In a brief press release issued today, 2K Games announced that Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords has gone gold, and that the add-on will be shipped to North American stores on July 24th. This is the first (as in first of many?) expansion pack created by Firaxis for their award-winning TBS game released last year, adding (...)

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Why StarForce is still being used by some publishers to protect their games and enrage their fans is, quite frankly, beyond my humble comprehension. Nevertheless, the troublesome copy-protection system continues to drive people mad, and not only in commercial games, but also in free demos. Thankfully, Gothic 3 won't be one of them, (...)

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Nintendo Wii Manufacturing Already Begun? // UPDATE

We may have expected too see plenty of Wii release dates flying around all summer long, but I have to admit, I never thought there would be so many of them. Last week it was October 30th, a few days ago November 6th, and now... now, industry analysts believe the system might even come out a month earlier than that! (...)

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Things are looking pretty bleak for Empire Interactive. One by one, several parties have lost their interest in acquiring the veteran British publisher during the past few months, starting with Vivendi Games, RedOctane, Take Two, and more recently SCi Games. Having successfully revived Eidos after last year's acquisition, (...)

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Romanians and Hungarians... now there's an interesting topic for you. Sure, it may not be as popular as America vs. the world, or the world vs. Germany, but for some of us living in Eastern Europe, it's been a hot topic from day one. And for many politicians, or retards (or retard politicians), it still is! Why is that? (...)

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Sony Borrows $698 Million, Ordered To Pay $243 Million

A story on Bloomberg from a couple of days ago reported that Sony took out an ¥80 billion ($698 million) syndicated loan last week, its first bank borrowing in 10 years! Ironically, however, another report which surfaced on Japanese news site IT Media indicated that Sony was being ordered to pay (...)

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Two New Heroes of Might and Magic V Maps This Month

You may argue about its gameplay, you may argue about its AI, or even about other aspects, but one thing that Heroes of Might and Magic V definitely lacks is more extra maps. Coupled with the continuing absence of a game editor, or at least a random map generator for multiplayer maps, this makes for one of the main complaints (...)

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Pro Evolution Soccer 6 For Xbox 360 To Debut At GC 2006

After last night's unfortunate loss against Italy in the World Cup semi-finals, the Germans have probably had it with football for a while. But hopefully they'll recover by August 23rd, when Pro Evolution Soccer 6 will make its first public showing on the Xbox 360, at GCDC 2006 in Leipzig - Europe's "ultimate gaming convention". (...)

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All that talk about assassins and slteath in the previous news made me wanna take my gnomish rogue for a ganking spree. Except that someone forgot to extend their World of Warcraft subscription yesterday, leaving me with plenty of time to catch up on the Rogue section buzz from the official WoW forums. And guess what: lucky me! (...)

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Assassin's Creed Confirmed For PC And Xbox 360 // UPDATE - not

Ever since Ubisoft announced Assassin's Creed a while ago, they have always been mentioning Sony's PlayStation 3 alone as a target platform for their new Action/Adventure game, but they never actually claimed it to be an exclusive PS3 title. And now we know why! During the Interactive Digital Entertainment Festival (...)

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