Tuesday Reading - 2K Boston's Shooter - briefly
(hx) 12:33 PM CEST - Aug,11 2009
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- 2K Boston's Shooter - The studio behind
BioShock is now working on a new shooter, entirely unsurprising job listings have confirmed. 2K
Boston is seeking a principal combat designer, level designer and a
multiplayer level designer to work on the unannounced project. Studio
chief Ken Levine has long been rumored to be leading his team in
development of a sequel to the tactical classic X-Com.
- Two New WoW Races? - Several sources
"close to the situation" have told WoW.com that the next World of
Warcraft expansion will diversify the game's population with two new
playable races. The expansion--rumored to be dubbed "Cataclysm"--will
add the Goblin race to the Horde side, with the Alliance gaining the
werewolf-like Worgen race, according to the report. Blizzard has yet to
announce a scrap of information related to the next World of Warcraft
expansion. Any official word is likely to come at the company's
BlizzCon convention, set to begin on August 21.
- 1C Company to publish Red Orchestra sequel - Tripwire
has revealed further details on campaigns and multiplayer in its
realistic tactical WW2 shooter Red
Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad. Multiplayer will be
expanded with several new modes, plus persistent stat tracking and
player progression to unlock weapons and items--ultimately becoming a
visually-distinct 'Hero' who will "inspire troops around them and cause
fear in their enemies." The game's two campaigns--one each for Russian
and German sides--pack co-op support and focus on the Battle of
Stalingrad between July 1942 and February 1943, curiously built from
the game's multiplayer maps arranged into campaign order. The game is
due for release in 2010.
- PC version of Texas Cheat 'Em arrives on Steam -
The PC version of the title has now been released via
Steam, allowing folks who feel the need to cheat at card
games the opportunity to do so. While you can play this game as a
normal poker title, Texas Cheat 'Em allows the player to gain a number
of different "atvantages" over other players via the use of "cheat
points". The Steam version comes with 12 Steam achievements along with
stats tracking, leaderboards and more. The game normally sells for
$9.99 on Steam but from now until August 17 you can purchase and
download the title for $8.99.
- Creeper World Demo - Knuckle
Cracker Games now offers a playable demo for Creeper
World, a real-time strategy/tower defense game for both
Windows and MacOS. Creeper World promises to change the nature of the
bad guys we all know and love/hate. Imagine the player's base
surrounded by an organic blanket that creeps and flows through valleys
and around hills. No longer is the opponent just another army of
discrete and individual units. Instead, the enemy flows and creeps
across the map like a thick and destructive sludge
- The Filmmaker Demo - A playable demo is available for The
Filmmaker, a first-person puzzle game following a horror
theme from independent developer Unimatrix Productions.
- Warhammer Online Patch 1.3.1 Details -
Warhammer Online sees a patch this week bringing it up
to 1.3.1.
- GOTY Editions of Fallout 3 Arrive on October 13 -
To those who have either held off on picking up Fallout 3, or want to
pick up the game for another platform, October 13 is the day you have
been waiting for. Bethesda announced that the Game of the Year editions
of Fallout 3 will drop on this date for $59.99.
The GOTY editions for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 include the
original game, all current updates, and all currently available DLC
packs. This includes Operation: Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel,
Point Lookout, and Mothership Zeta. These DLC, when sold separately,
already run gamers $10 a piece. For the price of the GOTY edition it
may just be worthwhile to pick up a second copy, provided you do not
already own any of the DLC packs.
- Insurgency Mod Has Built-in Backdoor -
Fabien Chebel, an editor for the French
gaming site, Vossey.com, has brought to my attention that a
backdoor may have been purposely left in to recent builds of the
Insurgency Mod. The allegations of this issue arose some weeks ago when
one of the mod's developers was able to kick another player on a public
server. The developer allegedly had no admin access and did not have
the server's rcon password.
- Developer GRIN Faces Potential Closure -
Gamasutra reportings that
developer GRIN has laid off more employees and may be headed towards
bankruptcy or closure. GRIN saw a period of rapid expansion in recent
years, culminating in the release of Bionic Commando, Wanted: Weapons
of Fate and Terminator Salvation in the last five months. Sales of the
titles have generally been lower than expected, with the recent Bionic
Commando selling just 27,000 units in its first month in US stores.
- Nintendo Talks E3 Failure - There is a First Quarter Financial Results Briefing
with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, where he talks about Nintendo's
failure at E3 (among other things).
- Just Cause Headed to the Big Screen -
The producer behind the Hitman move adaptation wants you to perhaps
consider watching a . . . Just Cause movie. Variety reports that Askarieh
plans to produce the film independently, and is currently in the
process of raising $30 million in financing for the project.
- Steven Spielberg in Talks to Produce a Halo Film -
Famed director and producer, Steven Spielberg, is in active talks to develop a
new Halo film. Spielberg, a game enthusiast, was "blown away" by writer
Stuart Beattie's script entitled, Halo: The Fall of Reach.
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