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2005 February

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New Comic Book for City of Heroes Announced

In a co-venture with NCsoft® Corporation (KSE: 036570.KS) and Cryptic Studios(tm), Top Cow Productions will launch City of Heroes® as a new comic book series that will link together gamers and comic book fans alike. Celebrated writer Mark Waid (X-Men, Hunter-Killer, Flash, JLA, Ruse, Fantastic Four, Kingdom Come, Empire) teams up with David Nakayama (Proximity […]

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Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil Screens

Activision has released six screenshots from the upcoming Doom 3 expansion Resurrection of Evil for the PC. Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil will be on store shelves on April 4 and will require a valid copy of Doom 3 to play. Doom 3 was released in August of 2004.

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Game Boy Advance Successor This Year?

The latest CNN Game Over column speculates that Nintendo might announce a new Game Boy system by the end of the year. The article quotes a P.J. McNealy of American Technology Research analyst who believes the big “N” is gearing up for a third handheld launch in so many years. The same analyst believes the […]

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Ubisoft To Publish Sports Videogames

Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest videogame publishers, has announced that it will be developing a
series of sports titles, making its debut as a publisher of sports
videogames. Its entrance will be propelled by several worldwide licensing
agreements and acquisitions. Ubisoft has signed an exclusive license with
Vijay Singh, the No. 1 ranked golfer in the world, to […]

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Gary Grigsby’s World At War Goes Gold

Matrix Games and 2 By 3 Games have announced that their turn-based strategy game Gary Grigsby’s World at War has gone gold and will ship to retail in March. World at War is the third title in a series developed by 2 By 3 Games. The first two titles in the series were Uncommon Valor […]

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Play GameBoy On Your iRiver iHP-140

I don’t personally have an mp3 player. I’m a guy who likes to stay behind the times I guess. After reading this story though, I am seriously thinking about picking up the iRiver iHP-140. Why? It seems somebody has figured out a way that you can port old GameBoy games over […]

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Fewer Vido Games Based on Movies?

I still remember the first time I played, “Last Action Hero” on my old Super Nintendo system. I was thinking, “Wow, the movie wasn’t that great but here is a game where I can be Schwarzenegger! How can they screw that up!” and well, they did. Video games based on movies have never […]

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Future PSP To Include Hard Drive???

Apparently there’s rumors floating around that Sony will be releasing a revamped PlayStation Portable (PSP) featuring a 50GB hard drive in a future edition of the unit. According to an unnamed analyst, Sony would start manufacturing the unit as soon as next year. If this would turn out to be true (which I doubt) this […]

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Empire Earth II Demo

Vivendi Universal Games has released a singleplayer demo of Mad Doc Software’s upcoming title, Empire Earth II. The 177MB demo lets gamers play as either the Americans, Germans or Koreans in skirmish mode across three of the game’s epochs. Conquest and Territory Control modes are also playable. The game will officially ship on April 26. […]

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Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil Preview (Action Trip)

Action Trip is the latest website to publish a hands on preview of Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil the upcoming PC expansion pack to Doom 3. The site also features some screenshots and a trailer of the game. Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil will ship to retail on April 4 along with the Xbox port […]

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Fable Original Soundtrack Now Available

Sumthing Else Music Works announced that the Fable Original Soundtrack is now available for purchase on CD. The album, which features Danny Elfman’s game theme, is immediately available for purchase at US retail outlets through Nile Rodgers’ Sumthing Else Music Works label www.sumthing.com. The Fable soundrack was composed by Lionhead Studios’ Audio Director and Composer […]

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Tom Salta Composes Cold Fear

It was announced earlier this week that New York based producer, artist and composer Tom Salta has written the soundtrack to Ubisoft’s action-horror title Cold Fear (PC, PS2 and Xbox). According to the press release, the score to the Darkworks Studio title will be an industrial-fused orchestral soundtrack. Recently, Salta scored the cinematic sequences in […]

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Epic Games To Showcase Latest Unreal Engine 3 Features At GDC

Epic Games, one of the world’s leading game developers and creator of the award-winning Unreal® Engine, today announced it will be demonstrating Unreal Engine 3 tools and technology and headlining three speaker sessions at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco March 9-11, 2005.

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Counter-Strike Source Updated

Valve has released an update for Counter-Strike: Source that not only includes fixes, but also comes loaded with the new map “cs_compound map” and a remake of the fan favorite “de_train”. Along with the two new maps, there are a number of fixes to the bots in Counter-Strike, an enhancement to the radar to display […]

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Troika Closes Its Doors

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines developer Troika Games has officially closed its doors and has laid-off all of its employees due to the company’s inability to secure funding for future projects. Troika co-founder Leonard Boyarsky stated today that no decision has been made on whether or not Troika Games will cease to exist or regroup and […]

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Final Fantasy Creator To Work On Xbox 2 Titles

Microsoft has announced that Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has joined the ranks of Microsoft Game Studios in order to develop RPG titles for the upcoming next-gen Xbox console. According to the press release, Sakaguchi served, until Feb. 2001, as executive vice president in charge of game development at Square Enix. Sakaguchi is set to […]

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Lockergnome’s Gary Grigsby’s World at War Preview

Matrix Games and 2by3 Games are set to release the long awaited turn-based strategy game Gary Grigsby’s World at War for the PC, and gamers are undoubtedly going to be pleased with the results. The new title will give players the opportunity to choose one of five military forces (Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, the […]

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2K Games To Distribute Ford Racing 3 In North America

2K Games announced via press release that they will be publishing Ford Racing 3 in North America. The Empire Interactive developed title will features 55 vehicles from the Ford Motor Company, and will include cars such as the Thunderbird, Mustang and various concept automobiles. The game will bolster online gaming on both the PC and […]

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Puyo POP FEVER Headed to the Nintendo DS

Nintendo DS owners will be pleased to hear that Atlus USA will be publishing a version of the classic action-puzzle game Puyo POP FEVER on their handheld unit of choice. The game, which is scheduled to ship in April, will include a touch screen control scheme and 8-player multiplayer action on a single cart. Puyo […]

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Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Demo

Ubisoft has released a single player demo of its latest stealth action title Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. The hefty 558MB demo contains the Lighthouse scenario. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory will be available on store shelves on March 29 for the GameCube, PC, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The demo can be downloaded from: FileRush, FileShack and […]