Fans of Akella's Sea Dogs pirate game have been waiting for a proper sequel ever since the original Sea Dogs 2 project was somehow mut(il)ated into Pirates of the Caribbean, and released in 2003 alongside Disney's pirate movie featuring Johnny Depp as captain Jack Sparrow. But that wasn't the real sequel, was it? (...)

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The ever expanding German publisher 10tacle Studios has announced yet another project, this time returning to the racing genre that sparked the beginning of their ascension, after the release of GTR and GT Legends in 2005. The new game is supposed to be in the works for several hardware platforms and is targeted for (...)

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Gone are the golden days of Mechwarriors and Heavy Gears... With the advent of next generation consoles, comes Chromehounds, a squad-based mech combat game for the Xbox 360, developed by FromSoftware - makers of the similarly mechanized Armored Core series, and the upcoming Enchanted Arms RPG, (...)

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War Front: Turning Point Recruits 13,000 New Beta Testers

Digital Reality's gaming history goes back more than a decade ago (when the Hungarian studio was known as Amnesty Design), and although space strategies used to be their specialty, in recent years they shifted focus over to more traditional military strategies. Even so, however, their upcoming title is not your typical WWII game, (...)

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World of Jewelcraft - Blizzard Talks Jewels And Sockets

The latest issue of the WoW Insider newsletter sheds some sparkly light on the art of Jewelcrafting, as well as the Socketing system from the upcoming World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion. There's no doubt about it that the addition of Blood Elves as a playable race is once again going to boost (...)

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President Bush Turns 60, But What's His Brain Age (DS)?

I'm hardly into politics most of the time (unless it's about inapt politicians trying to regulate video games), but when both "Nintendo" and "President Bush" share the same news title, by God, worldwide peace just has to be upon us! Or at least a funny story, like this one here. America's not so beloved president George W. Bush (...)

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There's an interesting story on Gamasutra about Sony's plans for the PlayStation 3 E-Distribution Initiative (EDI), a service that will supposedly help both first and third-party developers digitally distribute their games via download, directly to the PS3. You can think of it as an alternate Xbox Live if you will, and it will clearly compete with (...)

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King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2 Coming To Europe

Following the successful introduction of the KOF franchise to 3D, SNK will take the series to new heights with the next instalment - The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2. This time produced by the acclaimed SNK artist and designer Falcoon, KOF-MI2 has built upon and enhanced the frantic gameplay of the original, (...)

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It's been a while since Lionhead's last fabled community update, back in May, but they're finally ready to reveal some tiny bits of information about their Fable 2 role-playing sequel, coming... whenever, on the Xbox 360. Nothing too deep about the game's mechanics and such, though, just something that's "quite vague (...)

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The Chronicles of Spellborn - Daevi Playable Race Revealed

While waiting for a new Chronicles of Spellborn beta testing phase to begin (won't be long now), today we get to learn a little bit about the second playable race in this moderately weird looking MMORPG. These are the Daevi, and the accompanying screenshots added today in our local gallery show them (...)

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