Following a couple of mishaps with the
free R.U.S.E. weekend on Steam,
Ubisoft tweets that the free weekend for the real-time strategy game is now going to run through Wednesday: "RUSE is now available again on Steam. Sorry for the issue. As a compensation, we'll extend the Free Multiplayer Week-end until Wednesday!" According to
Steam the event will now conclude at 6:00 pm EDT on Wednesday.
Battle.net announces the
StarCraft II beta test will end tomorrow to prepare for the release of the real-time strategy sequel next week. They offer thanks to participants, and outline the plan going forward: "In preparation for the launch of the game on Tuesday, July 27, the beta servers will be brought offline by Monday, July 19. At that time, all beta accounts and character information will be reset and the ability to create forum posts and comments on the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty website will be unavailable until launch. In the meantime, we still encourage everyone to stay tuned to the website for exciting news and updates regarding the upcoming release."
An Interview with Blind Mind Studios on Game Squad talks with the folks behind
Star Ruler, an upcoming science-fiction, 4X strategy game. They discuss the history of the project, various aspects of gameplay, comparisons with genre standouts Galactic Civilizations II, Sins of a Solar Empire, and Sword of the Stars, and more. The game is currently in closed beta testing, and a full release is expected on August 21, but they are still inviting players
to signup to express interest in being invited into the beta.
The
Rift: Planes of Telara Interview on The MMO Gamer chats with Russ Brown and Cindy Bowens of Trion Worlds about their upcoming MMORPG. Topics include the reason for removing the "heroes" reference from the title, changes to their flexible class system, their willingness to make such design changes based on player feedback, their community involvement, their game's technology, and more.
Skulls Of The Shogun Team On Going From EA To Indie on GameSetWatch interviews three of the four members of Haunted Temple Studios about their upcoming
Skulls Of The Shogun, and the transition to indie development after working at Electronic Arts. They discuss the recent absence of smaller-scale turn-based strategy games on PCs and consoles, their influences, technical challenges, design aesthetics, PC and console interfaces, and more.
OnLive.com is extending its AT&T-sponsored
Founding Members Program, which allows a year of free access to this cloud-based gaming service. Signups for the program were to have concluded already, but they have now extended the registration period to run through September 6. Thanks
Big Download.
Here's the new top 10 list of Steam Weekly Top Sellers:
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Pack
- APB All Points Bulletin
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Disciples III : Renaissance Steam Special Edition
- Blacklight: Tango Down
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Transformers: War for Cybertron
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Team Fortress 2
- Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Game Rant - Why She Hates It, and 6 Simple Ways to Make It a Non-Issue. Thanks Ant.
So what’s a game-loving guy to do? The easy answer is that I sell the games on Craigslist and I stop worrying about saving digital princesses, focusing all of my energy on my relationship with my wife instead. But that’s not really a very good answer. It sounds great on paper but everybody needs hobbies and alone time. I don’t know a single couple that spends every minute of every hour together and those that do tend to be the kind of people that get divorced over one of them stubbing their toe.
Okay, today makes for the third heat wave of the summer, which is at least two too many. In fact, more than a third of the summer so far has been heat waves, which are defined as three straight days of 90+ degree temps. If this keeps up, these are just going to be normal waves, but I'm hoping it won't come to that.
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