MCV has word that development is underway on a game based on the Rambo series of violent veteran movies. Here's word on the project, which is coming from UK-based publisher Reef Entertainment:
“I am a big fan of Sylvester Stallone movies, and when we had the opportunity to secure the video game rights from StudioCanal for the Rambo franchise, we had to grab it with both hands,” said Reef Entertainment CEO Peter Rezon.
“With the success of the most recent Rambo film, and an international appetite for action movies with Expendables 2 scheduled for release next summer, we felt now was a good time to do something special with this licence.” Craig Lewis, commercial director at Reef added: “We have big ambitions for Reef and the Rambo IP is the first step in establishing us as a worldwide player.
“Rambo will be a triple-A title on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC and will capture the gritty atmosphere and full-on action which made the Rambo movies so successful.”
Develop notes that the latest figures supplied by Activision Blizzard shows World of Warcraft has lost another 300,000 subscribers, saying the MMORPG now has about 11.1 million subscribers. They have Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime's comments on how they plan to reverse this trend:
"As our players have become more experienced playing World of Warcraft over many years, they have become much better and much faster at consuming content," he recently said.
"And so I think with Cataclysm they were able to consume the content faster than with previous expansions, but that's why we're working on developing more content."
Yesterday, Morhaime made clear Blizzard’s response to this trend. The company pledged to flood the game with new content as a matter of urgency.
Riot Games announces
League of Legends: Dominion, a new mode that will soon be added to
League of Legends, their free-to-play DOTA-style MOBA game. Word is: "this new mode adds capture and hold gameplay to League of Legends, along with a new map, new rules and new competitive thrills to an already amazing game." We have a
few Dominion screenshots and a new
gameplay trailer showing off the new mode. There are also Dominion previews on
Destructoid,
Eurogamer, and
Joystiq.
The
World of Warcraft Website has word that the
Cenarion Hatchling pet in World of Warcraft has raised almost $2 million for Japanese earthquake relief:
Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of World of Warcraft players around the world who purchased the Cenarion Hatchling pet, we’ve raised a total of more than $1.9 million USD to support the ongoing earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in Japan. In May, we announced that for every Cenarion Hatchling purchased by July 31, 2011, 100% of the $10 USD adoption fee would be going to assist victims of this disaster -- and the community responded by opening up their hearts and wallets wide. Thanks again for your support and for helping to make an impact on the lives of those affected by these events.
Battlefront.com offers a new patch for Strategic Command: World War One 1914-198 The Great War, updating the military strategy game to version 1.02. They describe this as "a free add-on in anything but name." Word is: "At the same time as we are releasing this new campaign, we are also introducing three new features in this v1.02 patch: Forced March; a more realistic Submarine Combat Model; and best of all, a new and improved Research system."
QuakeCon kicks off in Texas today, much to my disappointment. This is because right around the time I decided to make the effort to go down to attend, a conflict popped up that's not only preventing me attending QuakeCon, but is also going to keep me offline for parts of today and tomorrow. Apologies for the disruption, and hopefully I'll be able to catch up well enough along the way.
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