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Playboy Teases Gamers in Game News Stardock Forums

Playboy has once again teamed up with numerous video game publishers to create an issue based around video game vixens. The current issue of Playboy has various articles and insight into the future of the gaming market, all leading into the spread of game characters in the buff. The lucky ladies include Carla from Indigo Prophecy, a cheerleader for Blitz: The League, a lady from God of War, 50 Cent: Bulletproof, Playboy: The Mansion -- Private Party, Darkwat

Reply to Myst Era is Over in Game News Stardock Forums

This game cause anyone to get a CD-ROM/be your first CD-ROM game?

Reply to News Corp Buys Into Games in Game News Stardock Forums

I always thought IGN was a little to corporate, now they definitley are.

News Corp Buys Into Games in Game News Stardock Forums

Media conglomerate News Corp. has announced plans to acquire IGN Entertainment, of IGN.com and GameSpy.com fame. The move, which will cost around $650 million, will see IGN be the third Internet company to be swallowed by News Corp and will enable the company to move into the video game and cyberspace arenas with full force. IGN Entertainment also ran various other lifestyle sites including the movie site RottenTomatoes.com and Men's site, AskMen.com

Reply to World of Warcraft Expansion To be Shown in Game News Stardock Forums

So for those of you who still play MMORPGs in general, how do you feel about paying for an expansion for a game that you already pay a monthly fee for?

Avalon Hill Board Game Comes to Life in Game News Stardock Forums

Developer and publisher Paradox Interactive announced yesterday that their newest strategy game, Diplomacy, will be hitting the shelves October 4th for North America and Scandinavia. The rest of Europe will receive Diplomacy, which is based on the Avalon Hill board game, on October 28th with the cost of stabbing your friends in the back running $39.99 come release day. "When we set out to make DIPLOMACY, our ambition was to create a PC game t

World of Warcraft Expansion To be Shown in Game News Stardock Forums

Blizzard announced yesterday that it will give the first public showing of its upcoming expansion to World of Warcraft during its annual show, BlizzaCon. During the show Blizzard will show off and describe the features included in the expansion but gamers will have to wait for the show to start for any additional information.

EBGames + Gamestop Update in Game News Stardock Forums

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has given the go ahead to the proposed merger of Gamestop and Electronics Boutique. The merger would create the second largest game retailer, with about 20 percent of the market, second to retail giant Wal-Mart. Since the announcement of the merger, that we covered in April, the companies have seen their stock prices increase by over 50 percent and jumped again after the news of the SEC approval. In the anno

Reply to Myst Era is Over in Game News Stardock Forums

Yea I wish games were difficult again...

EA Executive Shuffle & More in Game News Stardock Forums

Electronic Arts made a slew of announcements last week over various games and its executive line-up. For starters EA announced that Need for Speed Most Wanted would launch November 15th for PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, PC, PSP, DS, and GBA with the Xbox 360 date still undetermined. EA also announced an internal management shift to fill the void of two top executives leaving. Don Mattrick, president of EA Worldwide Studios, will leave EA after being

Reply to Myst Era is Over in Game News Stardock Forums

Tis a sad day indeed, I am just happy that they were able to finish what they started. Just goes to show that limiting yourself to one genre, let alone one franchise may NOT be the best idea.

F.E.A.R. Director's Cut Official in Game News Stardock Forums

Vivendi Universal Games has officially announced what has been suspected for sometime, a Director's Edition to their supernatural FPS F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon). The Director's Edition will come at the same price as the standard version to players who pre-ordered it, yes people who pre-ordered it before it was even announced. Otherwise the exclusive content, a "Making of F.E.A.R." documentary, a developer’s roundtable commentary video, live act

Myst Era is Over in Game News Stardock Forums

The creators of the Myst adventure franchise have announced that they are closing their doors. Myst, the game that helped proliferate the CD-ROM format and sold over 12 million units, will still see its final sequel, Myst V: End of Ages, come out on September 20th. The news was dropped via Grey Dragon's Blog and was followed up by postings on Uruobsession.com. Cyan blamed the closing on lack of financial support but Rand Miller and Tony Fryman will

Reply to Pentium 4 or AMD 64? in PC Hardware Stardock Forums

AMD 64 bit hands down over Pentium 4. You'll pay around the same price for a 64bit not 32bit processor.

