Wednesday Reading - Soldier of Fortune Sequel? - briefly
(hx) 07:41 PM CEST - Jun,27 2007
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- Soldier of Fortune Sequel? - The EBGames retail web site has
posted up new
pre-order entries for PC,
PS3 and
Xbox 360 versions of Soldier of Fortune: Pay Back for November 2007. We
will surely hear more at the upcoming E3 conference.
- Advanced Tactics: World War II Announced - Matrix Games announced
Advanced Tactics: World War II, a turn-based strategy game in the works
at VR Designs.
- Scallywag: In the Lair of the Medusa Announced -
This
press release announces Scallywag: In the Lair of the Medusa, an
upcoming "single-player, action orientated dungeonbash for Windows" in the
works at Chronic Reality.
- Clive Barker Signs New 3 Game Deal With Codemasters - It seems
that
Codemasters is so happy with Clive Barker's work on Jericho that they
have already agreed to work with the horror master on three more titles. I
really don't like this arrogant publisher, but these games from Clive
Barkers could be pretty good.
- Pirates Of The Burning Sea MMO Under Sony Online Now -
SOE announced that they are now the official publisher for the upcoming
MMORPG Pirates of the Burning Sea. This pirate-themes MMO is one of the
most anticipated online RPG games to hit shelves in the last few years.
- Overlord Released - For those of you who missed it,
Overlord is now available for PC and Xbox 360.
- Anarchy Online To Launch Virtual Items Sales - Funcom has
announced that their long-running sci-fi MMO game
Anarchy Online will begin to allow certain virtual items in the game to be
purchased for real world money along with new content and services. The
new business model will begin in the game later this summer. In related
news, Funcon has
secured outside funding of $30 million
- Sword of the New World Beta - K2 networks announces the launch of
open beta testing for Sword of the New World: Granado Espada, the
westernization of this MMORPG masterminded by the creator of Ragnarok
Online.
- Hacks Runs Shadowrun On Windows XP? -
Razor1911 has released files that they claim will run the normally Vista
only Microsoft multiplayer shooter Shadowrun in Windows XP. According to the
story the group claims that replacing a few files with their own programs
will allow the game to be installed in Windows XP. So far there is no word
if Microsoft plans to take action against the wares group.
- Xbox 360 Rainbow Six Vegas Map Pack Pulled - The map pack
for UbiSoft's tactical shooter
was released for several hours on Tuesday via Xbox Live. There is no
word on why the map pack was pulled.
- One Man - 11 Failed Xbox 360 Consoles - 1Up.com has a feature
story on
Justin
Lowe, a man who has had a whopping 11 consecutive Xbox 360 consoles
experience fatal hardware errors. Two of the 11 didn't work out of the box
and one of the Xbox 360's actually exploded.
- Modder faces jail time for selling counterfeit games -
Ars Technica's Eric Bangeman reports that one Frederick Brown has been
arrested for installing mod chips and selling pirated games in the San
Diego, California area
- Tips And Tricks Magazine To Shut Down - Freelance
journalist Jeb Haught
posted up a note on his website announcing that Tips and Tricks
magazine, owned by Hustler founder Larry Flint, will end with its August
2007 dated issue
Update: Kenn Hoekstra, formerly of Raven Software, made a post to BlueNews forums on the Soldier of Fortune: Pay Back rumor. While Kenn's post confirms the project is in the works, he also confirms Raven is not the developer, and that this will be a value-price project: "Raven isn't developing this game. And it's Activision Value that's publishing it." FiringSquad has a story speculating this will be a budget title (which we have seemingly confirmed), and they also say an anonymous source has named Cauldron as the project's developer. |
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