Archived News:
Gearbox announces 1300 GameStop locations will be open at midnight
tonight/tomorrow to sell the console editions of Borderlands as soon as
they go on sale. They've already announced locations in the
Dallas/Fort Worth where Gearbox employees will be in attendance, and
this forum
post is where you can find other stores where they are burning some midnight
oil to serve your immediate gratification needs. In other Borderlands news,
Gametrailers now offers a bunch of
new media from the role-playing shooter: The
Opening Cinematic and some gameplay clips:
Skagzilla,
Co-Op Shootout,
Headstone Mine,
Lost
Cave, and
Windmill Camp.
Blizzard tweets from
their Diablo account to solicit thoughts on their plan to replace mana in
Diablo III with class-specific resources: "We're looking to give each class
in Diablo III a unique resource system, instead of everyone using mana.
Thoughts?" Also, there's
a Diablo III Q&A on Hellforge talking with Leonard Boyarsky about quests,
plans for post-release content, NPCs, locations, and more.
Paradox Interactive announces that preorders are now underway for East India
Company Privateer, the upcoming expansion for East India Company, the naval
RTS game. They say they should be underway on all the major distribution
portals, but as of now, it is only available on
GamersGate. Word is: "East India Company: Privateer requires the original
game East India Company, which is now available at 50% off for a limited time
with the purchase of Privateer at most digital download portals. The expansion
East India Company: Privateer will be exclusively available for digital download
at all major digital download portals for a suggested retail price of €9.99 and
$9.99."
The Console Classix Website is a
subscription site offering a way to play thousands of classic console games on
your PC legally using the original ROMs. A free trial is available, and word is:
"This classic game library includes nearly every game ever released for 10
different systems: Sega Genesis, NES, Super Nintendo, ColecoVision, Atari 2600,
Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy
Advance. Additionally, with the improved user interface it is even easier to
browse for your favorite games and the overall experience is more seamless than
previous versions."
A new
Fairytale Fights trailer on GameTrailers.com features a little
gameplay, but is mostly a live action romp where porn star Ron Jeremy plays
thespian and tries to get a couple of maidens to act lesbian. No really.
Third Wire Productions announces the
release of Strike
Fighters 2 Israel, saying the latest installment in their combat flight
simulator series is DRM-free, and for sale via digital distribution in their
Online Store. They say: "The
game is a stand-alone product and does not require Strike Fighters 2 to play,
but if you already have Strike Fighters 2, Strike Fighters 2 Vietnam, Strike
Fighters 2 Europe, the games are merged to make all the stock aircraft
available." Here's a bit on the game itself: "An updated version of Wings Over
Israel, a jet combat game set in 1967-1982 Middle East conflicts. Fly the Mirage
IIICJ Shahak, Nesher, Kfir, A-4 Ahit, F-4 Kurnass, F-15 Baz, and F-16 Netz!"
Thanks Jim.
The Torchlight Interview, Part I and
Part II on Crispy Gamer talk with Max "Power" Shaefer, Jason "Boom Boom"
Beck and Travis "Bickle" Baldtree of Runic Games about Torchlight, their
upcoming action/RPG, as well as plans to follow it up with an MMOG. They discuss
specifics in Torchlight, rehash the demise of Flagship Studios, and get some
details about the MMOG that will follow, which will probably have "Torchlight"
in the title somewhere, and will execute many of the ideas they were working on
for Mythos when Flagship sank.
There's a Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough on
Vimeo showing a proof of concept developed by Carnegie Mellon University
showing Dungeons & Dragons being played on one of those Microsoft surface
dealies that are destroying newscasts everywhere. The clip shows how the
interface works for players and game masters, and the result is fairly
nerdgasmic. Thanks
Slashdot.
The FIFA Manager 10
Website now has the release of a playable demo for FIFA Manager 10,
the latest installment in the association football/soccer series. The demo is
available here
(direct link) and it is mirrored on
AtomicGamer,
FanGaming, and
Gamer's Hell. Here's
word: In the demo which is released today, you can play half a season in
one of the top leagues from England, Germany, France, Italy, Poland and Spain.
The respective save games can be continued with the final version.
The demo of FIFA MANAGER 10 contains all the available match modes of the full
game such as the 3D match, text mode, videotext and instant results. You can try
out the improved 3D match engine featuring your manager on the sideline and the
new user interface with resolutions up to 1920*1200.
In order to minimize the download size, the FIFA MANAGER 10 Demo waives 3D
player faces, 3D commentary as well as the free online mode which is included in
FIFA MANAGER 10´s full game for the first time.
Amanita Design ( Samorost and Samorost2) announce the availability
of Machinarium, their first full-scale game project. There's a web-based
three level playable demo of the point-and-click puzzle/adventure game on the
Machinarium Website, where the game
is also available for purchase via digital distribution. The Windows edition is
also for sale on
Direct2Drive, Impulse,
and Steam, and the Mac
edition is being sold on
Direct2Drive.
Rocksteady's Sefton Hill Unmasks Batman: Arkham Asylum on Gamasutra talks
about the reception met by Batman: Arkham Asylum, the recently released
superhero game. They discuss the commercial and critical reception of the game,
why Batman games are hard to get right, influences from other games,
storytelling, challenges they encountered, lessons learned from the project,
their development focus, and more.
