At the ongoing Quake Con 2007, id software finally announced the release date of Splash Damage’s much anticipated FPS, Enemy Territories: Quake Wars. The game will hit American shores by the 2nd of October while European gamers will have their shot at the game by the 28th of September.
No mention was made about the Xbox 360 or PS3 ports so console gamers will just have to patiently wait for a while.
After years of teasing eager gamers all over with CG as well as in-game videos, EA and Namco Bandai have finally announced a concrete release date for their first person action RPG, Hellgate: London. The game’s been in development for quite some time now and till a while back a lot of us started considering this title to be nothing more than vaporware but the newly announced release dates prove us wrong... thankfully!
At the Quake Con 2007 that’s currently taking place in Dallas, Texas, John Carmack, head honcho of id Software announced a collaboration with Steam that would enable them to sell their extensive catalog of shooter via Valve’s digital service. Here’s an extensive list of all the id stuff available on Steam:
World of Warcrack addicts to freeze our asses off in the snowy region of Northrend. That’s right, the next expansion is called World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King ( official site). Here's a little on what the game will feature:
The coming months are probably going to make every gamer on the block a broke bloke (dare ya to say that fast) and to make matters worse, Electronic Arts have decided to release Crytek’s much awaited tropical shooter during the month of November as well, which means you not only have to make sure you have the dough to pick up the game but you have a powerful rig to run the game in all its graphical glory as well.
Supreme Commander (SupCom) was supposed to tread on completely uncharted territory with its epic scaled battles and unique design. Under Chris Taylor's expert supervision, we've hoped for another title as brilliant as his last brainchild—Total Annihilation, which by the way is regarded as one of the best RTSes of all time by many. So did this game really deliver? To make up our mind, let's take a look at what we expected from the game, and what we experienced.
Just as expected, the game boasts of some really massive battlegrounds, which stretch over miles. The enormity the game claimed (and has) was the key, and make or break factor of the game, since it could either ruin, or enhance the gameplay depending on how it translated into the single and multiplayer modes. In this case, it's a bit of both. When they said that the maps would be huge, they really meant it! The maps are large enough to make you feel like you're part of a full scaled war, rather than tiny skirmishes. But traversing these huge maps can be rather cumbersome at times. Although the units are pretty large themselves, they're really tiny compared to the size of the game's maps, and it can take them what seems like eons to get from one corner to another. I'm not exaggerating—the powerful (and slower) units LITERALLY CRAWL like an infant with only one leg and no hands.
A new patch for Supreme Commander is out, that’ll update the real-time strategy game to version 1.1.3260. Apart from the bug fixes (that are mentioned below), there’ll be three new units to play around with, one for each faction, namely the UEF T2 Bomber, Aeon Guided Missile and the Cybran T2 Bomber.
Requirements : Win (All)
License : Freeware
File size : 0MB
Patch Notes:
New units
- UEF T2 Bomber
- Aeon Guided Missile
- Cybran T2 Bomber
Bug fixes and other changes:
- Fixed an issue with Ferry Beacon guarding
- Visual tweaks to UEF shield effect
- Horde AI will now utilize T3 land units
- Performance improved when showing waypoint lines
- Fixed crash bug associated with air units refueling/repairing on air staging platforms
- Air superiority has been retuned across all three factions.
Rare as they’ve gone ahead and announced a PC port, an Xbox 360 expansion and the DS version. In case you have no clue as to what the game’s about, here’s a slight heads up:
Developer Artoon’s stealth action survival horror game, Vampire’s Rain is all set to be launched in India for the Xbox 360 at a modest price of Rs. 1895. Simply put, the game’s all about a bunch of highly trained stalkers who go around slaughtering vampires all in a city where it constantly rains.
It seems PC owners will finally have the last laugh as far as Gears of War is concerned because all the exclusive stuff like bonus missions, big ass boss fight, map editor, new multiplayer modes etc. that’s shipping with the PC version of the game will not be available on the Xbox 360. And if you think we’re pulling a fast one on ya, here’s the harsh truth straight from Rod Fergusson who by the way is the producer for the PC version of Gears: