Archive for April, 2007

David Goyer to Direct Magneto !

Variety is reporting that David Goyer will direct Magneto , the “X-Men” spinoff in development from 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios that centers on the villain played in the original trilogy by Ian McKellen.
comingsoon.net

Marvel Ultimate Alliance content on Live , honest!

This is true because I just downloaded it and was “Smashing” things with the hulk.
After being announced two weeks ago with prices and everything, then promptly disappearing, three content packs for Marvel Ultimate Alliance have finally, actually made their way to the Xbox Live Marketplace. The packs are still the same stuff as before Nightcrawler [...]

Valley Games to reprint Titan, from Avalon Hill

From boardgamenews:
Gone Cardboard News: Titan - Announced from Valley Games
At the 2007 GAMA Trade Show, Valley Games announced another highly-desired and long out-of-print Avalon Hill title that will be coming out in a new edition: Titan.
Yes, Titan. The reprinting of Titan, while dreamed about by hundreds if not thousands of gamers, has long been considered [...]

Company of Heroes v1.51 Patch

Lot of server-side changes included
gamershell.com

Call Of Duty 4 To Be Announced This Saturday

Following up on the post we told you about a few days back. Infinity Ward and Activision have let it be known that the “big announcement” on April 29, 2007, will be the first details on Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. As you may or may not know, COD4 takes place in modern day, [...]

LOTRO Server Downtime - Wednesday, April 25

The LOTRO Servers will be down on Wednesday, April 257:00AM - 11:00AM EDT for a configuration update to address potential congestion issues.
gamerscircle.net

Medal of Honor Airborne Dated

Electronic Arts announced today the release date of Medal of Honor Airborne, the newest installment from EA’s critically-acclaimed Medal of Honor franchise.
teamxbox.com

More Coverage of “The Comic Book Creator Contest”

The “Comic Book Creator Contest” is getting a lot of news coverage. This time its the Hollywood Babble-on.
Hear more about the Comic Book Creator Contest live on NowLive’s Hollywood Babble-on with Marty Keagan. Alex “Lighthouse” von Minden from NCsoft and Kevin Donovan from Planetwide Games will be live at 1:30pm Pacific (4:30pm Eastern) Tuesday, [...]

WKRP in Cincinnati: Season One

With little fanfare and a lot of controversy, the first season DVD box set of the 1970s show “WKRP in Cincinnati” finally arrives on DVD today. Much to the chagrin of fans of the show, much of the original music on the show, from popular artists of the day such as Foreigner and Blondie, has [...]

LotRO Launch Day Status Report, Interview with Adam Mersky

Adam Mersky, the Director of Public Relations for Turbine, took some time out of his insane launch day schedule to talk to us a bit about the game’s launch and how it’s gone so far. The interview was conducted at 3:00 PM Eastern time.
“[The launch has] been great, really smooth,” Mersky told us in a [...]