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Perfect World Entertainment Introduces ‘Heroes of Three Kingdoms’
Perfect World Entertainment has announced that it will be bringing its 3D MMORPG Heroes of Three Kingdoms to North America. Known as Chibi Online in China, Heroes of Three Kingdoms is based on the heavily romanticized Three Kingdoms Era and stories of Chinese history. “With Heroes of Three Kingdoms, we’re going back to our roots and transporting [...]
Continue reading...Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Announced by Bethesda
16. March 2010
In development by inXile Entertainment and being published by Bethesda Softworks, Hunted: The Demon's Forge is a recently announced third-person co-op Action adventure for the PS3, Xbox 320, and PC platforms.
Continue reading...Valkyrie Sky Branches Into Social Networking
15. March 2010
With the United States and many wealthy nations pouring billions of dollars into MMO gaming, it is not at all surprising that game developers have begun to expand into these social networking sites as well. From March 9th to March 19th, game portal GameKiss has launched the "My Valkyrie Sky" event, which gives its Valkyrie Sky players the chance to assume the role of a public relations officer in these public media outlets.
Continue reading...Awful Moments in Multiplayer Gaming: TMNT II – The Arcade Game (NES)
14. March 2010
Nostalgia is a dangerous thing. For kids in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s, the NES release of Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game was a revolution. This was a title long out of reach of most kids, only available in the arcades as a massive quarter eater. Konami, hardly about to see the potential profits [...]
Continue reading...BioShock 2 DLC on Disc, 2K’s Excuse Absurd
13. March 2010
People who forked over the money for the downloadable multiplayer maps in BioShock 2 noticed something pretty quick, that the download was instant. The file size on the Xbox 360 was a meager 108k, the bare minimum, and 24k on the PC. So, why are players being charged for content that is already on the [...]
Continue reading...En Masse Entertainment Reveals Tera Online at GDC
11. March 2010
Recently formed publisher En Masse Entertainment is bringing Bluehole Studio's upcoming action MMORPG, TERA Online, to the United States and Europe. En Masse will be demoing live gameplay of TERA at the Game Developers Conference, from March 11 to 13.
Continue reading...Grand Chase’s Second Anniversary Celebration
11. March 2010
Grand Chase is a side-scrolling dungeon crawler with heavy brawling action and PvP gameplay. Publisher Ntreev USA will launch a tournament and several events in celebration of Grand Chase's second anniversary.
Continue reading...Valve’s Steam & Source Coming to Mac
10. March 2010
Valve has announced that it will bring Steam, Valve's gaming service, and Source, it's gaming engine, to Mac systems. Steam in particular is a very popular digital distributer of game titles, offering players a large and varied library of games to access. That Valves is supporting Mac systems is great news, but the news actually gets better.
Continue reading...USA Spent Nearly $4 Billion on MMOs in ‘09
10. March 2010
According to an analysis of consumer data from Todays MMO Focus Report by Gamesindustry.com and TNS, there are some 46 million MMO gamers here in the United States, and the industry raked in a staggering $3,800,000,000 in 2009. British revenues are in second, at $270M, which is higher than Germany's $250M, and France's $220M. The largest growth is expected to come from nations like Italy, Spain, Russia, Turkey, Poland, and Sweden. These countries are the subject of the new MMO Emerging Markets Survey.
Continue reading...Venezula Violent Game Ban in Effect
10. March 2010
If you live in Venezula and are considering producing, owning, or selling a violent video game, you’re risking jail time of two to five years as a new law drafted by President Hugo Chavez has passed. What constitutes a “violent video game?” That is not very clear. The country’s “consumer protection society” makes that decision, with [...]
Continue reading...UbiSoft’s DRM Servers “Attacked”
9. March 2010
Over the weekend, some who picked up Assassin’s Creed 2 on the PC were unable to play. The reason? The servers that authenticated legit copies were down. So, if you actually supported this absurd DRM scheme before, this has to sway you towards the opposing side. A single player game that can’t be played without [...]
Continue reading...Cross-platform Xbox 360, Phone, PC Game Shown
9. March 2010
Those wondering how the recently announced ability to play Live Arcade games across the three Microsoft platforms will work have their answers. During a presentation at TechEd Middle East, Microsoft’s Eric Rudder showed a basic platform title running on his theoretical work PC. From there, he puts it onto his Windows Phone Series, plays briefly, [...]
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18. March 2010
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