Saturday, August 28th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
You can already activate and use several Xbox Live Dashboard features on your Windows 7 Phone, full phone-to-console gaming in real time is deep in development. Speaking at the X10 event in Toronto, a representative from Microsoft described the future functionality, including hints at PC-Phone interactions taking place over the Xbox Live infrastructure.
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010 | Posted by Randy Yasenchak | No Comments
Tale of Tales, the developers of The Path, Endless Forest and Fatale, has released a free version of Vanitas on their website.
Vanitas was originally released on the iPhone and iPod touch and it launched at the Art History of Games symposium in Atlanta, Georgia on February 4, 2010. Vanitas is a wooden box with small objects in it. Every time you open the box, you see three new objects. The different combinations form compositions that remind of “Vanitas” -or “Memento Mori”- paintings from the renaissance and baroque periods.
Vanitas is available to play within your web browser, but it does require a plug-in from Unity.
Thursday, August 26th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 2 Comments
After languishing for three years in development limbo, Surreal Software’s This is Vegas was officially canceled. CVG reports the game had racked up $50 million in costs, and still required 8 months to a year of more development before completion.
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
Zynga was having such a good year. What with huge investments and successfully avoiding being just another wholly acquired social gaming company, 2010 was looking to be the Year of Zynga. But the casual developer’s flagship title, Mafia Wars, has hit multiple road-blocks in the past couple of days.
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 1 Comment
With the release of Dragon Age 2 set for a release in March 2011, BioWare has announced that it will release the final piece of downloadable content for Dragon Age: Origins on September 7th. BioWare indicates that this content will serve as the conclusion of the Dragon Age: Origins storyline.
The dlc-package will be known as “Witch Hunt” and continues the story of Morrigan, a major character from the original game. Almost a full year after the events from the original game, Morrigan returns to Ferelden and apparently becomes involved in the theft of an important Dalish artifact. BioWare indicates that players will be able to confront Morrigan in an attempt to get answers from her, take revenge, or reunite with a lost love.
The content will be made available on September 7th for PC, Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 at a price of 560 Microsoft points or $6.99 on Playstation Network. A set of screenshots of the upcoming DLC is included after the jump.
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 2 Comments
In the midst of rising criticism from media and politicians surrounding the upcoming first-person shooter Medal of Honor, EA Games president Frank Gibeau has stated that the developer will not surrender its creative vision to these reports. Over the weekend, the British Secretary of Defence Liam Fox voiced his anger and disgust over the fact that the multiplayer aspect of the game allows players to take on the role of Taliban forces and do battle with ISAF forces.
In an interview with Develop, Gibeau stated that “the development teams care very much about what they’re building, and of course a bit of criticism from the media causes some to get demoralised, but at the end of the day we’re proud of what we’re doing.”
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“What’s really important for us is that we partnered with the US military, and the Medal of Honor Society as well. We’ve gone out of our way to produce the best story for the game.”
Additionally, Gibeau stated that he does not understand why movies or books that are set in Afghanistan do not receive similar criticism from these sources. As times evolve, the platforms that people use to tell their stories changes, and Gibeau indicated that he believes that games are becoming one of those platforms.
Medal of Honor will release for PC, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360 on October 12, 2010.
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010 | Posted by Eliot Hagen | No Comments
The kind people at Valve Aperture Science sent us a few screenshots and some infographics about how the new features of their testing facility will affect the test subjects. Have a gander at the gallery below.
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
The folks at Atari and Cryptic Studios have just announced a new title set in the famous Dungeons and Dragons locale (in its Forgotten Realms campaign), Neverwinter. The studio has said that it has worked closely with Wizards of the Coast and author R.A. Salvatore in order to maintain the universe’s authenticity. While not another MMO as expected, Cryptic’s earlier includes Star Trek Online and City of Heroes, the Neverwinter RPG will incorporate a co-0perative element. The game is slated for release sometime in 2011 exclusively for PC.
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment
Eager to get your hands on some co-operative portal puzzling? The wait finally has an end-time, as Valve announced the release date for Portal 2 today at GamesCom first official day of operation in Cologne, Germany. Players will face off against GLaDOS once again on February 9th, 2011, signaling that the once barren nature of the Q1 period is quickly becoming a thing of the past.
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
Activision Blizzard recently won a default judgment verdict in the case against Alyson Reeves, the operator of an unauthorized server on World of Warcraft. The case accused the defendant of circumvention of copyright protection systems and copyright infringement, among other charges, and was originally filed last October.
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
A series close to many an Elder-Geek heart, Heroes of Might and Magic has been a cult staple on the PC for over a decade, and it looks like Ubisoft is prepping the franchise to keep the trend going. Might and Magic Heroes VI, aside from bearing an oddly inverted title, is set to release exclusively on the PC sometime in 2011.
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 2 Comments
We previously reported on a growing controversy within the media at large at one of EA and Danger Close Studio’s multiplayer features in the upcoming Medal of Honor. The ability to play as members of the Al Qaeda terriorist organization hasn’t been popular in some circles since word first got to mainstream media outlets (follow the jump for some related program segments), but the drama has only escalated when Karen Meredith; mother of 1LT Ken Ballard, who was accidentally killed in the line of duty; spoke out against the game and its publishers.
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
The long-running (and oft-expanded) S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise has been a staple of the PC-exclusive shooter market for years. With the announcement of its first full sequel, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, made at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, developer GSC Game World is looking to take the series to consoles for the first time. The game is expected to release on the 360 and PS3, as well as the PC, with a tentative release date of sometime in 2012.
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
Bioware brought some major announcements to this year’s Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. The first being the release date to the sequel to the highly successful Dragon Age: Origins. Simply titled Dragon Age 2, the game will feature a separate, more action-oriented battle system for its first-time console launch, and will release simultaneously on PC, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360 on March 8th, 2011.
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Monday, August 16th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
The recently delayed shooter from Crytek has set its new release date in the beginning of the next fiscal year. Announced via Twitter post, Crysis 2 is now set to launch March 22nd in the United States, with Europe getting the game three days later on March 25th. The game, hoping to be a landmark release in the emerging 3D market, was originally delayed for purposes of general polish. Crytek’s shooter is just the latest to make the short jump from Q4 (a relatively busy period during the fiscal year) to the comparatively/formerly dry Q1 period. Crysis 2 will release on PC, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360.
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