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April 10th, 2009, 23:14 Posted By: wraggster
Phoronix is running a news story about the XreaL project, which its lead developer claims is the most advanced open-source game engine. XreaL is based upon the vintage Quake 3 engine, but it has been rewritten over the course of many months such that it no longer resembles the original id Software engine. The XreaL engine has its renderer written entirely in GLSL with compliance toward the OpenGL ES 2.0 specification in mind, but it supports the new OpenGL 3.0/3.1 specification and is able to take advantage of its new features. XreaL has also added an HDR pipeline to its engine and on modern hardware is actually GPU — not CPU — bottlenecked. XreaL can also load game content from Unreal Tournament 3. This engine, which is described to be as powerful as what can be found in Doom 3 or Call of Duty 4, is written entirely with free software. The XreaL project has created plug-ins for Maya to broaden their game development capabilities.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl.../04/10/0541217
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April 10th, 2009, 22:50 Posted By: wraggster
Frogster America, Inc. today announced that just three weeks after the launch of Runes of Magic, the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) that is redefining the standard for free-to-play titles, the company is already expanding the game world with a new zone. The previously announced high-level zone, Ravenfell is now open and available for adventurers to explore.
The newly launched update adds new features including challenges for level 45-50 players in a Caribbean setting, bringing Runes of Magic's total quest-count up to more than 1,600 quests. Additionally the 'Ruins of the Ice Dwarf Kingdom' dungeon will challenge mid-level players, sending them to the forgotten fortress of the Ice Dwarves. Offering something of a change from levelling and collecting equipment, the 'Wind-Runner Races' are already live as the second mini-game in the fantasy world of Taborea. Level 35 and above heroes can look forward to new elite skills which will further expand their dual class abilities.
However, there are features for new players as well. A completely redesigned tutorial eases the path for budding heroes as they enter the game world. The update also optimizes the localization of area, item and quest text.
The new features seamlessly join up with the content that was implemented for launch, such as the high-level instance, 'Kalin Shrine.' There is also a new dungeon, 'Treasure Trove' which is set to appear in the near future. You can find out more about the current content as well as comprehensive patch notes, on the official Runes of Magic forum at:http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=11510
About Runes of Magic
With an extensive range of features Runes of Magic is redefining the standard for free-to-play titles. Runes of Magic conveys an absorbing story through more than 1,000 quests in an exciting and dangerous fantasy world. Players can choose between six main classes and combined with a secondary class, choose to create a character from 30 character class combinations. All characters possess unique skills with impressive combo attacks and can use mounts including war horses.
A particularly attractive feature for guilds and players is the ability to decorate their own virtual homes with individual furnishings. Thanks to an extensive crafting and reputation system, thrilling PVP, as well as demanding dungeons and boss monsters, Runes of Magic has something for everyone. The Taiwanese developer Runewaker, has developed Runes of Magic according to western MMO standards and put more than three years of development into the game. The studio will continue to provide new challenges for players every four to five months with free add-ons and updates. MMO fans can find more information, pictures and videos on the official website at: www.runesofmagic.com.
Runes of Magic features:
Free-to-play: no monthly fees, free download
Extensive dual class system (six primary and secondary classes)
Versatile spell- and attack-combinations
Enthralling background story
More than 1,600 quests and quest series
No zone boundaries thanks to seamless architecture
Dungeons: Instanced and tile based as well as persistent
Individually developable skills and spells
Armor sets with special bonuses
Dynamic item system with hundreds of runes for upgrading
Optional PvP system with arena battles and guild wars
Ranking system with player-ranking lists
Multitude of unique mounts
Epic crafting system with the chance to improve existing items
Personalization of player houses through individual furnishing
Reputation system
Customizable user interface with the option to use Add-Ons
Map and radar system to find dealers, resources and quests easily
In-game auction houses for trading items
Teleport-Runes for instant travel
Mouse and keyboard controls for movement
Regular updates with new content
Guild castles in special zones
Cross-server fights in three-server-battle in development
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April 10th, 2009, 22:48 Posted By: wraggster
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Crytek GmbH announced the start of a free trial period for Crysis Wars*, the multiplayer game for Crysis Warhead, the award-winning first-person shooter originally released last Fall. Starting today, gamers can play all of Crysis Wars** online for free including each of the game's three action-packed multiplayer modes and all 23 maps. The free trial period runs until Friday, April 17, 2009.
