Monday Reading - Funcom Closing Servers - briefly
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- Funcom Closing Over Half Of Age of Conan Servers - Age of
Conan, one of the more successful MMO games,
is shutting down more than half of their servers. The game will be
consolidated from 24 servers to a mere 6. Europe gets to retain 12 servers
due to language barriers, but the English speaking worlds will be cut to
just 4. The cuts are likely due to the game not retaining anywhere near as
many paying subscribers as anticipated, and even though the game started out
with a bang (415,000 subscribers), they players left much quicker due to
lack of content.
- Game Developer Layoffs: The Real Story -
Gamasutra talks to recently laid off employees from Pandemic, Eidos, and
Ensemble to find out the human story behind the corporate announcements
- Democracy 2 Demo (updated) - The Democracy 2 Website now offers
an updated demo
of this strategy sequel based on the non-violent, but conflict-filled world
of politics.
- PVKII Custom Map Pack 2 (HL2) Released - The team behind
Priates, Vikings,
and Knights II have released
a second custom map pack for their mod. This pack contains a map with
dinosaurs and another made by someone named Bruce Campbell. You should
probably download this pack even if you don't have the mod.
- Bioshock Coming to Mac? -
According to a Macworld report, 2K Boston's excellently eerie Bioshock
is to be ported to the Mac. The rumour goes only so far as the shirts that
the reps at Feral Interactive's Macworld Expo were all wearing shirts with
Bioshock's Big Daddy on the back.
- Fable 2 Patch Released, Fixes Game-stopping Bugs - Lionhead has
released
the promised patch for its open-world action-RPG Fable 2, resolving
several game-stopping bugs that have been afflicting some since its
mid-October debut. The update comes just one day before the first batch of
Fable II downloadable content, which will add a new island, new quests, new
items and characters for $10.
- Call of Duty: World at War Gameplay Performance and IQ - The
chaps over at
HardOCP have published an interesting Call of Duty: World at War
Gameplay Performance and IQ report: At 2560x1600, your best value for
Call of Duty: World at War is, without a doubt, a GeForce GTX 280. You can
buy one of those right now for $285 USD after MIR, and it even comes with
free shipping. One notch down, at 1920x1200, the best buy we can recommend
right now is a 1GB Radeon HD 4870, available for $224.99 USD after MIR.
Finally, if you have a 20" or 22" widescreen LCD monitor, running at
1680x1050, you don't need to waste your money on a high end card. You can
get an ATI Radeon HD 4850 for a mere $124.99 USD, after MIR, and you will be
all set for Call of Duty: World at War.
- PS3 Price Cut to $299 in April? - Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael
Pachter believes Nintendo sold 3.25 million Wii consoles in December.
Pachter also thinks price cuts are coming for the Xbox 360 Pro and the
PS3.
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