The
Star Wars: The Old Republic interview on The MMO Gamer chats with
BioWare's Blaine Christine about the upcoming Star Wars MMORPG. Topics include
"interfacing" with LucasArts, what will make the game great, playing as a bad
guy, morality and how you can play as a light Sith or a dark Jedi, how much of
the game is combat, and why anyone will want to play as anything but a Jedi.
The
Dragon Age: Origins Interview on Strategy Informer converses with Mark
Darrah about BioWare's upcoming role-playing game. Topics are pretty general,
covering things like favorite characters to play, favored romance scenarios, the
length of his first play through of the game, the future of the RPG genre,
working with EA, and more.
Streum On Studio announces a delay to E.Y.E, their Source-engine
shooter/RPG that was planned for release last spring, so this
announcement is a bit belated. The
E.Y.E Website also has some new screenshots and says the game now contains
more than 50 technology researches, 26 artifacts, and over 120 secondary quests.
As for the delay, they share the following: "E.Y.E's release is delayed to an
indeterminate date - we hope before the end of the year - in order to add 3 new
chapters, new enemies, new researches and new secondary missions. But before all
to balance these new features the best we can." Here is
a big batch of new
E.Y.E screenshots.
The Dark Mod Website now offers a
version 1.00 public beta of this medieval steampunk stealth modification for
DOOM 3 that attempts to recreate the stealthy feel of the Thief series from
Looking Glass Studios. Word is: "With the release of The Dark Mod: Beta 1.00,
Broken Glass Studios is providing the modding community with a sophisticated
editing suite. All the assets and resources necessary to build playable missions
are included, plus a level editor, DarkRadiant, which has been custom designed
for the needs of Dark Mod mapping."
The TrackMania
Forums now feature a new version 2009-10-09 dedicated server for
TrackMania Forever, the latest installment in Nadeo's racing series. There
is also a new "fix for the game" that was posted for testing, but has since had
the "beta" designation removed since no problems have been reported. Thanks
Frans.
Assassin’s Creed: Lineage, the first movie prequel to Assassin's Creed
II, will debut on the YouTube on October 27, reports
VentureBeat where they follow up on Ubisoft's plans for
movies for the stealth action sequel from Hybride Technologies, the Canadian
movie effects company Ubisoft acquired last year. In the meantime,
GameVideos has a
40-seconde teaser from the clip. Word is there will be three such movies
totaling about 38 minutes of running time, featuring actors from the game and
green-screen special effects. The majority of the article discusses the
prospects of Ubisoft eventually creating full Hollywood productions, and there
is talk of creating media to support their Tom Clancy property.
Italian website
Videogame.it now offers the fourth Battle Report from StarCraft II,
calling the clip "esclusivo," and it is indeed not yet on the
StarCraft II Website. The clip features a
match between two players on "Lost Temple," a tweaked map from the original
game. The match features expert commentary rattled off in a manner that would
make an auctioneer jealous.
The Shattered Horizon Website
points the way to a Shattered Horizon trailer on
GameTrailers.com offering the first-in-game footage from this zero-G shooter
in the works at Futuremark Games Studio. Word is: "The first trailer for
Shattered Horizon to show in-game footage, this new video shows two players
working together to take control of an asteroid being mined in near-Earth space.
Players use rocket packs to fly freely through space and can land on any
surface, surprising opponents by attacking from unexpected angles." Also, here
are four
new Shattered Horizon screenshots.
Evolution Vault announces
a name change for EV Online to
Xeno, to remove the pretty
obvious confusion between this space-based MMOG and
EVE Online, CCP's space-based MMOG.
Word is: "The decision was taken in order to avoid potential trademark
infringement and unfair redirection of organic search to the competition. We
know that the success of our game is about the community and content, not the
name."
IncGamers has details on "Harvest Revel," the Halloween event to run in
Aion from October 25-31. Word is each day will feature rewards and treats,
and there will also be new lore revelations in NCsoft's MMORPG.
There are some
KOTOR 2 Questions on the Obsidian Forum Community answered by Chris
Avellone, headed up by a spoiler warning for those who have not played the Star
Wars RPG sequel. Topics include the way the Jedi are portrayed in the KOTOR
series, whether the game's ending was crafted to lead to another sequel, working
with LucasArts, a couple of questions about in-game advents, and some advise for
new game designers. Thanks Acleacius via
RPGWatch.
bit-tech.net - How Far Has PC Gaming Come?
Seriously, look how far we’ve come in just the last ten or twenty years –
and do it because that’s the best way to see why PC gaming is so strong.
We’ve been mulling the topic over in our heads since the last feature and
we're convinced that, though there’s more chaff on the market than ever
before and that can easily distract gamers from the shape of the overall
market, the high points of PC gaming are getting progressively higher.
Gamer Limit - Why video game journalism is unlike any other field.
As a result, most, nay, all of my peers, including myself, write not only
for our audience, but for each other. Behind the scenes, in the depths of
Twitter, LinkedIn and other various social networks, we refer and discuss
each other’s work. We pick it apart, we ask blunt questions, but generally
we hope that what we’ve developed encourages debate and pushes us one step
closer to that holy grail of reputation.
- The Dom3Wiki is
online with loads of Dominions 3: The Awakening skinny…
Well, as expected, yesterday turned out to be the Giants' first big test of the
season. Unfortunately it was not a very big test for the Saints at all. Ouch!
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