This trial is designed to give players a sample of the signature action and visuals that only the Crysis series delivered. For those players that want more than just a sample, EA and Crytek will release Crysis Maximum Edition, a compilation of all three Crysis games in one box (Crysis, Crysis Warhead and Crysis Wars). Available beginning May 5th for the MSRP of $39.99, Crysis Maximum Edition is the ultimate Crysis experience.
"When Crysis Wars was released seven months ago, one of our biggest goals was to be able to deliver continued support to our growing multiplayer community," said Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek. "We think we have delivered on that promise, not only by releasing new content, fixes and our powerful MOD SDK, but also by continuing to offer these types of free trials."
Crysis Wars supports matches for up to 32 players and contains three distinct gameplay modes; InstantAction, frenetic deathmatch enhanced by the power of the nanosuit, PowerStruggle, a hardcore team-based mode and TeamInstantAction, a mix of fast-paced action in a team-based environment.
Also available now is Crytek's powerful MOD SDK editor tool, which allows gamers to tap their inner game designer to make maps and mods for Crysis Wars both multi-and-single player. All player-generated maps for multiplayer will be accessible to the entire community during this free trial period.
Crysis, Crysis Warhead and Crysis Wars are all rated 'M' for Mature by the ESRB and 18+ by PEGI. For more information about everything Crysis, please visit www.mycrysis.com.
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April 10th, 2009, 22:46 Posted By: wraggster
Matrix Games (www.matrixgames.com), Tri Synergy (www.trisynergy.com), and GFI (www.gfi.su) are thrilled to announce that Matrix Games will be bringing the World War II real time strategy game Officers to its digital download store & that Tri Synergy will be handling Officers retail distribution!
David Heath, Director of Operations at Matrix Games, said "Officers does a great job of bringing gamers exciting World War II action on an epic scale. There's nothing quite as visually spectacular as watching dozens of tanks and infantry units clash on a destructible battlefield in all-out combat!"
Defeat the Axis Menace!
Officers puts you in command of the Allied force in the largest conflict of our time. Take control of the US and British armies in order to strike back and defeat the Axis menace on the Western front of Europe. With over 1500 units on maps up to 10 square miles, Officers is the first WWII real time strategy game to let you fight on a truly massive scale. Historical battles like Operation Overlord, Millennium, and Cobra will put your tactical skills to the test using combined forces from infantry and engineers to tanks, artillery and bombers.
Blazing speed and blunt force will only secure victory if you extend your supply lines and capture enemy weaponry and warehouses. Take the high ground and use terrain to your advantage with fully realistic physics and ballistics – only sound tactical maneuver will keep your men alive!
Features include:
Lead the Allied forces across gigantic battlegrounds up to 10 square miles
Control over 50 authentic infantry, armor, artillery and aircraft units
Experience the most massive battles of World War II with up to 1500 units at once
Use real tactics with terrain and combined forces with authentic vehicle and infantry characteristics
Destroy nearly anything, anywhere with advanced physics and a fully interactive environment
Keep your supply lines guarded and capture enemy resources and weapons
Officers will also be available via Tri Synergy at software retailers nationwide. Get more information on Officers from its product page at Matrix Games or Tri Synergy's product page.
ESRB Rating: EVERYONE +10 with MILD VIOLENCE.
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April 10th, 2009, 22:44 Posted By: wraggster
Mezmer Games today announced that the arcade RTS game Stalin vs. Martians will be released worldwide through all major digital games retailers on April 20, 2009. Stalin vs. Martians is a blazingly fast real-time strategy game developed by an alliance of three independent studios: Black Wing Foundation, Dreamlore and N-Game.
The announcement and earlier video from Stalin vs. Martians has triggered a huge interest in the game, with well over 100,00 views of the video on YouTube.
Tom S?derlund, Executive Producer at Mezmer Games, explains, "One contributing factor to the success could be the high level of historical accuracy, that is completely missing from the game."
