The development team at Blue Omega, responsible for the Unreal mod-turned-game Damnation (PC, 360, PS3), has been entirely laid off. “The entire Blue Omega team was laid off today (well, starting Friday),” wrote former Omega programmer Geoff Rowland on his Twitter account last week. Legal documents dug up by Shacknews ...
Servants of the God-Emperor eager to get their power fists on the beta for Dawn of War 2′s ‘There Is Only War’ update need wait only a little longer, a new blog entry reveals. The beta will begin at 2pm PST on July 1 and run until July 13, handled ...
Another strange entry to the already strange saga of Paleo Entertainment’s indie shooter Merchants of Brooklyn (PC). Merchants, already released on Steam, was today entirely rebranded to “Drug Wars,” originally the title of a free multiplayer component added to the game in mid-June. Users that already own Merchants of Brooklyn ...
Expanding upon the Men of War: Red Tide (PC) announcement, developer Best Way has issued some screenshots and a trailer for its fall-due standalone RTS expansion.[video]14693[/video]Shackvideo users can use the HD Stream.
THIS IS MY DEMOMAN COLUMN! THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT! (Many, many like it.) BUT THIS ONE IS MINE! Hooah! This week I’m being deployed to America’s Army 3, which I’ll admit isn’t actually a demo, but instead a full, free-to-play, first-person shooter created as a recruitment tool by the ...
Did you play through all of Metal Gear Solid 4 and still not really know what a PMC was? Well, you’re going to be confused again with MAG, so here’s a new trailer from Zipper explaining the acronym in relation to the massive multiplayer shooter.MAG, the game that aims to ...
Skateboarding’s prestigious Maloof Money Cup competition is set to arrive in Skate 2 as downloadable content shortly before the real event kicks off in July, EA has announced. The Maloof Money Pack recreates the contest’s park with freeskate, vert and street contests for singleplayer skaters, and online play receiving new ...
Like Napster before it, torrent site The Pirate Bay–notorious for its use as a hub for online piracy–has been acquired by a legitimate company, and its traffic will now be leveraged to sell legitimate content. Internet cafe company Global Gaming Factory paid $7.8 million for the site. The company will ...
I know next to nothing about cars, but one thing I do know is that I love racing games that include comparatively pedestrian vehicles. There’s nothing like racing a high-performance Formula One machine while behind the wheel of a virtual 1992 Ford Taurus station wagon. In that spirit, of the ...
In a research note circulated today, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter predicts that the current console cycle will not expire until 2013 at the earliest–and when the new games come, they will still be wrapped in a box. Pachter’s paints a picture where “ancillary revenues” drawn from digital distribution and ...
Konami today confirmed that its downloadable Vandal Hearts prequel Flames of Judgment, originally expected to hit Xbox Live Arcade in August and PlayStation Network in September, has been pushed back into the ever-vague “winter” release timeframe. The strategy game is said to improve upon the “speedy RPG pace” of the ...
And just like that, the first half of 2009 is coming to a close. A bit sudden, if you ask me. It’s always interesting to see what John Carmack has to say, and his recent interview regarding the iPhone and Doom Resurrection is no exception. I went ahead and bought ...
Following through on word that StarCraft II won’t support LAN play due to “planned technology to be incorporated into Battle.net,” developer Blizzard has provided Joystiq with a further explanation of the controversial decision and the planned technology:We don’t currently plan to support LAN play with StarCraft II, as we are ...
A new Worms 2: Armageddon trailer kicks off a ‘splosion-filled celebration of the original PC Worms Armageddon’s ten-year anniversary in a tea-sparked, sheep-driven manner. [video]14688[/video]Shackvideo users can use the HD Stream. Worms 2: Armageddon arrives Wednesday July 1 on Xbox Live Arcade, packing oodles of bizarre weapons, a new singleplayer ...
Update: When contacted, Electronic Arts told us that it does not comment on rumors. Original: It appears that Steven Spielberg and EA Los Angeles’ long-coming collaboration LMNO has been renamed Eve, based on documents dug up by superannuation. Artist Raffael Dickreuter and motion capture asssitant Melissa Garza both list Steven ...
Traditionally a non-violent sort, Xbox Avatars will soon be able to “fight, throw fireballs, cast spells and much more ” in NinjaBee’s downloadable strategy game Band of Bugs. The developer will release a free update to the game on July 8, which enables Xbox Avatars to be used in the ...
As expected, the iPhone DevTeam made short work out of the new iPhone 3GS and the team is now perfectly capable of jailbreaking the new model. For now, however, the team decided not to release the files for public use. As posted on the DevTeam’s blog: We can jailbreak the ...
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