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One Million 'Gears of War' (X360) Units Sold By Year's End

by Rainier on Nov. 16, 2006 @ 4:49 a.m. PST | Filed under News

Gears of War blends the best of tactical action games with the best of survival horror titles, thrusting gamers into the harrowing story of humankind's battle for survival against the Locust Horde. With its Nov. 17 Euro launch, Microsoft forecasts that Gears of War is expected to sell more than 1 million copies worldwide this Christmas.

'World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade' - 5 New Screens

by Rainier on Nov. 16, 2006 @ 3:56 a.m. PST | Filed under News

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the exciting new expansion to Blizzard's massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It expands the game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, quest, lands, Battlegrounds, professions and items, raising the level cap to 70, and more.

Thursday, November 16, 2006 Shipping Announcements

by Rainier on Nov. 16, 2006 @ 3:53 a.m. PST | Filed under News

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

'Sonic and The Secret Rings' (Wii) - 16 New Screens

by Rainier on Nov. 16, 2006 @ 12:40 a.m. PST | Filed under News

Sonic and The Secret Rings stars the Blue dude with the ‘tude on his first solo adventure since the original Sonic The Hedgehog in '91. This intense and exciting action game combines high-speed action with easy to play controls to offer a brand new experience!

Vision Engine 6.0 Supports Multi-core Systems

by Rainier on Nov. 16, 2006 @ 12:14 a.m. PST | Filed under News

3D game engine developer Trinigy announced their cooperation with Intel regarding the official launch of the new Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Quad Core processor. Its latest Vision Engine 6.0 has been build to support an arbitrary number of CPU cores.

'Rainbow Six Vegas' (ALL) - 7 Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on Nov. 16, 2006 @ 12:03 a.m. PST | Filed under News

Rainbow Six makes its next-gen hardware debut in the most dramatic installment of the renowned FPS franchise to date. Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in "Sin City" threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights.

'Carte Blanche' Goes Gold

by Rainier on Nov. 16, 2006 @ 12:00 a.m. PST | Filed under News

G2 Games announced that its new adventure title Carte Blanche, a unique adventure title influenced by the very best of Hollywood Film Noir movies, has gone gold. Enter the world of Edgar Delacroix, a private investigator, new to the big city and ready for some rather intriguing adventures.

Wild Hare Brings 'Etrom' To North America

by Rainier on Nov. 16, 2006 @ 12:00 a.m. PST | Filed under News

Wild Hare Entertainment and Alten8 Limited signed a North American publdhing agreement for P.M. Studios' Etrom: The Astral Essence, a 3D Action-RPG game with a deep involving storyline set in a dark, futuristic, "neo-gothic" world where technology and a fantasy Middle Ages collide.

'Birth of America' - v1.10 Patch Available NOW

by Rainier on Nov. 15, 2006 @ 9:36 p.m. PST | Filed under News

In Birth of America you control one of the major contenders in French & Indian Wars, and the War of the American Independence, trying to achieve military and political victory. This v1.10 patch tweaks many elements, provides a free scenario, and a rewritten 75’ Campaign

'Heavy Duty' - 4 New Screens

by Rainier on Nov. 15, 2006 @ 9:26 p.m. PST | Filed under News

Heavy Duty is a 3rd person action shooter where the player controls a huge war robot to save his planet from enemy attacks. The game utilizes advanced technology with innovative gameplay features never before achieved in video games.