For more information, please visit: http://www.mezmergames.com/group/stalinvsmartians
Watch the latest trailer, "Smooth Moves with Stalin vs. Martians" here:
About Mezmer Games
Mezmer Games is a new independent games label, focusing on great games from small game studios. As box retail is becoming increasingly expensive, sluggish, and non-eco-friendly, we help indie developers reach a large audience through download distribution. We work exclusively with digital distribution and alternative channels. With the Mezmer Marketing Machine, we give the indie titles the attention they warrant through clever marketing and PR. Mezmer Games is a wholly owned business unit of Paradox Interactive. Read more: http://www.mezmergames.com/
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April 9th, 2009, 21:57 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
Speaking to Nick Ryan for Eurogamer's Gold Trading Exposed feature series, a Blizzard spokesperson has explained the company's firm opposition to real money trading (RMT).
"Many people don't realise that the companies selling services for World of Warcraft often target the players they've sold their services to," said the spokesperson.
"Once these companies have access to an account, they will often turn around and sell the equipment and gold on the account or the actual account itself – if not immediately, then at some point down the line. In effect, players actually end up purchasing gold, items, or entire accounts stolen from other players."
Blizzard also argued that the negative effect of the gold trade could be seen in the drain on its own customer service and development resources which could otherwise be concentrated directly on the game.
"Beyond the direct impact that these companies can have on individual players, their actions end up affecting everyone who plays World of Warcraft in that the time and effort we have to put into assistance, education and our various countermeasures ends up taking time away from our normal development and customer service efforts," the spokesperson said.
Elsewhere in this week's final instalment of Gold Trading Exposed, it's revealed that RuneScape developer Jagex lost a considerable proportion of its membership when it chose to ban all accounts involved in gold selling.
"They lost 10 per cent of their membership, and still haven't recovered in terms of numbers since they did it two years ago," an anonymous ex-Jagex source told Ryan.
"Even though they have almost stopped gold selling in RuneScape, it has cost them two million active accounts; i.e. there were four million players, there are now two million players, of which less than one million actually subscribe," he said.
Ryan finds that companies like Jagex, CCP and Sony Online Entertainment are now seeking alternative ways to thwart gold selling - rather than the straightforward banning approach of Blizzard and Warhammer Online's Mythic.
Jagex has rebalanced RuneScape's economy and trading system, CCP has introduced an exchange of game time for currency in EVE Online, and SOE has tried authorised real money auction houses on some EverQuest II servers.
Previous chapters of Gold Trading Exposed have dealt with the players and the sellers themselves, as well as offering an overview of the trade.
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April 9th, 2009, 13:17 Posted By: wraggster
A jury has ordered Microsoft to pay $388M to security software firm Uniloc, who alleged back in 2003 that Microsoft infringed on the firm's patents with activation schemes in, among other things, Windows.
One way to look at this—the hasty, vindictive, techno-populist way—is to see this whole thing as some kind of cosmic rebalancing, in which Microsoft is finally paying a huge, literal price for years of subjecting us to broken product activation runarounds in virtually every major piece of software they've released in the last eight years. Their 30 days is up, their trial period (ha!) over, etc etc etc.
Another way: A gigantic company, who has produced loads of useful products despite succumbing to the temptations of overbearing antipiracy measures, has been forced to shovel an ungodly sum of money to a company that only produces overbearing antipiracy measures. So, hurray.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5204941/microso...ntipiracy-tech
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April 9th, 2009, 13:11 Posted By: wraggster
On April 6th, Wizards of the Coast took all of their PDF products offline, including those sold at third-party websites like RPGNow.com. From the RPGNow front page: 'Wizards of the Coast has instructed us to suspend all sales and downloads of Wizards of the Coast titles. Unfortunately, this includes offering download access to previously purchased Wizards of the Coast titles.' Wizards of the Coast also posted a press release to their website that states they are suing eight file sharers for 'copyright infringement,' and WotC_Trevor posted a short explanation about the cessation of PDF sales to the EN World Forums.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl.../04/08/1324213
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April 9th, 2009, 12:54 Posted By: wraggster
China's online games market will exceed USD 5.5 billion by 2012, according to Pearl Research, which estimated that the market grew more than 63 per cent to USD 2.8 billion in 2008.
