The day is coming when the Roman Empire will rise again, in all its virtual glory. Haemimont Games's city-building simulation Glory of the Roman Empire has reached Gold status, and will be released in the US by publisher CDV on June 26. The game puts players in the shoes of a (...)

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Grand Theft Auto IV Steals Table Tennis' Graphics Engine

A recent MTV interview with some Rockstar chaps has supposedly revealed that the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV sequel - along with other future Rockstar games - will be running on the same graphics engine as their recently released Table Tennis for the Xbox 360. (...)

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This was certainly bound to happen! Ever since we heard about the revolutionary Wii controller, we couldn't stop dreaming about a Star Wars game that truly captures the frantic feel of a lightsaber battle. And obviously we weren't the only ones, as many other Wii fans asked - ney, demanded LucasArts to make their dream come true. (...)

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Apparently not content with publishing just the upcoming Unreal Tournament 2007, Midway have also gone after Epic Games' previous installments in the Unreal series. According to yesterday's announcement, Midway Games have acquired the retail publishing rights (...)

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Romanian indie developer 2 Bad Design is offering players wanting to try out their soon-to-be-released space simulator Romanians In Space the chance to beta-test it. The playtesters will be provided with a release candidate version of the game, and are free to submit improvements that may or may not be included in the final game. (...)

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Test Drive Unlimited PS2 Beta Seeks Crash Test Dummies

Atari will soon be rolling out a Beta phase for the PS2 version of Test Drive Unlimited. As such, they are now inviting North American gamers to sign up for the upcoming beta test, which will require the selected few to have a Broadband Internet connection and a PlayStation 2 network adaptor, as well as complying with a NDA (...)

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Barely having been signed into law a couple of days ago, the Oklahoma 'Games as Porn' bill will soon have to face ESA's legal challenge, which has predictably been confirmed by the Entertainment Software Association. Under the proposed law, sexually and graphically violent videogames would be classified as (...)

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Xbox Dead For Almost A Year, 360 Compatibility List Extends

Micosoft released a new backwards compatibility update over the Xbox Live service, adding another 21 titles to the already over 200 original Xbox games that can be played on the Xbox 360. Standing out from the crowd like a bursting BFG is the long yearned for Doom 3 game, accompanied by other noticeable entries such as (...)

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CCP Games' stellar MMO has been continually breaking the record for concurrent users playing on a single server, all through the past year or two. And now that the Chinese Beta phase has opened, EVE Online raised the bar once again. In the first day alone, more than 200,000 people registered for the game, and a peak of over 30,000 (...)

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Half a year after developer Stainless Steel Studios closed its doors, Midway finally found a way to compile their unfinished Action-Strategy hybrid game and ship it to stores. We're still not sure who took over the game's development after Stainless Studio stepped out of the picture in late November / early December 2005, (...)

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