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Steam News
announces an update for Counter-Strike: Source automatically available via
Steam. The update adds new SAS and Leet player models, improves player
ragdolls, and addresses a few bugs.
EA Celebrates 2006
FIFA World Cup Germany(TM) With Exclusive Release of Officially Licensed
Videogame announces this April is when gamers will be able to get their
kicks with a new FIFA World Cup game: REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--March 1, 2006--Electronic Arts (Nasdaq:ERTS - News) will celebrate the
2006 FIFA World Cup Germany(TM) -- the world's largest sporting event -- with
the launch of 2006 FIFA World Cup(TM), the event's only officially licensed
videogame. The videogame will ship on all platforms including Xbox 360(TM) in
April 2006 in anticipation of the real-world tournament which begins in June.
Source: Electronic Arts
2006 FIFA World Cup, under the EA SPORTS(TM) brand, will feature stunning visual
representations of the world's superstar players, 12 official stadiums that will
be used at 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany and stadiums from each qualifying region.
Gamers will be able to play as their favorite team from qualification right
through to a virtual reproduction of the tournament in Germany.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter Q&A on GameSpot discusses the
characters and story in the upcoming special forces sequel with Ubisoft's Pascal
Lefort: "In an era when the United States is the only global superpower, the US
Army needs an elite group of soldiers who can be put in the field immediately,
anywhere in the world. The point of the spear in every operation, US Special
Forces Group 5, First Battalion, D Company is an elite Green Beret unit made up
of the best of the best. First into any conflict and last to retreat, the Ghosts
handle the missions that no one else can. Often inserted deep behind enemy
lines, they strike swiftly and suddenly, and then vanish. They call themselves
the 'Ghosts.'"
S2 Games to Bypass
Traditional Methods of Publishing and Distribution is the official
announcement of plans ( story) to bypass traditional retail
outlets with the upcoming release of Savage 2: A Tortured Soul, their RTS/FPS
hybrid sequel: ROHNERT PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2006--Developer
S2 Games today announced that it will be foregoing traditional methods of
publishing and distribution for "Savage 2: A Tortured Soul," making it only
available for purchase as an online download on the S2 Games Website. The
triple-A title, which is the highly anticipated sequel to the
critically-acclaimed "Savage: The Battle for Newerth," will be available in the
Fall of 2006 at a price of $29.99.
I'm finally about recovered from the aches induced by playing the children's
pitching game this past weekend. That's pretty humiliating... I think I need to
embark on a training program before I try this again.
Today's rush of demos continues with the release of a WarPath multiplayer demo
that gives the chance to check out the upcoming science fiction-themed shooter
in the works at Digital Extremes. The demo includes the deathmatch/team
deathmatch map Breach and the CTF map Rush, and the multiplayer demo supports
solo play with bots. The download is available on
3D
Downloads, 3D Gamers,
FileNuts,
FilePlanet (registration required), Gameguru
Mania, Gamer's
Hell, and
Worthplaying.
As noted (in German) on the
Frogster Interactive Website, an (English) Air Conflicts demo is now
available, providing a test fight for 3Division Entertainment's arcade World War
II aerial combat game. The demo is a 99 MB download, available from
Frogster
Interactive and mirrored on
3D Downloads, 3D
Gamers,
Computer Games,
FileFront, Gamer's Hell,
Strategy Informer, and
Worthplaying.
The ÜberSoldier single-player demo is now available, offering the promised
sample of Burut's supernatural World War II first-person shooter. The demo
debuted on
GameSpot (registration required), where word is: "The ÜberSoldier demo offers an exciting
single-player mission spanning three diverse environments. You'll blast through
waves of zombies and Nazi soldiers in your quest to free a key resistance
leader, using a wide variety of weapons including the 44 Machine Gun, the MP 40
Machine Pistol, and the devasting [sic] Panzerscreck bazooka as you fight
through an underground complex and an enemy base." The download is now also
mirrored on
3D Downloads, 3D
Gamers,
Boomtown (registration required),
Computer Games,
FileFront, Gameguru Mania,
Gamer's Hell,
Strategy Informer, and
Worthplaying.
