According to 1UP.com Sigil will be working on the upcoming Marvel Comics MMO. The team has experience in the MMO game-space with many members having EverQuest on their resume. Details are scarce at this point but 1UP.com reports that the title will be cross platform for PC and Xbox 360 with both platforms sharing the same universe. 1UP Article
The "Inhabited Island" novel is now coming to a PC near you thanks to Akella and Wargaming.net. The two companies plan on taking the Strugatsky brothers' novel and turning it into a PC strategy game, the genre of choice for Wargaming.net, scheduled for the first quarter of 2007. The title will place players directly into the novel "after Maxim destroyed the Center and the Land of Fathers army was defeated in the North." Due to the loss of their mind control transmissions most of the i
Friday saw another video game bill created after Grand Theft Auto's infamous 'Hot Coffee' scandal get shot-down in court. The Illinois law, which reads like the California law approved by Gov. Schwarzenegger last October, was to go in effect on January 1st and would fine retailers $1,000 if they were found selling Mature games to minors. As has been in the case in various bills like this one, it was taken to court for breaching the First Amendment by the local Retail Association. "I
I am still forced to play because I got so many friends to play (2 of which are really addicted), my boss and my girlfriend. If it wasn't for them (and for being in one of the best guilds on the server) I would have definitley quit.
THQ and Rainbow Studios have announced plans to bring the off-road racing genre to the PC with MX vs. ATV Unleashed. The title will be the franchise's first appearance on the PC platform in some time and is to come complete with a new track editor, new tracks, vehicles, challenges and mini-games. "Rainbow Studios is taking their mastery of the off-road genre to new heights, redefining the genre they built for Windows PC." said Dave Miller, Senior Global Brand Manager, THQ. "Gamers can no
I agree with the bill in the concept, that minors shouldn't have easy access to MA and AO games, but disagree that it should be the job of the govt to enforce that. It's up to parents to monitor what their kids play and purchase. Agree on both points, all of these bills have been labled as "anti-gaming" bills, mostly by the ESA.
Senators Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman have drafted a new federal bill, the Family Entertainment Protection Act, that will be shown to Congress in two weeks time. Following numerous anti-gaming bills drafted by local governments, the federal bill also hopes to ban the sale of M-rated games to minors. Even though the bill plans to keep the ESRB as the industry's watchdog it is already being strongly opposed. The New York Democratic Senator stated: "I have developed legislation that wil
Honestly outside of the WoW expansion and regular WoW updates, I doubt they do have anything else going on in-house. If they did, I don't think we'd be seeing the mass exodus of uber-talented Blizzard employees. Most of the people who have left have claimed that they left because of Vivendi and how VU keeps trying to sell off VUGames.
Digital Jesters is back in the news this week with an announcement that the once down and out publisher has received a new lease on life. A US based firm by the name of Myriad Interactive has injected the publisher with $5 million and will be moving Digital Jesters into a new company, The DJ Group. The new firms first title will be a PC and PS2 vehicle by the name of Crazy Frog Racer and is based on
Activision has announced that it has retained the rights to develop games for the Spider-Man movie franchise well into the future. Although the Tobey Maguire vehicles are set to end with 2007's Spider-Man 3, Activision has decided to secure the rights until 2017, covering any possible sequels to the Sam Raimi directed trilogy. "This agreement allows Activision to continue bringing our own brand of interactive magic and vision to this unique, evergreen property and to build on the succe
Yeah, WoW seems to be all Blizzard cares about now. Forget Starcraft (Ghost doesn't count, it's a shooter with a Starcraft skin), forget new IP, forget even the Warcraft RTS franchise... WoW is a cash cow that pulls in way more money than it could ever spend. Not to mention the fact that they aren't developing Starcraft: Ghost but instead over
what game are you talking about WoW = World of Warcraft
Yeah, even though it seems like at a mid-level, rogues have more dps capabilities to waylay almost any class, as we get higher in level, paladins get more armor and health so we can stay alive a lot longer. Basically all Paladins do is just LIVE longer than a rogue. You guys can never compete with us on DPS but since you make the battle take 10 minu
I think the count is up to 42. They must have had alot of employees
A Fan site has once again broken news, claiming that the developer behind Midway's Rise & Fall has bit the dust. A former Stainless Steel Studios staffer by the name of Bob Scott claims that the developer closed its doors on the Rise & Fall Heaven Forums stating that "all of my friends there are now looking for new work." Gamespot also caught wind of Stainless Steel's demise from the German-
Another independent studio has been created from former Blizzard North employees. The newest name in the independent market is Hyboreal Games and is founded by Michio Okamura, Eric Sexton, and Steven Woo whom all worked on the award winning Diablo series for Blizzard. The company already has a project in the works calling it Project Starfall, but they claim that they "are not ready to release any information about our game, but stay tuned for upcoming announcements." The
The Olympics game on Dreamcast (I think it was Athens?) was horrendous.
Don't worry almost everyone on the horde hates you for being so hard to kill. I play an alliance rogue so I know what you meant but we CAN be killed, just a Paladin isn't the best class to do so. Mages/Warriors and Hunters always give me the most trouble, once I learn to stay out of range of execute better I should be able to do better against warriors. Grats on 35, keep on trucking
The rumor is that the third parties are giving priority to the people who orded the most peripherals/games (giving them more money).
I will get all three but I think the only one I will buy at release will be Revolution since its A) less expensive B) guranteed to have good first party games and C) trying something different
GamesIndustry has caught wind of a lawsuit brought against World of Warcraft developer, Blizzard Entertainment. According to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, the suit stems from the death of a 13 year-old boy who "jumped to his death whilst re-enacting a scene from the game." The "scene" that is being blamed for the death has not been described, but since few movies exist in the title, the scene must have been user driven, such as jumping off the cliff in Thousand Needles. Zhang Chu
According to GamePolitics the ever so popular Florida Attorney, Jack Thompson, has been thrown off the Devin Moore case. Early this month we reported that he had stepped down from the case, stating "the other side wants to make me the issue. The important thing is that the clients be served" and that "it was my idea" to leave the case. That decision came after the video game industry's lawyers asked for Thompson to
Unimatrix has pushed the Awaken website live, complete with the game's first screenshots and a teaser wallpaper. The title, which was announced back in early August, will have the player wake up, bound, in prison dressed as a prisoner, and without a clue as to how you got there. As William Thane, you, along with six others must figure a way out of the abandoned prison by 6:00AM. The catch is that you were placed there by a psychotic killer who remains in the prison as one of the s
ASK Homework announced earlier this week that they have begun production on an updated version to their railroad puzzle/action game Rail Runner . Rail Runner 3D will bring the series up to speed in a 3D environment and allow players to helm the controls for "raildrafts and navigates the engines ... as they try to shepherd them to pick up carts and drag them to specific location." Players will have to figure out the proper tracks to use because "when two trains collide, player
My streak has been broken! DAMN YOU INTERNET!
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