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A Castle Empire Website is online, revealing an upcoming free-to-play online empire-building game from Ubisoft. They offer preliminary details, saying the game will include more than 40 types of buildings and nine "unique" military units, and providing some screenshots showing stylized, cartoony graphics. The site also offers signups for closed beta testing, and word that the game will be web-based, as they say it will not require a download. If this all seems reminiscent of The Settlers series, that shouldn't be too surprising, since it is being developed by Settlers originators Blue Byte. Thanks GameSpot.
Origin now offers preorders of a Mass Effect 3 Digital Deluxe Edition that's exclusive to EA's online service. This includes physical bonuses such as an art book and a lithographic print, as well as in-game items, including several features they say "can’t be found anywhere else," like a robot dog companion (thanks Computer and Video Games). Here's the list of bonus content to be included with this version of the sci-fi action/RPG sequel: Continue here to read the full story.
Matrix Games announces the release of a new patch for Combat Command: The Matrix Edition to update the World War II strategy game to version 1.01a. You take the blue pill (skip the patch), the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill (apply the patch), you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Oh heck, regardless of which pill you take, here's the outline of what this does: "The update fixes a few issues including a problem with PBEM games, adds Bocage to the Editor, and includes a new set of art from JMass which replaces the original map art files, adds a Spring tileset, and offers an additional zoom level."
This trailer offers the entire E3 presentation of BioShock: Infinite, featuring over 15 minutes from Irrational Games' upcoming first-person shooter sequel. The clip features lots of environment exploration and exposition, as well as combat and other gameplay (for the record, Damon Runyan coined the term "roscoe" for gun, so it's probably an anachronism in this game).
Ubisoft announces the full car list for DRIVER San Francisco, saying the upcoming driving action sequel will feature "a wide variety of iconic muscle cars, modern supercars, and a bit of everything in between." This trailer accompanies the list, highlighting six of the included autos; The 2006 Ford GT, the 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS, the 2009 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR, the 1974 Ford Gran Torino (a la Starsky & Hutch), the 1986 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 (no IROC-Z?), and the 1971 Pontiac Lemans. The full car list follows. Continue here to read the full story.
Grasshopper Manufacture, PlayforJapan.Org, and Sumthing Else Music Works announce Play For Japan: The Album is now available in stores, offering a collection of original music from some of the most famous composers in videogames today, with all proceeds going to the Japanese Red Cross to help victims of the March 11th earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
Okay, this alarm clock idea is pretty damned clever (thanks reddit via GameSetWatch). Here's the description of how this works: "If you hit the user-defined snooze limit, the alarm sounds and will not turn off until you have cleared 4 lines in Tetris. That’s right, you have to prove to the clock that you are awake and coherent before it will shut off. Technically you can silence the alarm for a 30 second period so you can focus on Tetris, but that’s all the break you get."
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