The controversy that has been steadily brewing around the ability to play as the Taliban in Medal of Honor has gotten the upcoming shooter banned from military stores (via Kotaku).

The Army and Air Force Exchange Services confirmed that no store located on an Army or Air Force bases will be able to sell the reboot. That ban includes 49 GameStops located across the continental U.S., and to all military bases worldwide.

In an email sent out to employees, GameStop said they will be pulling all marketing material relating to the game from those stores. Customers wishing to reserve a copy of Medal of Honor will be directed to an off base GameStop location.

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L.A. Noire ‘Debut’ Trailer

Despite finally taking the wraps off of L.A. Noire earlier this year, Take-Two has decided to hold back the oft-delayed game once again.

An analyst previously predicted the delay after speaking with retail representatives, so the news comes as a little surprise. L.A Noire was announced way back in 2005, but has had a difficult development, to say the least.

Take-Two confirmed the delay in their latest set of financials, in which they reported net revenue of 354.1 million, a sharp increase from 2009. They attributed their success to the Rockstar-developed Red Dead Redemption, which has sold more than 6.9 million copies worldwide. Rockstar is also set to publish L.A. Noire.

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With just a couple days to go before PAX, Ubisoft has taken the wraps off Outland, which is scheduled to make its debut this weekend (via IGN).

As it turns out, the upcoming game has nothing to do with the sci-fi film of the same name. Instead, it will be a downloadable platformer utilizing a color switching mechanic similar to that which is found in Ikaruga.

As in Treasure’s classic shooter, it will be possible to switch between light and dark forms to avoid enemy attacks. In addition, light forms can only hurt dark foes, and vice versa.

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The PlayStation 3’s Move and Xbox 360’s Kinect are right around the corner, but even when all three major consoles have dedicated motion controls, Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami thinks it’ll still be a decade before such controls really become “mainstream.”

Speaking to PSM3 magazine (via CVG), Mikami — who, in addition to creating the Resident Evil series, also worked on the Devil May Cry and Viewtiful Joe series — said he’s still not interested in what motion controls currently have to offer. “I don’t think motion controls will be in the gaming mainstream in the next ten years,” Mikami explained. “When the technology gets to the point where you can just flick your eyeballs around and the computer can pick it up, you won’t need a controller anymore. Obviously it’s going to take a while to get there.”

Well let’s hope it does take a while, because by then we’ll probably also have retina-scanning sensors all over civilization like in Minority Report. But then depending on your definition of “mainstream,” it’s arguable whether motion controls are there already, considering just how many Wiis Nintendo has sold since it released in 2006.

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The game streaming service OnLive is preparing a set of new promotions to bump its subscriber listing as we head towards the holidays. This Labor Day weekend, the service will offer all of its cloud-service games at 50% off. In addition, the company is extending its “Founding Members” program to the end of the year, which gives a free first year and an optional second year for about five bucks.

The company also announced that it will be rolling out a beta program of Wi-Fi connectivity for the service, so users will no longer need to have a hard-wire. The press release didn’t mention an exact date for the new feature, only that it is coming out sometime this month. “Wi-Fi support has been the most requested feature among OnLive members, so we made it a top development priority and were able to role out a beta version ahead of schedule,” said COO Mike McGarvey in the press release.

OnLive will have a booth at PAX this weekend, showing off the service along with the new Wi-Fi feature. Those interested in seeing video game streaming for themselves can find it at booth #3446.

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Get an inside scope about the recently revealed massive multiplayer aspect of Call of Duty: Black Ops as the games Executive Producer Daniel Suarez dishes out some new details about the hotly anticipated first person shooter.

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Not quite sold on Eskil Steenberg’s one-man-MMO-show Love? What if it were completely free? That’s exactly what’s going down this Friday, as the developer just announced a free weekend for the procedurally-generated online game.

Beginning tomorrow, September 3 at 1:00 a.m. Eastern, you’ll be able to download the Love client from the game’s official website. From there you should have free access to the game servers until around 7:00 a.m. Eastern on Monday.

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