Archive for October, 2006

Neverwinter Nights 2 Includes Dungeons & Dragons Online Free Trial

Interesting marketing strategy from Atari As the release of the second installment in the Neverwinter Nights series is getting closer and closer, Atari has decided to promote it by giving away some goodies along with every retail copy. Looks like every retail copy of Neverwinter Nights 2 will include a code to unlock seven days [...]

PlayStation 3 Too Low-Tech for Gears of Wars

Preston Thorne of Epic Games slips out some information Apparently, the Xbox 360 has reached its limits with Gears of Wars, hardware limits that is. Gears of War is a third-person tactical action game developed by Epic Games and using the 3.0 Unreal Engine. In an interview gave to Siliconera, Epic Games manager, Preston Thorne [...]

Gears of War Party Steps on Graveyard

Hollywood graveyard hosts Epic’s third-person shooter. There are dead people everywhere, but it doesn’t smell. We’re at a graveyard in the middle of Hollywood, the ghost of Biggie Smalls is burping out of speakers and a couple hundred people are resting their drinks on tombstones — they are here for Gears of War. The game [...]

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Gets Steamed

Steam, competition for retailers Valve just announced that the first person RPG Dark Messiah was released today. The game just shipped today to US outlets and the retail price for the regular version is around US$ 50. The Collector’s Edition will set you back some US$ 60 but I bet gamers who have been waiting [...]

Get Your Music in God of War 2

FallOut Boy would totally compliment greek mythology. Aspiring Billboard musicians: landing yourself on the soundtrack for God of War 2 probably isn’t the big break you were looking for — but hey, it’s a start. Sony, in conjunction with EmoSpa…MySpace, is hosting a virtual battle of the bands in order to award one lucky artist [...]