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April 15th, 2010, 23:23 Posted By: wraggster
A series of three South Korean teaser adverts has emerged, hinting at pre-launch hype for the release of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.
The three humorous TV adverts all carry Korean Air branding, but are clearly themed around StarCraft's three races: Protoss, Terran, and Zerg.
Each ad ends with the words "D-DAY 2010.05.22".
Don't get excited. Korean Air is the headline sponsor of a StarCraft e-sports league - the OnGameNet StarCraft League 2010 - and the date is much more likely to refer to finals, or some sort of special event or publicity stunt, than the release date for the game.
Blizzard has yet to announce a date beyond saying that it will ship in the first half of this year; for the control-freak developer to let it slip in such an unorthodox manner is unlikely to say the least.
StarCraft pro gaming is certainly a big enough draw in South Korea to merit TV advertisement, however, and the e-sports scene will doubtless play its part in unprecedented publicity for the game around its launch.
Watch the teasers, though. They're fun.
A series of three South Korean teaser adverts has emerged, hinting at pre-launch hype for the release of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.
The three humorous TV adverts all carry Korean Air branding, but are clearly themed around StarCraft's three races: Protoss, Terran, and Zerg.
Each ad ends with the words "D-DAY 2010.05.22".
Don't get excited. Korean Air is the headline sponsor of a StarCraft e-sports league - the OnGameNet StarCraft League 2010 - and the date is much more likely to refer to finals, or some sort of special event or publicity stunt, than the release date for the game.
Blizzard has yet to announce a date beyond saying that it will ship in the first half of this year; for the control-freak developer to let it slip in such an unorthodox manner is unlikely to say the least.
StarCraft pro gaming is certainly a big enough draw in South Korea to merit TV advertisement, however, and the e-sports scene will doubtless play its part in unprecedented publicity for the game around its launch.
Watch the teasers, though. They're fun.
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April 15th, 2010, 23:20 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft has revealed that its latest round of patches won't install on XP machines if they're infected with a rootkit. In February, a security patch left some XP users complaining of endless reboots and Blue Screens of Death. An investigation followed and Microsoft discovered the problems occurred on machines infected with the Alureon rootkit, which interacted badly with patch KB977165 for the Windows kernel. Now Microsoft is blocking PCs with the rootkit from receiving its new patches. 'This security update includes package-detection logic that prevents the installation of the security update if certain abnormal conditions exist on 32-bit systems,' Microsoft cautions in the patch notes.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/04/1...ed-XP-Machines
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April 14th, 2010, 22:22 Posted By: Shrygue
via Casual Gaming
Free-to-play MMO Runescape earned its developer-publisher Jagex over £38.4 million in revenues in the 12 months leading up to March 2009. That's a profit of £18 million, according to records held at Companies House.
The figures were unearthed by Games Brief, and go some way to showing that free-to-play models can still be hugely profitable for companies that handle the method correctly. As Games Brief's Nicholas Lovell points out, Jagex's revenues demonstrate a 47 per cent operating margin in spite of the tens of millions spent on Mechscape, which was famously cancelled, or at least re-appropriated.
Runescape does offer a more complete game experience for those who pay, but so substantial is the free offering, 90 per cent of the MMO's 10 million monthly unique users choose to play the free version.
Jagex proudly declines to spend money on advertising its game, but welcomes some £2 million each year in ad revenue.
Earlier this year Jagex confirmed that it is to move into third-party publishing, which started with the launch of War of Legends.
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April 13th, 2010, 23:50 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released:
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Discover a new breed of game play where every object is available to use. Inventory is actually the world around you, for you to decide how you want to use it
As a fugitive, quick thinking and adaptation are essential to turn the situation to your advantage. However, enemies can also use the environment and resources to track you down
Blend in with a realistic crowd and navigate within a civilian environment, mimic them to go undetected, or instigate panic as a divisive way to become untraceable as you escape danger. Active stealth will force you to think and act quickly. However, you will have to weigh the risk of heavy force is always the other option
Use your underground connections to gain access to black market gadgets and weapons, or use consumer grade gear in ways they were not intended to complete your objectives
Play with, or against, your friends in the middle of a civilian crowd. But know that they will look like any other person, so your sense of observation and ability to act unnoticed are as important as reacting instantly to an unexpected threat
description
You are a fugitive and you’re being ruthlessly hunted by the very government you once served. The key to your survival is to improvise, adapt and overcome.
Experience original game play based on improvisation where your environment becomes your weapon. You need to react to changing situations and use the environment and the crowds around you to create diversions and deter your enemies.
Splinter Cell Conviction will deliver an adrenaline rush of game play with blood-pumping chase sequences, close combat and intense gun battles. To survive, build an underground network of allies who will help you obtain hi-tech gadgets and stay one step ahead of your pursuers as you struggle to unmask the forces that want you dead.
