Here’s a roundup of today’s news found elsewhere on the internet:
Report – Medal of Honor yanked from GameStop military stores (vg247) - All GameStop stores on US military bases are to stop taking pre-orders for Medal of Honor, according to a Kotaku report.
DJ Hero 2 gets RZA (vg247) - RZA is to feature in DJ Hero 2, Activision said today.
The The Wu-Tang Clan founder joins Deadmau5, David Guetta, DJ Qbert, and Tiesto for the game, and will include two unique mixes.
Dead Rising aiming to replace Resident Evil as Capcom’s biggest IP, says Inafune (vg247) - Capcom’s Keiji Inafune has told Eurogamer it’s aiming for Dead Rising to replace Resident Evil as king of IPs at the firm.
“The goal for Dead Rising 2 is to replace the Resident Evil franchise and become number one IP within Capcom,” Inafune told the site.
Ubisoft cautious over new IP, remains focused on established franchises (Joystiq) - Ubisoft Europe managing director Alain Corre isn't one to parse words -- for instance, he told GamesIndustry.biz in a recent interview, "The games that are not triple-A are not profitable anymore. And that's changed in the last 18 months." He admitted that "we are still releasing some new franchises," citing Ruse as a calculated aberration. "It's a niche so we know the size of the market for real-time strategy games ... with niche games it's possible to have a hit more than in the triple-A space, especially in the fourth and fifth year of the console cycle."

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