Rocksteady nous offre aujourd'hui le tout premier trailer de son jeu d'action Batman : Arkham Asylum. Celui-ci nous présente justement l'asile d'une manière assez glauque. Pour rappel dans le titre édité par Eidos le joueur incarnera Batman au moment où il amènera le Joker à l'asile d'Arkham. Mais les super-vilains emprisonnés à l'asile lui tendront un piège, et le joueur se retrouvera plongé au cœur de combats d'une rare intensité. Avec un scénario original écrit par Paul Dini, le scénariste ...

Reps from the UK PR firm for Eidos have confirmed that they're asking publications not to release any reviews for Tomb Raider: Underworld below an 8/10 until Monday. The firm says they're doing so at the request of Eidos, which is trying to manage the scores for as long as it can. The game is currently sporting a 78 on Metacritic.

Really Eidos? Really? You didn't lose enough goodwill being blamed for getting the world's most popular video games journalist fired and bringing a respected games portal to its knees? (Yes, we know you denied any involvement. This sort of thing certainly makes that seem credible.) You thought maybe journalists would keep this quiet because you were buds? Because they were worried about not getting advance copies of Just Cause 2?

Note to Eidos: Stop being evil. That is all.

[Update: The head of Barrington Harvey, the UK PR firm, is playing defense, with director Simon Byron saying, "Any site, be it Gamespot or whoever, is entirely within their rights to post whatever score they want and no-one is under any sort of obligation to delay any review." It should be noted that "being obligated to" and "being asked to under penalty of being blacklisted" are two very different things. Not that we think that happened, of course.]

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/ei...ws-below-8-10/

C'est fait, les nouvelles aventures de Lara Croft sont dans les bacs, et Crystal Dynamics et Eidos Interactive en profitent pour diffuser une nouvelle vidéo. Ce trailer dévoile...

pEidos is at it once again, this time asking publications to hold low review scores of emTomb Raider: Underworld/em until Monday, in order to keep a high Metacritic score./ppa href="http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/11/21/eidos-pr-managing-review-scores-of-new-tomb-raider"Read More.../a/p

L'éditeur Eidos aurait exigé que les sites britanniques mettant moins de 8 sur 10 à « Tomb Raider Underworld » attendent jusqu'à lundi pour...

Crystal Dynamics et Eidos fêtent la sortie aujourd'hui même de Tomb Raider Underworld avec la mise en ligne d'un dernier carnet de développeur dédié au premier ennemi de Lara Croft : les environnements. Les intéressés pourront visionner ladite vidéo en anglais par ici....

