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You can also find these titles among others at my Amazon aStore. These titles will appear under the "new games" section.
On this day in gaming, Tomb Raider Legend was released in 2006. It was hailed as the return of Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider series, after the rather dismal Angel of Darkness and the average ones between Tomb Raider 3 and Chronicles.
It was also the first game by the new developer Crystal Dynamics, with Anniversary and Underworld following it.
Google’s Street View car, a black Opel Astra, was on a mission in Broughton, Buckinghamshire- its intention, to photograph the majority of Great Britain’s roads with its 360-degree rotating camera fixed on a pole on top of the roof. A resident of the village named Paul Jacobs dashed outside and told the driver that he was not allowed to carry on driving down the road. After calling the fuzz, he then gathered his neighbours and they all formed a human barrier, forcing the car to get out of dodge. Mr. Jacobs reasoning for his hasty actions was that “Street View is a burglar’s dream”, with the ability to see all around a neighbourhood and plan their activities without necessarily having to scope the place out in real life. They could just do it online. He makes sense.
So the next time a car comes cruising down your street with a pole and a camera sticking on top of it, be assured that it’s Google, and not some amateur pornographers trying to get a view inside your bedroom window.
I'm sure if you've read any of my articles or seen some the banners around the site, you'll have pieced together the fact that I write for HubPages.com. I have two profiles on there currently with about 60 articles, including reviews for new games and classic game retrospectives.Just lately as of the weekend when I logged in, the whole look has changed- and I knew it was coming, but I was genuinely impressed. It's got a Wordpress feel going on there now.
If you're curious as to what HubPages is, it's been voted one of the top 200 sites in the US. Go here to have a look and see what's happening. You can join and write to your heart's content, publishing professionally written articles and get a decent amount of traffic without having to promote it much.
There are sites like it, as I'm sure you've heard of Squidoo, Helium, and others, but as I've read and heard over and over from defectors from those sites, HubPages is where it's at. Many claim that the tools, the community, and the fact that you can earn from your articles makes it superior to other sites.
The Atomic Oracle says that this isn’t very likely and is just a rumour. Blizzard is into the whole Warcraft, Starcaft, Diablo and the like. Blizzard is obviously more MMO than FPS. When was the last time Blizzard ever made an FPS anyway?
The major releases for this week are of course Godfather II and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena includes Dark Athena, the latest in the series, as well as a remake of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay- an excellent game that was released in 2004 or so.
Other titles include Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor, DCS: Black Shark, Elven Legacy, Flock, Helldorado, and Braid. Most of them seem to be lined up for April 7, which is tomorrow.
This is the list with release dates:
You can preorder or buy these titles by visiting my Amazon aStore and going to the “New Games” section.
Today is the day that Wrestlemania 25 takes place! Of course I’m not able to see it live seeing as we only get to view it three weeks later here in SA. I’ve heard from people that the best possible way to experience it is to go and be there in person- they say it’s like nothing else on earth; I can’t do that either. I’m not so keen on wrestling now as I was when I was younger. I grew up during the old WWF attitude era, and the Monday night wars between WWF and WCW during the late 1990s. Those were the days to be a wrestling fan. Those were the days when Stone Cold Steve Austin came along and reinvented wrestling, and it was the biggest boom since the 1980s when Hulk Hogan was a household name, and Wrestlemania came along in 1985.
I know that the outcomes of the matches are and always have been predetermined, apart from shoot wrestling, but it’s become even more dramatized, drawn out, and censored too. They talk more on the mic sometimes than actually wrestle, which irritates me no end. It’s being labeled now by people as a soap opera, a ballet or a Broadway spectacle. Yikes…
Good times.
WWE logic truly is different from everyone else’s. It always has, and it always will be.
On this day in gaming, SWAT 4 was released in 2005. It continued the same squad based tactical FPS tradition that was started with SWAT 3, its predecessor, and of course carried on with its rivalry with the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six series. Whereas Rainbow Six was more action orientated with a shoot first ask questions later MO, SWAT 4 dealt with a slower pace, with an objective of killing as few people as possible and rescuing the hostages. SWAT 4’s AI was stupid at times which forced the player to have to replay a mission countless times because all of his teammates were dead.An expansion to SWAT 4, SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate, was released on February 28, 2006.
Among all the other titles that are in their classic collection of games, GOG.com now has Far Cry in their catalogue of games as one of the latest additions. They’re calling it a “surprise release”. Remember, this is the game that won Game of the Year Awards back in 2004. Far Cry just turned 5 the other day, on the 23rd of March.http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/
In the past week, first it was still BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams. Then it was reported, falsely, that the ‘Sea of Dreams’ subtitle had been dropped, and that the title was just plain BioShock 2. Now it seems as though all the fuss was for nothing since it has once again been confirmed that the name is BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams, and that the name won’t change. Good, now the waves have calmed, stop rocking the boat!
