The folks from Blizzard gathered around some shiny new next-gen consoles, suspiciously touching them for a while (much like the monkeys from Kubrik's Space Odyssey), and in the end agreed to focus all their console-development efforts on these fascinating contraptions. In other words, no more Blizzard games for the PS2 and Xbox, ergo (...)

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The Final PSOne Console Leaving Sony's Production Line

Not long ago we were talking about how Microsoft might stop the production of its first Xbox console, so it's only normal to ask ourselves when is Sony going to do the same with its equivalent system, the PlayStation 2. Well, it sure as hell won't happen anytime soon! The only thing that Sony is pulling the plug on is the old PSOne (...)

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For all of you who were still hoping that Ubisoft would become Lionhead's foster parent, all I can say is: bummer! The French publisher was apparently left behind when Microsoft and Lionhead went for a business chatter at this year's Game Developers Conference, and it's quite likely that this will result in an acquisition deal (...)

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The aerial combat game Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII has finally been cleared for takeoff, and is already making its bombing runs over North American stores, threatening to continue its assault on the 30th of April, in Europe and Australia. Created (in part) by Ubisoft's Romanian studio, (...)

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After months of tedious testings, beta-testings and open-weekends, the NetDevil mechanical team has finally crawled out from under the hood of Auto Assault: their post-apocalyptic vehicular MMO is ready to hit the road (or what's left of it)! (...)

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Stripped and nailed to the cross - this is the barbarian punishment that's being handed out to one particular player from the Roma Victor MMO, after having slaughtered players who were just appearing in the game world. In their quest for historical authenticity, the developers specifically chose this method of "banning" (...)

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Shadow of the Colossus design boss Fumito Ueda and several developers of his were caught off-guard at this year's Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony in San Jose. Without having prepared any coherent acceptance speech in English (too busy packing up their cameras probably), they were put in the awkwardly honorable position of having to accept no less than five awards (...)

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After their successful debut with Knights of the Old Republic II, it was pretty clear that Feargus Urquhart and his bunch of obsidians would stick with making RPGs for... like... ever! And although their next project Neverwinter Nights 2 is also going to be a sequel, it was just a matter of time before they'd set up their own show. (...)

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BioWare Opens Austin Studio And Reveals Its First MMORPG

"If it's BioWare, it's RPG" would've been a most natural thing to say, up until recently. Actually up until a couple of hours ago, when BioWare saw fit to reveal their brand new project! And not only will this be an MMORPG (their first take on the genre), but the real news (...)

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2006 FIFA World Cup Germany Announced By... Guess Who?

It's FIFA, it's 2006... hell, it must be EA Sports! Ever obsessed with their exclusive deals and sports licenses, Electronic Arts have announced that next month they'll release the one and only official game of the world cup in Germany, titled 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany (...)

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