by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 4:39 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Last year tri-Ace revealed it was working on
an untitled RPG for the Xbox 360, and today finally the first, scant, details emerge in the latest Famitsu issue. After its latest Valkyrie Profile for Square Enix, tri-Ace is getting its feet wet with a fantasy based RPG titled Infinite Undiscovery, which will use the developers typical real time combat system.
by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 3:56 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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In God Hand you play as a drifter bestowed with supernatural-like abilities who must confront the fate and responsibilities inherent with this newfound power. Hand-to-hand combat is at its best when gamers unleash the power of the God Hand to deliver righteous punishment onto worthy enemies.
by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 3:37 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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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.
by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 3:25 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Earlier this month Vivendi finally pinned down a
release date for Scarface: The World Is Yours, currently set for Oct. 3, 2006. Hollywood writer David McKenna ("Blow," "American History X") wrote the script for Radical's movie adaptation, but has mixed feelings about Hollywood's dipping into the archives for games.
by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 3:07 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Paraworld combines a setting never seen before with personalized unit management, bringing new life to the real-time strategy genre. Modern elements blend with primeval conditions in a long forgotten, incredibly beautiful prehistoric world. Creatures long extinct come to life once more, a constant danger to anyone living in the area.
by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 2:49 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Apple's latest version of its online music and video store, iTunes 7 offers more TV series, music and now also movies for download, but our main point of interest is the fact that it now also allows you to download casual games to play on your 5th generation iPods, including EAs Tetris, Mahjong and Mini Golf, Pac-Man from Namco and PopCap Games' Bejeweled, Zuma, for $4.99 each.
by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 2:35 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Join Square Enix in a special event preceding DigitalLife featuring its newest game, Final Fantasy XII! Square Enix are calling all Cosplayers to join them at Times Square for this event on Oct. 11, 2006! Now's your chance to come out and show the world! While all Final Fantasy cosplayers are welcome, those in FF XII costumes are likely to get something special!
by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 2:26 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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While details on Factor 5's upcoming dragonslaying title Lair are very limited, at least some new screens give us something to tide us over until TGS where the PS3 exclusive title is surely to be officially unveiled with additional details .. Until then ...
by Rainier on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 2:04 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Konami's classic arcade side-scrolling, space shooter Scramble launches on Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 1:00 AM Pacific. Scramble your fighter and take on the enemy base in the next generation version of this popular game, complete with optimized sound and a choice of play in original mode or with new, enhanced visual detail.
by Agustin on Sept. 13, 2006 @ 1:44 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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As the SEAL commander, the player will be supported by AI teammate executing traditional SOCOM team-based tactical, stealth and action gameplay. Multiple players will once again be able to form clans and take on their friends for team-based high-action gameplay.
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 4:11 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Paradox Interactive announced today that its Soldiers: Heroes of World War II addon Silent Heroes, in which you take control of a special operations force during World War II, has been delayed. No new release date has been set yet ...
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 4:02 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is an action-packed thriller set in a large and varied game world mixing gritty reality with imaginative fantasy, featuring 3 worlds, 3 distinctly different playable characters, wrapped in a mature, exhilarating, and innovative storyline. Funcom has released a v1.03 patch for the French edition, fixing driver issues with NVidia Geforce 7xxx cards (
thanks Patches).
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 3:49 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Fight an all-out war for survival in the year 2142. In Battlefield 2142, players choose to fight for one of two military superpowers - the European Union or the newly formed Pan Asian Coalition -in an epic battle for survival.
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 3:48 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Garry Schyman has created a new, original score for THQ's Destroy All Humans! 2. Set in the 1960s Schyman’s musical influences include John Barry's scores for the '60s James Bond films as well as early Jerry Goldsmith and TV scores such as “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” and “The Twilight Zone.”
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 3:28 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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In Paradise City, developer Sirius Games, formerly known as Media Mobsters, the player takes on the role of a young ambitious gangster with the single goal of becoming the most successful and influential criminal in the entire city.
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 3:24 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Stranger is an RTS game, with RPG elements, set in a world, split in two parts, surface and a subterranean one, which are in a tenuous balance. This patch fixes Athlon 64 X2 problem. The patch doesn't affect players' profiles and saved games.
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 3:12 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Word of Chaos is an adventure/rpg that will take its players to the vast fantasy world of Worluk. The epic tale follows the adventures of Skandar Graun, a half-orc who has to revenge the mirder of his parents, and retrieve the legendary artifact called ‘The Word of Chaos” from the Order-worshipping Peltar.
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 1:12 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Set in the most turbulent and bloody era in European history, Medieval 2: Total War will allow gamers to lead their armies across the battlefields of Europe and the Holy Land before discovering the Americas and doing battle with the fearsome Aztecs.
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 1:05 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Activision announced today that, according to NPD Funworld, Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty 2 for the Xbox 360 has sold more than one million units in the U.S. alone..
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 12:08 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Destineer today announced Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy, a side-scrolling action/adventure game that puts players in the role of Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist on a quest to defeat the evil Homunculi and acquire the fabled Philosopher’s Stone.
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 11:58 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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As an aspiring Underworld figure, spread corruption throughout the galaxy using new strategic gameplay elements to influence other factions, steal their funds, slow their production, spy on them and more, all en route to becoming the most notorious criminal leader since Jabba the Hutt.
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 10:36 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 Sept. 12, 2006 @ 10:31 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Sierra will release a demo for F.E.A.R. Extraction Point tomorrow Wed, Sept. 13th at 10 a.m. PST. This 550mb single-player demo features part of a mission, with several weapons at your disposal, and we will of course have it available on our
file server network at that time.
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 10:29 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Neuro has a futuristic setting, when humankind invents a totally new way of traveling in space. That is why people already inhabit the nearest star systems. Time passes by and these colonies grow into the biggest industrial and scientific centers. Obvious enough, they want to get independent and quit the Earth Confederation. The game starts on the surface of one of the colonies - a planet named Sorgo.
by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2006 @ 10:24 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Flushed Away, based on the upcoming DreamWorks movie, is a story-driven, 3rd-person action-platform game that captures the characters and humor of the film.