by Rainier on June 17, 2008 @ 1:54 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 will feature dynamic, personalized gameplay via Tiger Woods' personal coach, Hank Haney, a more intuitive and customized EA Sports GamerNet++ experience as well as an all-new game engine powering online play.
by Rainier on June 17, 2008 @ 9:25 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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NaturalMotion Ltd. announced that Ninja Theory, known for Heavenly Sword, has licensed morpheme, the company’s animation engine and graphical authoring tool.
by Rainier on June 17, 2008 @ 5:37 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Electronic Arts announced that it has extended its tender offer (which expired June 16, 2008 at 11:59 p.m.) for all of the currently outstanding shares of common stock (including the associated preferred stock purchase rights) of Take-Two to 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on July 18, 2008, unless further extended.
by Rainier on June 17, 2008 @ 4:41 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Last year, then SCEE CEO, Phil Harrison revealed that a sequel for LocoRoco was in the works saying that "We're going to bring 'LocoRoco' back in a couple of new ways with some new friends in the future." While there has yet to be an official announcement, SCE UK product manager Claire Backhouse told
MCV today that one of the key PSP software titles for this year is LocoRoco 2.
by Rainier on June 16, 2008 @ 2:29 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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TF2 is a class-based, multiplayer team warfare game, delivering new game types, a signature art style powered by Valve’s next-gen animation technology, persistent player statistics, etc... The Pyro Update will be made available Thursday and contains three unlockable new weapons, 35 new achievements, and two user-created maps. To give everyone a chance to try the new weapons and community maps, another Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend will commence this Friday at 11 am PDT.
by Rainier on June 16, 2008 @ 8:47 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Seoul-based T-Entertainment announced that it has licensed Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 for an upcoming MMORPG project codenamed L2, drawing elements from RPG and RTS games, and can be described as futuristic fantasy with a taste of space opera.
by Rainier on June 16, 2008 @ 2:12 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Over the weekend a lot of details from several upcoming titles were revealed through a leak at research firm Intellisponse. Forza 3 is a racing sim that caters to both motorsports fans and automotive lifestyle enthusiast, with over 400 cars and 100 tracks, new race modes, near limitless customization options, real world damage, online community features, powerful assist mode for new players, new cars and tracks as DLC, and will be released on a 2-disc set.
by Rainier on June 13, 2008 @ 3:45 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Harmonix MTV Games, and EA announced that for a limited time Rock Band Special Edition Bundle for the PS2 is available for a MSRP of $99.99 at participating retailers.
by Rainier on June 12, 2008 @ 12:40 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy.
by Rainier on June 11, 2008 @ 4:07 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Emergent’s Gamebryo 2.5 provides developers the framework they need to quickly bring high-quality titles to market no matter how complex the development environment as it introduces a redesigned core with the Emergent Terrain System, a new Geometry System and enhanced support for the Floodgate stream processing engine.
by Rainier on June 11, 2008 @ 10:08 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is a story-driven series with a comic spin based on Matt and Mike Chapman's online animated series. The player uncovers each episode's comedic plot through character interaction, dialogue-based puzzles, and the use/abuse of inventory items.
by Rainier on June 11, 2008 @ 8:21 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy.
by Rainier on June 11, 2008 @ 4:10 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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In the world of Last Chaos, a free-to-play MMO, the mortal races fight for power and conquest of Iris. In a land of shifting alliances, bloody betrayals and insatiable ambitions, players have full control of their destiny; every action and decision is meaningful and important.
by Rainier on June 10, 2008 @ 8:22 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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TrackMania Nations Forever is a new version of the Stadium environment, a solid solo mode and 65 new, progressively difficult tracks, uniting an even larger number of players thanks to its multiplayer modes, online functions and interactivity between players. This patch fixed crash/bugs and tweaks a few things in both the United and Nations edition of the game.
by Rainier on June 9, 2008 @ 6:35 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy.
by Rainier on June 7, 2008 @ 2:50 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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TF2 is a class-based, multiplayer team warfare game, delivering new game types, a signature art style powered by Valve’s next-gen animation technology, persistent player statistics, etc... Valve's next update revolves around the Pyro class, with new item designs and achievements. One of the new items, the Axtinguisher, does about half of normal damage to standard run-of-the-mill non-burning enemies, once you light someone on fire the Axtinguisher will guarantee a critical hit. At the same token there will be significant changes to the Pyro class for everyone, regardless of whether they have unlocked any new items.
by Rainier on June 6, 2008 @ 1:27 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is a story-driven series with a comic spin based on Matt and Mike Chapman's online animated series. The player uncovers each episode's comedic plot through character interaction, dialogue-based puzzles, and the use/abuse of inventory items. Telltale's Brett Tosti
revealed that Strong Bad, originally planned for June, is now scheduled for July.
by Rainier on June 6, 2008 @ 11:15 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Packed with new and classic, circuit and drift race cars players will compete in urban street races, as well as conquer official racetracks and championships over three continents. GRID will not only be adapted to include Japanese speech and text throughout, but will also come with Codemasters' previous racing title DiRT.
by Rainier on June 4, 2008 @ 10:20 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Featured in NinjaBee's newest game, A Kingdom for Keflings, the Keflings are short, happy beings who aren't afraid of a bit of hard work. Once production slowed on the studio's newest city-building game, the Keflings became aimless without constant direction.
by Rainier on June 4, 2008 @ 1:04 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Last year we reported that Lionsgate had acquired the movie rights to Eidos' action game Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, with potential actors candidates Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton in the running to play death row escapees, "flawed mercenary" Kane and "medicated psychopath" Lynch, respectively. While there is no news on Billy Bob Thornton,
Variety is confirming that Bruce Willis Bruce Willis is negotiating to star as Adam "Kane" Marcus. Simon Crane, who is currently working with Willis as the stunt coordinator on the Touchstone Pictures' The Surrogates.
by Rainier on June 2, 2008 @ 9:39 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Saints Row 2, using Volition's open-world engine, offers vastly expanded customization options, a totally transformed and expanded city of Stilwater, new vehicles, sandbox tools and toys as well as both online co-op and competitive multiplayer. Late April we revealed Amazon had added a
Saints Row 2 PC listing which THQ confirmed today without giving further details.
by Rainier on June 2, 2008 @ 10:22 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Cryptic Studios announced that John Needham, previously Senior Vice President of Business Development and Operations over at Sony Online Entertainment, has joined the company as its Chief Executive Officer.
by Rainier on June 2, 2008 @ 6:23 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Trion World Network announced its first title, a fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game, led by Might and Magic and Heroes creator Jon Van Caneghem.
by Rainier on June 2, 2008 @ 6:18 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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NHN USA announced that it has secured the rights to publish Huxley in North America and Western Europe. Huxley is an MMOFPS utilizing the Unreal engine 3 that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Humans have mutated and are divided into two opposing races, Sapiens and Alternative, who are forced to battle against one another to gain control of the world and its resources.
by Rainier on May 30, 2008 @ 4:03 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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While there has yet to be an official announcement, Capcom is working on a third installment in the Mega Man Star Force series for the NDS. No details were revealed, but Capcom launched
a teaser site, which unfortunately does not tell us anything either, as it only has a few desktop/wallpapers. Hopefully, we'll get more details at Capcom Gamers Day in Vegas.