The study, entitled "Games Market in China", reported that six online game operators, including Tencent, Changyou, The9, Netease, Shanda and Giant each brought in more than USD 200 million in revenue last year.
"Trends to track in 2009 include the growth of social networking sites in China, with over 55 million users, and their cross-pollination with games," commented Allison Luong, MD of Pearl Research.
"One overall concern is the lack of diversification with many game operators relying on a single title for the bulk of revenues. In addition, a glut of content with more than 200 games on the market, makes releasing a breakout hit increasingly difficult."
China's most popular online games were named, with Netease's Fantasy Westward Journey leading the pack at 1.8 million peak concurrent users, followed by Giant's Zhengtu Online at 1.5 million.
Tencent's Dungeon and Fighter hit 1.2 million concurrent users, while Blizzard's World of Warcraft, operated in the region by The9, came in at 1 million users.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...SD5-5b-by-2012
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April 8th, 2009, 13:19 Posted By: wraggster
Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, and Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising (Fox L&M), today announced Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian for Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PC. Developed by Amaze Entertainment and Pipeworks, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian will launch in advance of Twentieth Century Fox's highly-anticipated theatrical release of the same name debuting in theaters May 22nd. Featuring the voice and likeness of the film's star, Ben Stiller, the video game recreates the excitement and humor from the feature film as players adventure through Smithsonian exhibits that come alive at night.
"The original Night at the Museum movie was a true blockbuster in every sense of the word, having earned more than $250 million domestically and almost $600 million worldwide," said Jesse Sutton, Chief Executive Officer, Majesco Entertainment. "The movie sequel has tremendous potential and at long last fans of the franchise can enjoy the museum magic at home in a videogame that extends the big screen experience."
"The Night at the Museum franchise lends itself perfectly to the type of gaming experience that Majesco is creating. It's an action-packed adventure that is sure to amaze and entertain people of all ages," said Elie Dekel, Executive Vice President Licensing and Merchandising for Fox L&M.
In Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, players assume the role of Ben Stiller's character, Larry Daley, former night guard of New York's Museum of Natural History. Larry must rescue Jedediah and his other friends from Akhmenrah's brother who captured them while stealing a powerful Magic Tablet that can raise the Army of Horus to take over the world. Daley is well aware of the havoc that history's most notorious figures can wreak when the sun goes down and the museum exhibits come alive. He races to DC to help his friends in the Smithsonian. Using Larry's trusty key chain and flashlight, players must solve puzzles and adventure through 14 levels including the Federal Archives, the National Air and Space Museum and the Lincoln Memorial. Gamers can travel in style on the back of a T-Rex skeleton, within the Lunar Lander and in the cockpit of Amelia Earhart's Pitcairn Autogyro. Along the way, players must find pieces of the Magic Tablet and collect other items to unlock mini-games, new areas and bonus content from the Smithsonian including trivia questions, in-game audio tours and factoids.
About Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Get ready for a story so epic it could only unfold in the corridors of the world's largest museum- the Smithsonian Institution. Museum guard-turned entrepreneur Larry Daley discovers that his favorite exhibits, and some of his best friends, from New York's Natural History Museum are being shipped off to the archives at the Smithsonian. Larry gets a distress call from the miniature cowboy, Jedediah, reporting that Egyptian ruler Kahmunrah and a trio of heinous henchmen - namely Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon and Al Capone - are plotting to take over the museum, then the world. Speeding to the nation's capitol, Larry is clearly in over his head. But with some impressive new pals, including the irrepressible Amelia Earhart, along with familiar friends Teddy Roosevelt and Octavius, Larry will stop at nothing to restore the Smithsonian before dawn.
Specific to the DS:
Nintendo DS owners can also experience the spirit and humor of the movie in an entertaining side-scrolling adventure. Players use the Touch Screen to manage magic tablet pieces that change Larry's abilities in real-time. Cling to walls, super jump, fly, shrink, charge and stomp your way through the Smithsonian while using Larry's flashlight and key chain to navigate exhibits.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian will launch on Wii, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and PC on May 5th. The feature length film releases nationwide on May 22nd. For additional information about Majesco's exciting line of products, please visit: www.majescoentertainment.com.