Perception Suit Shotdown in Game News Stardock Forums

The battle for Stargate rages on, a Vienna judge dismissed developer Perception's petition to have JoWood declared bankrupt. JoWood, who is currently in the middle of a "financial restructuring," made headlines last month when it pulled Stargate SG1: The Alliance away from developer Perception. The action by JoWood led to Perception filing the aforementioned lawsuit which was shot down since "Perception itself has admitted that the delay of the gam

Worms 4 Coming Stateside in Game News Stardock Forums

Gamespot has word that Worms 4: Mayhem, which was released in Europe in July, will be swimming across the Atlantic. Developed by Team17, the Worms franchise is celebrating its 10th anniversary of annelid turn based strategy, but with its former North American publisher, Acclaim, filing for bankruptcy last August the release of Worms 4 in North America was looking sketchy until Majesco decided to step in. Majesco has announced that it will publish the game

Reply to SLi - worth it? in Video Cards Stardock Forums

Ouch, CompUSA and stores of that nature usually charge a pretty high premium on most large ticket items. Even with the pricey shipment to Alaska you might be better off getting it online.

The Movies Gets Perks in Game News Stardock Forums

Lionhead Studios and Activision have announced a new feature to their upcoming simulation game, The Movies. In the game players will take the role of a movie mogul at the beginning of the movie era, the early 1900's. Players will then have to oversee every aspect of their fledgling studio if they wish to make it to today's effects driven movies and beyond. Naturally in the game players will be creating actual movies to sell to their virtual audiences, but no

Reply to Doctors of the 21st Century in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

It could be worse, I mean kids expect most adults to know EVERYTHING. But at least they are easy to trick haha.

Getting Up Gets Dated in Game News Stardock Forums

Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure has had its fair share of publicity and fanfare. The game, which has the player "tagging" their style all over the New York-like world, in hopes of "getting up" in the community. These gameplay elements have led to the game being attacked by New York City Councilman Peter F. Vallone and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for fear that impressionable players may reenact the game's elements.

Reply to Blizzard Trumps Warcraft in Game News Stardock Forums

SOE simply counts what was shipped for alot of their games, so it could be worse.

S2 Games Announces Savage 2 in Game News Stardock Forums

Savage, the RTS/FPS hybrid is going to be getting a sequel dubbed Savage 2: A Tortured Soul. Players will once again be able to be a single unit in the battle or the commander overseeing his grunts and coordinating the base with the upcoming release. The team at S2 Games seems to be putting a lot of focus on the graphical side of the game including new features such as dynamic shadows, bump mapping, higher quality animations and models and more reali

EA to Bolster EA Canada in Game News Stardock Forums

Not to be outdone by Ubisoft, Electronic Arts has announced that it will also invest $2.6 million into the booming Montreal game development sector, with an extra $660,000 from the Quebec government. EA already has EA Canada, which opened in 2003, based in Montreal where it employs 100 people. The cash flow is part of a plan to train and hire several hundred more people largely due to pressure that Ubisoft put on the region earlier this year. Source:

Earth 2160 Get Publisher in Game News Stardock Forums

Midway has announced that it has picked up the rights to publish Earth 2160 in North America. The space based RTS is the third game in the series, with Midway being the third publisher after Interplay and SSI. The Reality Pump story for Earth 2160 sees the three human races in a struggle over Mars after Earth itself has been destroyed. The human struggle quickly goes galactic after an imprisoned race is awoken and joins the struggle for dominance.

Blizzard Trumps Warcraft in Game News Stardock Forums

Blizzard Entertainment, the development firm behind World of Warcraft has announced that its MMORPG has reached a new milestone. The near year old title has reached one million subscribers in North America alone, bringing the total up to four million "paying customers" worldwide. Although the idea of paying customers can vary between companies we do know that at the very worst, Blizzard counts a "paying customer" as someone who purchased