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- How could Nintendo ever mess with titles such as this?

That’s right, don’t think anyone’s pulling your leg. According to a well known gaming site (Gamers Creed to be precise) Japanese developers Idea Factory and RED have unveiled Record of Agarest War. The game is actually a strategy RPG for your Nintendo DS, in
which gamers have to get females to “breed” their successors. Now tell me that’s not what you wanted to hear.
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Japanese DS RPG that Lets You ‘Breed’

- Funcom and Eidos have scheduled their MMO game’s release for March 25th, next year

It looks like Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is being pushed back a little. According to an official report coming from Funcom and Eidos, a new release date for ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ has been set. The two companies saw that there was more work to be done on the long awaited MMO game, thus pushing it back to 25th of March 2008. The game was originally slated for a 30 October release this year,
for the PC.
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Age of Conan: Hiboryan Adventures Pushed Back… A Lot!

It’s official: Gears of War is heading to PC.

OK, so there have been enough rumors that news of the game on PC isn’t a huge surprise at this point, but it’s the PC-specific content that makes things interesting. In Gears of War PC, players will be treated to five new chapters in a “Timgad” act that takes place just before the game’s final level (where you head towards the train), in addition to a level editor, and minor gameplay tweaks and graphical touch-ups.

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Gears of War PC Announced

For the first time in the history of MMO games, CCP Games, creators of EVE Online have announced the appointment of an in-world lead economist for the game. They are commissioning a dedicated real world economist to constantly monitor and make a research for the virtual world. This appointment comes as a real testament to the growing intricacy and strength of EVE Online’s thriving virtual economy.

As the official report says,
Dr. Eyjólfur Guðmundsson brings an over 15-years-experience in economic studies and research, and joins CCP directly from the University of Akureyri, Iceland, where he – among several teaching positions – held the position of the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Science. Prior to that, he was a research associate at the University of Rhode Island’s Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics where he also completed his PhD. He has also authored or co-authored 15 publications. Dr. Guðmundsson’s first blog on EVE Online economics can be found here.
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In-World Economist Appointed for EVE Online

Sega is prepping the first expansion to the latest entry in its popular RTS series for a fall assault; first screens inside.

Four months ago, Sega released Medieval II: Total War, the latest installment in the long-running real-time strategy series. Developed by the British studio The Creative Assembly, which Sega bought in 2005, the game has players vying for control of Europe during the Middle Ages via massive battles with individually animated soldiers.

Medieval II received solid reviews, including an upbeat assessment from GameSpot. It also enjoyed decent sales for a PC game unrelated to The Sims or World of Warcraft, moving just under 200,000 units in the US in two-and-a-half months.

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Medieval II: Total War overruns Kingdoms

Codemasters tweaks the title of its Spark-developed alternate-history shooter set in Nazi-occupied America; new screens inside.

Last August, Codemasters announced it was publishing Fall of Liberty, an alternate-history shooter set in a fictional timeline. The first-person shooter will see players defend the American homeland after the Nazis invade in 1952. Like the similarly themed Freedom Fighters, the game will center on gritty urban combat in New York City, albeit from a first-person perspective.

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Fall of Liberty reaches Turning Point