Big Lucasarts Announcement Fails To Be Announced

I spent the entire weekend reading as much coverage of the Star Wars 30 Year Celebration in LA, where Lucasarts had promised to make two big announcements. I have not seen anything about any announcements, apart from a trailer release for Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga on the Wii and something about Battlefront [...]

This Week’s Releases (UK)

Big week for the PC this week, but not much in the way of console titles.

Dungeon Runners Launched

NCsoft’s latest online offering, Dungeon Runners was launched yesterday and can be downloaded for free from here. The subscription fee of $4.99/month is optional and gives you access to extra features like high powered in-game items, preferential server access and an in-game inventory bank. This pricing model is increasingly being adopted across the MMO [...]

Beowulf Game And Movie To Share Assets

The upcoming Beowulf movie from Back to the Future director, Robert Zemekis, will be entirely digital (like Polar Express) and so will share models, textures, and locations directly. This is good news as its usually the art assets that take the most time and effort in the developement of a game. Zemekis says:
‘Beowulf’ is particularly [...]

13 Million Steamed Gamers

No, its not some kind of cannibalistic feast, its the fact that Steam, Valve’s online distribution system, now has 13 Million users, and its still growing. Steam is fast becoming a kind of iTunes for gamers, with more and more developers and publishers distributing their games via its online storefront. A haven for indie developers [...]

Master Chief Slips Again, Because He’s Not Dressed Yet.

Halo 2 Vista has slipped once more, but only in the UK. The US release date is still May 31st but us Brits will have to wait till The week after (June 8th) to get our hands on it. In an official statement Microsoft said:
“It has come to our attention that an unfortunate, obscure content [...]

Ubisoft Makes A Day Of It

Yesterday was Ubiday, where Ubisoft took the opportunity to showcase some of its upcoming work, make some announcements and voice its very gallic opinion about the state of the games industry today. I wasn’t invited, but have manged to glean some interesting titbits from various sources (Well Kotaku really) who were.

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