Archived News:
The Sigma
Team Company now offers online sales of Zombie Shooter 2, which has
as self-explanatory a title as you can hope for (thanks Gamer's Hell). The release is
accompanied by a playable demo, though it's not clear if this is the same demo
that was released in November 2008. Here's word on the game:
Zombie Shooter 2 is a unique blend of two game genres - Action and RPG.
Every player can choose a character to the liking, get experience to develop
skills, earn money and spend it at weapons, medications and useful devices. All
of this will be used against thousands of enemies. The zombies fill the game
screen, never letting you rest, even for a minute.
Imagine yourself coming to visit an unknown city and seeing it almost ruined,
with all the citizens turned into zombies. What will you do? Call for help,
orzanize a large-scale rescue campaign or... Try to dig your way out of the
situation, find out what happened and use your last chance to save the person
you love!
- New project from the maker of the legendary Alien Shooter series.
- Huge crowds of enemies, more than 100 zombies on one map at a time.
- Ability to upgrade the main character's parameters.
- More than 60 weapon types, including sniper rifles.
- Lots of auxiliary devices, including radar and battle drones.
- Several types of vehicles to drive.
- Three game types: Campaign, Survive, Gun Stand.
Slitherine Strategies is
now offering online sales of HISTORY Great Battles Medieval (and they say
all the good titles are taken!), their role-playing strategy game planned for
retail release in February 2010. Here's what they say: "It is finally there.
With a surprise move, Slitherine has decided to release its highly anticipated
Role Playing Strategy game HISTORY™ Great Battles Medieval. The game will only
be available from the official company site
www.slitherine.com until it [sic] full retail release in February next year. The
PC retail release will be launched alongside the two console formats, Xbox360
and PlaySation3 [sic]. HISTORY™Great Battles Medieval is a blend of role-playing
and turn based strategy set during the Hundred Years War between France and
England. Players will finally be able to create their armies, customize them and
lead them to victory trough [sic] over 130 years of one of the greatest wars of all
times."
The Capsized Website is home to
Capsized, the next project from Alientrap Software, developer of the
freeware FPS Nexuiz. Details are scant for
now, but we know the game us planned for release next year for Windows and XBLA,
and the website features a trailer on the
YouTube described like
this: "The new trailer shows off the fast physics based gameplay of the
platformer, along with it's [sic] stylized art and unique setting. The game will focus
on fast paced action along with physics based puzzles, as the player attempts to
exit the strange alien planet."
SCEA has
filed
a trademark registration for Sorcery, reports
superannuation,
with the TM intended for games and the operation of online games. They point out
that Sony's San Diego Studio cancelled
a project
called Sorcery a couple of years into development, but since that was over a
decade ago, this is likely unrelated to that project.
CCP reveals a December 1 release date for EVE Online: Dominion, the
recently announced eleventh free expansion for their
science-fiction MMORPG. Dominion will alter the alliance warfare that's
considered EVE Online's endgame, add new epic arcs for pirate factions, updated
planet art, a revamped server browser, and more.
As noted on the
Paradox
Interactive Forums, a new beta patch for Europa Universalis III is now
available on
this page, said to address "all reproducible problems had with previous beta
patch." Specifically: - Fixed the size of the gold icon in texts.
- Pirates will no longer spawn outside coasts of countries that do not have
technology high enough to blockade.
- Fixed a problem with particles being whiteblobs after alt-tab.
- Battles are now slightly bloodier.
- AI can now properly lift excommunications.
A new patch is now available for Ironclads: High Sea, updating the 19th
century naval combat game to version 1.2, which has a couple of changes and the
addition of the game manual. The patch is also accompanied by a new demo updated
with the new changes. The patch is available on
AtomicGamer and
Gamer's Hell,
while the updated demo is available on
AtomicGamer and
Gamer's Hell.
The Just Cause 2 Website now offers
another new "mini-doc" movie from the action game sequel. Word is: "Avalanche
Studios takes you behind-the-scenes on its explosive new freeroaming adventure.
This latest update goes deep undercover on the island of Panau, uncovering what
makes this tropical time-bomb tick." The clip is posted in the site's
media section.
The Diablo III interview Part III on Diii.net continues to milk a
conversation with Jay Wilson about Diablo III. This short installment
covers the items in Blizzard's action/RPG sequel, and Jay confirms new item
types will be included, though he refuses to go into further detail. Other
topics include the return of skill runes, that unique items and sets from the
first two Diablo games will likely return, and how the red outline targeting
system is "still in and it’s not going anywhere."
Infinity Ward talks Matchmaking in Australia on Games On Net is a
conversation with Todd Alderman about Modern Warfare 2 that actually took
place in Los Angeles, the Australia reference is their focus on matchmaking
issues down under where the sparser population can make finding other gamers
difficult. They discuss various improvements being made to matchmaking in the
military shooter sequel, as well as other elements to make online play, such as
the ability to mute players in-game, the possibility of video sharing, and the
possibility of releasing a PC dedicated server to host Xbox 360 games.
PlayStation University - Sony: The Death of Consumer Loyalty.
When we flip the table and watch how Sony has handled their entire
console this generation, all you ultimately see from the consumer loyalty
perspective is utter failure and death. One of the key components to the
lack of consumer loyalty is the way that Sony conducts their warranty
process in general. Not only is the consumer expected to keep their receipt
for the entire year, but if they happen to misplace it, they’ll be hit with
a $160 repair fee just to get their console fixed. I realize this is a
precaution and a verification process to make sure the consoles being sent
in are legitimately under warranty, however, this same practice and
requirement was required when the console had only been launched for six
months. That’s correct, if your console broke in March 2007, Sony would
still require a receipt to prove you bought the console within the last
year. Ridiculous? I agree.
- Brink on
Bethesda Blog. Brink Developer Diary #2 — Olivier Leonardi.
On this day in 1938 The Munich Agreement was signed, granting the Sudetenland to
Nazi Germany, and assuring us "peace in our time." On the more successful side,
on this date in 1967 the Outer Space Treaty ("Treaty on Principles Governing the
Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the
Moon and Other Celestial Bodies") went into effect, and as far as we know, has
been honored ever since (whew!).
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