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| News archive - May 2006 - page 3 Embrace yourselves boys and girls, Bungie have begun their traditional Chinese torture, releasing the first Halo 3 drop of info in their weekly update from a few days ago. As if the brief Halo 3 trailer shown at E3 2006 weren't teasing enough, they now have the nerve to tell us that they're already playing a single-player mission (...) Continue reading 'Halo 3 Teasing Drop Starts Bungie's Torture'...
When Square Enix first revealed the new Fabula Nova Crystallis - Final Fantasy XIII universe just before the E3, making us shiver with delight, all they mentioned then were two PlayStation 3 titles and one for the mobile phones. They did however promise to return with more announcements regarding other (...) Continue reading 'Final Fantasy XIII Game(s) On Xbox 360?'...Guild Wars: Factions #1 Game, Nightfall To Follow?Though by this time it's already been outranked by Nival's strategy Heroes of Might and Magic V, ArenaNet's MMO expansion Guild Wars: Factions was for three consecutive weeks the #1 selling PC game in the UK, with developer ArenaNet and publisher NCsoft also announcing that Factions is the top PC game in North America (...) Continue reading 'Guild Wars: Factions #1 Game, Nightfall To Follow?'... Speaking of heroes, it appears that Simutronics's MMORPG Hero's Journey has suffered a major delay. Whereas up until recently it was expected to come out this year, the game's official FAQ now sets the release date for 2007, while also pointing out that "play testing will ultimately determine when HJ is ready to go". (...) Continue reading 'Hero's Journey Taking Longer Than Expected'...Heroes of Might and Magic V Charges Into US StoresA tad later than expected, Heroes of Might and Magic V has finally been released in the US by publisher Ubisoft, marking the long-desired return of New World Computing's franchise - now in the hands of Russian developer Nival Interactive, creators of the unsurprisingly-similar Etherlords TBS series, among other strategy titles. (...) Continue reading 'Heroes of Might and Magic V Charges Into US Stores'... More than three months after the release of the previous major patch for Battlefield 2 (v1.2), Digital Illusion's military shooter finally gets the promised v1.3 patch - adding air dropped vehicles, a co-op mode for playing single-player levels over the Internet, options for tweaking the ratio and number of bots, (...) Continue reading 'Battlefield 2 - Download Patch v1.3'...On the virge of the game's release later this week, Eidos invites us to try out IO Interactive's latest Hitman sequel through this 750+ MB demo version, featuring the first mission from Hitman: Blood Money. The fourth installment in IOI's stealth action series is based on a new version of their Glacier engine, and is due for release on May 26, (...) Continue reading 'Hitman: Blood Money - Download Demo'...Project Gotham Racing 3 Adds Cadillac V-Series CollectionYet another update to Bizzare Creations' Project Gotham Racing 3 game found its way onto the Xbox Live Marketplace, after last month's "Speed Pack". This time, it's a collection of three Cadillac V-Series cars, including the 400 horsepower CTS-V, the 443 horsepower XLR-V, and Cadillac's most powerful production ever (...) Continue reading 'Project Gotham Racing 3 Adds Cadillac V-Series Collection'... British publisher Codemasters feels like taking a hike this summer, along with its brief catalogue of upcoming MMORPG titles: Archlord and The Lord of the Rings Online. And what better place to show these games in public, than "the world's largest outdoor LAN gaming event" - CampZone - to be held in (...) Continue reading 'Codemasters' MMORPGs Go Camping'...It didn't take long for Variety's Lost story to get out in the open, thanks to Ubisoft's press release officially announcing a long-term worldwide licensing agreement with Touchstone Television, for the development and publishing of a video game based on ABC's Emmy Award-winning television series "Lost". (...) Continue reading 'Lost Video Game Found In Ubisoft Announcement'... |
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