It is hard to believe it has been 10 years since Ultima Online came and pretty much invented the MMORPG, and it is even harder to believe that the game is still running, albeit not exactly in...
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by Jordan Grodecki on September 28, 2007
VirusList have published an interesting report on fraud in online games, detailing the methods by which it is done and various other things that pertain to the topic. It gives for an interesting...
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Filed in archive RTS
by Jordan Grodecki on September 28, 2007
Microsoft Game Studios today let out the news that a new expansion pack is coming for the best selling RTS, age of empires 3. The add on, subtitled "The Asian Asian Dynasties" is set to...
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ShackNews are reporting that prison breakout action game, Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, has finally been given a retail release date, known to be the 20th of November. Said to be a co-op action game,...
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Playlogic have announced that they are bringing the sequal, dubbed "The Aftermath", to the decidedly average Playstation 2 co-op horror game to PCs around the world. The original game was a...
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Filed in archive FPS
by Jordan Grodecki on September 27, 2007
GameDaily.Biz is today reporting that VALVe's highly anticipated Orange Box has gone gold and is straight on target for hitting it's lovely 10th of October release date. The boxset, for those...
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The dynamic comedy detective duo Sam and Max are set to continue their episodes of content on November the 8th, the Telltale Games website reveals. Titled "Ice station Santa", the episode...
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GameSpot have released the demo for Clive Barker's upcoming horror themed FPS. The 1.1gb demo includes the introduction movie, which should be suitably long and detailed thanks to the "Clive...
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by Jordan Grodecki on September 26, 2007
THQ have today announced that a stand alone expansion, titled Soulstorm, is coming for their RTS of the stupidly popular tabletop game WarHammer 40k. Scheduled for release in Spring 2008, the game is...
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Here in the UK, the BAFTAs are big TV and film awards akin to the oscars, albeit on a smaller level, also run a video game awards ceremony, and the nominations have today been announced, and include...
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by Jordan Grodecki on September 25, 2007
Fileplanet have declared that the beta for Tabula Rasa is once again open, and this time, to registered users as well as 'Planet subscribers. It is slightly odd seeing as the game has already...
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Ubisoft have announced that their Romanian studio is working on a 2008 release game based on the Tom Clancy licence. Previously known for Rainbow Six and more mainstream-ly, Splinter Cell, the Clancy...
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by Jordan Grodecki on September 22, 2007
Electronic Arts LA recently posted a job listing for a sound designer. That in itself is perfectly normal, but one of the pieces of information that was posted alongside it was rather more telling....
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Delays, the horrible horrible fact of life for any highly anticipated game, as in the end, virtually no games hit their original release date, and today, 2 more can be added to that list, as well as...
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Recent research by games analysts DFC Intelligence have come to the prediction that the pc game market will be worth a massive $13billion by the year 2012, with the total videogame market said to be...
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Online game logging and communication system Xfire, has released some interesting statistics about the games most played by users of their service, much as VALVe does with system specs of Steam users....
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by Jordan Grodecki on September 17, 2007
If I had $10,000, I'd spend it on something nice for myself, like a swimming pool, a nice PC, a giant table of food, or a lot of beer, but for some, they would rather spend it on a......
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A demo of Stranglehold, legendary film director John Woo's first run about in the gaming world, has been made available for the PC. Known as being "the game with stupidly high...
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Filed in archive Action
by Jordan Grodecki on September 14, 2007
Loki is a big smelting pot of all the interesting bits of mythology through the ages bubbling away on Cyanide's (the developers) little stove. Allowing you to play as various heroes from all...
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Gpotato, makers of a mass of free online games like FlyFF, have just released Upshift StrikeRacer, a rather unsoundly name for what appears to be an online combat arcade style racer, supported purely...
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by Jordan Grodecki on September 14, 2007
In some more Crysis news, Crytek have released some new details about the multiplayer functionality of Crysis, available in the limited beta posted yesterday. PowerStruggle is the main multiplay mode,...
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FilePlanet have brought out the Crysis multiplayer demo, albeit with some catches. To download the highly anticipated shooter, one must be a paying subscriber of the site, effectively making this a...
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TheInquirer is reporting to have overheard some Blizzard employees chatting about an as yet unannounced project called "hydra". Apparently the conversation between the two devs went a bit...
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After a couple of years of console exclusivity, Activision's Guitar Hero is finally about to rock it's way onto the PC with the help of Aspyr Media. The game is set to be a port of the...
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Russian developers Haggard Games have just released a nice demo for their upcoming counter espionage title, Death to Spies, set to feature 3rd person action as part of the SMERSH counter-intelligence...
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