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Queuing may be a good choice.
If you want to buy Kinect next week you ought to consider queueing – three separate shops have told Eurogamer stock will be tight.
Microsoft’s initial shipments will be limited, and the word is that shelf refills will happen in December.
Zavvi told us “Kinect is not in full supply at the moment”, but reassured that “we are working closely with Microsoft to ensure a full allocation to satisfy our customer demand”.
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Free-to-play realistic PC Battlefield FPS.
EA’s announced a realistic first-person free-to-play PC Battlefield game set in the modern theatre of war and designed to appear to hardcore shooter fans.
It’s called Battlefield: Play4Free, and looks like a cross between Battlefield 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 indeed it employs the fourth generation of the PC engine that was used to create BF2, Battlefield 2142 and Battlefield Heroes.
Unlike the cartooney Battlefield Heroes, released last year, Play4Free is a gritty military FPS. It’s created by the team behind Heroes at EA’s free-to-play division at DICE, Easy Studios.
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Star Wars MMO “a big bet, but the right bet”.
BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have told of how they were “disappointed” and “sad” after reading the recent scathing anonymous blog post from EA Louse.
Last month a disgruntled EA employee about to fall victim to lay-offs published a vicious diatribe against Warhammer Online creator BioWare Mythic, its staff, and claimed that forthcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic will be a disaster.
The blogger claimed that BioWare had, “spent more money making the Old Republic than James Cameron spent on Avatar. Sh*t you not. More than $300 million! Can you believe that?”
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Square Enix reveals game sales.
Undercooked MMO Final Fantasy XIV was the talking point of Square Enix’s six-month money report yesterday. President Yoichi Wada was pressed hard by analysts wanting to know what on earth was going on.
“We’re quickly working on reforms,” he told them during a conference call (according to an IGN translation of a Japanese transcript).
“We’d like to put our full power into regaining trust.”
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Dress up as a character from The Witcher game to win a digital version of your face in the sequel.
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Aussie PSN titles accidentally get non-existent adult rating.
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Select EB, GAME, and JB Hi-Fi stores to open at 12.01am Tuesday, 9 November for Aussie release of Activision shooter.
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Swedish business records indicate Machinegames is the latest indie developer to be scooped up by Bethesda and id parent company; shop home to several Riddick vets.
ZeniMax media has been on a tear of acquisitions of late, buying up Arx Fatalis creator Arkane Studios in August and Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami’s Tango Gameworks last month. Now, according to a Gamasutra report, the Maryland-based media company may have scooped up another studio.
Sparked by Twitter chatter, the report found Swedish business records, which indicated that the indie studio Machineworks has had its named changed to ZeniMax Sweden AB. The name change presumably came from a buyout of the indie shop, which was founded in 2009 by Starbreeze cofounder Magnus Hogdahl and other members of the Chronicles of Riddick development team.
According to its bare-bones website, “Machinegames is a developer of exciting AAA titles for next-gen platforms.”As of press time, requests for confirmation of the buyout sent to both ZeniMax and Machinegames had not been answered. However, if true, the purchase would bring even more talent into the ZeniMax fold, which already includes such major names as id Software (Doom 4, Rage) and Bethesda Softworks (Fallout 3, the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion). The company also has an online division currently working on an unnamed massively multiplayer project and recently received $150 million in funding from a private equity company.
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New Half-Life 2 fan film brings Adrian Shephard to City 17, is totally authentic until the Kung Fu starts (The Orange Box)
What is it with Half-Life 2 fans and quality film-making? While fan films based on any other series tend to be variable like Star Trek movies, the H-L universe has some stunning non-professional cinematic entries. Like this. And this. And now there’s Beyond Black Mesa, a professional-as-hell-looking fan-made short set five years after the seven hour war (during which the Combine made Earth its new back yard) which tells the story of the human rebellion pre-Freeman’s return.
The hero is one Adrian Shephard, the protagonist of H-L1 expansion Opposing Force. In canon, he’s still lost to space-time by way of G-Man tinkering, but it’s good to see him back. And overall, this trailer gives the impression that the film is a brilliantly authentic effort, despite the brief lapses into Kung Fu leg sweeps and Max Payne window dives. The quick tease of Ravenholme however, more than makes up for those little transgressions. …
