Dutch daily spotlights Guerilla Games’ elusive shooter; 120 developers working on project, downloadable content confirmed.
Ever since its controversial trailer fired up 2005’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, the forthcoming Killzone game for the PlayStation 3 has been missing in action. It was nowhere to be seen at a variety of high-profile events, including E3 2006 and the 2006 Tokyo Game Show. The shooter wasn’t even mentioned at the Gamers’ Day events Sony held to help hype the launch of the PS3.
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7.5 million subscribers for WoW
As World of Warcraft subscribers have now reached 7.5 million worldwide, Blizzard Entertainment is
getting ready to release the first game expansion entitled The Burning Crusade.
This new pack will hit European and North American stores next year, on January 16th to be more exact. The Burning Crusade will be available on PC and Macintosh computers. There will also be a limited Collectors’ Edition that will include, besides a CD and DVD with the expansion, a Burning Crusade coffee table book, an exclusive in-game per, a World of Warcraft Trading Card Game strater deck along with some exclusive cards, a behind the scenes DVD, the official soundtrack CD and a Outland map mouse pad.
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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 of free trial for Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach. Atari also revealed that the third module of Dungeons
& Dragons, The Demon Sands, is now available. US residents don’t get excited just yet, because this offer is available only in Europe.
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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 declared that through this game, his company has pushed the Xbox to the
limits. Joystiq gaming news website consider that there is some truth in this statement as, according to them, Epic was the one that convinced Microsoft to upgrade Xbox 360’s RAM to 512. Epic is still supporting their statement according to which Gears of War would not be able to run on 256 MB of RAM. Preston was also asked if the PlayStation 3 will be able to handle the game, but presumably he dodged the question, but still implied that the answer was no.
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However, most users experiencing massive server issues.
Since Wednesday, gamers have been waiting for Sega to solve whatever issue was holding Phantasy Star Universe’s free, open beta test from appearing on Xbox Live. The game finally appeared on the service this morning, however, and it’s been a mad rush to complete the download ever since. Unfortunately, more problems have appeared the moment the last few kilobytes are consumed.
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October 11th became ‘Final Fantasy Day’ in the big apple.
Mark your calendars: October 11th is officially Final Fantasy Day. At least it is in New York City, where media and fans alike turned out on Wednesday for the launch in Times Square of the long-awaited Square Enix RPG, Final Fantasy XII.
Daishiro Okata, president and COO of Square Enix, Inc., and Akitoshi Kawazu, the Executive Producer for Final Fantasy XII (along with a handful of cosplayers) were on hand to announce the launch of the game at the DigitalLife show this weekend, answer questions, and accept the highest honor the New York Tourism Bureau can bestow on a product and/or event: an arbitrary holiday.
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Gamers invited to cast their votes to decide WoW competition winner
Xfire announced today the finalists for the World of Warcraft Summer Movie Contest. Prizes worth US$ 23,000 will be granted to winners.
Mike Cassidy, Xfire CEO declared that he is surprised with the quality of this year’s movie submissions and that is why selecting 20 finalists for 4 categories has been extremely difficult.
Having available over 5 million users, the organizers asked amateur film makers
from Canada, Europe and of course United States to enter their submissions.
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But confirmation all versions will have $10 a month fee.
We’ve waited far too long for a proper follow-up to Phantasy Star Online. No one quite expected Sega to nail the Diablo-esque formula in an online format so well, so anticipation for Phantasy Star Universe is expectedly high, even more so considering they’re also producing an Xbox 360 version — and that’s what today’s announcement chiefly concerns.
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Forces of Corruption set to take over retail October 24; Petroglyph-developed campaign lets players take on Galactic Empire and Rebel Alliance as crime lord Tyber Zann.
Wherever there is war, there is someone looking to profit off it, even a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. That’s the premise of the upcoming expansion to the Star Wars real-time strategy game Empire at War, which LucasArts today announced has gone gold.
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A Complete Campaign Setting
Certain adventures only come around once. Like when the grizzled old warrior decides to go after the dragon, and asks who’s coming with him. Or when the dark-eyed sorceress slowly surveys the crowd of peasants, waiting for one to step forward and pull the sword from the stone.
This boxed sets contains those adventures. Dungeon Crawl Classics #35: Gazetteer of the Known Realms brings together the Dungeon Crawl Classics modules into one comprehensive world. This magnificent set includes:
* Gazetteer of the Known Realms, a 120-page book describing the archetypal fantasy world of Ãereth.
* Three 24″x36″ poster-sized full-color maps of Ãereth ready to host your adventures.
* GM’s Guide to the Known Realms, a 136-page sourcebook describing deities, equipment, creatures, and NPCs, plus rules for starting campaigns with 0-level characters and adventure paths that you can build from existing DCC modules.
* A 24″x36″ poster-sized players’ map of Ãereth.
* Halls of the Minotaur, a 32-page adventure module for 0-level characters perfectly suited to starting off your campaign in Ãereth.
* The Thief Lord’s Vault, a 32-page adventure module for levels 4-6 that sends the heroes into the legendary treasure vault of Cazül the Chaotic.
So take up your broadsword, blow the dust off your spellbook, and saddle the horses. The mailed Kings of the North are calling out your name, demanding an audience. It is up to you to give an answer.
Source: goodmangames.com