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| Stargate Worlds MMORPG Announced | //PC News | Word hot off the press confirms our long awaited suspicions: A Stargate MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Game) was announced a few minutes ago. Stargate Worlds is based on the extremely popular TV series and players will be able to experience exactly what it's like to walk through the legendary Stargate! Stargate Worlds is an MMO that provides players with a form of exploration, adventure and ranged combat set in worlds of historical human time periods, alien environments, and outer space locations. Players will travel through the Stargate as a team of soldiers and scientists where they can forge alliances, establish trade, investigate ancient mysteries, and defend Earth from such hostile forces as the Goa'uld and the Ori in an immense multiplayer universe. At the time of writing, no confirmed details of a beta or release date for Stargate Worlds had been announced. Watch this space as we will be watching this title's development like a hawk! posted by duke on 31/01/2006 at 17:12:18
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| Spellforce 2 Q&A | //General News | Following the Q&A theme, we've also posted up a recent Q&A with Martin Löhlein, Project Manager for the upcoming Spellforce 2. You have just released a collection AVI's how close do you feel that they represent the game or are they just gloss?
Actually these AVIs do not look as good as the game does by now, they were just intended as a first glimpse. They were captured with an older iteration of our game engine, which still lacked a number of features such as glow and a number of really never-seen-before shaders or the different lighting moods concerning the lighting.
But that is just the technical side. From a gameplay side we did not want to show too much, yet. We will have some more and more spectacular AVIs coming up soon, which will show the game in its full graphical and atmospheric brilliance, but also scenes captured while people were actually playing the game, to give a better impression of what the players can expect.
How have you structured the RTS element in SF2 will it be a marked difference from the first game?
While the RTS element in SpellForce 1 was mostly focused on resource management and build-up, SpellForce 2 focuses on battle. The build-up is way faster and needs less micro management and we work with much fewer resources to increase speed and ease of gameplay. As before, head over to our articles section for the full skinny.posted by cro on 31/01/2006 at 13:55:11
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| Rainbow Six Q&A | //General News | We've posted up a little Q&A with the Rainbow Six: Critical Hour team for your reading pleasure. Can you give us more information about the storyline of Rainbow Six Critical Hour?
In this episode of Rainbow Six, John Clark is retiring. While packing his stuff, he remembers the best missions in Rainbow history and leave these missions as a training program and case study for future Rainbow recruits. Head over to our articles section to read the whole Q&A!posted by cro on 31/01/2006 at 13:51:34
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| S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Rumours Quashed | //PC News | Following yesterdays news post about a number of false rumours flying around the internet about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - GSC Game World (the Developers of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.) have issued a statement this morning clarifying the rumours surrounding the game. Without further ado here is the statement in full:
GSC: clarifying rumours on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Kiev, 30.01.2006
To clarify the concerns of some fans regarding S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-related rumours to have appeared recently on the net, GSC Game World believes it necessary to explain the following:
The project is on the stage of beta approval and is being actively developed in close cooperation with the publisher.
The team has undergone certain reductions, particularly in the art section, due to all the graphics-related works being almost complete (out of 40 people 5 were dismissed). None of the leads, programmers and moreover, testers may not be reduced at any time.
Regarding the technology leak, none of the designers gone has the rights to the game's engine (all the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. technologies, including the X-Ray engine and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-2 engine belong to the company). Even if the current or next-generation engine would appear on the net, their legal use is impossible. GSC does not intend to sell its technologies in the nearest time, so as does not intend to postpone the release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl due to rumours of that kind. posted by duke on 31/01/2006 at 08:33:48
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| Monday, January 30, 2006 | |
| We're back on Xbox.com | //Xbox 360 News | After getting removed from Xbox.com without any reason back in September 2005, today News0r.com is back in the central hive of the Xbox community!
Alongside News0r's re-listing on Xbox.com, News0r.com is back in the Xbox Community Network (XCN) and we'll be reporting on the latest Xbox, Xbox Live and Xbox 360 news as and when something happens...
posted by duke on 30/01/2006 at 19:42:16
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| Xbox Shortages Delay Australian Launch | //Xbox 360 News | Microsoft has officially delayed the Australian launch of the Xbox 360 till March 23rd due to on-going shortages of its next generational console. The console which saw its 'worldwide' launch in 2005 in North America, Europe and Japan has sold out in almost all territories except Japan.
Microsoft told the Australian press "The new launch dates have been set due to the unprecedented global consumer demand stemming from the challenges in ramping supply for a complex product like the Xbox 360." Continuing they explained that, "This is a short-term manufacturing challenge and steps have been taken to increase supply to provide adequate supplies at launch."
The console has been in extremely short supply in the UK, US and Canada especially where consoles are still selling above RRP on internet auction house eBay.posted by Ben on 30/01/2006 at 14:41:51
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| Walmart Lists PS3 & Revolution | //General News | US supermarket giant Walmart has listed both Sony and Nintendo's upcoming consoles the Playstation 3 and Revolution on their website.
Although Walmart, currently the US games market leader accounting for over 30% of all video games sold in the country has listed the consoles, both lack specific details about launch and pricing. Further details are not expected till E3 in May.
Both Sony's Playstation 3 and Nintendo's Revolution are due out in Japan at least this year. posted by Ben on 30/01/2006 at 14:31:43
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| S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Problems Only a Rumour | //PC News | According to an article on CVG, recent rumours doing the rounds of the Internet had reported that GSC Gameworld's upcoming game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was in trouble,that the game's publisher, THQ, had pulled funding with a view to assuming control of development of the title - potentially placing it into the hands of another studio for completion. Additionally, it was suggested that certain members of GSC's S.T.A.L.K.E.R. development team had been moved to another project while others had been laid off. These reports have been dismissed by GSC Gameworld's PR manager Oleg Yavorsky:"What you're talking about is a completely unjustified rumour which appeared on the net just recently." The game is still slated for release towards the end of this year.posted by cro on 30/01/2006 at 13:21:23
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