You’ve never played Splinter Cell like this before.
http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-3r3y.html
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April 13th, 2010, 18:35 Posted By: wraggster
Develop reports that Crytek, makers of the Far Cry series, the Crysis series, and the game engines behind them, have plans to release a free-to-use version of CryENGINE 3, the software's latest iteration. Quoting:
"Unreal vendor Epic Games and Unity have both seen their user-bases mushroom overnight since launching versions of their own engines that, while tied to different royalty rates, are completely free to download and operate. Now the CryEngine 3 group has revealed it wants to tap into this thriving market. The firm's CEO Cevat Yerli told Develop that Crytek already gives away a CryEngine 2 editor to the mod community, but explained that Crytek's expansion strategy stretches beyond. 'We have a very vivid community of users and modders and content creators, and usually that's a great way of unlocking the engine,' he said. ... 'So far that's what we've been offering for free, and it's easy entry into the production environment. [But] we do want to make a standalone free platform that people can run independent of CryEngine that will also be up to speed with the latest engine.'"
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/0...of-CryENGINE-3
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April 13th, 2010, 18:34 Posted By: wraggster
The largest scandal in e-sports history is currently unfolding in Korea, with revelations that a number of current pro gamers are involved with match setups and illegal betting. While the gamers are unnamed at this point, the story is said to touch many A-list StarCraft celebrities, including sAviOr, Ja Mae Yoon, one of the best-known and most successful players of all time
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/0...al-Rocks-Korea
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April 13th, 2010, 00:46 Posted By: wraggster
GamePolitics reports that South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has announced two new policies that will force underage gamers to pick a six-hour block of time (midnight-6 AM,1-7 AM, or 2-8 AM) where they will not be able to play 19 online role-playing games. While it targets most popular MMORPGs, some popular games like Lineage were left off the list
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/0...uts-For-Youths
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April 11th, 2010, 12:25 Posted By: wraggster
UK development group Monumental is the newest company revealed to have imaginatively used torrent sites to bolster the popularity of its games.
Monumental COO Paul Mayze said the firm uploaded its MMO Football Superstars onto torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay – a measure which saw the game’s download numbers jump.
Speaking during a panel discussion at the State of Independence conference in York, Mayze explained that, despite Football Superstars being free to play, people were put off downloading it due to its large file size.
The company’s elegant solution was to upload athe data onto file-sharing sites – a strategy which, according to Mayze, saw a notable rise in the number of downloads for the free-to-play title.
The revelation comes just a few months after developer RedLynx admitted to leaking an abridged version of Trials onto file-sharing sites in order to tempt pirates into playing a full version of the game.
Develop 100
With piracy still an inestimably vast problem for the industry, it appears that more game developers are speaking openly about ways of making lemonade from the situation.
For Monumental, the primary goal for Football Superstars has always been to get the game running on as many PCs as possible – only then will each game open up its own monetisation models.
Mayze’s was speaking during a panel discussion which explored the emerging and disruptive social game space.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/3...rent-data-leak
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April 11th, 2010, 12:07 Posted By: wraggster
Blizzard recently announced a cadre of class-specific additions coming to its upcoming ruinous expansion pack, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. If you're currently rolling through Azeroth, owning fools while playing as a Death Knight, Hunter, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock or Warrior, you can get an early glimpse at some of the new powers and revamped mechanics the expansion will bring your way.
If you're having a hard time understanding what all these changes really mean, we suggest checking out our loot-obsessed sister site, WoW.com, for a detailed analysis of these changes. For instance, we just learned that the Rogue's new "Smoke Bomb" ability will change them from merchants of death into invisible merchants of death. How fun!
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/10/bl...class-changes/
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April 10th, 2010, 09:50 Posted By: wraggster
Ubisoft's told Eurogamer that its "online services platform" for PC games will "evolve and improve" and is most certainly here to stay.
"Most forthcoming Ubisoft PC titles will use our online services platform," a spokesperson explained, adding, "As with any online technology, we are constantly working to evolve and improve it."
Ubisoft's online platform requires PC gamers to be connected to the internet while they play. But problems arise when authentication servers are unavailable or unresponsive. This was felt first with Assassin's Creed II and Silent Hunter V and then more recently with Settlers 7.
The result has been fans unable to play games they've purchased, sometimes for days at a time.
Upcoming Ubisoft PC titles include Splinter Cell Conviction, Pure Football, R.U.S.E., I Am Alive TrackMania 2, Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands and Ghost Recon Future Soldier.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ub...evolve-improve
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April 10th, 2010, 09:49 Posted By: wraggster
Blizzard has announced that it will release a lavish Collector's Edition of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty when the hotly anticipated real-time strategy sequel launches later this year.
For the princely sum of €89.99 - the price in Her Majesty's Pounds is yet to be confirmed - you'll receive the game, the first in a planned trilogy of releases, and a bulging pack of extras.
These include a 176-page art book; a 2GB USB flash drive, preloaded with copies of the original StarCraft and its Brood War expansion, in the shape of Jim Raynor's dog tag; a behind-the-scenes DVD and soundtrack CD; a comic book, prequel to a forthcoming comic series; and an exclusive in-game pet for World of Warcraft, a miniature Thor unit.
You'll also get some exclusive downloadable bonuses for your account on the brand-spanking new Battle.net service: portraits for your profile, decals to customise your in-game units and a "visually unique version" of the Thor.
Most importantly, it all comes in a big, heavy box.
If you don't fancy the Collector's Edition you can always pick up the standard edition of the game (suggested retail price: €59.99) at retail, or shortly after launch, as a download from the Blizzard Store.
In related news, StarCraft II lead designer Dustin Browder has suggested to Game Informer that players should invest some serious time in the online game - 30 to 60 hours - before tackling one-on-one multiplayer.
He views co-operative play versus AI, and team matches, to be stepping stones to what could be the toughest challenge in competitive gaming.
"We're definitely going to be looking at Achievements and other tools to encourage our players, once they graduate from co-operative vs. AI to move into team play before they move into 1v1... It's a much more casual environment than the 1v1... We really consider the 1v1 the final, endgame, arena-style gameplay that we hope players will only get to after 30, 40, 50, 60 hours played depending on their enthusiasm for it." Fear it.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will also include challenge mode mini-games to introduce solo players to the basics of multiplayer strategy, and, of course, a full-length solo campaign in which players will lead Terran forces.
It still has no release date, but is expected in the first half of this year - so before the end of June - for PC and Mac.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/st...ition-detailed
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April 8th, 2010, 20:18 Posted By: wraggster
From tomorrow, Steam's allowing anyone and everyone free access to Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer.
This free weekend ends on Sunday, however, so look lively - game clients can be pre-loaded now.
Modern Warfare 2 has enough multiplayer depth to be classed as an MMO - certainly some of the game's biggest fans have poured-in staggering amounts of time.
We wonder if this free weekend has anything to do with the presence of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Wouldn't be fair to speculate, we suppose.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/mw...m-this-weekend
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April 7th, 2010, 23:15 Posted By: wraggster
Ubisoft has said that DRM problems being encountered by players of The Settlers 7 still haven't been "completely resolved" despite the game having been out for nearly two weeks.
Many users have reported problems with establishing and maintaining the constant internet connection required by Ubisoft's DRM to play the game, and the official forum has been flooded with such complaints.
"Settlers 7 players have encountered difficulties playing the game over the [Easter] holiday weekend due to issues with servers that do matchmaking in multiplayer mode and that keep track of profiles, campaign progression and stats in both solo and multi modes," Ubisoft told Eurogamer today.
"Our technical teams have made progress but we are not yet able to say that the issue is completely resolved."
Ubisoft added that users would be updated on progress via The Settlers 7 forum.
The publisher has blamed previous problems playing Assassin's Creed II and Silent Hunter V on attacks to its servers by hackers protesting about the new DRM measures.
Ubisoft subsequently offered compensation in the form of free downloadable content to those that had been affected by the server outages.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...r-drm-problems
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April 7th, 2010, 23:14 Posted By: wraggster
Korean 2D beat 'em-up Dungeon Fighter Online has gained a total of over 197 million registered users worldwide, according to publisher Nexon.
Due to be launched in North America this June, the game is a 2D scrolling beat 'em-up with role-playing elements, similar to classic Capcom coin-ops such as Knights Of The Round.
The game is free-to-play but features an in-game currency which must be paid for using real funds.
According to Nexon America beta testing for the game has seen the virtual death of more than 1.6 billion monsters and the exploration of 25 million dungeons. Over 28 million player versus player clashes have also been recorded.
The game was first launched in South Korea in 2005. It was released in China in 2007, where peak concurrent connections of two million users was registered - a current world record.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...at-197-million
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April 6th, 2010, 22:47 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://www.aep-emu.de/
L++ is a Lemmings variant featuring singleplayer and networked multiplayer.
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WIP: 2010-03-22
Dead lem bugfix
If you nuked or assigned an exploder to a lem and he died before the
explosion, he would still explode some time after he was killed. This
is now fixed.
2010-03-11
Builder sound
The sound that builders and platformers make while placing their last
bricks will only play for own lemmings during a network game. Before,
it played in lower volume for other players as well, which was very
distracting.
2010-03-09-02
Chat bugfix
Skill hotkeys and similar things are now disabled while the player is
typing things into the chat text field.
Background switching
The game will now continue to run while it is in the background.
It might be that some versions before didn´t do that.
http://lplusplus.co.cc/
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April 6th, 2010, 22:44 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://www.aep-emu.de/
Wormux is a free (GNU-GPL) remake of the game Worms.