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a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126553/cave-egress_qjgenth.jpg?153687" rel="lightbox[article126553]" title="Tomb 20Raider 3A 20Underworld 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126553/cave-egress.jpg 3F153687 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Tomb Raider: Underworld - Image 1" title="Tomb Raider: Underworld - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126553/cave-egress_qjgenth.jpg?153687" align="right" border="0"/aThis story first broke last Wednesday when a UK journalist wrote on his twitter account that Eidos British PR firm Barrington Harvey sought to prevent any review lower than 8.0/10 for span style="font-style: italic;"Tomb Raider: Underworld/span span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"(a href="http://ps3.qj.net/Tomb-Raider-Underworld/cid/4621" title="Tomb Raider Underworld PS3"PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://xbox360.qj.net/Tomb-Raider-Underworld/cid/4621" title="Tomb Raider Underworld 360"Xbox 360/a, a href="http://wii.qj.net/Tomb-Raider-Underworld/cid/4683" title="Tomb Raider: Underworld"Wii/a, a title="Tomb Raider Underworld DS" href="http://ds.qj.net/category/Tomb-Raider-Underworld/cid/4684"DS/a, PC, PS2)/span/span from getting published until three days after the game has launched.brbrWhen asked about this, a rep from Barrington Harvey explained, brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"That s right. We re trying to manage the review scores at the request of Eidos. Just that we re trying to get the Metacritic rating to be high, and the brand manager in the US that s handling all of Tomb Raider has asked that we just manage the scores before the game is out, really, just to ensure that we don t put people off buying the game, basically./pbrBad move, old boy. brbrOf course, the general reaction wasn't a favorable one when people heard about it. Journalists and gamers alike went up in arms and scathing criticisms about "unethical" behavior filled the net in the interim. I think Kotaku phrased it best when they asked, "What the holy hell?"brbrEnter Barrington and Harvey's damage control: Simon Byron, one of Barrington Harvey's directors, issued an official statement on the matter saying,brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Barrington Harvey is not in the position of telling reviewers what they can and cannot say. We love Tomb Raider and believe it merits a score of at least 8/10, but if someone disagrees that s entirely their prerogative. No problem at all. Seriously: no problem. br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Our original NDA stated that in order to receive an advance copy of the game, reviewers agreed not to post reviews ahead of 5:00pm, Wednesday 19th November 2008. Nothing else. No further obligations whatsoever./pbrI do agree that it's perfectly reasonable to hold reviewers to schedules posited in a non-disclosure agreement but they really should have prevented all reviews from seeing the light of day and not just the ones below 8.0.brbrGame reviewers are under pressure to release their findings quickly and ahead of the competition. That's sort of why they look for advanced copies in the first place. Telling them they can only publish their reviews early if they publish it with a high score is no different than offering them cash make bogus reviews.brbr... but that's only my opinion. Feel free to share yours in the comments below. I'd love to hear what you think.brbrThe full version of Barrington Harvey's statement can be viewed in the source link below.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Tomb Raider Underworld Articles:br/spanullia title="Video: Tomb Raider Underword: Hot Lara-on-Bike action" href="http://www.qj.net/Video-Tomb-Raider-Underword-Hot-Lara-on-Bike-action/pg/49/aid/125378"span style="font-style: italic;"Video: Tomb Raider Underword: Hot Lara-on-Bike action/span/a/lilispan style="font-style: italic;"a title="Tomb Raider: Underworld Dangerous gameplay video" href="http://www.qj.net/Tomb-Raider-Underworld-Dangerous-gameplay-video/pg/49/aid/123225"Tomb Raider: Underworld Dangerous gameplay video/abr/span/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=8p64pKfi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=qfMaiPUm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=MTdCdljM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/wii/~4/C1z8VClvr5M" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126553/cave-egress_qjgenth.jpg?153687" rel="lightbox[article126553]" title="Tomb 20Raider 3A 20Underworld 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126553/cave-egress.jpg 3F153687 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Tomb Raider: Underworld - Image 1" title="Tomb Raider: Underworld - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126553/cave-egress_qjgenth.jpg?153687" align="right" border="0"/aThis story first broke last Wednesday when a UK journalist wrote on his twitter account that Eidos British PR firm Barrington Harvey sought to prevent any review lower than 8.0/10 for span style="font-style: italic;"Tomb Raider: Underworld/span span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"(a href="http://ps3.qj.net/Tomb-Raider-Underworld/cid/4621" title="Tomb Raider Underworld PS3"PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://xbox360.qj.net/Tomb-Raider-Underworld/cid/4621" title="Tomb Raider Underworld 360"Xbox 360/a, a href="http://wii.qj.net/Tomb-Raider-Underworld/cid/4683" title="Tomb Raider: Underworld"Wii/a, a title="Tomb Raider Underworld DS" href="http://ds.qj.net/category/Tomb-Raider-Underworld/cid/4684"DS/a, PC, PS2)/span/span from getting published until three days after the game has launched.brbrWhen asked about this, a rep from Barrington Harvey explained, brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"That s right. We re trying to manage the review scores at the request of Eidos. Just that we re trying to get the Metacritic rating to be high, and the brand manager in the US that s handling all of Tomb Raider has asked that we just manage the scores before the game is out, really, just to ensure that we don t put people off buying the game, basically./pbrBad move, old boy. brbrOf course, the general reaction wasn't a favorable one when people heard about it. Journalists and gamers alike went up in arms and scathing criticisms about "unethical" behavior filled the net in the interim. I think Kotaku phrased it best when they asked, "What the holy hell?"brbrEnter Barrington and Harvey's damage control: Simon Byron, one of Barrington Harvey's directors, issued an official statement on the matter saying,brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Barrington Harvey is not in the position of telling reviewers what they can and cannot say. We love Tomb Raider and believe it merits a score of at least 8/10, but if someone disagrees that s entirely their prerogative. No problem at all. Seriously: no problem. br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Our original NDA stated that in order to receive an advance copy of the game, reviewers agreed not to post reviews ahead of 5:00pm, Wednesday 19th November 2008. Nothing else. No further obligations whatsoever./pbrI do agree that it's perfectly reasonable to hold reviewers to schedules posited in a non-disclosure agreement but they really should have prevented all reviews from seeing the light of day and not just the ones below 8.0.brbrGame reviewers are under pressure to release their findings quickly and ahead of the competition. That's sort of why they look for advanced copies in the first place. Telling them they can only publish their reviews early if they publish it with a high score is no different than offering them cash make bogus reviews.brbr... but that's only my opinion. Feel free to share yours in the comments below. I'd love to hear what you think.brbrThe full version of Barrington Harvey's statement can be viewed in the source link below.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Tomb Raider Underworld Articles:br/spanullia title="Video: Tomb Raider Underword: Hot Lara-on-Bike action" href="http://www.qj.net/Video-Tomb-Raider-Underword-Hot-Lara-on-Bike-action/pg/49/aid/125378"span style="font-style: italic;"Video: Tomb Raider Underword: Hot Lara-on-Bike action/span/a/lilispan style="font-style: italic;"a title="Tomb Raider: Underworld Dangerous gameplay video" href="http://www.qj.net/Tomb-Raider-Underworld-Dangerous-gameplay-video/pg/49/aid/123225"Tomb Raider: Underworld Dangerous gameplay video/abr/span/li/ulbrbrimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/1TlWF3cH4wA" height="1" width="1"/

Eidos announced that Tomb Raider Underworld has been released across Europe today.

In a blatant attempt to whack up the Metacritic rating and develop strong initial momentum, Eidos has told its PR agency to relay to journalists that any review of Tomb Raider Underworld below 8.0 can not be posted up until MONDAY. GameSpot journalist Guy Cocker confirmed this at Twitter.

Vous salivez sur Lara Croft ? Ca tombe bien : à l'occasion de la sortie du jeu aujourd'hui-même, GameHope et Eidos s'associent pour vous faire gagner 5 jeux et 2 statues collector (non disponibles à la vente). Alors il ne vous suffit plus qu'à cliquer sur le lien et de répondre aux trois questions, et à la question subsidiaire que tout le monde déteste. Bonne chance à tous ! Participer au concour...

Eidos has released a new gameplay video, featuring the fearless heroine Lara Croft in an iceencased world, battling supernatural foes, and traversing a mystical, frozen world full of pitfalls and traps.