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April 8th, 2009, 13:18 Posted By: wraggster
Got Game Entertainment LLC today announced that "Hinterland: Orc Lords" (PC), the fast paced RPG combat and strategic base building game, will be available for download purchase (via Hinterland-Game.com) and in retail stores across North America the first week of May 2009. "Hinterland: Orc Lords" is rated "T" for Teen by the ESRB for Alcohol Reference/Fantasy Violence/Mild Blood and will retail for $19.99.
Loot. Level. Build.
In "Hinterland: Orc Lords", the king has charged you with taming a wild territory of his realm by building a prosperous town and conquering all enemy sites in the region. You must bring a diverse cast of followers to your settlement, and then carefully select members of your village to join you on expeditions of exploration and conquest in the surrounding lands. There, you will encounter the characters and creatures of myth and folklore, and find much needed resources to expand your village, from iron to make weapons to a mystic tome to entice a great mage to join you. Should your forays meet with success, fame, fortune and prosperity await. But you must take care, for even the loss of a lowly farmer can spell disaster at harvest time.
"Hinterland: Orc Lords" Features:
Party-based RPG Action - Variety of characters, weapons, and strategies. Will you lead the charge with a two-handed strike or stand behind the armored herder with your bow?
Town Building - Choose who will settle in your town. Arm them for defense, or give them tools for production.
Character Development - Command an Orc tribe as Lord or Shaman, or lead a Human village as Human, Dwarf, Elf, or even Undead Warrior. Develop lowly farmers into great warriors. Customize your character to help in adventure or improve village life.
Random Fantasy World - New locations with different resources, items, enemies, and challenges for maximum replay. Orc war camps, dark elf raiding parties, goblin infested mines, ruined undead cities, and more.
Customizable Gameplay - From hardcore game to a world without raiders, you decide the type of game you play.
For more information, visit the game's official website at Hinterland-Game.com.
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April 8th, 2009, 13:16 Posted By: wraggster
Massively is running a story that looks into the status of the sci-fi MMO genre, and why such games have had a tendency to struggle over the years. Quoting:
"Fantasy alone carries with it assumptions based in our own history, a romanticized version of the middle ages where knights were good guys and smart people with beards could cast spells. Preconceived notions in sci-fi are far less cast in our collective memory. While stories that predict the future are surely as ancient as the myths describing the past, sci-fi itself didn't really ingrain itself into our culture until the 1800s, with H.G. Wells' stories and other writers at the cusp of the Industrial Revolution. ... Compounding the lack of specificity in setting is the tendency of sci-fi games to overwhelm players with skills and rule sets they initially don't understand and eventually don't need."
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl.../04/08/0515256
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April 8th, 2009, 11:33 Posted By: wraggster
Konami's survival horror take on one of the most infamous clashes during the Iraq war in 2004, Six Days in Fallujah, has drawn in calls for its ban by British military veterans, family members of soldiers and anti-war groups.
"Considering the enormous loss of life in the Iraq War, glorifying it in a videogame demonstrates very poor judgement and bad taste," Reg Keys, whose son Thomas was killed by a mob in Iraq while serving as a Red Cap, told the Daily Mail. "It is particularly crass when you consider what actually happened in Fallujah."
"These horrific events should be confined to the annuls of history, not trivialised and rendered for thrill-seekers to play out, over and over again, for ever more. Even worse, it could end up in the hands of a fanatical young Muslim and incite him to consider some form of retaliation or retribution. He could use it to get worked up and want to really finish the game.
"I will be calling for this game to be banned, if not worldwide then certainly in the UK," he said.
Tim Collins OBE, a former colonel famed for an eve-of-battle speech in 2003, agreed.
"It's much too soon to start making videogames about a war that's still going on, and an extremely flippant response to one of the most important events in modern history," he said. "It's particularly insensitive given what happened in Fallujah, and I will certainly oppose the release of this game."
Best-selling author and former SAS soldier Andy McNab, however, defended Six Days in Fallujah. War, he said, has been peddled as entertainment by the media for years.
Furthermore, he argued that the UK does not understand the Fallujah conflict in the same way as the Americans - a nation that lost "more soldiers [in Fallujah] than the whole of the British Army has in Iraq and Afghanistan combined".
