Guild Wars: Nightfall Invites Players To PvP Event

It's already been hinted that the next Guild Wars chapter will be called Nightfall, and now we have official confirmation from ArenaNet and NCsoft that this is in fact true. Not only that, but they also announced that Guild Wars: Nightfall has already entered the beta testing stage, and players worldwide are invited to participate (...)

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Generally regarded as a good - if not great - sequel to Phenomic's original SpellForce, this year's SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars was a feast for fans of the "role-playing strategy" genre. But for some of them, not even Shadow Wars' generous single-player campaign was enough. They should therefore be thrilled to hear that (...)

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Incinerator Games is THQ's latest addition to their growing internal Studio System, with a development team comprised of veterans of the Twisted Metal, NFL GameDay and MLB 2006: The Show projects from Sony's 989 studios, as well as the Midnight Club franchise from Rockstar. The new studio's formation was announced (...)

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Releasing Final Fantasy XI in 2006 on the Xbox 360, some two and a half years after its debut on the PC in late 2003, may not have been such a brilliant idea for Square Enix. Their MMORPG only sold around 72,000 copies on the Xbox 360 in the US, so it's apparent that if they want to make it big on Microsoft's next-gen console, (...)

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A mercenary, a psychopath, and a bundle of cash... in all honesty, what could possibly go wrong? It's this lovingly murderous couple that developer IO Interactive chose for its next action game, called Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. Revealed in Game Informer's August issue, Kane & Lynch is "basically a third-person action game (...)

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They started with banning Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake in the '90s. They turned blood into a green ooze to make several games look less violent. Then they said "Nein!" to running over civillians in Carmageddon; so they had them mutated into zombies. But now, not even zombies can save Dead Rising from being banned (...)

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You'd think that after developing a WWII real-time strategy for three years, they would manage to come up with at least a handful of campaigns, for most of the countries involved in the conflict. But GFI is something of a special case: instead of expanding their Officers RTS with new features, they actually removed (...)

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Microsoft struck a new "strategic alliance" in their not so deadly war against Sony, by getting Rockstar Games to provide exclusive episodic content for Xbox Live. The deal seamingly involves Rockstar's upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV, a game which Microsoft is more than thrilled to have on its Xbox 360 console from day one, (...)

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Treyarch, you know, the guys working on Call of Duty 3?... Right, well, it looks like they're also working on Activision's first James Bond game, after the publisher announced having acquired the Bond licence in early May. The news was revealed through a job posting which advertizes for a Gameplay Designer opening, (...)

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The plot thickens, and so does our confusion! What may have looked like an old story a couple of weeks ago, has since been twisted and turned around several times by the companies involved in an alleged theft of software and hardware connected to Battlestations: Midway and Joint Task Force. On one side, we have SCi Games and (...)

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