Codemasters has unveiled the official title for their next entry in the Race Driver franchise as Race Driver GRID . Although it is unknown what GRID stands for, if anything, the new title will be sporting an enhanced version of the Colin McRae DiRT engine as racers tear it up across the world in licensed vehicles from Aston Martin, Koenigsegg and Pagani. Race Driver GRID is set for release in mid
UK-based Viperante has announced an all new adventure title in the works for release in August 2008. Corrosion: Cold Winter Waiting will be "a dark, shocking, uncompromising, and fear charged horror adventure game," placing the player in the role of Sheriff Alex Truman as he attempts to discover to origins of an unidentified car crash victim. The adventure title will wrap a tale of "love, revenge, jealousy, and bitter rivalry" around pre-rendered 3D scenes and a "chilling yet beaut
Eidos has revealed that their new Montreal-based studio will be tackling one of their most popular properties as their first title, Deus Ex 3 . The long rumored sequel to the FPS/RPG hybrid is already in the works by the in-house development team which comprises around 80 people, including the quality assurance team. Eidos Montreal's general manager Stéphane D’Astous stated that the game was green lit due to the "great huge mandate to do the third one" and given to the new stud
JoWood has announced that 2005's critically panned RPG Dungeon Lords will not only be receiving an expansion pack but also a full blown sequel. The official expansion pack will be a stand-alone release, a format which is all the rage these days, and is currently slated for a Q3 2008 release. The sequel will be coming a good deal later, sometime in 2009 and will hit unspecified consoles along with the PC release and is untitled as of yet. JoWood decided to greenlight the projects based
Ubisoft had a second announcement to make today, delaying the next iteration into their other Tom Clancy-based franchise, Splinter Cell . Splinter Cell: Conviction has been delayed into the company's fourth quarter, which in real world terms is Q1 2008. Ubisoft gave no explicit reason to the delay unless one counts the idea of creating "a stronger line-up for fiscal 2008-09," as a reason.
Ubisoft announced today that their Montreal Studio is currently working on Raindbow Six Vegas 2 to be released in March 2008 for PC and current-gen consoles. The latest title in the almost 10-year old franchise will sport the usual upgrades, upgraded visuals, "an intense solo campaign," co-op play as well as an adversarial multiplayer mode. "Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas took the gaming world by storm in 2006 thanks to its technological advances and gameplay innovations," sai
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Let me start off this review with the following: I am the last person you will ever want on your team in any contest that involves music knowledge of any kind. You see, I fail at hearing in my left ear, so I have a hard time catching words in songs or even distinguishing betwee
Rumors of a Ghostbusters inspired game have finally been confirmed thanks to Variety and the upcoming issue of Game Informer. Although the title has been long rumored and even shown in prototype form by Zootfly, the project has now fallen into the hands of Vivendi Games with the title heading to the PC, PS2, DS and current-generation consoles. The title is currently set for a Fall 2008 release with Terminal Reality developing the console and PC editions while Red Fly Studios handles the DS title
Just as one company rises from the dead another returns to its developmental grave as Atari has announced that it has bowed out of the production end of the game industry. The company announced at the same time that CEO David Pierce has stepped down due to the company's failings. Atari will now focus on "title acquisition, sales and marketing, and physical distribution of products from IESA [fancy name for
Storied publisher Interplay has announced that they will begin development again. The bankrupt publisher who sold their most valuable IP, the Fallout franchise, to Bethesda Softworks in April has been able to use that $5.75 million to revive the company. Interplay Chairman and CEO Herve Caen explained that the firm will be re
Glad to hear it SanChonino. Am looking forward to FO2 as well. I have heard that FO2 has more references to things I would know, such as Monty Python and Star Wars rather than some of the 50-60s stuff that was in the original Fallout. Then again, referencing either of those franchises isn't exactly a new thing to do...
Lets see, so Fallout from Black Isle Studio and publisher Interplay was released way back in 1997. I think that it now holds the new record of “Oldest Game I Just Finished." That's right folks, a person who plays games as much as me has just recently finished what is considered one of the greatest RPGs of all time. Now its not without reason that I missed <
I upgraded my computer for the original title, first time I ever did it specifically for a game, although it also was the first time I had my own money and know-how to be able to do it. Anyways my point was, I liked it.
