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Archived News:
The new Highway Tampa map for Battlefield 2 is now out of beta, and ready for
prime time. The final version of the map is available on the
Battlefield Website and mirrored on
FileFront and Gamer's
Hell. The corresponding updated server is available on the
Battlefield Website and mirrored on
FileFront and Gamer's
Hell.
The JoWooD Forums
offer new community patches for Gothic 3, updating various language editions of
Piranha Bytes' fantasy-themed RPG to version 1.31 (thanks
Gamer's Hell). If you want to find out
what the patch does, you might just want to install it. because there's not
enough aspirin in the world to cure the headaches caused by the
English read me.
Focus Home Interactive and Frogwares announce Sherlock Holmes versus Arsène
Lupin, the next installment in their series based on the famed fictional
detective: Focus Home Interactive and Frogwares are pleased to announce a
new Sherlock Holmes mystery - Sherlock Holmes versus Arsène Lupin. In this
upcoming game, set for release in late 2007, two of the greatest figures in
detective literature will square off in a 3D adventure unlike any other. To see
just how the new game will immerse players in its amazing 3D world, please
download the latest screenshots, available at the URL below.
Download the screenshots (11.4 Mb)
http://www.sherlockholmes-lejeu.fr/scr/sh4-scr.rar
Having grappled with the machinations of a cult of Cthulhu in his last PC
adventure (Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened), the world's greatest detective is now
ready to challenge Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief. Lupin, a character
invented by renowned French writer Maurice Leblanc, has thrilled millions of
readers worldwide with his exploits, and will prove a perfect foil for Sherlock
Holnmes.
This new Sherlock Holmes game sends players to 19th Century London where Arsène
Lupin, a young French burglar with an impressive track record, has just
challenged Scotland Yard and the most famous of detectives - Sherlock Holmes.
Lupin has announced that he plans to rob the capital of five objects of immense
value over the course of five days. The objects are housed in highly prestigious
locations such as the National Gallery, the British Museum, the Tower of London
and even Buckingham Palace! Sherlock Holmes will have to muster all his courage
and ingenuity to save England from terrible humiliation.
As was so brilliantly achieved in The Awakened, this new adventure offers gamers
tremendous freedom and an even stronger sense of involvement through real-time
3D. The game invites you to visit 19th century London in all its splendor and to
travel through superb decors which have been faithfully reproduced with the
game's 3D engine. With famous places and some of the most prestigious landmarks
as your playing field, it is as if you are on your own guided tour of one of
Europe's most fabulous cities. If the pace of the adventure and its many
surprises leaves you breathless, take a break and enjoy looking at the hundreds
of works of art, all faithfully reproduced in their real locations.
Hard to be a God Website is online,
offering a bilingual home to this RPG under construction at Akella based on the
works of the Strugatsky Brothers. Thanks
Gamer's Hell.
- Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
The
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Q&A on GameSpot talks with Bradley
Rebh about the just announced follow-up to Gas Powered Games' RTS game: "The
quick overview of the game includes new units, a new playable faction, more
maps, a new single-player campaign, a major user-interface revamp,
artificial intelligence revisions, and much more. It's difficult to quantify
the number of improvements we're including that don't fit into one of those
categories. I think that's why we haven't labeled it an expansion pack and
are making the product a stand-alone game. It's really big!"
- Dungeon Runners
Pick
up a quest and explore the world of Dungeon Runners with NCsoft’s Stephen
Nichols on GameZone is a Q&A about NCsoft's MMOG: "The number one thing,
in my opinion, that makes most MMOs a non-casual experience is the dreaded
wait times! Most MMOs are riddled with wait times... you wait to find a
group, you wait to heal up, you wait to fly to your destinations. Heck, you
sometimes even wait to wait! That's how Dungeon Runners is different. There
are no wait times! The entire game is playable solo or with a group -- it
scales automatically to give you an appropriate challenge based on your
situation. There's also no travel times! You can easily teleport to dungeons
and areas that you have been to before... and you can easily and instantly
teleport to any group member. We do everything in our power to get you in
the action as soon as possible and keep you there as long as you want."
- Company of Heroes on
AMDZone. DirectX9/10 comparison.
- The Grand
Theft Auto IV Website offers trailer #2, "Looking for that special
someone," downloadable from
3D Downloads,
ActionTrip,
ComputerGames.ro,
FileFront, Gamer's
Hell,
Internode Games Network,
PixelRage, and
Strategy Informer.
- A Sid Meier's: Civilization Revolution Trailer is on
FileFront and
Gamer's Hell.
- Guitar Hero
Rocks the 80s Gold: Final Tracks Revealed.
- Carcassonne Comes
to Life on Xbox LIVE Arcade.
- Blast Works Build,
Fuse & Destroy - Coming To Nintendo Wii Next Year.
- DIRT Sales Top 500K
In First Week - Title Earns Top-Selling Spot On Xbox 360.
- Rise of the
Argonauts Details and New Xbox 360 Screenshots.
- Nintendo's WiiWare
Game-creation Service Launched.
- Greg Oden Named
Cover Athlete For College Hoops 2K8. And NBA 2K8 too?
