The Ship originally started out about a couple of years ago, as a Half-Life MOD with a... quirky concept. Since then, the Scots from Outerlight managed not only to keep the project afloat, but also to get their hands on Valve's Source engine and sign on with Mindscape, hoping to release The Ship as a stand-alone PC game in September. (...)

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While posting its latest financial report (with sales still on the rise, thanks to World of Warcraft), Vivendi's gaming division also went through a change of image, dropping "Universal" from its name and becoming simply Vivendi Games, instead of the old VU Games. Furthermore, the company started to reveal the games (...)

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German publisher dtp (digital tainment pool) continue its series of adventure / role-playing games announcements, with a fantasy party-based RPG set for release at the end of 2007, under the Anaconda Games label. Designed by Berlin developers Radon Labs, Drakensang: The Dark Eye will be the first PC adaptation of Germany's (...)

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A new version of the Live for Speed S2 racing simulator found its way on our download servers a couple of days ago, after a pretty long break from the LFS Team without any major updates. The most important addition in version T is the new BMW Sauber F1.06 car, (...)

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Xbox 360 Chips Production Boost, Future Technology Upgrade

Microsoft plans to iron out at least two of the major probles it's been facing since the release of its wonder-platform back in November: the ever persistent stock shortages, and the Xbox 360's over-heating tendency resulting in *cough* "isolated cases" (as they called them) of errors and crashes. (...)

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When Stainless Steel closed its doors back in December 2005, many of us were expecting that Midway would cancel their last project, Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War. But instead, they somehow managed to make ends meet (i.e. compile the code without errors?) and are now offering (...)

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The third Tomb Raider movie may have been on hold a couple of months ago, but since then the release of the new Tomb Raider: Legend game managed to completely resurrect an outright rotting series, jumping straight to #1 in the UK sales chart and firmly holding its ground up to this moment. Confident in the game's huge success, (...)

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The title says it all: the development of the fifth game in the Heroes of Might and Magic series is now complete, and will be released by Ubisoft on May 18, 2006. Created by the Russian studio Nival Interactive, the Heroes of Might and Magic V TBS is the first game in this universe to see the light of day since 2003, (...)

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THQ's E3 2006 line-up takes us from agony to ecstasy, as last year's great absentee from the Los Angeles show - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - is apparently going to be left out once again, much to our bitter disappointment. On the other hand, THQ will be showing some very promising titles, (...)

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The Hungarian developer Stormregion and its German publisher 10tacle Studios have decided to extend their Codename Panzers franchise with three new titles, adding to the first two real-time strategies Codename Pazers: Phase One and Phase Two released in 2004 and 2005. The series' full-fledged sequel (...)

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