Slitherine sends word that Cult of Mithras is gold, and since the epic
role-playing/strategy game is only to be available via download, this serves as
word that the game is available as well. The game can be purchased on the
Slitherine Strategies Website
where Legion Arena is now also being digitally distributed. Here's more on Cult
of Mithras: The Cult of Mithras is set in the boundaries between history
and mythology. Can you keep the gods happy and find your way to Elysium? 35 new
scenarios spread across 7 campaigns are introduced using a whole new level of
story telling. Fight against mythological troops in one player and take them
online to defeat your opponent. Bolts on to Legion Arena allowing your advanced
armies to go on new adventures! Go to
www.slitherine.com/com for more information.
Publishers JoWooD Productions and Deep Silver announce the release of a second
demo for Panzer Elite Action, allowing the chance to check out the multiplayer
aspect of Zootfly's World War II armored combat game. The 475 MB download is available
on
3D Downloads, 3D
Gamers,
Boomtown (registration required),
Computer Games,
FileFront, FileNuts,
Gamer's Hell,
Strategy Informer, and Worthplaying.
This Perpetual Entertainment
Press Release (thanks Frans) announces that Sony Online Entertainment has
signed on to co-publish Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising, the upcoming online
action/RPG. Interestingly, in spite of SOE's prominence in the MMO market, they
will only be responsible for the game's marketing and distribution in North
America, while Perpetual will host and operate the game. Here's a bit:
Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising features an innovative style of combat not
seen in other online multiplayer games, courtesy of Perpetual Entertainment Lead
Designer Stieg Hedlund, lead designer of the best-selling RPG Diablo II.
Reminiscent of an Action/RPG, combat moves can be linked together and even
include "finishing" moves to provide a more dynamic, dramatic and visceral feel
to battles. Squad-based combat is another unique aspect of Gods & Heroes: Rome
Rising; players will earn and command Non-Player Characters (NPCs) in a variety
of strategic groupings to form individual squads, create unique formations and
implement combat tactics for these squads to execute on command, maximizing
their power in combat.
As noted on the Ensemble Studios Website
(thanks Frans), the promised new update for Age of Empires III is now
automatically available, updating the RTS sequel to version 1.05. Details on
what's changed can be found in the
Version 1.05 Patch Notes.
No manual editions of the update are yet available.
Battlezone II Community
Project, headed by BZ2 programmers Ken Miller and Nathan Mates, evidently
still lives. They are now offering a new beta 2 version 1.3 patch for the
action/strategy sequel, which represents about as long a patch development cycle
as we've ever seen, as beta one was released over two years ago
( story). It is warned that the new patch is unsupported, it will
overwrite content in the French and German editions with English, and it fixes the
long-standing infinite flying bug that not everyone considers a bug.
- The Garriott Brothers
Interview:
The Garriott Brothers - Part 2 on GameDaily BIZ continues to talk with
Lord British and his brother (Duke British?) about their long history in the
game business: "What's interesting about game development is we've always
been big believers that great ideas are a dime a dozen; the ability to
execute is incredibly rare... I'm a big believer of doing lots and lots of
ideas and even fragments of ideas and you kind of assemble this hill of
'here are some ideas that work together but I can't see how to finish it, so
let me sweep up a different group of ideas, and you finally get this big
enough hill and I can see the missing parts and I'm confident I can engineer
past these other gaps to create a great game.' That's the way I individually
work."
- Game Lobbying
Gamecloud's
IEMA And VSDA Lobbyist Q&A talks with lobbyist Stuart Spencer about
plans for the game industry to start playing the K Street game of trying to
influence lawmakers with schmooze and swag.
- Lara Model
GameSpy's
conversation with the new Lara Croft is a Q&A with British model Karima
Adebibe about the big, err, shoes she has to fill as the new Lara Croft.
A new Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter movie shows off still more of the
advanced warfighting in GRIN's upcoming shooter sequel. The clip shows off the
Narcom mentioned in yesterday's Q&A on the game ( story). The
download is available on
3D Downloads, 3D
Gamers,
FileFront, and
GameSpot.
Happy March! This is that whole 'in like a lion - out like a lamb' month, and true
to that we have another big snowstorm predicted for tomorrow. And what has
happened over the past few years to make me concerned about this? Used to be the
accuracy of the weather reports was a joke, but I think they must have gotten
some alien machinery running at Area 51 with how these things have become so
much more accurate in recent times.
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