THQ Announces
Supreme Commander(TM) Forged Alliance For Windows PC Coming in November 2007
announces the "next chapter" in Gas Powered Game's RTS franchise is being
forged, a standalone expansion that is due in November (thanks
Gamer's Hell). Here's the
deal: AGOURA HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--THQ Inc. (NASDAQ:THQI - News)
today announced Supreme Commander(TM): Forged Alliance, the next chapter in the
critically-acclaimed real-time strategy (RTS) franchise, is scheduled to ship
for Windows PC in November 2007. Developed by renowned RTS designer Chris Taylor
and his Gas Powered Games studio, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance follows the
epic story of the original game in the aftermath of the Infinite War. Supreme
Commander: Forged Alliance will be available as a standalone title offering full
compatibility with the original game, enabling all-new strategic options.
"Supreme Commander raised the standard for scope and scale in the RTS genre and
is one of the highest rated strategy games of all time," said Bob Aniello,
senior vice president of worldwide marketing, THQ. "Supreme Commander: Forged
Alliance is pushing the boundaries yet again promising an exciting new chapter
to fans worldwide."
"Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance is not only the continuation of the epic
story that is unfolding inside the game's universe, it is the continuation of
our goal to move the bar for RTS gaming even higher than ever," says Chris
Taylor, CEO of Gas Powered Games. "Forged Alliance offers over 100 new units,
more maps and an entirely new faction... we are stuffing this game with all
kinds of new features!"
About Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance is the next chapter in the critically
acclaimed Supreme Commander franchise that set the standard for scope and scale
in the RTS genre. The game continues the epic story following the Infinite War,
featuring an all-new single-player campaign, a new faction and a myriad of
innovative multiplayer features. More than one hundred new units will give
players access to cutting-edge strategic options, including fully realized
navies, orbital weaponry and advanced counter intelligence technologies.
Developed by Chris Taylor and Gas Powered Games, Supreme Commander: Forged
Alliance is expected to be available in retail outlets worldwide in November
2007.
Matthias from The Patches Scrolls clarifies for us that the Arena Wars Reloaded demo mentioned
earlier ( story) includes support for multiple languages,
including English, in spite of the fact that the installer is German only. Your
language can be selected upon launching the demo after working through the
German installer, which includes agreeing to the German EULA. The download is
available on Arena Wars Website
and mirrored on
FileFront, FileNuts, and
Gamer's Hell.
We learned long ago in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid that there are
no rules in a knife fight, but there are rules of conduct on the battlefield,
and EA has now posted updated
rules of conduct (thanks Ant and
Planet
Battlefield) for playing on ranked servers for their Battlefield series
(though some of the rules in the terms of service are oddly inaccurately related
in the
post describing the update). The rules cover their privacy policy as well as
social aspects of online play, banning things like offensive player names, clan
tags, and hate-mongering activities, while also attempting to curtail cheating
by banning the exploitation of bugs, and in what may be an overreach, banning
talking about bugs (it could be worse, as
that inaccurate description makes it sound like they are banning discussion
of bugs that don't impact gameplay or even don't exist). Word is: You
will not exploit any bug in the Service or in any EA product to gain unfair
advantage in the game and you will not communicate the existence of any such bug
(either directly or through the public posting) to any other user of the
Service.
The Arena Wars Website now
offers a playable demo for Arena Wars: Reloaded. The installer is in German, but
supports multiple languages after installation. The download is mirrored on
FileFront, FileNuts, and
Gamer's
Hell. Also, a patch for the Arena Wars Reloaded that brings the
game to version 2.0.15 is now available, the
patch notes describe the changes in the new version,
and the patch is mirrored
on FileNuts,
Gamer's Hell, and
The Patches Scrolls.
- Overlord
Talking
with Rhianna Pratchett, writer and co-story designer of Overlord on Ars
Technica is a conversation with Overlord writer Rhianna Pratchett:
"Let's face it, everyone loves the bad guy. So I'd say that's a pretty easy
sell! We've deliberately made it humorous, almost Peter Pan-evil, in nature
partly to keep our ratings reasonable (we're not trying to be Manhunt with
goblins) and because it was actually a lot more fun to design and write for
that kind of story. You're "evil" in an amusing,
rub-your-hands-together-and-go 'Mwah-ha-ha' kind of way, rather than a
pickling-babies-and-eating-human-livers way. We didn't want to force players
into doing really evil acts (ratings alert again!) but we wanted to give
them the choice. So you start off as being default evil—you've got the dark
tower, the spiky armor, the army of loyal minions at your command—and where
you take your innate evilness from thereon in is totally up to you.""
- Steam
Running
on Steam on bit-tech.net is an article-format conversation with Doug
Lombardi about Valve's Steam platform: "Take2 even admitted that retailers
are doing everything they can to slow down digital distribution. They even
threaten, they even threatened Take2, 'if you guys drop the price on your
digital side, then we’re not going to be taking as many games, or ANY games,
on the retail side'. The retailers right now are doing everything they can
to keep their share of the pie."
The Xbox 360 failure edition:
The last few days we have had classic summer weather here in the northeast, with
temperatures and humidity both well into the 90s. I was immersed in experiencing
the delirious misery this brings when I took note of how hairy, dirty, and hot
our doggies were, and in a fit of guilt, embarked on the task of washing and
grooming both. In spite of all the water involved, this job did nothing but make
me sweatier and more disgusting, but the payoff of the doggies being cleaner and
less disgusting was worth it.
R.I.P.:
Liz
Claiborne Dies at 78.
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