The Digital Extremes studio behind Pariah seems to be plunging into an endless inspirational crysis, as indicated by Groove Games' latest announcement, who are trying to promote a certain game called WarPath as being "new", for a price of just $20 on PC and $30 on Xbox. The explanation could be that (...)

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Last year in September I still had my doubts about whether the Korean RPG Magna Carta would ever be released in English, after having enjoyed quite a successful launch in Asia during 2004. And even though Magna Carta 2 was already being announced for the Xbox 360 at that time, the original version (...)

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Europa Universalis III, "the best game ever made", by Paradox

Europa Universalis III was just announced last night by developer Paradox Interactive, who are already claiming that the latest title in their prestigious Europa Universalis series is set to become "the best game ever made". Well we'll certainly see about that, since their official announcement has this tricky thing to say (...)

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The cute (and free) MMORPG Dofus is about to get a small brother this year, not quite as "massively multiplayer", but just as online and quirky. Dofus-Arena is the name given by its French parents at Ankama Studio, and as for its gameplay, it will focus on tactical 1-vs-1 and 2-vs-2 battles, (...)

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Test Drive Unlimited and Alone in the Dark 5 on PC

Along with their latest financial report - not quite encouraging, by the way - Atari also gave a briefing of the games they plan to release during their fiscal years 2006 and 2007. Most of the PC titles are pretty much what we've come to know by now (D&D Online, Desperados 2, Driver 4, Timeshift etc.), but also (...)

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Up until now, few patches have attracted such a large ammount of anticipation (and delays) as the one released by Electronic Arts, in order to promote the Battlefield 2 military shooter to version 1.2. The full package comes in at over 350 MB, however players who regularly cleaned their boots and kept their game up to date (...)

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It took a while until we finally managed to upload this monstruosity, but it's finally here: the 880 MB demo version for Etrom: The Astral Essence, coming from Italian developer P.M. Studios. Contrary to the frenzy of clicking we're used to in traditional Action-RPGs, (...)

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If the release date listed on the Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy page from the Sierra website is indeed accurate, it would mean that the expansion to one of last year's notable strategy titles has already shipped to stores. For the new multi-millenary campaign (...)

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Since they're still in business (quite surprising, I must say), it was about time that Firefly Studios revealed their future plans, or in other words their new Stronghold game. Only thing is, their previous sequel wasn't one of last year's notable strategy titles, so a "Stronghold 3" was probably doomed from head start as well. (...)

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Though at one point it almost seemed like the PC version of Rainbow Six: Lockdown was going to be dropped from Ubisoft's release list, the project was eventually finished and it now looks to be in a pretty good shape, just waiting to be put to the test (...)

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