2007-06-28
3D Realms Partner For New Game, Earth No More
By now the laugh of the gaming world, along with their legendary saying "when it's done", the folks from 3D Realms decided to liven things up and start a new game. Fortunately, though, not all by themselves (one Duke Nukem Forever is more than enough), ... (more)
2007-06-28
Blue Dragon Coming To Europe In August
Blue Dragon popped in my mind just the other day, while playing a bit of Dragon Quest VIII (and seeing a certain barmaid who looked exactly like Zora from Blue Dragon). I couldn't help but wonder how "original" were the rest of the characters designed ... (more)
2007-06-28
Nintendo Announces Wii Software in EU, WiiWare in US
Looks like the Wii is slowly getting in line with the microsonyan world, when it comes to tiny cool gamelings. Paradoxically, despite the Nintendo Wii being the perfect match for casual games, it still doesn't have many such original titles. With empha ... (more)
2007-06-28
Next Supreme Commander Chapter Forged For November
One of the four internal projects currently in development at Gas Powered Games, and also the most highly predicted one, was revealed today by publisher THQ. It's titled Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, bearing a satisfyingly close release date set ... (more)
2007-06-28
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution Revolts On Consoles
In yet another example of classic PC strategy franchise "streamlined" (as in dumbed-down) for consoles, Sid Meier's Civilization will be making its way to "next generation consoles and handhelds" early next year. Today's announcement issued by 2K Games ... (more)
2007-06-26
Pirates of the Burning Sea 'Content Complete', Signed By SOE
Don't go packing your parrot and eyepatch just yet, though. Pirates of the Burning Sea may be "content complete", as they say, but it's still several months away from release. However, the good news is that the devs over at Flying Lab have finally reac ... (more)
2007-06-26
Bourne Conspiracy Game Announced For Summer 2008
I'm sure that not many of you still remember Vivendi signing the rights to publish games based on Robert Ludlum's spy-action novels two years ago (neither do I). So it's with some surprise - albeit little interest - that we welcome today's announcement ... (more)
2007-06-25
Contra 4 Confirmed - And Detailed - For Nintendo DS
This past weekend brought great news for fans of Konami's Contra games, as the publisher announced - or rather confirmed - that it plans to continue the 20-years old series on the Nintendo DS, with Contra 4 (working title), developed by ... (more)
2007-06-25
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Also Coming To PC
We weren't sure whether FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage would eventually make it to the PC or not, but we were certainly hoping it would. And it will, according to an email announcing the game's North American launch date. In Europe, FlatOut: Ultimate Carnag ... (more)
2007-06-25
Jumpgate Evolution, NetDevil's Space MMO Remade // UPDATE
The folks from NetDevil are keeping themselves awfully busy these days. Aside from Warmonger and that LEGO MMO announced a few months ago, they're also striving to revive their dying - albeit supposedly still profitable - space MMO game from 2001, Jump ... (more)
2007-06-25
StarCraft II Demo Playable At BlizzCon 2007
Blizzard's lenghty presentation of StarCraft II at the Worldwide Invitational event in Korea last month was probably the best publicity they could generate for BlizzCon 2007 - their next fan gathering, to be held on US soil between August 3-4 (in Anahe ... (more)
2007-06-22
Sonic RPG For DS In The Works At... BioWare!?
Yep, you read that right. I checked the announcement twice, just to be sure, and there's no doubt about it: one of BioWare's super-secret RPG projects is actually a Sonic the Hedgehog game they're developing on the Nintendo DS. So not only is it based ... (more)
2007-06-22
Manhunt 2 Banned In The UK, Self-Censored In The US
Jack Thompson must be a happy, happy little attorney right about now, because his dream of seeing Manhunt 2 banned has come to fruition this week. For the first time in the last ten years, the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) has practically ... (more)
2007-06-22
Manhunt 2 Banned In The UK, Self-Censored In The US // UPDATE
Jack Thompson must be a happy, happy little attorney right about now, because his dream of seeing Manhunt 2 banned has come to fruition this week. For the first time in the last ten years, the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) has practically ... (more)
2007-06-21
Piranha Bytes And Deep Silver (Re)unite For Non-Gothic Game
Piranha Bytes' collaboration with their main publisher, JoWooD, ended in a silent mess last month, when it was announced that the creators of the Gothic role-playing franchise would not be making Gothic 4 (nor any Gothic 3 add-on, for th ... (more)
2007-06-21
Steam Gets Huge Update In July, Geometry Wars Now
Valve's Steam platform has really come a long way since its first commercial release in March 2004. From that dreadful system which prevented so many from playing their more-or-less-legit copy of Half-Life 2, slowly but surely, it's now turned into a g ... (more)
2007-06-20
Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command Announced For PSP, DS
The Nintendo DS or Sony's PlayStation Portable were among the last platforms we would have expected to play host to Games Workshop's hardcore universe, Warhammer 40,000. But they are, and there's no denying it, now that THQ has announced the first W40K ... (more)
2007-06-18
Indiana Jones Returns In 2008 With New Movie, Games etc.
All our hopes to play a new Indiana Jones game this year have now officially gone down the drain, as Lucasfilm announced today that the next Indy movie will premiere on May 22, 2008. And we certainly don't expect them to ruin any surprises in advance. ... (more)
2007-06-18
ArmA: Queen's Gambit, First Armed Assault Expansion
Self-proclaimed "most realistic tactical combat simulation ever made", ArmA: Armed Assault is set to receive its first expansion pack later this summer. Called ArmA: Queen's Gambit, the add-on is being developed by original creators Bohemia Interactive ... (more)
2007-06-18
Space Force: Rogue Universe - Interview
With no immediate space-sim sequel in Egosoft's "X" universe, or let alone Frontier's ancient Elite series, fans of the genre will have to keep themselves busy with other titles - such as the newly released Space Force: Rogue Universe (or Space Force 2 ... (more)