by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 1:17 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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SC2: Weapons and Warfare incorporates many fan requested new features, including a bigger world map, new units, enhanced naval movement and combat rules, a deeper weather model, additional terrain types and resources, the simulation of roads and railways and am extended editor. This v1.03 patch fixes bugs, enhances AI and improves the game balance.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 12:32 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Namco Bandai revealed that on March 27 it will release new downloadable content for its Ace Combat 6 action/flight game, consisting of new single and multiplayer stages as well as original plane variations, allowing players to further customize their play experience and light up the skies with all-new gameplay scenarios.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 12:02 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Rainbow Six Vegas 2 adds new gameplay features, stunning visuals, and a solo campaign that uses new tactical possibilities in various locations around Sin City, co-op and adversarial modes. Beginning March 28, fans 18 years and older will be able to participate in a number of online events including a 72-hour Play & Win Sweepstakes where every hour winning operatives are awarded with special prize packages.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 11:57 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Drone Tactics is a game of mechanized strategy RPG warfare that has you command a squad of insect Drones, choosing from over 100 weapons, upgrades, and power-ups to optimize your forces as you confront the oppressive Black Swarm.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 11:18 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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C&C: Red Alert 3 takes players on an epic RTS adventure to a breathtaking alternate future spawned by time travel run amok, featuring a fully co-operative campaign while bringing back the series' light-hearted style and classic, action-oriented gameplay. People who purchased the just released Kane's Wrath expansion or C&C 3 can now
register for the RA3 beta with the included code.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 11:10 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Far Cry 2 immerses players in a new kind of gaming experience, featuring a new game engine built from the ground up. Players will discover a true open world gameplay set in one of the most beautiful environments in the world, Africa.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 10:34 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Judgment day is at hand, and it's time for a showdown with the guy downstairs to bargain for Bosco's soul. But in the corporate wasteland known as Hell, not even the Freelance Police are safe from eternal damnation. Can Sam & Max fight free from Satan's grasp, or have they reached the end of the line?
by Judy on March 26, 2008 @ 10:30 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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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:
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 10:17 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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The Secret Files: Tunguska is a point-and-click adventure game based on the mysterious Tunguska phenomenon that occurred in July 1908, in which the Siberian region of Tunguska was engulfed in an inferno of flames that turned everything into debris and ashes.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 10:17 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Martial Arts: Capoeira is an original fighting game combining sport and RPG elements with traditional fighting game mechanics for the very first time, to offer unrivalled realism and challenging brutal gameplay. Twelve Interactive and capoeira organization Soluna met with motion capture manufacturers Animazoo to work on the game.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 9:34 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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EU: Rome will cover the time period from the first Punic War to the start of the true Empire. Players will have thousand of gameplay choices ranging from country, culture, provincial and character options etc., making each and every game infinitely customizable and unique.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 9:29 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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GT 5 Prologue will be available for download/on Blu-ray, sporting improved AI, and for the first time include multiplayer up to 16 cars with integrated online features such as a profile editor and an online event calendar. While GT 5 Prologue releases next month (later this week in Europe), SCEA associate producer Chris Hinojosa-Miranda
revealed that "GT5 is still about a year away" and, of course, encourages everybody to buy the Prologue edition until then.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 9:11 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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The Political Machine 2008 is a strategy game that lets gamers take a shot at running for President, allowing you to design a candidate or choose a pre-existing one and campaign across the country against either a human opponent or a computer controlled opponent.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 9:04 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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The Settlers VI will focus on building larger and more fortified cities as well as planning and optimization in a medieval world. This patch fixes some bugs, but also adds 3 new maps, and a new “vegetarian” mode in which players face the additional challenge of playing without consuming any animal products - no fish or sausages for the Settlers…
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 9:02 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Strategy First has signed Enemy Engaged 2, sequel to the chopper classic Enemy Engaged: RAH-66 Comanche Versus Ka-52 Hokum, featuring new dynamic missions, multiplayer, and a complete overhaul of the graphics and audio to bring the game up to date with the latest and best flight simulations available.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 9:01 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Space Empires V completely updates the user interface, and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles play out in glorious detail with realistic effects. This v1.71 patch version is for the North American version of SE V.
Humans, succumbing to ray-guns, mind-control, and shiny flying saucers, have failed to defend their planet and let it fall easily into the clutches of the Big Brain and his army of Brain Thingys. The only hope left for mankind is three Teenage Zombies that have arisen from a graveyard disturbed in the invasion.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 6:56 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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SingStar: Summer Party is arriving with 30 great tracks that are just perfect for those hot summer nights. We’re talking about classic songs and videos that just capture that summer feeling: tracks from Blondie, Rihanna, David Bowie, Klaxons and Peter Andre to name just a few.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 6:53 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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WorldShift, developed by Knights of Honor's Black Sea Studios, is a next-generation, cyber-fantasy RTS game set in a dark future of Earth, where today's civilization is only a fading mysterious legend.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 6:49 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian will expand beyond the film and feature 20 playable characters, each with different weapons and abilities, as well as a two-player offline/online "drop-in/drop out" gameplay mode.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 4:48 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Frogwares' Dracula Origin is a gothic adventure game, where you, as Professor Van Helsing, are devoted to the elimination of Dracula. Preventing Dracula from finding and using the antediluvian manuscript; you must help everyone who crossed paths with the count and refused to serve him.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 4:37 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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The Board of Directors of Take-Two Interactive announced that it has thoroughly reviewed EA's unsolicited conditional tender offer with the assistance of its financial and legal advisors and unanimously determined that the $26 per share cash offer is inadequate in multiple respects and contrary to the best interests of its stockholders.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 4:30 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy is a third-person espionage action game where players move from fistfights to firefights to experience sequences that, unlike any other game, seamlessly blend Bourne's signature hand-to-hand combat with intense shooting and the ability to escape and evade deadly situations.
by Rainier on March 26, 2008 @ 4:09 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will bring Games Workshop's fantasy world to life in a way that will allow players to create characters destined for great deeds and glory on the field of battle. At a press conference in Paris, France Mythic Senior Producer Jeff Hickmann revealed that Warhammer Online is being pushed back from its Q2 2008 to fall 2008.
by Geson Hatchett on March 26, 2008 @ 3:49 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Drawing characters from some of SNK’s biggest and well loved franchises, NeoGeo Battle Coliseum allows the use of the new 2–on–2 Tag Team battle system. This new system allows the player to switch characters during play and to perform ‘team’ attacks on their opponent.