Weekend Reading - Final Fantasy XIII CE Details - briefly
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- KillSkill Announced - Russian developer
and publisher Playnatic Entertainment announces KillSkill,
a subscription-free MMO third-person shooter with RPG elements that
will enter closed beta testing next month.
- Final Fantasy XIII Collector's Edition Details - Square
Enix sent out a press release
with the details of their Collector's Edition for Final Fantasy XIII
(PAL). By purchasing the Collector's Edition you'll get your hands on:
Original Soundtrack, The World of FFXIII hardback artbook, 3 art prints
and a unique 'Brand of the I'Cie' decale. While the game is
advertised
on a European retail site, you'd expect the US edition to be similar,
if not identical. . The press release doesn't mention a
price, butGamestop.it offers pre-orders at the price of € 80
($110).
- Goldeneye: Source Beta 4 Trailer - The teaser trailer for Goldeneye:
Source Beta 4, a Half-Life 2 mod that tries to bring back the feeling
of the original Goldeneye game for Nintendo 64, has been revealed!
Showing off many of the new maps, weapons, models, and more, the
trailer is definitely worth checking out.
- Warcraft III v1.24d Patch - This
patch for Warcraft III fixes a crash issue that occurs when
too many invalid build commands are queued up.
- More Borderlands DLC In Development - Gearbox
designer Jason "haTts" Reiss has made a brief post to the Gearbox forums
indicating that more Borderlands DLC is on the way -- including raising
the level cap.
- Sword of the Stars II announced for 2011 release -
Paradox Interactive bought the rights
to publish the space strategy game franchise Sword of the Stars in 2009
after its original publisher Lighthouse Interactive shut down its
operations. Today Paradox announced that that game is getting a full
blown sequel, Sword of the Stars II, that will be released sometime in
2011.
- Phantasy Star Universe PC servers shutting down
March 31 - The big reason? According to the forum post, "The population is
simply too low for us to be able to continue to support this platform."
The single player portion of the game will of course remain unaffected.
- On Bethesda's Mystery MMOG - The
information Bethesda Softworks has been attempting to redact from the
documents from their legal action against Interplay over the Fallout
MMORPG has come to light. Duck and Cover has obtained the actual statements from the court
transcript that Bethesda wants redacted. Luckily, our source was able
to snag these before the redactions went through.
- GoG.com puts Cyan Worlds games on sale - GoG.com
has launched its regular weekly sales event today. This time they have
put three of the game they have acquired from developer Cyan Worlds on
the temporary price chopping block. Myst Masterpiece Edition, Riven:
The Sequel to Myst and the children's game The Manhole Masterpiece
Edition are all on sale for 25 percent off their normal GoG.com
priced until the end of the day on Monday.
- Just Cause 2 Has Built in Video Capture on PS3 - Square
Enix London Studios Communications Manager Gareth Ramsey has announced
today that Just Cause 2 for PS3 will feature video capture
functionality that is exclusive to Sony's PlayStation 3. This option
will allow you to post the last 30 seconds of gameplay directly to
Youtube. Also available is the 10 minute feature, which you invoke from
the menu, to allow players to setup and and capture "planned
presentations" on video. entertainment system.
- PS3 is Hacked by George Hotz - The PS3 is hacked, at least
according to George Hotz on his latest blog entry.
- Final Fantasy I + II heading to iPhone/ iPod Touch
- Square Enix have announced that they are set to
bring Final Fantasy classics I and II to the iPhone and iPod
touch. There are no details as to when these are set to
release, or pricing.
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