In the distant future a small group of human exiles have been doomed to fight for survival on the edge of the galaxy. Through military strength, espionage and deceit, a unified Terran government has maintained an uneasy peace. As resources run short, however, these Confederate nations find themselves looking towards the rich worlds of their [...]
Somewhat sooner than expected, Microsoft officially announced today that it has once again expanded its Xbox world collection in Japan. The collection, which as we’ve previously said includes the release of various international titles in Japan, will be expanded again on July 22nd, 2004, with three new titles. The latest additions will be: Magic The [...]
Austin, TEXAS, April 28, 2004— NCsoft® Corporation (KSE: 036570.KS), the world’s leading developer and publisher of online computer games, announces the launch of North American commercial service for Cryptic Studios’ City of Heroes™, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) where players don costumes to become super-powered heroes, and fight against evil to save the [...]
TeamXbox has been known to post some crazy stuff in the past, but oddly enough most of it has been true. Today they have leaked Xbox 2 Hardware Architecture, or at least that’s the rumor.
Xbox 2 will be powered by three processors made by IBM, based on the PowerPC 976 –the first dual-core 97x [...]
Become the greatest conqueror of all time by creating, building and forging the grandest of all empires as you progress through 15 epochs that span more than 10,000 years of history. Introducing new units, powers and leaders through 3 expansive campaigns, Empire Earth 2 will once again set the standard for real-time strategy games with [...]
The forums on Halflife2.Net have some details translated from an article on Half-Life 2 from German print PC Games magazine (thanks Bigun). The post offers hidden-text descriptions of the screenshots in the article, and word from Valve’s Gabe Newell that they are planning to release the game in late summer, along with apologies for the [...]
Over the weekend, Counter-Strike players who logged onto Valve’s Steam Web sites were asked to participate in a hardware survey. The survey was nothing out of the ordinary. It asked the approximately 520,000 respondents about their connection speed (most had 256 to 1,024Kbps), RAM (the majority had 256Mb to 512M, CPU (over 60 percent fell [...]
Bonnier linked to ‘raid’ on Lara Croft publisher Eidos
By Richard Fletcher (Filed: 25/04/2004)
Eidos, the computer-games publisher best known in the City for its “Lara Croft” game, has demanded that a leading broker reveal the identity of a secretive investor who has amassed a £12m stake in the firm.
Rumours of an imminent takeover bid for Eidos [...]
Since there is a director on board now, expect another draft or two. In a nutshell The Fantastic Four (draft four, 02-20-04) is a character piece. I can see why Arad liked Story because of his reputation with character development and relationships. Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of action and some major [...]
Relive the first steps of the Allied forces in their victorious march of Europe’s liberation: the first hours of the beach landing at Omaha Beach, the paratrooper attack on Sainte Mère l’Eglise, the taking of the Cherbourg harbour and of the town of St Lo, operation Cobra, the battle of the Falaise pocket and the [...]
