Battlefront.com announces the
release of the Strategic Command 2: Patton Drives East expansion is now
invading:
The second expansion in the acclaimed Strategic Command 2 grand
strategy series, Patton Drives East is now available!
Available in three delivery formats (Download, Mail Delivery and joint
Download+Mail Delivery), Patton Drives East explores the "what ifs" of a post
WWII conflict between the Allies and USSR as well as including various
hypothetical revisions of classic WWII campaigns.
Order the Download or Download+Mail version and you can download the game today
and be playing within minutes! The Mail Delivery version should begin shipping
out from our warehouse in about one weeks time.
If you would to check out the game before purchasing, the official demo is also
available from the May 2nd link below.
Homestar Runner Q&A on GameCyte talking with Matt and Mike Chapman about
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, covering how cool the game is and
how attractive we are.
The Lord of the Rings
Conquest Unveiled has word that Pandemic is working on The Lord of the
Rings: Conquest, a LotR-inspired variant on the gameplay they created for Star
Wars: Battlefront. They help fill us in about the project by offering a Q&A with
Eric Gewirtz, and far from a Tolkien conversation, this interview runs five
pages. Here's a bit describing what the game will entail:
We've got every
single battle from the movies and then some. We've got Helm's Deep, Pelennor
Fields, Minas Tirith, The Black Gates, and then we've got a bunch of other cool
stuff like the Mines of Moria. Weathertop, The Shire. We've got a whole level
where you get to play as the evil guys, running through The Shire, trampling
Hobbits and burning the place to the ground.
And really we've focused equal parts on the good perspective and the idea of
re-creating cinematic moments from the films -- not faithfully so much, but just
kind of allowing the player to experience moments that are like the films -- but
also really, for the first time, letting you get the chance to play as all of
the bad guys. Play as the Balrog, play as Sauron and Sarumon, and really kind of
live out that fantasy fulfillment of "what would it be like to really just
destroy Middle-Earth? What if evil had won?"
The Enemy
Territory: QUAKE Wars Development Blog has a lengthy post with full details
on the upcoming version 1.5 patch for Splash Damage's teamplay shooter, which
they say is "steaming ahead at full knots" (presumably that's good) and
undergoing final internal testing. The post outlines UI improvements, new
customization cvars, fixes and tweaks to how ranked servers and statistics are
handled, bot improvements, and fixes for a number of bugs and exploits. The post
concludes with an explanation of just how complicated it will be to distribute a
patch covering a game that's out on three platforms over multiple distribution
systems, and a set of complete patch notes.
THQ and Marvel Enter into
Exclusive Licensing Agreement for Video Games Based on Marvel's Super Hero Squad
announces a licensing deal that should see games for multiple platforms released
next year based on a new cartoon series based on Marvel characters. The series
and game will feature a "super-stylized look" (simply stylized is so passé) and
will be targeted at a young audience in the 4-10 year-old range.
GamesIndustry.biz quotes DICE's Ben Cousins that web-based games (like
DICE's upcoming Battlefield Heroes) represent the future of gaming when asked if
there would only one console at some point:
"People talk about which of
the two, PlayStation or Xbox, is going to be the big platform of the future,"
Cousins said.
"I think the web is going to be the big platform of the future, whether it's
running on an iPhone or a Mac or on the PC."
In a response to a question about the possibility of a 'one console future'
Cousins answered, "Yes and it's going to be the web, and it doesn't care if it
runs on a phone or runs on a Mac or the PC."
Happy VE Day! Okay, that's not one so many people commemorate anymore, but what
the heck. On a more personal note, I want to wish a happy birthday to my
brother, as it's WalterEgo's birthday today. I'd embarrass him by telling you
how old he is, but since he's my younger brother, that one would sort of
backfire. Happy birthday bro!
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