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Codemasters and Turbine have announced that the eagerly awaited update will go live tomorrow.
You don't need a certified games "journalist" to explain why Grand Theft Auto IV is awesome or that the Dirty Dancing videogame is shit. You're intelligent. You know what kinds of games you love and which ones you despise.
But once in a while, there's that rare occasion where you've got a few extra dollars burning a hole in your pocket and have enough leftover to splurge on a game that you're on the fence about. And when it comes to these situations, it's frustrating when the professional critics seem to be sitting on the same fence as you.
The average score on an aggregator site like Metacritic may seem like it's giving you an accurate idea of how good or bad a game is. But dig a little deeper and you'll often find that one overly enthusiastic review is responsible for letting an obviously awful title scrape by with a so-so seven out of ten score.
GamingShogun reports on a message received from Pete Hines stating that the first of many official Fallout 3 comic strips, created by the guys at Penny Arcade, has been posted online for your viewing pleasure...
Guardian.UK Writes: "The news that Games for Windows Live - essentially a PC version of Xbox Live - will now be available for free makes it increasingly difficult for Microsoft to justify charging a subscription to Xbox Live.
I'm a big fan of Xbox Live. Friend lists, achievements, ease of use - Live still towers above the Playstation and Wii online services. But then it should. Live costs around 40 quid a year, Sony and Nintendo's offerings are free. Sure the service is good but how long can Microsoft get away with charging?"
Nvidia owned site nzone announces that demo of Space siege, new game by Chris Taylor (maker of Dungeon siege and Supreme commander), will be available in 4 days 1 hour.
This week, Yahtzee dons the loincloth and fuzzy, horned hat to review Age of Conan.
A variety of Blizzard Entertainment products will be showcased at the San Diego Comic Con this Friday, July 25th. Among the companies that will participate in these World of Warcraft Panel are: Upper Deck Entertainment, Tokyopop, Pocket Star Books, DC Comics Wildstorm, and DC Unlimited. Blizzard Entertainment VP of Creative Design Chris Metzen will be there as well. Many prizes will be given away to attendees, including an exclusive variant cover of a World of Warcraft comic book.
According to a post on the official Hellgate forums, Namco has stepped in to save the Flagship game being washed away in the wake of the developer's demise.
Square Enix has gone PC. On the first day of the show, the Japanese game publisher announced that Final Fantasy XIII is coming to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 (in Europe and North America only) and PC. During a press conference following the Microsoft event, Final Fantasy XIII Producer Yoshinori Kitase discussed the new development strategy that Square Enix has taken with its upcoming games.
Aside from the new The Last Remnant game, which is being created for Xbox 360 and PS3 using Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 externally, all new internally-developed games from Square Enix, including Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII Versus, and an untitled new massively multiplayer online game, utilize the new PC-based Crystal Tools development environment. These tools allow development teams to create cross-platform games.
"The content will be the same on all platforms," said Kitase. "However, we have yet to determine how many discs will be required for the 360 version. We'll have to consider the differences between formats. Currently the game is being built on PC, where it's actually functional. We're still focusing on making it work on PS3, so it's difficult to know how long the process of taking it to 360 will take."
Thanks to the new PC development platform, Kitase added, "Now that we're developing on a PC base, the pace is going a bit faster," Kitase said. "We haven't introduced new footage of the game, but we should be able to show something new in the near future."
Square Enix showed the beautiful pre-rendered trailer for Final Fantasy XIII at the end of the Microsoft press conference. The publisher has a big event scheduled for Tokyo next month where the first new information will be revealed on all Final Fantasy titles. Previously, the publisher released its online game, Final Fantasy XII, on Xbox 360 and PC.
VG247 has been reliably informed this morning that Assassin Creed producer Jade Raymond's next project - first-person survival game I Am Alive - will make its first proper appearance at Game Convention in Leipzig next month.
PCG podcast #139 (entitled Bugged) has revealed that Diablo III is the next cover story of PC Gamer magazine at newsstands. Apparently there will be new art revealed in this magazine, a Q&A with the Lead Art Director, and possibly an interview with Mike Morhaime (Blizzard president). It's mentioned after 7:00 of the podcast, and they also talk about the online petition.
Ripten's Demi Adejuyigbe writes:
"As demonstrated during Microsoft's Press Conference at E3, Bethesda is nearing completion on the third iteration in the Fallout series, due out October 7th. Of course, with the changes that have been made to the series in Bethesda's hands, Interplay is giving gamers a reality check by releasing the first game in the Fallout series on GameTap - for free."
A little while ago TorrentFreak wrote about the exchange of emails between artist Indiana Gregg and The Pirate Bay. Indiana wanted The Pirate Bay to remove torrents linking to her work, which they refused to do. Now Indiana has a response for The Pirate Bay and file-sharers in general. It doesn't pull many punches.
However, stating opinions as facts will not get this music artist far......
To hear Nvidia tell it, integrated graphics just aren't going to cut it, and a discrete GPU is still vital. They point to the 87% of top PC games with a recommended spec above the Intel integrated graphics specification to support their claim.
Nvidia's latest cards and chips throw down the gauntlet to Intel and AMD. Go behind the scenes with this guide to the big technologies including PhysX, CUDA, and games like Far Cry 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky.
Ripten writes: "Spore box art announced ? uhhhh what can I say ? it's very colorful, very boxy, and very artsy! Will Wright kicks ass, and I am pretty sure that Spore will too."
Today, Microsoft announced that Games for Windows LIVE is now free, their plans for a LIVE Marketplace on PC, and DirectX 11.
We hopped on the phone with Kevin Unangst, Senior Global Director of Games for Windows, to get a little more information about today's announcements out of Gamefest 2008.
"The changes that we're announcing today are clearly the result of a continued and ongoing focus on 'What do Windows gamers want?' [and] 'What do Windows game developers want?'."
Full interview at G4tv.com
Horror is a lot like comedy ? you can tell a joke once, maybe twice at most, but then it starts getting stale." EDGE asked Derek Chan, associate producer on EA's Dead Space, if there's a chance that players might become fatigued by the relentlessly oppressive setting of the dilapidated deep-space mining vessel, the Ishimura. Apparently not.
Ubisoft takes the reins from original developer Crytek for the sequel to FarCry, and players will have their hands full as they track down the Jackal in Africa.
It seems that DirectX 10 just launched recently (late 2006 with the release of Windows Vista), but at Seattle-based Gamefest 2008 on Tuesday, Microsoft was touting the latest addition to its API suite.
Microsoft said DX11 will introduce new shader technology "that lays the groundwork for the GPU to be used for more than just 3D graphics, so that developers can take advantage of the graphics card as a parallel processor."
But perhaps most importantly to consumers, Microsoft said that DX11 will be compatible with DX10 and DX10.1 hardware (as well as new DX11 hardware), so gamers won't have to toss current hardware to play newer games.
Eurogamer writes: "Where does DICE get its inspiration? Looking at the Battlefield series, you might guess the answer is dark and gritty war films, the latest developments in military technology, documentary footage of actual battles and the like. But the answer, of course, is ballet.
It's certainly what inspired one of the most important features in Mirror's Edge. As you'll know if you read Christian's recent preview, it's an action-adventure game for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. It's set in a dystopian world where crime has been eradicated at the expense of personal freedoms and stars an acrobatic heroine called Faith.
What sets Mirror's Edge apart from all those other action-adventure games with dystopian settings and acrobatic main characters is the fact the game is played from a first-person perspective."
