The Writers Guild of America has announced its five nominations for the Videogame Writing Award of 2009, comprising the games Uncharted 2, Assassin’s Creed II, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Wet and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

The winner will be announced on February 20th during the 2010 Writers Guild Awards ceremony, being held simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York.

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Raven Software, an internal development studio at Activision Blizzard, and most recently responsible X-Men Origins: Wolverine and last week’s Wolfenstein, has been hit with a round of layoffs, continuing the industry trend of expanding during peak periods of development, and then reducing the team size when in planning stages for their next game.

In the case of Raven, though, work continues on their recently delayed first-person shooter Singularity, while no other announced titles are known to be in development at the studio.

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Congratulations to Nicky Diamond and Thys Van Zyl for winning themselves each a copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, courtesy of Megarom.

In case you missed out this time, head over to our review of the game to see what it’s all about.

Wolverine is such a perfect fit for the button-mashing action game genre, but with X-Men Origins: Wolverine being a movie tie-in game I was not going to get my hopes up. Take Wolverine, arguably the coolest character in comics, add a fun, smooth combat system, not much in the way of difficulty, a decent story and some good voice acting and you get the rarest of items: an enjoyable movie tie-in game, albeit a phenomenally violent one.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

It’s competition time again at El33tonline, with two copies of X-Men Origins: Wolverine up for grabs, one for the Xbox 360 and one for the PS3.

Winning is easy so head over to our X-Men competition page to find out more details.

Thanks go to Megarom for sponsoring this awesome prize.

Check out our previous coverage of the game for videos, screenshots and more information.

Activision Blizzard has sponsored the wolverine enclosure at the Edinburgh Zoo for one year to celebrate the launch of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in the UK this past Friday.

The lead male wolverine at the Zoo has also had his name changed to Logan after the popular Marvel character portrayed by Hugh Jackman in Twentieth Century Fox’s film of the same name. Edinburgh Zoo has the only wolverines in the UK and this sponsorship will ensure that the breeding programme will continue into 2010.

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A slew of game demos have hit Xbox LIVE Marketplace over the last few days, not least of which is a demo for X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

The demo for the action brawler, starring (nearly) everyone’s favourite X-Men (X-Man?), Wolverine, is now up on the service, allowing you to “unleash the adamantium claws and real-time regeneration of the world’s fiercest hero – Wolverine.” Hoo-Rah!

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Now that the game has been released, the question remains: which version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine is better? The Xbox 360 version or the PS3 version? Gameplay-wise, they’ll probably be identical, but graphically? The video below will help you decide which console is superior when it comes to pushing polygons and shaders [I’m staying out of this one – Oliver].

Watch the PS3 VS Xbox 360 comparison video for X-Men Origins: Wolverine below:

If you’re chomping at the bit for more footage from X-Men Origins: Wolverine, then look no further than down below where you can catch a glimpse of some extra costumes and Easter eggs to be found in the game, as well as a montage of bloody violence as Wolverine rips through his enemies.

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This latest developer video interview for X-Men Origins: Wolverine reveals a new character that has been introduced to the mix, as Sabretooth makes a savage appearance.

There exists a bitter and fierce rivalry between Wolverine and Sabretooth, for reasons that only Marvel comic fans (and people who watch the video below) will know:

X-Men Origins: Wolverine, an extremely action-packed third-person action adventure game starring one of the most popular comic book heroes of all time, Wolverine, releases on May 1st on almost every platform available.

Quick, watch the amazingly awesome trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine below, featuring cinematic and gameplay footage that reveals some more characters from the X-Men franchise battling it out with Wolverine. Oh, it also features a giant robot and many explosions. What’s not to like?

Watch below:

Here’s a new behind-the-scenes video (part two of a series) featuring the developers of X-Men Origins: Wolverine gushing some more about their seemingly awesome action adventure game.

The video also shows off some more cinematic loveliness and in-game footage. Watch below:

The first video of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine behind-the-scenes series can be found here.

Watch this uncut trailer from X-Men Origins: Wolverine, as the titular hero smashes, hangs off of and generally destroys a series of helicopters with his bare… claws.

The developers are promising that the game won’t contain any Quick Time Events, which means that the entire sequence shown below is left to good, old fashioned button mashing… which is different. Thank goodness:

Here’s a video that’s sure to get any Wolverine/videogame fan excited about the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine, as the developers gush about how much they’ve enjoyed working on the title, as well as their pride in the fact that they’re bringing the ‘true’ Wolverine from the comics over to the videogame world.

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Watch as Senior Producer on X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Jeff Pffenbarger, speaks about the early beginnings of the game, their goals for the combat system and what elements of Wolverine, the character, were implemented to ensure the experience would be as true to the source material as possible:

X-Men Origins: Wolverine releases on many, many platforms at the beginning of May.

In this developer interview, we get to hear from the project lead on X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Dan Vondrak, as he talks about the features of the game and Wolverine’s possible move set, as well as what the team members are focussing on in order to bring you an authentic ‘Wolverine experience.’

Also, no Quick Time Events in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This game is sounding better and better all the time!

Watch the interview below: