Leaving behind the GlyphX studio and their 2005 debut title, Advent Rising, part of the game's development team formed a new studio last year, and are now gearing up for their first project, code named "Empire". The game is to be a first-person shooter based on Epic's Unreal 3 Engine, and will be set in the near future (...)

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World of Warcraft Character Transfers Soon For $25

Hell yeah! At last, it's the thing that everyone has been desperately begging for, ever since their uber-epixx-lv.60 characters were left stranded on some God forsaken, Russky infested server. Paid character transfers between different realms (and even between accounts!) will soon become a reality, as confirmed by Blizzard (...)

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Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar Expansion Pack

Stardock Entertainment has initiated docking procedures for the first Galactic Civilizations II expansion pack, codenamed Dark Avatar. Communications intercepted on their website seem to indicate that the add-on will be available this Fall, through digital distribution (...)

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The Chronicles of Spellborn Producer's Letter Summer 2006

"To Beta or not to Beta? After the initial Beta phase that started November last year and ended in April this year, we had to put the Beta on the back-burner. The invaluable feedback we had received until that point was instrumental in pinpointing some issues that needed to be addressed. We weren't happy with the way some ideas (...)

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When 3D Realms makes a promise, it sure as hell delivers! They said they'd give us the Prey demo today, and they did. They said they'd release Duke Nukem Forever "when it's done" and, well... it's still not done yet, now is it? Sure, we all lovingly hate George Broussard for keeping us waiting for so many goddamn years, (...)

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Ask anyone what a PlayStation 2 is, and nine out of ten people will tell you it's a game console (although grandma and grandpa might actually think it's a toaster). And I bet Sony would have left it at that, had it not been for some nasty taxes when importing game consoles into Europe, between 2001 and 2004. (...)

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It's been a while since the last Command & Conquer game came out on a console (back in 1999), and it may take another while before that happens again... But, then again, it might happen sooner than expected! At least according to Gaming Steve, whose latest podcast (...)

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Another "multi-millionaire" this week, after Guild Wars reached 2,000,000 sales a few days ago, is the massive BioWare community - which has grown steadily over the years to a whopping 3,000,000 registered users! Going back in time, it was more than a year and a half ago (in January 2004) when BioWare announced (...)

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World of Warcraft - Download Patch v1.11 // UPDATE #2

The Midsummer Fire Festival we talked about earlier is but the tip of the iceberg for the latest major update to hit Blizzard's MMORPG. The eagerly anticipated patch version 1.11, also known as Shadow of the Necropolis, is now available for download locally as a full 454 MB package (European version to be added shortly, (...)

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The first wholly independently developed game to be distributed through Steam, and certainly one of last year's most outragiously original titles, Rag Doll Kung Fu will also be punching its way into North American retail stores this summer, thanks to Merscom's agreement with Lionhead Studios and the game's creator, Mark Healey (...)

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