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| News archive - August 2006 - page 2 But will that be enough?... Early impressions about the upcoming PC and Xbox 360 strategy game, Star Trek: Legacy, aren't too enthusiastic at all. But by beaming aboard all five captains from the Star Trek series, Bethesda probably expects die-hard Trekkies to turn a blind eye to Legacy's less gifted aspects. After all, (...) Continue reading 'All 5 Star Trek Captains To Voice Legacy'...
Another pre-launch battle is about to be waged between Sony and Nintendo towards the end of this month. The battlefield - Germany's Leipzig Games Convention 2006, taking place between August 23-27. Nintendo has already promised to make a big announcement at the show (hopefully relating to the Wii launch date), (...) Continue reading 'PS3 Not Playable In Leipzig, Wii Only For Press'...A month has come and gone since Lionhead's last Fable 2 milestone, and with today's community update Sam Van Tilburgh (Head of Communities) tells us more about the "much bigger" world of Albion, and about the new engine that will bring it all to life. Virtually speaking, of course. (...) Continue reading 'Fable 2 - Bigger World, New Engine'...Offset Software's first project is still far from looking like an actual game, and not just a bunch of tech demos put together in order to show off an impressive graphics engine (a very impressive one, in fact!). At least that's the impression we got from all those Project Offset trailers released so far. However, (...) Continue reading 'Project Offset Lures Publisher, Courts Xbox 360'...Remember how many games the Xbox 360 had on launch day last year? 18, out of which 11 were sports or racing games. And up until now, only 15 titles are said to be confirmed for the launch of Sony's PlayStation 3 (though there's certainly room for more until November). So where does Nintendo stand in this next-gen battle? (...) Continue reading '27 Confirmed Wii Launch Games'...Who would've thought that, in less than a year after the original F.E.A.R. sent shivers thorough our PC gaming spines, we'd already be talking about four more versions for Monolith's phobic shooter. That's right! Not only will there be a Xbox 360 version of F.E.A.R., an Extraction Point add-on for the PC, and a free multiplayer version (...) Continue reading 'F.E.A.R. Creeping On The PS3'...Deep within the Caverns of Time, the brooding dragon Nozdormu has awakened. And with it, Blizzard's latest update on their eagerly awaited World of Warcraft expansion, The Burning Crusade. When they first announced it, the "blues" teased us with the promise that, through the Caverns of Time, (...) Continue reading 'WoW: The Burning Crusade - The Caverns of Time'...Illinois Must Pay The Video Game Industry Over $500,000After taking a repeated beating in court for its unconstitutional effort to enact a law banning the sale of violent video games, the state of Illinois is now ordered to pay the video game industry a hefty amount of $510,528 in attorney's fees (plus 64 cents, (...) Continue reading 'Illinois Must Pay The Video Game Industry Over $500,000'... Forget about Tiger Woods, PGA Tour and EA Sports. ProStroke Golf: World Tour 2007 will be "this year's only real-life golf simulation" - that is, according to Oxygen Interactive, who has just announced that their golf game went Gold, and will be launching next week on Augsut 18. ProStroke was previously known as (...) Continue reading 'ProStroke Golf: World Tour 2007 Wins Gold'...David Perry, the founder of Shiny Entertainment, left us with mixed feelings after leaving his former studio. With classics like Earthworm Jim, MDK and Sacrifice, followed in later years by Enter the Matrix and The Matrix: Path of Neo, it's hard to predict what Dave is capable of nowdays (...) Continue reading '2Moons MMO From Acclaim And Shiny Founder'... |
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