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OXM UK editor Jon Hicks has confirmed that a previously-planned reveal for the magazine that was pushed back in February is now back on for the mag’s next issue at the end of September. Hicks said on Twitter: “That secret reboot that we pulled at the last minute in February is back on. It’s in the OXM issue on-sale 30th Sept.” Considering the teaser page at the time was heavily speculated to be something related to EA Partners and Starbreeze’s rumoured Syndicate reboot, and add in this week’s earlier report, this has only added to the fire you’re about to see Redlime for the first time next week in Germany.

OXM UK’s gone live with a 9 for the first review of Crysis 2 in the mag’s latest issue. It says the main reason it was given the score was due to multiplayer, but the single-player also impressed as well. Find more on the review through here.

Crysis 2 releases on March 22 in the US and March 25 in the UK for PS3, 360 and PC.

And the price-cut rumours just keep on rolling.

It seems all but confirmed that the Xbox 360 will get a price-cut, but by how much? A guess would be £199/$299 for the Elite.

In fact, the newest ad from Walmart has the Elite down for $299. The new price will take effect from Wednesday September 1st.

Remember what else happens that day?

More at Engadget and VGChartz.

Meanwhile, OXM have tweeted a hint on such a move.

“PS3 Slim’s are topping the sales charts everywhere. Hope Microsoft is paying attention to the power of a price cut. Yes, that was a hint…”

Lets get ready to ruuuuuumbleeeee!

ABC figures have shown that the majority of Future’s games mags dropped in circulation last year, with only the Official PS Mag, PSW and ONM recording any increases.

All the figures, 2007 to 2008, as compiled by GamesIndustry:

• Edge – 31,304 to 28,898
• GamesMaster – 51,389 to 40,940
• OPM – 46,018 to 53,644
• PSW – 21,826 to 24,118
• ONM – 58,754 to 58,795
• OXM – 66,894 to 63,908
• Xbox World 360 – 31,698 to 31,030
• PSM3 – 26,885 to 26,202
• PC Gamer – 38,654 to 32,619
• PC Zone – 22,297 to 19,023

The Advertising Standards Agency has ordered Eidos to not print or broadcast a Kane & Lynch campaign again after it received 26 complaints, according to this MCV piece.

One ad – showing a gagged woman, crying and having her head held back by one of the pair – was printed over a double-page spread in Edge, with a second version appearing in Total Film.

The ASA said: “The portrayal of violence it contained, with particular regard to the female hostage, was graphic and too shocking to be seen in an untargeted medium.”

On poster also got the campaign into hot water, carrying an OXM quote saying, “Grittier and nastier in tone than anything you’ve seen before, the violence here is visceral, brutal and very, very real.”

The ASA said this version was “likely to be seen as condoning and glorifying real violence”, and was also irresponsible and “likely to cause serious or widespread offence.”

We said, “Whoops.”