Update:
2K admitted that it didn't actually know about the title, and now it's just BioShock 2- again. For goodness sake shut up all ready! work on the game and when you release it, just decide then.
Samantha Swift 2
All these titles are available here under 'new games':
http://astore.amazon.com/apocalypso-20
I’ve seen the trailer for Mass Effect 2, and it shows a few details of the protagonist from Mass Effect, Commander Shepard. Just when you’re about to be bored to tears with all his/her achievements flashing across the screen, it shows a part of his/her body with a Geth trooper standing over him/her.Now, some have said not to rush to conclusions, and it might mean that Shepard dies in a metaphorical sense, as all the little gamers cry into their hankies and whimper, “Say it ain’t so!” Shepard is such a generic name anyway- good riddance, I say.
So, it’s been suggested that Shepard may die physically or in a more metaphorical sense. How many ways can Shepard be killed? Let’s see…
On this day in gaming, the expansion for Doom 3, Resurrection of Evil, or RoE, was released in 2005. This expansion featured a few new enemies and of course players were reacquainted with the double-barreled shotgun that made its first appearance in Doom II: Hell on Earth. The game came under a bit of criticism for featuring the grabber, which was an emulation of Half-Life 2’s physics cannon.
Despite the so called dying of gaming magazines, Game Informer is still one of the top selling magazines in the US. It's ahead of Time, TV Guide, Sports Illustrated, Cosmo, Newsweek; even Playboy and Maxim!
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/01/game-informer-larger-than-time-playboy-and-maxim-even-oprah/
Damn, it looks like FileFront is closing down tomorrow. I have an account on there, and I've downloaded stuff, but luckily I don't store anything on there. It seems that if you do, you'd better hurry and get it moved...
"We regret to inform you that due to the current economic conditions we are forced to indefinitely suspend the FileFront site operations on March 30, 2009. If you have uploaded files, images or posted blogs, or if you would like to download some of your favorite files, please take this opportunity to download them before March 30th when the site will be suspended.
We would like to give a warm thank you to all of you who have been part of the FileFront communities we have built together. Your support has had a meaningful impact for all of us here at FileFront. Again, we want to give you a sincere “thank you” for your support over the years and wish you all the very best."
And they say that the video game industry is recession- proof...
Update: A few days later and FileFront is back!
According to a survey that polled 1 130 on whether they would prefer an evening of playing games or having a romantic roll in the hay with their partner, 32% said they'd play games instead. Of course the men polled were married...
Another question asked whether they would rather have sex or play a new game- 72% said they'd take the new game!
The thing here is that playing games can last for hours where as sex doesn't- not usually anyway.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jte5jIFHnonk-bWh6umf7zthWHtg
If you came across the blog yesterday, you’ll probably have noticed the post that read “3D Realms Shocker: Duke Nukem Forever Delayed For at Least Another Five Years, Possibly Cancelled”. As most of you have probably guessed, this was an april fool’s day joke, although the part about reading about the id Tech 4 engine in GEAR magazine is true, except that was also an april fool’s day joke, except the mag had a review of Duke Nukem Forever for the Xbox 360 as part of their prank. If only!
I’ve made quite a number of posts on Duke Nukem, specifically Duke Nukem Forever, on the blog, but this one will no doubt be the saddest, hardest one to write. Then again, I’m not exactly surprised.The name Duke Nukem Forever was first thought up after Duke Nukem 3D came out in 1996, and this particular title was going to be a platform game similar to Duke Nukem 1 or 2. That title was cancelled and the name was recycled to be used in what has been nominated one of the most controversial titles of all time. It has won several vapourware awards over the years.
The next time it reared its head was in 2001, once again at E3, then using the much prettier Unreal engine. They started off with the Unreal Engine, and eventually built their way up to using the Unreal Tournament build code.
Recently, there was talk of the game switching to the id Tech 4 engine, used for Prey, another title that had taken ages to come out, and was originally a 3D Realms game (they ended up being the publisher). The latest game to use this engine is Wolfenstein, currently still in development and due for a release later this year. There was a mention of the recent engine change in GEAR magazine.
Scott Miller followed up with his own comments by saying, “Years ago I said that we screwed up Duke Nukem Forever, and now I mean we’ve really done it this time. The thing is that the development costs have become too much, and even though we’ve talked about switching to the new engine, I’m not sure that we’ll be around to see it through the way we’ve been going. We might just have to call it a day, stick our tails between our legs and cut our losses. To continue development with id Tech 4 would mean a possible five to eight year delay for DNF, and at this time we’ve faced major backlash and we could be heading for a financial crisis if we decide to go for it. Unfortunately the worldwide economic crisis just isn't in our favour at the moment.”
Joe Siegler added that, “We wanted Duke Nukem Forever to be perfect, and we came this close. Now it’s just a perfect mess, a real f$$k-up! It makes me so pi$$ed. I just can’t believe it.”
Continue development with id Tech 4 and possibly 3D Realms goes bankrupt.
Cancel Duke Nukem Forever.
