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Retail Radar: UK dates for Fable 2, Ghostbusters

By Emma Boyes, GameSpot UKPosted Mar 17, 2008 5:31 am PT

Play.com let slip dates for a bunch of titles, including Fable 2, Ghostbusters, Prototype, Ninja Gaiden II, and The Bourne Conspiracy.

This weekend saw the first major UK independent consumer video game event in years, as Play.com Live took over Wembley Arena to show off upcoming titles, including Rock Band (still not out in the UK!), Killzone 2, Ghostbusters, Far Cry 2, and This is Vegas, to the public.

Everyone at the event (or everyone who could be bothered to stand in line, anyway) got a free goodie bag, which included a Play.com booklet promising 5 percent off all the games at the event. This is where it gets interesting--the booklet also has release dates, which haven't been officially announced yet for a number of high-profile upcoming titles.

Up first is Lionhead's highly anticipated role-playing game Fable 2, which is set some 500 years after the first game and promises to be bigger and better. Fable 2, according to Play.com, will be coming out in the UK on May 30 with a 16+ PEGI rating.

One of the big disappointments of the event was the distinct lack of the rumoured hands-on premiere of Ghostbusters, The Video Game. Although gamers were treated to a huge inflatable marshmallow man and the Ghostbusters car, all that was on show inside was a trailer. However, in the booklet, the game has been dated for September 26, with an age rating of 12.

Other surprises in the book include a date for Prototype, an open-world game from Radical Entertainment, set in New York and starring a shape-shifter called Alex Mercer. This sci-fi action adventure has been given the nod for June 27, although the age rating has yet to be confirmed.

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy is next up. The game is tied into the popular film trilogy starring Matt Damon as elite secret agent Jason Bourne, which in turn is based on the best-selling novels following Bourne's international antics. The Bourne Conspiracy is coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. According to Play.com, we can expect this title on June 27, though it appears to not have been age rated yet.

Ninja Gaiden II is next to be given a release date. If one is to believe Play.com, the Tecmo follow-up to the 2004 title will be with us at the end of the month, March 28, to be precise. Unsurprisingly, for a series known for its ultraviolence, it will be rated 18.

Two more games are given release dates--Iron Man (May 30, two weeks after the film is due to hit British cinemas), WALL-E (May 4, more than two months before the movie reaches UK screens), and Lego Batman gets slightly more pinned down to "sometime in September" with an age rating of 3 years old, which will no doubt disappoint those toddlers hoping to play the game.

On another Retail Radar snoop, UK supermarket chain Tesco has recently amended its games listings and finally dated Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Europeans--January 1, 2020.

Please note, while retailer listings frequently jump the gun on publishers' product announcements, they should not be taken as final confirmation of a game's release date or existence; nor should the absence of a listing be considered as proof that a game isn't coming to a given platform.

147 Comments

  • Smoothy08

    Posted Jun 29, 2008 6:51 pm PT

    May has already been no fable 2 ;(

  • Adam_the_Nerd

    Posted May 25, 2008 4:47 pm PT

    GHOST BUSTERS WOOT!

  • YOu-mE

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 12:14 pm PT

    fable 2 is gonna be cool an d i cant wait for ghostbuster the game because i like the tv show and all that but what really hit me is the release of ninja gaiden 2 because if the first part was amazing and the black version was even more impressive i know this one is gonna be extra cool with dissembling of limbs and still the cutting of heads but the best is the new weapons,new ninpos, the new finishing techniques,and the new fiends and evil ninjas. Team ninja surprise me all the way i know you guys can

  • crunchb3rry

    Posted Apr 12, 2008 7:20 pm PT

    Fable 2 on May 30? Whatever they are smoking has got to be illegal no matter where you live.

  • chalky_2008

    Posted Mar 25, 2008 6:07 am PT

    Bane546 i think you'll have to get it from the US tbh.

    and as a general response.... the fable 2 date that is quoted from play.com is far different from the actual one on the site ''/

    "£39.99 Free Delivery

    RRP: £49.99 | You save: £10.00 (20%)

    Pre-order. | Due for release on 12/12/2008"

    http://www.play.com/Games/Xbox360/4-/1012390/Fable-2/Product.html

  • bane546

    Posted Mar 20, 2008 5:03 pm PT

    anyone know a way to get a UK Fable 2 work on a NTSC 360??

  • HALCONAZUL

    Posted Mar 20, 2008 12:27 pm PT

    if Fable 2 will be coming sooner is going to be in summer...

  • riotmaster1

    Posted Mar 20, 2008 10:15 am PT

    hey whitelyon40, what do you mean its unfortunate. we have to put up with getting the best games after you, so one game coming out this end first is quite nice actually.

  • TehUndeadHorror

    Posted Mar 19, 2008 11:39 pm PT

    FABLE!

  • ratchet3

    Posted Mar 19, 2008 5:44 pm PT

    This is def. not coming out in May.

  • Iu_uI

    Posted Mar 19, 2008 3:16 pm PT

    I want them all, dunno about fable never played it :/

  • ThunderStorm101

    Posted Mar 19, 2008 12:07 pm PT

    fable is coming out near christmas not may

  • comfnumb82

    Posted Mar 19, 2008 12:00 pm PT

    all i have to say about fable 2 is it BETTER be longer and provide more options than the first.

  • Serious06

    Posted Mar 19, 2008 11:44 am PT

    i think its a lie

  • cheesemonkey199

    Posted Mar 19, 2008 9:19 am PT

    oh my god, i sooo hope that NG2 comes out this month, because i will be sooooo happppyyyy

  • Crew_SK

    Posted Mar 19, 2008 9:15 am PT

    Maybe due to global warming the leaves will "turn brown" at the end of May. Who knows

  • wars45

    Posted Mar 19, 2008 4:05 am PT

    want far cry 2 and prototype

  • Jahalo

    Posted Mar 18, 2008 11:21 pm PT

    I heard it has always been fall for Fable 2.

  • Currmaster13

    Posted Mar 18, 2008 4:10 pm PT

    DO NOT BE FOOLED!, It's all a hoax everybody, the Lionhead Community website has even said so. Fable 2 will NOT be released on May 30th. he has already said, "When the leaves turn brown," so we can speculate anywhere between october to november.

  • Kraige

    Posted Mar 18, 2008 2:33 pm PT

    Its obviously BS that Ninja Gaiden 2 is coming out this month it was confirmed for June officially already, but I do hope they're right about Fable 2 that should be around the time I finish my current RPG's so would work nicely.

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