D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye) will be directing the film and this won’t be his first time working on a video game project as he is also directing the Masi Oka MMO adventure film "Defender."
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LivePlayStation: Many heads went down when it was revealed that the highly anticipated sequel to Mafia was post-poned.
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Platinum Games have revealed that they have no plans to release any DLC for Bayonetta after it is released.
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Koku Gamer writes: ‘Gears of War director Len Wiseman and writer Chris Morgan have appeared at the Gears of War panel during this year’s San Diego Comic-Con with some more details of the movie.’
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During the Gearsiverse panel at Comic-Con, Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski and Ron Fergusson revealed that there will be Gears of War-themed armor of both the COG and Locust variety coming to XBL Avatars soon. One rule that Microsoft imposes on Avatar clothing and models is that they "can’t look inhuman," according to Bleszinski. So they pieced together a workaround set of Locust armor that you can check out beyond the break.

Look for these new Avatar upgrades to be available when the next Xbox Live dashboard update becomes available soon. Meanwhile, we’re going to scurry out to our preview builds to see if they’re already available
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BeefJack writes: "Bit of a miss mash this week, with Rock Band throwing out some classics as Kiss and Weezer then sticking in pop punk gone emo Blink 182, still the Rock Show isn’t a bad tune. Guitar Hero follows their suit for this month with another collection of songs from a record label, luckily this time with less emo."
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Microsoft’s announcement of Halo Waypoint, the Halo "destination" coming to Xbox Live this Fall, was light on details, overshadowed by the reveal of the Halo Legends anime series. Fortunately, 343 Industries’ Frank O’Connor was at Comic-Con to clear things up.

Waypoint will offer Halo enthusiasts access to audio and video content in addition to community features and the option to follow your "Halo career." O’Connor explained that Waypoint will track the Halo games you play, the achievements you unlock and other aspects not directly tied to "Halo 3, Halo Wars, and Halo games ongoing."

O’Connor says that Waypoint, accessed from the Xbox 360 dashboard, and likely from the My Xbox section, will be a "really good place for you to interact with other people."

"There’s a lot more to Waypoint than just watching movies and listening to podcasts," he said, saying that fans of the series are underserved on their Xboxes.
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The achievements for the upcoming Fallout 3 DLC, Mothership Zeta, have been revealed. There are 4 new achievements totaling 100 Gamerscore, bringing the new total for Fallout 3 to 1550 Gamerscore.
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Lars Bakken of Bungie and Microsoft Game Studios’ Ryan Crosby confirmed that the campaign for Halo 3 ODST would be a shorter one than Halo 3.
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Joystiq:

Ubisoft revealed today that actors from the new James Cameron film Avatar will voice the same roles in the game adaptation. Sigourney Weaver, not seen recently in the Ghostbusters game, will play Dr. Grace Augustine in the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and PC versions of the game. Michelle Rodriguez will appear as helicopter pilot Trudy Chacon in the PC, PS3, and 360 games, which will also feature bad guy Col. Quaritch, played by Stephen Lang. Giovanni Ribisi (from My Two Dads) will appear only in the Wii version, as "the arrogant Parker Selfridge." The best news out of all of this, of course, is that none of these actors are James Cameron.
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