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Community federation.
You’ll be able to make your own Star Trek Online content on 9th December when update Season Three arrives.
The Foundry tools are still in beta, but you’ll be able to use them to make your own missions and share them with friends.
Season Three also brings the option to replay missions, plus you can now use Borg technology on your spaceship.
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November’s update gets tentative date.
Square Enix has extended the free trial of its embattled MMO Final Fantasy XIV for a second time.
The decision means players have another 30 days of free game time to play before they pay.
November’s version update is tentatively dated for 25th November next Thursday. It “marks the first step in bringing about significant improvement to FFXIV, guided in large part by the feedback you, the players, have provided” reads the official website.
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PC gamers May be happy.
PC fantasy role-playing game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings will be released on 17th May 2011, creator CD Projekt’s announced.
“We’ve decided to move the launch date back a few weeks to afford us more time to polish the game,” said project lead Adam Badowski.
“Of course, we know that players would like to get the game as soon as possible, so we hope that they will forgive us! We strongly believe that the extra time spent polishing the title will be well worth the wait.”
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“Important revisions” to Monster Play, too.
The Lord of the Rings Online may never get another proper expansion pack, producer Aaron Campbell has told Eurogamer – the free-to-play relaunch has taught Turbine “a lot” about “pacing” of updates. But don’t worry – next year’s trip to Isengard will be just as good.
“Expansions classically have a few things tied to them,” Campbell educated. “They have something along the lines of a new system; they typically have a level cap tied to them; and they have some epic piece of content or arc to hang their hat on – an important place in the world that people want to go to.
“What we’re learning as we build free-to-play is that we can release parts of the world at a time. So our next major update – and we’ll be talking more about this soon – starts to extend the world out for free-to-play players. They’ll be able to get up to level 65 and see all the world that’s available to them.
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Out spring 2011.
Slightly Mad Studios’ Need for Speed Shift 2 Unleashed will be released during the spring of 2011 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, EA’s announced.
Shift is EA’s Gran Turismo and Forza killer it’s designed to offer an authentic simulation racing experience in contrast to the arcade racing found in Criterion’s Hot Pursuit.
The first Shift sold through close to five million copies worldwide, according to EA. Shift 2 brings an “all-new” rendering engine and a “massive” graphics overhaul.
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Out spring 2011.
Slightly Mad Studios’ Need for Speed Shift 2 Unleashed will be released during the spring of 2011 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, EA’s announced.
Shift is EA’s Gran Turismo and Forza killer it’s designed to offer an authentic simulation racing experience in contrast to the arcade racing found in Criterion’s Hot Pursuit.
The first Shift sold through close to five million copies worldwide, according to EA. Shift 2 brings an “all-new” rendering engine and a “massive” graphics overhaul.
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Do you have headcrabs?
Masochistic platformer Super Meat Boy will release for PC on 30th November, creator Team Meat’s announced.
The Steam edition will come with an exclusive playable character: the Headcrab from Half-Life.
“We asked Valve about this almost half joking and they were totally down,” said the developer. “(We LOVE Steam…like…a lot. MS is the hot chick you hook up with, Steam is the girl you spend your life with). The Headcrab will replace Gish as the 1st unlockable bandage character. Much like Gish, he will stick to walls but also have more horizontal jumping power as a head crab should.
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Sell half a game in shops, the rest as DLC.
F1 2010 creator Codemasters has a novel idea it could use to combat the threat of second hand videogame sales sell half a game in shops and the other half as downloadable content.
That, according to CEO Rod Cousens, would not only help tackle the earnings lost from used game sales but piracy, too.
“It’s not inconceivable to say that we send out a Formula One game that’s not complete – maybe it’s got six tracks,” he told Eurogamer sister site GamesIndustry.biz.
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Company “aggressively scouting” for developers to work on XBLA and Windows Phone 7.Microsoft has reinforced the importance of indie games developers on its platforms, following recent controversy involving changes to Indie Games’ positioning on Xbox Live.
In a release to us, the company says: “Microsoft Game Studios (MGS) is currently searching for new partners to develop games for Xbox Live Arcade and Windows Phone 7. MGS is aggressively scouting talent worldwide among both established and new developers.”
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Assassin’s Creed publisher sees increased net losses in first half financials, though online sales increase 100 per cent.