by Rainier on April 4, 2006 @ 11:12 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Telltale today announced a new pricing model for its episodic titles. Effective immediately, all episodes in the Bone series that sell through Telltale's digital distribution channel will sell for $12.99, to align with current models in other entertainment media.
by Rainier on April 4, 2006 @ 9:49 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Dead Rising has been pushed back from its May release date to September 2006. Dead Rising is survival horror game, in which you play a freelance photographer who has made his way to an idyllic suburban town to get his hands on the scoop. The town has been overrun with zombies, and while fighting off hordes of gruesome zombies, you have to discover the cause of the disturbing outbreak.
by Rainier on April 4, 2006 @ 9:01 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday is a stand-alone expansion pack for their strategy title Hearts of Iron II. The expansion will include the original game and boasts a World War III scenario, a complete scenario editor as well as an extended time line.
by Rainier on April 4, 2006 @ 8:55 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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An update on the Scarface product page reveals that Vivendi has narrowed down the release date from an ambiguous 2006 to Fall of 2006. Scarface is a third person action shooter in a complex world filled with excess and greed, players can take the role of Tony Montana, one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film.
by Alicia on April 3, 2006 @ 12:49 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Kingdom Hearts II is here after a long, long wait, featuring over 100 hours of giant boss fights, mini-games, and mook-bashing action. Picking up one year after the events of the Chain of Memories GBA title, Sora once again ventures out with sidekicks Goofy and Donald to try and track down his missing friend Riku. Battle across nearly two dozen special worlds that representing Disney properties from Winnie the Pooh to Tron.
by Rainier on April 1, 2006 @ 2:45 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Test Drive Unlimited challenges players online to experience the most exotic and fastest vehicles on more than 1000 miles of diverse Hawaiian roads. Gamers win races, challenges, missions and tournaments to earn credits and purchase new cars, bikes, rare performance parts, clothes, apparel, homes and garages.
by Rainier on March 31, 2006 @ 11:33 a.m. PST | Filed under
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With the new baseball season just hours away, Sports Interactive announced that their latest masterpiece, Out of the Park Baseball 2006, will be released on May 31st.
by Rainier on March 31, 2006 @ 9:36 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday is a stand-alone expansion pack for their strategy title Hearts of Iron II. The expansion will include the original game and boasts a World War III scenario, a complete scenario editor as well as an extended time line. Paradox has released a demo allowing you to try out the game for 3 hours.
by Rainier on March 31, 2006 @ 6:02 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Paradox Interactive announced today that the latest addition to their award-winning strategy portfolio, Hearts of Iron 2: Doomsday, has gone gold.
by Rainier on March 31, 2006 @ 4:48 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Alten8 announced it has signed a deal with P.M. STUDIOS to publish Etrom : The Astral Essence in most European countries. Etrom is a 3D Action-RPG game has a Deep and involving Storyline set in a dark, futuristic, "neo-gothic" world where technology and a fantasy Middle Ages collide.
by Joe Keiser on March 31, 2006 @ 12:15 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Shadow Hearts: From The New World takes place in the US during the Great Depression. With an improved Judgment Ring System, a gripping and inspirational storyline, players can expect to run into a unique set of characters at famous, real-world locations including Chicago, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas and New York.
by Rainier on March 30, 2006 @ 10:03 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Alexey's Dwice is a game of action matching where you are on a race against the clock to save a village from an impending avalanche. Match together the icy blocks that are the same shape or isolate them from their chilly friends to eliminate them from the board.
by Rainier on March 30, 2006 @ 9:02 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Galactic Civilizations II takes place in the distant future, when mankind has become a space-faring civilization and must contend with other extraterrestrial powers for domination of the galaxy. This demo allows you to play as the human race, all weapons unlocked, 3 year (~140 turn) limit on gameplay, no campaign, no metaverse, no tutorials.
by Rainier on March 30, 2006 @ 3:31 a.m. PST | Filed under
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The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms is a real-time war game set in China, AD 189, featuring new detail castle siege warfares and level up character system, bringing you back to the history of the Three Kingdoms to experience a time of heroes and brotherhoods in China's late Han dynasty.
by Rainier on March 29, 2006 @ 2:24 p.m. PST | Filed under
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The Great Cow Race is the continuation of Bone: Out from Boneville, and will feature more quirky and colorful characters, as well as a deeper story.
by Rainier on March 29, 2006 @ 9:07 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Paradox Interactive's Europa Universalis III delves deeply into the areas of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy, characterized by immense depth and historical content that charge its challenging gameplay with incredible replayability value.
by Rainier on March 29, 2006 @ 8:19 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Stoked Rider featuring Tommy Brunner' is an action-freesports game for PC, the first freeride snowboarding game inspired by Alaska's impressive peaks, presented in a unique 3D cel-shaded graphical style. This demo allows you to check out a limited area of the 64 square kilometer mountain.
by Rainier on March 29, 2006 @ 3:47 a.m. PST | Filed under
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In Broken Sword: The Angel of Death, gamers once again take the role of unwitting hero George Stobbart as he investigates dark secrets from a long-forgotten history.
by Rainier on March 29, 2006 @ 3:44 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Myelin Media today announced that its Texas Hold 'Em game, Stacked with Daniel Negreanu will feature interoperability between the PS2 and PSP, allowing you to play continue a single-player game, or multiplayer, cross-platform.
by Rainier on March 28, 2006 @ 4:45 p.m. PST | Filed under
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Silent Hunter 3: Seawolves adds sixty new cities across Europe, North America and the Pacific, new campaigns & missions (22 sp, 4 mp), and plenty of other enhancements. This v1.01 patch updates campaign files and a few other tweaks.
by Rainier on March 28, 2006 @ 1:33 p.m. PST | Filed under
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EA announced today that World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Bill Cowher will be on the cover of NFL Head Coach, the first-ever 3D sports strategy game where you can experience the emotional rollercoaster of coaching with the most true-to-life and authentic sports strategy game ever created.
by Rainier on March 28, 2006 @ 11:07 a.m. PST | Filed under
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In Crysis, shooter fans will face a new kind of gameplay challenge requiring adaptive tactics and customisation of weapons and armour in dynamic, hostile environments as mankind struggles to survive in the face of a horrific alien invasion. EA informed us that Crysis has been delayed from its original winter 2006 release to Q1 2007, most likely caused by the Windows Vista delay.
by Rainier on March 28, 2006 @ 10:28 a.m. PST | Filed under
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2K Games signed an exclusive worldwide agreement with Sony Pictures to publish and distribute current generation console video games based on the highly-anticipated The Da Vinci Code film by Oscar winning director Ron Howard, which is based on Dan Brown's best-selling novel.
by Rainier on March 28, 2006 @ 5:27 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Teenage Goth-Metal girl designs extreme metal racing video game based in Hell…. Earache Extreme Metal Racing will feature ten evil Earache racing teams burning a lot more than rubber through hell and other wastelands.
by Rainier on March 28, 2006 @ 3:34 a.m. PST | Filed under
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SEGA Europe is bringing the Japanese PS2 exclusive football management game, Let's Make a Soccer Team! to Europe. The game offers a unique football management experience allowing you to create, build and control every aspect of your own football club in the real football world!
