Neverwinter Nights' most popular collection of add-ons - the Community Expansion Pack (or CEP for short) - is just about ready to get its second major release. More than two years after the original CEP came out, fans of BioWare's RPG are about to discover the new NWN CEP v2, which includes rideable horses, (...)

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A week of cruel teasing and cryptical hints has come to an end today, as Microsoft Game Studios and Epic Games have officially announced that the Gears of War "Emergence Day" will be November 12th for North America, and November 17 for Europe. (...)

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20 Wii games - and that's coming from just three top publishers: Ubisoft (with 7 Wii titles, surprisingly), Midway (6) and Electronic Arts (7). The latest title to make the news this week is Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, which, in addition to the previously known PS2 and Xbox versions (due in October 2006), has also been confirmed (...)

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No PS3 Games For Atari Until 2007, And For SNK Until 2009

From a couple of related stories that appeared this week on GamesIndustry.biz and Kotaku, we learn that Atari and SNK Playmore won't be jumping on the PS3 bandwagon just yet. Feeling too insecure about Sony's next-gen console, and especially about its elevated price (...)

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Shortly after the first Guild Wars: Nightfall PvP preview event (which took place last weekend), ArenaNet strikes the iron while it's hot and announces a new retail package, offering Guild Wars players their first look inside the upcoming release of Guild Wars: Nightfall. Expected to hit store shelves on September 15, (...)

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Game Factory Interactive's previously announced plans of global consolidation have long since been put into motion, and the first results are already here. In their quest to combine all of GFI's studios under one brand, today they revealed a new name for their Russian studio MiST land - South (Jagged Alliance 3D, (...)

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E3 is dead, long live E3! The king of all gaming shows has officially lost its crown today, as the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) confirmed that a "more intimate" event will be held next year, in place of the extravagant E3 Expo we all knew for the past decade or so. Though not entirely dead, (...)

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Leading entertainment software publisher Lighthouse Interactive and developer Kerberos Productions today announced that their highly anticipated 4X strategy game, Sword of the Stars has Gone Gold. Lighthouse is happy to inform the many SOTS fans and gaming fans in general, that the game will be available (...)

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Had it been another couple of months (and better sales for the original version), Raven might have turned this latest Quake 4 patch into an actual expansion pack: it's that full of new content. Not only does it bring a slew of gameplay changes and fixes, but it also adds some brand new elements, such as (...)

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People who got a chance to play Spore and design their own creatures, at this year's "last E3 as we know it", were also lucky enough to receive a surprising gift recently. As it turns out, Electronic Arts sent them (or at least some of them) real-life Spore figurines, replicating the actual creatures they designed at E3! (...)

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