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Taito Compilation Coming in Game News Stardock Forums

Gamespot has caught wind of another arcade compilation entering the market. Taito, best know for Space Invaders, will be the newest, old school gaming company from the stand-up arcade days to create a compilation of hits in hopes of shaking a few more quarters out of their old crowd. Following in the footsteps of Midway, Atari and Namco, Taito will release Taito Legends, a single disc for the PS2, PC and Xbox that will comprise of 29 hits

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to Get Digital Treatment in Game News Stardock Forums

In a deal with MGM Interactive, game developer Bits Studio has managed to acquire the rights to the Sergio Leone movies often called "The Man With No Name" trilogy. Bits has followed that up with announcing that "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" will be the first movie to get the digital update, even though it was the last film in the series. Bits Studios CEO Foo Katan said that they are looking for the actors to contribute their likeness and voice ta

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Dark Age of Camelot Expands in Game News Stardock Forums

The website for Dark Age of Camelot's sixth expansion has gone live packed with the usual fixings: screens, artwork and game information. Darkness Rising, as the add-on will be known, is to be available from developer Mythic Entertainment by direct download in October, at a cost of $19.99. The newest add-on will require the original version of the MMORPG and its "Catacombs" expansion. Darkness Rising will see a new evil appear in the realm, and will

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Cyberlore Shifts Gears in Game News Stardock Forums

A post on the Cyberlore forums - developers of Playboy: The Mansion and Risk - has leaked information about a drastic change in the company. Jay Adan bypassed the press release to announce to the world that Cyberlore Studios had forced a bunch of people to leave the company including himself. The Massachusetts based company announced yesterday that the layoffs are due to a dramatic shift in company strategy, the shift in focus of interactive media

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Eight Year Old Game Gets Add-on in Game News Stardock Forums

3D Realms has finally released the long awaited add-on to Shadow Warrior, an FPS that dates back to 1997. The add-on, which even at eight years, has taken less time than 3D Realms' Duke Nukem Forever, was shelved after completion by the distributor, and then thought lost when Sunstorm Interactive went out of business. Fast forward to last week, Anthony Campiti, former Sunstorm President, dug up a CD labeled 'Add-on Archive 1' after looking t

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Reply to www.SimCountry.com in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

My favorite text based sim was a game called U-Planet, it was a combat simulator where you commanded a military power. Had alot of fun with it until it died off in the dot com bust.

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Reply to SEGA Busts a Move in Game News Stardock Forums

I can't wait for more information on this. I actually just picked up Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War for $13 the other day to get a new RTS (I still play WC3:TFT, but sometimes I want to be a newb again).

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Reply to WoW Developers Leave Blizzard in Game News Stardock Forums

Blizzard has lost its way. It lost its soul to VUG screwing things up, and now the people who made the Blizzard games great are splintering off to form a handful of separate companies, thinning out the once great concentration of talent. I don't know if we'll see any more games out of them that meet the previous Blizzard standard

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SEGA Busts a Move in Game News Stardock Forums

SEGA and Petroglyph have announced a partnership to create a new military/sci-fi franchise, "new" being a risky venture in today's market. Petroglyph, who is already working on Star Wars: Empires at War, is full of ex-Westwood talent, the team behind RTS juggernauts Dune II and the Command & Conquer series. Petroglyph's first game from the franchise will be an RTS with SEGA taking control of marketing and distribution. Although Petroglyph has yet

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Reply to Myth Inc has died in WoW Stardock Forums

I am not as addicted as I once was but I still play it almost daily for an hour or so. Alot of time now I just queue up for Battlegrounds and do something else while I wait, I am almost Exalted for the Alterac Valley faction and they give some nice rewards. On top of that the guild I am in is one of the best on the server and are working our way through Blackwing Lair still, we downed Firemaw last night about 1-2weeks behind the first peop

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Schwarzenegger Gets New Bill in Game News Stardock Forums

Assembly Democrat Leland Yee's bill to control the sales of video games to minors has received approval and awaits veto or final approval by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The bill would stop the sale of video games to minors that depict serious injury and hold the power to enforce a $1,000 fine for violators. Schwarzenegger has until October 9th to accept or reject the bill which if accepted would go into effect January 1st, 2006. "Unlike mov

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Microsoft Accepts Clair's Challenge in Game News Stardock Forums

Microsoft has admitted that "we’ve been killing PC gaming," something that our very own Brian Clair griped about earlier this summer. Clair called for someone to take the reigns of PC gaming, to be a leader, a "first party" player like there is for Xbox, Sony and Nintendo, and Microsoft has seemed to accept his challenge. According to an article on MCV, Microsoft has decided to "put the game back into Windows" at a time when most people are eyeing the next g

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City of Villians CE in Game News Stardock Forums

Select retailers have begun taking pre-orders for the City of Villains Collector's Edition. The suped up edition will come with Beta Access to the game, an exclusive in-game item, a two day head start, a poster, a 14-day free trial of City of Heroes for you AND a friend, a City of Heroes comic book and HeroClix figures. The semi sequel to the City of Heroes MMORPG will be available November 9th with the Collector's Edition running an extra $30 at $79.99. <BR

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Day of Defeat: Source Dated in Game News Stardock Forums

Valve has announced that the long awaited transition for Day of Defeat to the Source engine has been completed. Day of Defeat Source, as the redone game will be known, will be available on Steam come September 26th. "Day of Defeat has quietly been one of the most played online action games for the past three years," said Gabe Newell, president and founder of Valve. "Day of Defeat: Source represents a major leap forward in both graphics and

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African Alliance Canned in Game News Stardock Forums

GFI and MiST land-South announced on Friday that development for a Jagged Alliance spin-off has been put to rest. African Alliance was to extend the Jagged Alliance franchise but now the game's resources "will be used in Jagged Alliance 3D." The company gave no explicit reason for the cancellation but did state that the "studio is hardly working on Warfare and 4th Battalion now and that was one of the reasons of reconsideration the priorities of comp

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Reply to ATI vs. nVidia in Video Cards Stardock Forums

They bounce back and forth all the time, its not a permanent thing, just which is better at the given moment IMO. The problem for most people is which is best for $x?

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WoW Developers Leave Blizzard in Game News Stardock Forums

Blizzard has again lost a handful of workers looking to strike it out on their own. Three former World of Warcraft developers have left the company to create Red5 Studios and develop their own independent MMO. Mark Kern was the team lead on WoW, William Petras art director, and Taewon Yun helped found Blizzard Korea, and assisted in launching and operations of WoW in the region. Red5 Studios is based in Aliso Veijo, California, and is hoping that wi

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