Sunday Reading - StarCraft 2 to get 3D in patch - briefly
(hx) 09:31 PM CEST - Jul,04 2010
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- StarCraft 2 to Get 3D in Post Release Patch -Blizzard
is jumping on the 3D bandwagon, as StarCraft 2 production director Chris Sigaty has revealed a patch will be
issued for the game soon after its release that'll add 3D for
those who can take advantage of it.
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II Interview - VG247 has conducted an interview
with senior product manager Gavin Leung from LucasArts about its
upcoming action game, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II.
- Field Report #1 - ArmA 2 and Operation Arrowhead -
Bohemia Interactive's ArmA 2 is billed as the 'ultimate military
simulator' and they aren't kidding. I've been playing
shooters for a very long time and recently the modern military shooter
is in demand. I had dabbled with Operation Flashpoint back in the day,
but my computer was never beefy enough to run it well. Now, equipped
with a decent machine and a new copy of ArmA 2: Combined Operations, I
venture into the brutal, unforgiving world of realistic military combat.
- Painkiller Retrospective - Now developing Bulletstorm with their
buddies at Epic, Polish studio People Can Fly created a
rough-edged marvel with Painkiller. At the time much of the instant
appeal came from the fact that the game appeared at the dawn of in-game
physics and ragdolls (nobody had ever nailed a gasmask-wearing WW1
soldier in the leg and seen him dangle from the ceiling of an
Underground station before) yet even six years on those simple
pleasures remain. The gut-pinning, momentum-harbouring stakegun, as
lovingly ripped off by BioShock 2's speargun, is still the most
satisfying FPS weapon of modern times.
- APB creator responds to lackluster reviews - Released
this last Tuesday, All Points Bulletin is a semi-open world MMO that
revolves around shooting, driving fast, and anything else that would
entail a large scale game of cops and robbers. Problem is, it
apparently isn't any good. Dave Jones, the
man behind the original Grand Theft Auto and now Creative Director of
Realtime Worlds, has defended his new project in an interview
with Eurogamer. He says that reviewers gave the game bad
scores because of misconceptions and huge expectations.
- Natural Selection 2 Hydra Trailer - The Natural Selection 2 Website
shows off the Hydra, revealing the first of
the alien structures in the action/strategy sequel in development at
Unknown Worlds
- Team Fortress 2 getting Engineer update soon - The
Engineer class is the only one that hasn't gotten a class update yet, so it's with a lot of anticipation lots of
Engie players out there are looking forward to the inevitable
update - which Valve hinted yesterday in a blog post.
- EA Sports NHL Slapshot - Gretzky Intro Video - The first EA NHL game for the Wii!
- Gran Turismo 5 Visual FX Video - A video featuring visual effects
and standard models from Polyphony Digital's highly anticipated PS3
racing sim, Gran Turismo 5.
- inFAMOUS 2 'the chase' gameplay trailer - Here
it is folks, the first gameplay footage of the
upcoming high-volting open world action sequel, inFAMOUS 2. Titled as
"the chase", watch how the games protagonist Cole McGrath tries to
track down an enemy only to be met with some heavy artillery.
- The Infected Revealed - The
Infected Game Website is a very preliminary home to The
Infected game project, the next project from the folks who developed
Dead Wake. The game is described as "an online multiplayer video game
of treachery, deception and paranoia. Werewolf/Mafia party game meets
The Thing PC game meets Battlestar Galactica board game."
- Need for Speed World Open Beta Until Tomorrow - The
extremely short online multiplayer test
will until Monday, July 5. All players are required to do in
order to test the upcoming racer is register at World.NeedForSpeed.com
- MS Hiring For New Halo Game - Looks
like Microsoft's new internal Halo-only studio, 343 Industries, is hiring a ton of
talent for the next Halo title.
- Quantic Dream working on new tech, no project
called Horizon in development - David Cage isn't satisfied
with Heavy Rain. It's not just the fact that they had to drop their
episodic DLC plans, but also the technology that the game runs on.
That's not to say that he's not proud of the final product. He just
wants to take things to a whole new level.
- Project Offset Cancelled - Intel's
'Project Offset,' a game that looked like it was shaping up to be at
the very least a technical showpiece, has been cancelled. Additionally,
other Offset Software team members have moved onto other external
projects outside the company.
- Xbox 360 MMO Tops Japanese Sales Charts - Capcom's
MMORPG Monster Hunter Frontier Online for Xbox 360
topped a weekly top 10 Japanese console game sales list that
included a total of seven new entries, Media Create said Thursday. For
the week ended June 27, Monster Hunter Frontier Online sold 93,000
units. The game is the latest installment of Capcom's Monster Hunter
role-playing game franchise, and unlike other entries, is an MMORPG.
The game previously released in Japan for Windows PCs in June 2007.
- May 2010 NPD Released - After long wait
and technical upgrades, the May NPDs have been released.
So it looks like Alan Wake wiped the floor with Blur, Split/Second, and
many other fine games!
- iBUYPOWER's MAGIC software turns any PC game into
a multi-touch title - The software, called MAGIC, allows
players to create profiles for each game and then play them with any
multi-touch supported monitor or laptop. The software can be downloaded
for free at the iBUYPOWER web site. It does require Windows 7 and of
course you have to have a multi-touch product for it to work (which,
not so oddly, iBUYPOWER sells).
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