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If you were looking forward to visiting a virtual world of “dames” and fedoras, you’ll have to wait a little longer than expected.

In its Q3 earnings release, Take Two Interactive revealed its period piece L.A. Noire has been delayed until “the first half of calendar 2011.”

Like traffic in the city its based on, delays have become an annoying expectation with Rockstar’s latest title. After being shifted to a multiplatform release, L.A. Noire was scheduled to appear in Se…

PAX Prime 2010 starts tomorrow. TGS 2010 is just around the corner. What does this mean? A lot of news and previews are coming your way. You may want to find a comfortable spot and begin constantly click refresh now.

You know, just to practice.

Gaming News o’the Day
• LucasArts Hit With Layoffs
• OnLive Testing WiFi Support this Fall, Extending Promotions
• God of War: Ghost of Sparta Gets PlayStation Plus-exclusive Demo

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Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you’re eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today’s Filter adds new media for a handful of titles. We’re got new trailers for F.E.A.R. 3, Inferno, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, <a href="http://www.sh…

Though the first “gameplay” trailer for Shogun 2: Total War was more like an in-game look at pretty graphics, its first battle report trailer definitely shows the goods.

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Kieran Brigden and land battle AI programmer Ingimar Gudmunsson from developer The Creative Assembly are on hand to walk us through a Shogun 2 night battle over the course of six minutes, from rousing speeches by generals to foes fleeing in panic.

Shogun 2: Total War is due out on PC in 2011, published by Sega. If you’re eager to see more, point your peepers at these <a href="http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=15696&game_id=9462&id=16…

With less than a week to go before the start of the NFL football season, EA SPORTS has revealed the results of a full-season simulation conducted using its latest foray on the gridiron, Madden NFL 11. The results predict “divisional winners, league leaders and individual award winners for the 2010 NFL season.”

Madden NFL 11 simulated season winners Baltimore Ravens and Green Bay Packers

Green Bay Packers’ QB Aaron Rodgers grabbed the virtual MVP and Offensive Player of the Y…

Although OnLive boasts the ability to play current games on any PC throughout the U.S., the service is tied down to a required wired internet connection. According to the company, support via WiFi is a “top development priority” it plans to test this fall.

In September, OnLive plans to add WiFi support to its PC and Mac-based streaming game service, initially as a Beta program. OnLive COO Mike McGarvey notes that WiFi support has been “the most requested feature among OnLive members.” The upcoming Beta program, McGarvey says, will launch ahead of the company’s expected schedule.

Additionally, OnLive announced that it will extend its “Founding Members” program, yet again. The promotion will offer a free year of service and a guaranteed $4.95 monthly subscription fee to any user who signs up for the service before January 1, 201…

Yakuza 4 came out in Japan back in March of this year, but SEGA has just announced that the game is finally headed to North American and European PlayStation 3’s in spring of 2011.

Yakuza 4 returns players to Kamurocho, the fictionalized city based on Tokyo Shinjuku’s real-life red-light district, Kabukicho. Series regular, Kazuma Kiryu, will be joined by three other playable protagonists in his latest outing, alongside familiar faces from past games in the series. Yakuza 4 will allow players to control multiple characters throughout the story, each with different abilities.

Yakuza 4 is headed …

With PAX just around the corner, Ubisoft has revealed a new downloadable, mulitplayer-focused first-person shooter from The Ship developer, Outerlight.

Bloody Good Time

Bloody Good Time will launch this fall on Steam and the Xbox Live Arcade. The Source engine-powered shooter pits up to eight players against each other, all competing for a shot at a starring role in a horror movie.

Each level, which takes place on various movie sets, will act an an arena as cartoon-style film caricatures attempt to brutally murde…

Not long ago, Ubisoft revealed that a new game called Outland would be appearing at this weeks’ Penny Arcade Expo, though provided few other details.

With PAX 2010 beginning tomorrow, IGN has previewed the Housemarque-developed offering, described as “a cross between retro platformers like Prince of Persia or Out of This World and the color-switching of shoot ‘em up Ikaruga.” Housemarque is also the stu…

Love, the impressive procedurally-generated MMO of construction and combat created by the wonderful Eskil Steenberg, will be free to play this weekend, Joystiq reports.

While Love usually costs around $13 (€10) per month–please, no jokes–it’ll be free to play from around 1am Eastern on Friday until 7am Eastern on Monday. The free client will be released via the official Love site when the trial period kicks off.

Described by Eskil …