EA has confirmed that the upcoming and in development - Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic will in fact be an MMO title to compete with the likes of the all-ruling World of Warcraft.
This is not the first Star Wars MMO title, the gaming public may remember (or rather, love to forget) Sony's Star War Galaxies which was released in 2003 with a promising game mechanic and strong subscription base, however suffered a humugnous blow in 2005 with the essentially what was a redesign of the game's structure in attempt to attract a broader player base (read: 15 year old boys). As a result, this triggered a mass exodus of the original subscriber base to leave SWG with a beaten and tattered subscription base of around 100,000 - with less than 20,000 active players.
The original KotOR producer - BioWare is working on the title, other games that BioWare have produced include Mass Effect (and its upcoming sequels) and the Neverwinter Nights series. With that in mind, its safe to say that KotOR is in relatively safe and experienced hands.
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I'll admit that I've never been much of a 2D fighter fan, well I guess that statement is half true I did love me some (super) Street Fighter II action on my friend's SNES - but after the introduction of the 3D modelled fighting games, Tekken and Virtua Fighter bared privilege to my adolescent gold coins. However, I must say the upcoming Street Fighter IV (minus the weird voice movements) is looking mind-blowingly bad ass.
The characters are rendered in 3D however the game sees fighters battle it out in the 2D standard making the experience what has been coined out to be a 2.5D effect (amazingly, yes there is a Wikipedia article on this.) The game is set to be closest to a Street Fighter II experience with elements of previous Street Fighters introduced such as the super and ultra moves.
In terms of story line, it has been noted that Street Fighter IV will take place between numbers II and III. The arcade version of the game will premier throughout Japanese arcades later this month with a release on PS3, Xbox 360 and the PC(!!!) late 2008/early 2009.
Below is the trailer released by Capcom for E3 2008.
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It's been just a tad over 16 years since the original Wolfenstein 3D graced our 286's (or the strongly recommended 386.) Back in 2001 Return to Castle Wolfenstein saw the FPS revived with Quake 3's id Tech 3 engine which offered a single player campaign but this was greatly over-shadowed by its own popular class based multiplayer which has been heralded as an iconic pioneer for class based multiplayers. Fast forward to E3 2008 and Wolfenstein is set to be revisited once again. Not too many details are out just yet, but it has been confirmed that Wolfenstein will be make for the 360, PS3 and PC.
Players are set to reprise the role of William BJ Blaskowitz in yet another occult-dabbling Nazi blasting setting. The game will be set in a "sandbox" style environment, with different areas unlocked progressively thus promoting a more non-linear plot and game experience. The latest Wolfenstein will also see the popular class based multiplayer return with a variety of super natural and the traditional weapon cache from the past titles.
To top it off, the below brand spanking new trailer was released for E3 2008.
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Microsoft have announced a complete revamp of the Xbox 360 Dashboard interface which will see Microsoft completely overhauling the interface to include some top notch additions.
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Overnight Blizzard have released what will probably be the last patch before the next expansion Wrath of the Lich King is released. This patch brings with it some bug fixes, some minor class changes and a new vendor - Haris Pilton - for you to load up on 22 slot epic bags from.
We've got the 27Mb patch mirrored locally for you, so hit up this link to get downloading.
Patch notes for this release are available after the jump.
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Did you buy a PS3 just for Final Fantasy XIII? If so, you best look away now.
Last night at the Microsoft E3 2008 conference, Square Enix's Yoichi Wada announced that Sony's exclusive money printing RPG franchise Final Fantasy (85 million units sold world wide to date), would be releasing its 13th instalment on both the PS3 and the Xbox 360. The release of FFXIII will be simultaneous for North America and Europe.
Along with this stellar announcement, the below FFXIII trailer was also showcased for E3 2008.
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There has been quite a few movie adaptations of games over the years with the Resident Evil series being the most notable one (3 movies so far now). The FPS game Max Payne by Rockstar Games is the latest game to have a movie adaptation made.
The game Max Payne was the story of a drug enforcement officer who fights to bring to justice those behind the conspiracy that led to his family being slain, set against the backdrop of a cold, harsh winter.
The movie is starring Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne and the first movie trailer is now out. Watch the trailer from Youtube below:
After very much enjoying the two Max Payne games, this is definitely one that I'll be going to see. I'm curious as to whether they will somehow include the drug hallucination scenes within the movie, which along with the strong storyline really did make for a rather compelling game (not to mention the whole "bullet-time" thing the game had).
Max Payne is due for release on October the 16th in Australia according to IMDB.
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Valve have released another small update to TF2 this morning bringing with it a small collection of bug fixes. All of the 3FL TF2 servers have been updated, so you can get back to it straight away.
Full details of the fixes are available after the jump.
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- US Company Touchtown Inc is reportedly making a DDR-like game specifically for seniors.
- GamerGirl.com has compiled a list detailing 7 things that gamers can learn through video games.
- In what we're sure will be one of several future hack/mods of the Wii Fit board, the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence has managed to modify the recently popular Wii peripheral to control movement in everyone's most hated and loved MMORPG - World of Warcraft.
- It seems after everyone has exhausted their pornographically inspired Spore creations, the community has now moved forward to a some what more family friendly source of inspiration: the enemies of Mario.
- The term 'fanboy' has firmly cemented itself into the English language with a recent addition to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
- Lego and classic video games, a match made in heaven.
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With the recent update to Day of Defeat: Source, we have now added player stats to all of our Day of Defeat servers.
So if you want to keep track of how you're going against other players, who likes to camp you with a sniper rifle, beat you over the head with a shovel or just blow stuff up, then head on over to our Player Stats page to get the low down.
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