"Culturally it is totally different in the US," McNab told TechRadar. "In America it is not as if this is 'shock horror' - everybody has been watching it on the news for the last seven years. The hypocrisy is in the fact that when the media wants a 'shock horror' story they will focus on something like this.
"In America a 90-year-old and a 12-year-old will know what happened at Fallujah. It's on the TV, there are books about it. The game is a natural extension to that; it is folklore. The only difference being that it is presented in a different medium.
"If the game stands up and offers Americans those soldiers' stories, then, why not?" he said.
Plus, added McNab, America's Army has been simulating real-life events for years, and really this is no different to "killing Nazis or drug dealers" in other games; games that he has seen soldiers playing on laptops while on tour in Basra. "Culturally they are more up for it," he concluded.
In direct contrast to his approach, however, was the Stop the War Coalition peace group, who said glorifying the Fallujah "massacre" is "sick".
"The massacre carried out by American and British forces in Fallujah in 2004 is amongst the worst of the war crimes carried out in an illegal and immoral war," spokesperson Tansy E Hoskins told TechRadar.
"It is estimated that up to 1,000 civilians died in the bombardment and house-to-house raids carried out by invading troops. So many people were killed in Fallujah that the town's football stadium had to be turned into a cemetery to cope with all the dead bodies.
"There is nothing to celebrate in the death of people resisting an unjust and bloody occupation. To make a game out of a war crime and to capitalise on the death and injury of thousands is sick.
"There will never be a time when it is appropriate for people to play at committing atrocities," added Tansy. "The massacre in Fallujah should be remembered with shame and horror not glamorised and glossed over for entertainment."
Vice president Anthony Crouts told the Wall Street Journal that Konami was "not trying to make a social commentary".
"We're not pro-war," he added. "We're not trying to make people feel uncomfortable. We just want to bring a compelling entertainment experience... At the end of the day, it's just a game."
Six Days in Fallujah is in development at Atomic Games and will be released next year in the US. There are no platforms mentioned yet, but PC, 360 and PS3 look likely. UK plans are yet to be announced.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...e-under-fire_8
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April 8th, 2009, 11:25 Posted By: wraggster
Blizzard's mega-MMO World of Warcraft has seen its latest expansion, Wrath of the Lich King - which was released in November last year - climb back to the top of the US PC sales chart as the release spike for Empire: Total War fell away.
That's according to the latest data from NPD covering the week ending March 28, which also revealed that the average sales price for the title was USD 33 compared to Empire's USD 46.
The Sims 2: Double Deluxe continued its seemingly endless run in the chart in third, the first of two Sims 2 titles, while the World of Warcraft Battle Chest took fourth place.
The two most expensive games in the top ten, at USD 47 on average apiece, were next - Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II was followed by Spore.
Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst took seventh, with the original World of Warcraft game still selling in eighth, while The Sims 2: Apartment Life and Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway rounded out the top ten list.
Activision Blizzard therefore took four of the slots, with EA grabbing three and Sega, THQ and Ubisoft bagging one each.
The full top ten is as follows:
1. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
2. Empire: Total War
3. The Sims 2: Double Deluxe
4. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest
5. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
6. Spore
7. Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst
8. World of Warcraft
9. The Sims 2: Apartment Life
10. Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...-pc-chart-lead
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April 8th, 2009, 11:21 Posted By: wraggster
We've already covered the plethora of Windows 7 versions, starting with the gimpy Starter edition and then running all the way up to Ultimate (which, we can now confirm, will not include a bag of chips). Microsoft's grand scheme is for users to start with what they need and pay to unlock additional functionality, upgrading their way to the top rung of the the Windows 7 ladder. But, it's now coming to light that the company will also allow downgrades -- not to simpler versions of Win 7, but to earlier operating systems like Vista and even XP. Yes, OEM manufacturers can still keep shipping XP Pro by "downgrading" Windows 7 machines through the end of April, 2010, and while HP is the only one advertising this, you can be sure they won't be alone. Interestingly these machines will still come with free Windows 7 upgrades, hopefully enticing users to give it a shot, but if they don't like it they are allowed to go back to XP on their own. Details for user-driven downgrades are a bit light at the moment, though, so don't be surprised if it requires a little fdisk action.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/m...llowing-downg/
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April 7th, 2009, 19:33 Posted By: wraggster
New from Chinavision
20000 mAH portable solar charger and battery for recharging your laptop PC or mobile phone anywhere. Either plug this laptop and cell phone accessory into your car or a wall plug to quickly recharge the battery, or go all green and convert solar energy to electrical energy. This is a multi use item that lets you recharge anything from 5V products such as your ipod or mobile phone, to almost any 16V ~ 22V laptop, and with the incredible amount of included adapters, you will never have to worry about which product you plug in. Simply select the current for your product, attach the correct adapter, and watch it charge.
