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Amazon offers one day, 50% discount on Blur

If you want to liven up your lazy Sunday with some high-speed racing, then head to Amazon as soon as possible! The site’s video game Deal of the Day is the racing game Blur. Whether you own a PS3, Windows PC or Xbox 360, you’ll be able to take advantage of this deal and get the game for 50% off it’s normal price.

In case you’re bad with percentages, that means the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Blur are only $29.99 today, and the Windows PC version is $19.99…

Modern Carfare: Race aggressively with Blur’s multiplayer beta

The multiplayer demo for Activision’s upcoming racing title Blur is now available on Xbox Live, allowing players to race all the way to a level cap of 15. Yup, that’s a level cap.

It’s no coincidence that along with arcade racing moves perfected by Mario Kart, Blur borrows heavily from the Modern Warfare games, Activision’s reigning cash cow.

Your racer gains fans (basically experience) from your on-track performance that unlock new cars and upgrades. Just as in Modern Warfare games, there are challenges to complete that unlock more goodies. You can even preset a loadout that will determine how you use your power-ups, another convention from the world of first-person shooters.

Project Gotham Racing 4 update

Game developer Bizarre Creations announced today (August 23, 2007) that its popular arcade racer, Project Gotham Racing 4, is set for a release date of October 2, 2007, in North America on the Xbox 360. While originally slated for a release in September 2007, Bizarre Creations apparently decided not to compete with the slew of highly anticipated titles due out for the Xbox 360 that month, most notably Halo 3 and Mass Effect.

This new installment in the popular arcade racing game takes the series in…