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The Sims 3 Given New, Later Release Date
Virtual residents of the last version of EA’s popular life simulation get a stay of execution today, as the company officially pushes the release of The Sims 3 to June. The rumblings from last month prove true as Electronic Arts stamps a release date of June 2nd of the eagerly anticipated PC title The Sims…
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Master Chief Is The Batman Of The Future
The latest video documentary for the real-time strategy game Halo Wars takes a look at the individual units appearing in the game, from hordes of Spartans to swarms of Locusts. Seeing the units in Halo Wars up close and personal like this, even a moderate Halo fan like myself can’t help but get a little…
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Runes Of Magic Really Launches In March
With the open beta attracting more than 450,000 players to the world of Taborea, Frogster Interactive has nailed down a March release date for their upcoming massively-multiplayer online roleplaying game Runes of Magic. While the servers are all up, the item store functions properly, and all character progression from here on out carries over, Runes…
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PC Puzzle Quest Galactrix Goes Retail
PC Puzzle Quest fans who’d rather have a disc on hand for the upcoming space-aged sequel, Puzzle Quest Galactrix, are in luck, as D3publishers teams with Aspyr Media to bring the game to retail. Apr Media may specialize in porting PC games over to the Mac, but they’ve been making a name for themselves lately…
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Former Eidos VP Heads Up Paramount’s Games Division
Paramount Digital Entertainment today announces the appointment of former Eidos vice president of product development John Kavanagh to the position of Senior Vice President of video games. Kavanagh joins Paramount from developer Kuju after spearheading their expansion into North America with Kuju America. Before that he served as the VP of product development at Eidos,…
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New Demigod Screens Remind Of Us Demigod
Since we haven’t heard much about Gas Powered Games‘ upcoming roleplaying real-time strategy title Demigod lately, publisher Stardock sends us a fresh batch of screenshots in order to remind us the game still exists. I still maintain a fair amount of excitement for Demigod, and these screenshots once again punctuate the reason why – scale.…
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Ubisoft Acquires Action Pants
Ubisoft moves into Western Canada today with the acquisition of the Vancouver, British Columbia-based development studio, Action Pants, with a new Wii title already in the works. The Vancouver based Action Pants Inc., which currently employs more that 110 game developers, is now part of the Ubisoft game developing empire. The studio is currently working…
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Warrior Epic Heroically Opens Closed Beta Signups
True Games Interactive have launched the official website for their upcoming massively-multiplayer online roleplaying game Warrior Epic, celebrating with the release of new wallpapers and the opening of closed beta signups. The official Warrior Epic website is now live, giving prospective players a deeper look at the world of the game, with new artwork, updated…
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UncategorizedThe “Secret Language” of World of Warcraft
There are certain subjects the mainstream media should leave to the professionals, and this news report on the secret language of World of Warcraft players demonstrates every reason why. “Many gamers are part of a secret society,” begins the lead in to NBC Bay Area’s correspondent Nicole Riley on the secret language of World of…
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