This is a perfect device for anyone in the wild, at home, or just about anywhere you can think of, and comes with Chinavasion's one year warranty and super low wholesale savings.
At a Glance...
Battery with solar energy recharge for today's most popular cell phones and laptops.
This portable power source can be recharged quickly via AC adapter or via the sun when you plan your recharging schedule ahead.
China Manufacturer Specifications
Capacity: 20000 mAH (74W/h)
Output
- USB: 5V/ 500mA
- Voltage Port: Selectable 16V, 18V, 22V (all 3000mA max)
Input: 18V/ 2000mA max
Solar Panel Type: Polycrystalline
Charging Time
- AC: approx 3 hrs
- Solar: approx 8~10 hrs
Working Temperature: -5 ~ +60 deg C
Dimension: 205mm x 282mm x 18mm (L x W x D)
Manufacturer Ref.: DOSSS8Z2YDF1
Other Features:
Circuit Protection
- Overcharge
- Discharge
- Short Circuit
- Heat
Included Wall AC Adapter + Car Cigarette Power Adapter
Included 11 Laptop Adapters to work with most laptops
- ASUS, HP, Samsung, ACer/T1, Dell, IBM, NEC, Toshiba, Sony
Included 13 Mobile Phone Adapter to work with most mobile phones
- Motorola, LG, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens, Sony Erickson, Apple
Ultrasonic Mosquito Speaker: Emits high pitched frequency sound to repel mosquitoes
Accessories:
Manual
Mobile Phone Adapters
Laptop Adapters
AC Power Adapter
Car Cigarette Power Adapter
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April 7th, 2009, 12:08 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released:
The Leisure Suit Larry® Box Office Bust video game gives gamers an all-access pass to the glitz, glamour and gorgeous women of Tinseltown. In this third-person adventure game, Larry takes a summer job working on his uncle Larry’s movie lot doing odd jobs and trying to uncover a mole from another studio who threatens to air the studio’s dirty laundry in the tabloids.
Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust is a rollicking, innuendo-laden lampoon of Hollywood that features open world sand box game play that includes exploration, platforming, racing and puzzle-solving to complete missions. Additionally, the game will feature an all-new Directors Game that allows the player to create their very own “Larry Feature.”
http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-2tde.html
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April 7th, 2009, 11:37 Posted By: wraggster
I've heard of exploding computers before, but not like this: The charred body of an Indian software engineer was found sitting in front of a computer he'd been working on after a loud blast.
His body was found sitting in front of the "completely damaged" and burnt computer by his roommate, who had rushed out of the shower after he heard a blast. He fainted at the sight.
The investigating officers said, "It sounds quite unbelievable. We have not heard of such a case before. But the scene of the accident seems to suggest that the youth was killed in an accident as his body was in the sitting position in front of the burnt computer."
God, that's so horrible.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5200464/man-bur...y-exploding-pc
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April 7th, 2009, 11:27 Posted By: wraggster
Konami (via the LA Times) has announced a game based on the 2004 battle for the Iraqi town of Fallujah. Called Six Days in Fallujah, this game is based on recollections, video, and photos from U.S. Marines who returned from the war and enlisted Atomic Games to tell their story.
The LA Times reports that the game will release some time next year and will be a third-person tactical shooter where players take on the role of U.S. soldiers. It reportedly looks like Medal of Honor or Call of Duty, though the goal is to provide players insight into the historical situation while presenting the horrors of war. Documentary-style video interviews interspersed through the game will tell the real-life stories of the soldiers who experienced the war first-hand.
http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/970/970305p1.html
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