Monday Reading - Games Need to Cost More? - briefly
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- IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey Preview -Bit-tech
has posted a hands-on preview of Gaijin
Entertainment's upcoming WWII flight combat game, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds
of Prey.
- MX vs. ATV Reflex Hands on - Gamespot
has a hands on preview of the upcoming game: MX
vs ATV Reflex.
- East India Company Demo - The promised playable demo for East India Company
is now available, so we can sample the naval combat real-time strategy
game that just went on sail today
- Nation Red Demo - A
playable demo for Nation
Red is online with a sample of this fast-paced "arena-based"
shooter from DiezelPower Studios that follows the ever-popular zombie
theme.
- CrimeCraft Open Beta - FilePlanet is now
offering access to open beta testing of CrimeCraft,
Vogster Entertainment's upcoming online persistent-world third-person
shooter focused on the joys of gang combat (thanks Massively). The beta
requires a free FilePlanet account, rather than a paid subscription,
but participation is only offered in the US and Canada, and players
must also be at least 18 years of age. An announcement on the
CrimeCraft Website discusses the beta, and upcoming activities and
competitions it will offer.
- DDO Unlimited Delayed - Turbine
announces a delay to the North American launch of Dungeons &
Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited until September
- This is Vegas Probably Canceled -
Gamestop has informed people who preordered it that it has been canceled
- Project S Revealed - Gamigo announces Project
S (working title), an upcoming subscription-free MMOG focused
on martial arts from the developers of Martial Heroes.[
- C&C 4 Details - This thread on the Command
& Conquer Forums offers additional details from gameplay
designer Jeremy Feasel about Command & Conquer 4 in Q&A
format. In addition, APOC Tweeted about platforms for
Command & Conquer 4, saying the RTS sequel is a PC exclusive
"right now," implying it's not out of the question that console
editions may be happening someday.
- Spore Patch v5.1 - The
update is available through the EADM program for PC users
obnly, and Mac users are told to "check back soon." The new patch
clears up a couple of bugs, and has been designated Patch 5.1, sending
them down the slippery slope towards the actual version numbers they
have clearly tried to avoid.
- Fallout 3 Manual Patches v1.7 - The US
and UK English version 1.7 patches are available on this Bethesda
Softworks Downloads Page
- The Witcher Director's Cut & Patch - The promised patch to remove the
censorship from previously released versions of the game is now
available, and can be found on ActionTrip, AtomicGamer, and The Patches
Scrolls.
- Analyst: StarCraft II May Just Sell Well -
This article discusses the
possibility that Blizzard's RTS sequel will be delayed into next year,
and quotes oft-quoted games industry analyst Michael Pachter saying he
expects the game to sell about four million units when it does ship,
though given the level of anticipation for this title, that estimate
almost seems low.
- Games Need to Cost More? -Industry man
Chris Deering believes games need to cost more if they
are to support the gaming business as they have.
- Valve's Answer to Piracy and Used Game Sales... - Destructoid spoke with Doug Lombardi
from Valve on the subject of used game sales and piracy: "We
always see these overall numbers, like how much money GameStop's making
per year off of used game sales," he says, "but we really don't have a
breakdown of details for those. I don't personally know, after being at
Valve since Half-Life 1, how many copies of our games per year are sold
used, and on the PC versus the 360, so I think there's a certain amount
of information that's missing, sort of like piracy. I think a lot of
folks cry piracy when a game fails to hit their forecast and it may or
may not be part of the problem, and it may or may not be all of the
problem, but I think to throw any one reason at any problem is probably
a mistake, considering the lack of information on both fronts. Having
said all that, though, I think that it's probably true to say that
gamers tend to have affinity for the games that they like, so if you're
doing your job and making a good game, and providing a high level of
service for that game at the time of release and post-release, I'm
guessing you're probably less of a victim of piracy and trade, because
people want to have the full copy, the legal copy, and have all the
updates.
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