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Wormux 0.9.1 is out ! Here is the changelog:
* Bugfixes:
o Fix shoot key handling when user exceeds the weapon max strength
o Fix: Do not apply damage from explosion twice
o Fix rope size check when attaching
o Fix some memory leaks
o And some others...
* One new skin: bugzilla
* One new map: chess map
* 4 new musics: circux, diabolicux, exoticux and woodlux
* Menu improvement: better management of tabs on small screen.
* Cleaner code
* Update translations
http://wormux.org/wiki/en/index.php
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April 6th, 2010, 22:38 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://www.aep-emu.de/
Vavoom is a source port based on sources of Doom, Heretic, Hexen and a little bit from Quake. Supported platforms are DOS, Windows and Linux.
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For some time there haven´t been much work done, but that hopefully will change. Since it´s been more than a year since last release, I decided to release a new version now. There ain´t really big changes, mostly bug fixes and improvements. Enjoy.
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Version 1.31
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* Added support for writing screenshots in PNG and JPG formats.
* Auto-aim can be turned off.
* Implemented saving of the game into a single file.
* Added basic model frame interpolation.
* Support for basic parsing of GLDEFS variants.
* Implemented multiple missing DECORATE features.
* Many bug fixes.
http://www.vavoom-engine.com/
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April 6th, 2010, 22:37 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://www.aep-emu.de/
PrBoom-plus is a Doom source port based on PrBoom.
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2.5.0.7.test @ 2010-Mar-27 12:30 - win32 build, sources
[-]Fixed HOM at sectors 226 and 300 on E1M1 @ OTTAWAU.WAD. Fix affects only vanilla complevels, because Boom´s behavior is different. newtechn.wad is also fixed.
[-]Fixed -trace_thingshealth issue.
[-]Fixed crash when demo footer and re-record are used.
[-]Full path stored in demo footer for Dehacked patches.
[-]Music goes wrong from 1:15 with timidity on doom2.wad map05.
[-]SDL_mixer´s native MIDI music playing does not pause properly. As a workaround, set the volume to 0 when paused and "mus_pause_opt 1".
[-]Boom colormaps should not be applied twice for hires textures
http://prboom-plus.sourceforge.net/
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April 6th, 2010, 22:36 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://www.aep-emu.de/
OpenArena is a free and open content package for the id tech3 GPL source code. This vesion has been released in February.
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- UI restyling by Udi. In case you have not noticed, OA is now blue!
- New effects: rocket smoke, shotgun sparks, flares.
- New maps include:
* am_underworks, am_underworks2, hydronex2 from ArmageddonMan
* blitzkrieg3 from ArmageddonMan and Boczeq
* oa_koth2 from cosmo
* ps9ctf, ps37ctf from PsYthe
- Map improvments include ctf_compromise, ctf_gate1, ctf_inyard and oa_minia
- Angelyss team skins are more colorful
- 3 new player skins, one for Beret, one for Assassin and one for Angelyss
- New inclusion of the ´Challenge´ system. Read here for details about it.
- Empty servers without humans with ´only humans´ set is now really really empty
- Voting menu
- Different styles of weapon bars
- Various gameplay bugs fixed, like LMS survivor bug,
- New server admin system as explained here.
- Bots are much improved and understand the gameplay objectives better of the latter gametypes (Harvester, Overload, etc)
http://www.openarena.ws/
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April 6th, 2010, 22:35 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://www.aep-emu.de/
Open Sonic, an open source project that aims to provide a free Sonic clone. This version has been released in February.
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Changelog:
* Tails has gained a new move: now he is able to pick up the other characters and carry them around
* Improved the level editor (it includes a bigger work area and new buttons)
* New level editor feature: grids
* New level editor feature: groups. You can now easily place groups of objects in your level. Useful to make loops and other common structures
* New level editor features: undo and redo
* New translations: German, Polish, Czech
* New songs: options screen and stage cleared
* New screen: options screen
* Removed the launcher program
* Improved the joystick programming. Just plug your joypad before starting the game and start playing!
* New icon
* New engine feature: bricks have a z-index property. Now it´s possible to design background/foreground bricks
* New engine feature: clouds. Clouds are types of bricks also known as "one-way platforms"
* Implemented jump sensitivity and spindash through multiple boxes
* Centered Tails´ sprites when jumping
* Improved the GUI/HUD
* New level: Chilpoctli Temple Zone (user-made graphics - thanks, Celdecea!)
* New level: Template (user-made graphics)
* Custom quests may be launched via command line using the --quest option (see opensonic --help)
* Removed the Master Quest
* New quests: Extra levels, Super Bosses
* Updated the docs
* Code improvements
* Bugfixes and lots of small changes
http://opensnc.sourceforge.net/home/index.php
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