All parties concerned have confirmed the sale of the City of Heroes and City of Villians intellectual property to Korean based NCSoft. NCSoft and developer Cryptic Studios made sure to point out that the sale will not cause any kind of decline in the titles' quality but only allow the game universe as a whole to progress. Cryptic had the following to say about why they decided to sell the valuable IPs: "When we considered the future of CoH/CoV and the future of Cryptic Stud
Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment has made another purchase in the games' sector, this time picking up TT Games Group. TT Games Group is comprised of the LEGO Star Wars developer Traveller's Tales, who is currently working on LEGO Batman and LEGO Indiana Jones , and family games publisher TT Games Publishing. TT Games will continue its relationship with LEGO, LucasArts and Guinness World Records despite the purchase. "After 18 years in the video games i
Relic Entertainment, perhaps best known for their latest entries in the RTS field, including the Company of Heroes franchise as well as the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series first made a name for themselves back in 2000 when they released the 3D space RTS Homeworld . They followed that critically acclaimed title up with Homeworld 2 in 2003 before being purchased by publisher THQ in 2004. Many at that point thought that the series may have died since the H
Iraq was a democracy as well, Saddam used to get like 99% of the vote, THEY LOVED HIM!@
The re-launched Turok franchise will be heading back to the PC as announced by Propaganda Games and publisher Touchstone. The title will be made available to PC players in the spring from the superstars of PC/Mac porting, Aspyr Media. The title has strayed a bit from its original digital material, Turok Dinosaur Hunter which was based on a comic of the same name. The latest entry into the franchise has players once again playing the part of Joesph Turok. Turok is now part of
EA Mythic's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has been delayed once again. The MMORPG based on the tabletop game series from Games Workshop was delayed as part of Electronic Arts' second-quarter earnings call yesterday to Q2 2008 or the first quarter of EA's 2009 fiscal year. The delay comes only a week after reported layoffs and restructuring taking place at EA Mythic and Redwood Shores Studios that w
Biart Studio, a Russian-based developer, has announced that they are developing a new squad-based FPS that will be set on land and water and feature the future exploits of a squad of Navy SEALs. The official site is online now and has stated that the game is set for release in 2009 for PC and Xbox 360. The development studio is also currently looking for a worldwide publisher. Details are minimum on the story but we do know that the conflict will revolve around the US and countries of NAT
The Blizzard Entertainment Employment Opportunities has been updated to include several positions for "next-gen MMO" job openings. Considering Blizzard hasn't announced any new MMOs in the works the Internet rumor-mill is already brewing with talks of a Diablo , Starcraft , or Starcraft: Ghost -based MMO. Lets not forget that it could also just be another way of defining work on a new expansion set to their incredibly popular World of Warcraft MMORPG. Person
Midway Games has hammered down the official release date for Epic Games' latest entry into their Unreal franchise. Using the Epic developed Unreal 3 Engine Unreal Tournament III will drop on November 19 in North America. Those down under will receive the title a few days earlier on the 15th while gamers across the pond don't have a concrete date set. Europeans currently only know that they should expect the game "very close" to the Australian release. For those consolers, th
Gamers who have ordered Crysis via Electronic Arts' download service should be receiving an e-mail stating that the release date of the title has changed. Previously the release date was officially November 16th but according to the e-mail the date has been moved forward two days to November 14th. The correspondence fails to clarify if this is just a pre-load release date or the release date actual, which would likely mean a two-day leap forward in the retail release as well. <br
The rumors of a new Star Wars themed MMOG have received some additional ground today as LucasArts and BioWare officially announced that they have entered into a game development agreement. The agreement calls for the pair to develop an "interactive entertainment product" but little else came in the way of details. The pair also opened a joint website where they promised future details would be revealed. "LucasArts has a deep commitment to developing compelling stories and characters
The History Channel and Slitherine Strategies have announced that their collaborated effort on The History Channel: Great Battles of Rome paid off enough to warrant making an entire franchise. The next title in the TV-branded series will be The History Channel: Great Battles of the Middle Ages and will feature a new engine from Slitherine that will be optimized for new-generation consoles as well as the PC. "The huge commercial success of our first release has pointed us in
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