Entropia Universe Auction Sells $210,000 Worth Of Virtual Land

Back in 2004, it seemed like complete madness to spend $26,000 real, hard earned money on an island that only existed in the virtual universe of Project Entropia (now Entropia Universe). However, Deathifier - the guy who bought the 25 km² Treasure Island - recovered his investment in less than a year. (...)

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The end of July saw the Oriental release of Bullet Witch, a (more or less-) horror action game developed by Cavia and published by AQ Interactive over in Japan. Apparently Atari is also pretty impressed with the game, as they recently announced an agreement with AQ (...)

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The radical downsizing of the E3 Expo has left the Leipzig Games Convention among the biggest gaming shows in the world. GC is growing larger by the year, and later this month - between August 23-27 - a new edition will gather some of the top gaming publishers (...)

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When we reported that Sony's PlayStation 3 would run mostly all PS2 games, by means of hardware emulation (story), there was still no word on how - or if old saves could be imported on the PS3. Well, now there is, and it's great news for anyone who ever dreamed of replaying their favorite games on Sony's next-gen console (...)

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Heads up, role-players, Atari and Obsidian are gearing up for a couple of Neverwinter Nights 2 closed public beta tests! One of them will comprise the multiplayer game mode only, and you can read about it in this topic from the BioWare forums. Meanwhile, the second beta will only deal with the game's toolset, (...)

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Artificial Studios and Immersion Games' well known CellFactor tech demo is being turned into more than just a show-off tool for Ageia's PhysX processor. As announced a few days ago, Artificial Studios are developing a full-fledged (though seemingly superficial) shooter called CellFactor: Revolution, which takes (...)

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Sony may be off the hook this time, but it looks like the other two major console manufacturers are in for some serious legal trouble. In a complaint filed on July 31, 2006 by Anascape Ltd., this obscure Texas-based company claims that both Microsoft and Nintendo have infringed no less than 12 of its patents, (...)

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LucasArts And Day 1 To Create Next-Gen Franchise [Press Release]

LucasArts today announced an agreement with Day 1 Studios to develop a new intellectual property for release on next-generation console platforms. Emphasizing ground-breaking gameplay, and focused on interactivity that is only possible with next-generation platforms, Day 1 Studios plans to (...)

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StarCraft 2 or Warcraft IV? Ladies and gents, place your bets... while you still can. Because, once again, Blizzard is staffing up for a new real-time strategy game, as indicated by the latest job opening posted a few days ago on the company's website. This time, they are looking for (...)

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Alpha? Just Alpha?! You have got to be kidding me, Turbine! Months after opening up the Beta registrations for their preciousss MMORPG, Turbine announced today that The Lord of the Rings Online has barely entered the Alpha phase of development, much to the disappointment of over 125,000 players who already registered (...)

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