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Age of Conan boss argues the toss.
Age of Conan executive producer Craig Morrison has written an interesting article on the inclusion of voiced stories and cut-scenes in MMOs. The upshot: “more isn’t always better”.
It’s why people have “reservations” about a game like Star Wars: The Old Republic, he alleged – a game in which story is “so integral”. And what a time BioWare’s MMO has had of late.
Morrison believes character progression has always been the “bedrock” of what is expected from an MMO. You earn experience, you level up.
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Second Life creator Philip Rosendale resigns as CEO and intends to focus on his independent company.After four months in the role of CEO at US-based studio Linden Lab, Philip Rosendale has announced he is leaving the position.
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With new game Fantastic Pets.
THQ has Fantastic Pets.
It’s an augmented reality game for Kinect that’s due March 2011.
So, it’s like real-life but better.
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Game and app downloads for Mac computers will play a role in Apple’s new Lion operating system.At its Back To The Mac event in California yesterday, Apple revealed details of Lion, the latest version of OS X. The operating system introduces the company’s App Store to Mac desktop and laptop computers.
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Will you brave the cold, soldier?
GAME will open loads of its stores on midnight 8th November for gamers eager to get their hands on Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Stores open around 11.45pm some earlier to help with trade-ins but tills won’t start ringing until midnight.
And ring they will. Some reckon Black Ops may be the best-selling game of all time.
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Treyarch details MP alterations.
Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer will be different to Modern Warfare 2. How? There won’t be any drop-shotting. Instead, you’ll be diving to prone.
“Another [change] is this whole new core movement mechanic called diving to prone. It’s something that we found was very interesting; it’s used best for evasive defensive manoeuvres, but we needed to make sure we balanced that because we understand that drop-shotting is frustrating for some people,” community manager Josh Olin told Inside Xbox.
“So we wanted to make sure that this thing wasn’t going to be used aggressively to grief – to frustrate players. There is a sort of a recovery time after you land and you’ll have to take a half-second to pull your gun back up, so it’s actually a penalty if you try to use it as an offensive manoeuvre.”
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Who you looking at?
The Collector’s Edition of upcoming PlayStation 3-exclusive shooter Killzone 3 includes Helghast goggles.
That’s according to developer Guerrilla Games the Dutch studio posted the information on its website before tearing it down. Whoops.
The internet, though, never forgets. PlayStation Lifestyle took a screen grab and posted the details.
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Electronic Arts purchases the publisher of Angry Birds but will not own the rights to the game.An EA spokesperson confirmed the deal to purchase UK-based publisher Chillingo to Reuters yesterday.
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Has beat its retreat to 2011.
The Kinect and PlayStation Move versions of Michael Jackson: The Experience have been pushed back to Q1 2011.
We had expected them this autumn. The DS, PSP and Wii versions are coming out on 26th November.
Ubisoft has plenty on its Kinect slate already for 2010: Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, Fighters Uncaged and MotionSports.
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Devices supporting Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system hit stores across the UK and Europe today.Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, which launches on devices from manufacturers HTC, Samsung and LG, introduces Xbox Live support for features such as Avatars, friends lists and achievements. Games are purchased via the new Games Hub, Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s App Store.