Gillette is looking for the Champions of Gaming on the Xbox 360 along with Electronic Arts. The tournament starts on November 18 and runs through February 14, 2010. Gamers will compete against other games on Xbox Live on the following EA Sports titles: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 10, EA SPORTS™ FIFA Soccer 10, Madden NFL 10, NHL® 10 and Fight Night Round 4.

Winners from each of the titles will have a chance to be crowned at the Gaming Final Event in March 2010.

“Last year, our match came down to the final shot. I’ve been practicing and I am ready to take another crack at this year’s best player,” said Tiger Woods.

That’s right, Tiger Woods attends and so will other sports superstars. The global tournament will have one nine part qualification round and one knockout round in three regions – North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The regional champs will face off and those winners will play against the sports superstars.

“We’re excited to once again provide gamers from around the world the opportunity to face off on some of our most popular EA SPORTS games through the Champions of Gaming Tournament on Xbox LIVE,” said Peter Moore, President, EA SPORTS. “What continues to make this tournament truly stand out from other gaming tournaments is the extraordinary chance to compete face-to-face against Tiger Woods and other sports superstars.”

To enter check out all the rules at easports.com/gillette

Ashes Cricket

UK Gamers are still buying and playing Ashes Cricket 2009 from Codemasters to keep it in the top spot this week. Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit are in the second and third slots just waiting for Ashes Cricket to falter. Ubisoft’s Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood moved up from seventh to fourth place while Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 continues to drop ending in 5th place.

Madden NFL 10 may be a big hit in the US, but it enters at the eighth spot in the countdown. Also bad news for EA as Fight Night Round 4 has the largest drop from 4 to 12.

EA Sports is keep EA in the charts with the most games on the chart (6).

Fight Night Round 4

EA has released details about the first downloadable boxer pack for Fight Night Round 4. The pack will be available in late August for Xbox Live and Playstation Network for 800 MS points and $9.99 respectively.

The downloadable boxer pack will include the following boxers:
Oscar De La Hoya, Vitali Klitschko, Wladimir Klitschko, and alternate versions of George Foreman and James Toney.

In addition, EA will have a free game update at the end of August. The free update includes additional trunks, gloves, and shorts as well as the ability for gamers to use face buttons on the Xbox 360 and PS3 controllers to throw punches, hooks, uppercuts and haymakers. There will be a new demo released to show the new controls in early September.

“We are extremely excited to be able to add Oscar and the Klitschko brothers as part of our roster,” said executive producer, Dean Richards. “As three of the most globally recognized names in the sport, they are an important addition to the Fight Night Round 4 lineup.

Wii Sports Resort has fallen from the number one spot for game sales in the UK to a UK Sport. Ashes Cricket 2009 by Codemasters has grabbed the top spot.

Ashes Cricket is a cricket series played between England and Australia. It’s a huge rivalry game which dates back to 1882.

Wii Fit and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 drop a spot while Fight Night Round 4 holds it’s ground. Disney’s new 3D animated film, G-Force entered the countdown at the number 9 spot. While another movie title, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen takes a nose dive from 6 to 16.

This week EA Games takes the leading publisher in the UK rights with 6 games in the top 20. Nothing new for EA entered the countdown, but the EA Sports titles seem to be holding strong.

Nintendo makes a big move as they hold the one/two spot in this week’s UK Game Sales Charts. Wii Sports Resort with the new Wii Motion Plus holds onto the top spot and Wii Fit gets some legs and moves up three spots!

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 stays the same in third place but Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince drops two spots. EA’s Fight Night Round 4 moves up a spot to make it to the top 5.

UFC Undisputed makes the bigger move from 12 up to 8, while an old favorite in the UK, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games makes a comeback at 16 in the charts.

Electronic Arts and Nintendo are tied for most popular publisher both with
6 spots on the top 20 countdown. EA had the lead for a little while, can they regain it next week?

Fight Night Round 4

EA has announced plans for downloadable content for Fight Night Round 4. The first DLC pack will be available for free to Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 users by early August. The DLC will include a new training gym, new gameplay sliders and new equipment. Xbox 360 users get an exclusive alternate version of Sugar Ray Leonard.

An update will be coming in September that will allow gamers to use face buttons on the 360 and PS3 game controllers to throw punches, hooks, uppercuts and haymakers.

“The depth and variety of new content we have planned this summer is going to make one of the most critically acclaimed games on the market even better,” said senior producer, Dean Richards. “Among the new content in development, our new button control scheme will give fans a choice for how they want to throw punches in the game. We strongly believe that the refined Total Punch Control is the most intuitive way to throw punches in Fight Night Round 4, but we also want fans of the franchise to have an option.”

Fight Night 4

EA’s Dean Richards, the executive producer on Fight Night Round 4, told VG247 in an interview that they worked hard on making Fight Night 4 more accessible to all gamers.

“The accessibility part was a big to us,” said Richards. “So we want to make it so regardless if you’re just a boxing fan or a gamer that you immediately can get in the ring and start throwing punches and get that feel for the game right away.

“The problem with Round 3 was, that you’d have to finish your punch before you could throw the next one. It wasn’t really as responsive as you’d think it is.

“So the first thing we wanted to do was attack that with speed,” he went on. “First of all it was at 30 frames per second now it’s at 60 frames per second which obviously adds a tremendous amount of fidelity in your feel.

“But we also changed the total punch control a little bit to allow body punches and head punches to be comboed more easily.

“To be able to throw fast combos, and to add a little bit accessibility on the total punch control, really adds to that ‘pick-up-and-play,’” concluded Richards.

Fight Night Round 4 is due out next month. Here are some newly released screenshots for you!