2007-08-14
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath Expansion Revealed
Coming out of nowhere, but in no way surprising, today we get the news about the first expansion for the C&C 3: Tiberium Wars RTS sequel. It will be called Command & Conquer: Kane's Wrath (possibly due to a lack of inspiration since Yuri ... (more)
2007-08-14
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath Expansion // UPDATE
Out of nowhere, but in no way surprising, today we get the news about the first expansion for the C&C 3: Tiberium Wars RTS sequel. It will be called Command & Conquer: Kane's Wrath (possibly due to a lack of inspiration since Yuri's Revenge), and it wi ... (more)
2007-08-13
Bioshock Gone Gold, Xbox 360 Demo Released
Over the last few days, Take-Two made no less than three announcements regarding Bioshock and its developer, Irrational Games. The first one tells us that the PC and Xbox 360 versions have gone gold, and that they are now ready for their ... (more)
2007-08-13
Dates & Delays: Age of Conan, Call of Duty 4, FF Tactics PSP
Another major MMORPG has left the 2007 release calendar, after developer Funcom regretfully announced the delay of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures by almost half a year. Therefore, the game will no longer come out this autumn, but only on March 25, 2 ... (more)
2007-08-13
LotR Online Gets Second Free Update, The City of the Kings
The Lord of the Rings Online continues to spread with a new free content update, after that "Book 9: Shores of Evendim" from back in June. The details about this second update were announced today by Codemasters, beginning with the incremental title - ... (more)
2007-08-13
Dates & Delays: Age of Conan, Call of Duty 4, FF Tactics // UPDATE
Another major MMORPG has left the 2007 release calendar, after developer Funcom regretfully announced the delay of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures by almost half a year. Therefore, the game will no longer come out this autumn, but only on March 25, 2 ... (more)
2007-08-10
Halo 3 Already Has 1 Million Pre-Orders
Freed from the savage competition of Grand Theft Auto IV (delayed to 2008, poor thing), Halo 3 continues to be acclaimed by Microsoft as "the entertainment event of the year", and now they have one more reason to get all pumped up. With over a month le ... (more)
2007-08-10
SOE Announces Indian-Themed MMO, Ramayan 3392 A.D.
Sony Online Entertainment picked up yet another license ripe for spawning an MMO game (so they say), after signing a deal with Virgin Comics for their Ramayan 3392 A.D. comics - the old Indian story adapted to a futuristic context. "Adapted", as in kee ... (more)
2007-08-07
Bethesda Announces Star Trek: Conquest, New MMO Studio
Despite the mediocre success they had with all those Star Trek games thrown on the market last year (Legacy, Encounters and Tactical Assault), Bethesda insists on thoroughly milking this license, announcing a new strategy game called Star Trek: Conques ... (more)
2007-08-07
Xbox 360 Price Cut Tomorrow, 80GB PS3 Launched In U.S.
The price cut predicted last week for the Xbox 360 console (story) is coming even sooner than expected, as Microsoft announced that the new prices will be applied in the U.S. beginning tomorrow, August 8. They perfectly match the prices previously adve ... (more)
2007-08-07
id Announces Rage, Quake Zero, And More At QuakeCon // UPDATE
While Blizzard fans were getting their fair share of StarCraft II and World of Warcraft second-expansion news at BlizzCon in California, another major gaming event was taking place over in Dallas, for fans of id Software. This year, the by-now-famous Q ... (more)
2007-08-06
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, The Second Expansion
The Emerald Dream, the South Seas, and all those other failed candidates for the second expansion will have to wait. Just as those who were hoping for the Diablo MMO to be announced at this month's BlizzCon will also need a bit more pantience. Because ... (more)
2007-08-06
id Announces Rage, Quake Zero, And Many More At QuakeCon
While Blizzard fans were getting their fair share of StarCraft II and World of Warcraft second-expansion news at BlizzCon in California, another major gaming event was taking place over in Dallas, for fans of id Software. This year, the ... (more)
2007-08-03
GTA IV Delayed To 2008, Crysis In November // UPDATE
The latest financial update issued by Take-Two yesterday brings a lousy news for everyone (except for Nintendo, but that's a different story). Between stock percentages and other useless figures for us normal folks, the company announced the delay of G ... (more)
2007-08-03
GC 2007 - D3Publisher Line-up
As one of the first companies to announce their games line-up for next month's GC 2007, D3Publisher promised a collection of four games for the show in Leipzig, one more promising than the other... literally. Except for Dark Sector, and ... (more)
2007-08-03
GC 2007 - 'THEY', A New Mystery Shooter
Let's begin our Leipzig GC 2007 "remote coverage" with one of the first new games announced this week. Hidden behind a mysterious title is THEY, an equally mysterious next-gen shooter, developed by... you guessed, a still-mysterious stud ... (more)
2007-08-03
GC 2007 - Let The Countdown Begin!
We didn't waste too much time on last month's puny E3, since the Leipzig Games Convention is coming in just a few weeks anyway, and by now it's pretty much the largest gaming show in the West - even bigger than Tokyo Games Show actually, should the org ... (more)
2007-08-01
Viva Piñata also hopping on the DS
Lookie, lookie, Rare's cute Xbox 360 game will be infesting yet another platform, after the PC version of Viva Pinata was recently announced. But, while that one is being developed externally by Climax, the DS version will remain an in-house project at ... (more)
2007-08-01
LucasArts And Traveller's Tales Whip Up LEGO Indiana Jones
If they made a tongue-in-cheek LEGO version of the Star Wars universe, and are currently putting Batman through a similar treatment, why not do the same with... Indiana Jones, for instance? I don't really know if this was the particular reasoning behin ... (more)
2007-08-01
All Xbox 360 SKUs Getting Cheaper On August 12
Well, well, well, look who finally decided to jump on the price-cutting wagon. While Microsoft officials kept saying "no, and no" in the eyes of the world, a price cut for the Xbox 360 console was being planned behind the public curtains for more than ... (more)