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9 Apr 2008
PC News | PC

Interplay - which isn't dead - has re-confirmed its intention to pursue a Fallout MMO in addition to revealing plans to deliver Earthworm Jim, Dark Alliance, Descent, and MDK sequels.

"...management is working to secure funding for the development of a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) based on the popular Fallout franchise. Interplay sold Fallout in 2007 while obtaining a license back, under certain conditions, to create and ...

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8 Apr 2008
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It's a well-known fact that Crytek is porting its CryEngine 2 tech that powered Crysis to console, but it's yet to confirm whether it's working on PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the PC FPS.

It MUST be happening though; and expect the visual quality of the first-person shooter on both consoles to be the equivalent of, or very close to, high graphics settings on Crysis on the PC. Well, that's the suggestion from Crytek engine business ...

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8 Apr 2008
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PC - PC - DVDstruction - April 8, 2008

In this week’s very special edition of DVDstruction, we cover a strange time for movies. On the one hand, there’s not much in cinemas as we desperately await this summer’s action blockbusters - starting early May with Iron Man. Yet, on the other, we’re starting to get all those Oscar-baiting dramas from last winter trickling onto DVD and Blu-ray. Never fear, moviegoer - we’re here to steer you through the ...

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7 Apr 2008
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A newspaper is offering cash for your stories on how videogames made you "turn to a life of crime."

A listing on recruitment site StarNow, a hub for actors and musicians looking for jobs, has appeared reading, "a national newspaper wants your story and will pay hundreds of pounds to the right person."

The listing comes in the wake of last week's Byron report, which made newspapers all across the UK, some with questionable ...

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3 Apr 2008
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A new study from the NPD Group has found that 72 percent of Americans play videogames, but the research firm says online gaming is still not fully addressed.

The number of gamers in the US rose from 64 percent of the population in 2006 to an all-time high of 72 percent in 2007, according to NPD's latest study, Online Gaming 2008.

Of the total amount of gamers in the US, over half play games online, according to the ...

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2 Apr 2008
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PC - PC - Ubisoft jumps on the Steam bandwagon

Valve Software will be offering over 40 Ubisoft PC titles on its Steam digital distribution platform in Canada and the US, with Assassin's Creed headlining the lineup.

The addition of the Ubisoft titles is yet another key step in expanding the Steam community and distribution network. Valve said that Ubisoft's Steam lineup will be the largest library of titles from any single publisher or developer on the service.

Already, ...

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2 Apr 2008
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MMO-type online persistence is set to become an increasingly important part of the design docs of big-budget PC games, the senior producer on Battlefield Heroes reckons. "I think we're going to continue to see high-end packaged good games on the PC. But I think they're going to, as you say, have an element of connectivity; they're going to have an element of persistence which you need to be connected online to do," EA's Ben Cousins ...

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1 Apr 2008
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PC - PC - DVDstruction

There's a whole lot of singin' going down this week on your PS3... and what's left of your 360's heap of high-def obsolescence. Wait where, you going?! It isn't all bad. Just... mostly. Even more so, since Paramount’s abrupt HD DVD cancelations have taken Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as a casualty of the format war. ...

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28 Mar 2008
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Former Vice President of Xbox Europe Sandy Duncan has cast his doubts on the long term future of the console market, claiming consoles as we know them will die out within a decade.Speaking in an interview, he said: "There is a definite convergence of other devices, such as set top boxes. There's hardly any technology difference between some hard disc video recorders and an Xbox 360, for example."In fact in 5 to 10 years I don't think you'll ...
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26 Mar 2008
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American Chronicle writer Dave Gibson has joined the long list of writers hopping on the 'gamers are destroying the world' bandwagon - blaming lazy, television watching Americans for divorce, out-of-wedlock births and cancer (we made the last one up). "A society whose grown men seem to be more interested in the latest video game, rather than the survival of their nation or even of their own family--is doomed to failure," says the angry ...
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