Velvet Assassin trailer
Thursday, August 21st, 2008“Wars are won in Shadows” trailer
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New Dark Horizon screens and info
Thursday, August 21st, 2008NEW YORK – August 21, 2008
Paradox Interactive today released a new batch of screenshots and a listing of key features for Dark Horizon, their upcoming space action combat simulator for the PC at Games Convention in Leipzig. Dark Horizon will be released in North America on September 23 and in Europe on September 26, 2008.
The key features confirmed for Dark Horizon include:
Fully customize your spaceship in great detail.
Create the ultimate space vessel by gathering resources and disassembling unused parts of your ship, using them to create weapons and improve your ship.
Fight in teams with other pilots through fierce battles, give orders and use tactics to take out your enemies.
Choose between two different modes that will change your fighter’s performance according to your own demands: “Shadow” mode to stealth through enemy lines and “Corter” mode that will level up the power of your weapons.
Explore 22 missions and extensive customization opportunities.
Resident Evil 5 Leipzig trailer
Thursday, August 21st, 2008released yesterday, but the servers were so clogged, I couldn’t grab it!
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Play Fallen Angel 2 at GC 2008 (if you’re lucky enough to be in Leipzig)
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Leipzig, August 20, 2008 – Visitors to the 2008 Leipzig Games Convention in Germany should prepare to enter a world of fantasy and magic as Ascaron Entertainment will be allowing the first public hands-on time in Europe with their action-RPG, Sacred 2: Fallen Angel on the show floor.
The Sacred 2-Dell Arena, located in Hall 3 – Booth A02, is hosting multiplayer sessions of the upcoming action-RPG on 26 high-end Dell PCs, 20 PlayStation 3 systems and 20 Xbox 360 systems. Gamers can avoid waiting in line by reserving a personal time slot at www.sacred2.com.
Fans can look forward to a brand new preview version showcasing the Seraphim, High Elf, Shadow Warrior and Dryad characters, as well as the first public outing for the science-fiction inspired Temple Guardian playable character.
“This is the first time that DELL and ASCARON will be presenting the fruits of our teamwork in the form of a nearly complete pre-release version of SACRED 2: Fallen Angel,” said Heiko tom Felde, Managing Director of Ascaron GmbH. “Our cooperation with Dell has been decisive in substantially accelerating the development process of our title. The standardized hardware platform and superior stability of the Dell systems not only assisted our development of the PC version, but also empowered us to adopt a new approach that dramatically accelerated development for the next generation consoles. The GC preview will excite gaming fans everywhere, and will tangibly the high quality of the prequel and the expectations raised by the success of the original Sacred.“
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel is an action-RPG with a rich story that takes place in a giant, open-ended and seamless world. This world contains hundreds of dungeons, treacherous opponents and a variety of challenging quests. Intelligent enemies, steadily adapting in number and difficulty based on player progress, challenge in heroic single- and multiplayer battles.
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel provides numerous unique items that can be gathered in this mystical world. A deep reward system further enables advancements in character, individual attributes and character-specific fighting styles, each designed to keep players returning to the world of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel to discover what is around the next bend. Drop-in styled cooperative multiplayer gameplay ensures players will enjoy the game alone or seamlessly with friends at any time. Five unique multiplayer modes round out the experience and offer a refreshing, first-class gaming experience in Sacred 2: Fallen Angel.
The Mysterious Anbu Take Center Stage in Naruto: Clash Of Ninja Revolution 2 for Wii
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Los Angeles – August 21, 2008
TOMY Corporation and D3Publisher (D3P), publishers of interactive entertainment software, have announced that the mysterious covert operation group called the Anbu will be playing a major role in the exclusive North American storyline for NARUTO: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 for Wii™. Clad in standard issue black uniforms and porcelain animal masks, the specially trained Anbu squad is called upon by the Hokage, the leader of the Hidden Leaf Village, during times of extraordinary danger and for high-risk missions.
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“In VIZ Media’s NARUTO animation series, running on Cartoon Network, the Anbu only played a parallel and unexamined role in the original storyline,” said Yoshinobu Matsuo, producer of consumer software at TOMY Corporation. “We were fascinated with the concept of the Anbu, who are different from regular ninja in the NARUTO universe, and created a new story around them.”
Part of four original fighters made exclusively for the game, two new and original Anbu characters have been created for NARUTO: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2. They will be accompanied by Yugao, a known member of the Anbu featured in the animated TV series, whose boyfriend dies by the hands of the Sand ninja during the devastating surprise attack against the Hidden Leaf Village.
YUKE’S Unveils Character Lineup for Neverland Card Battles
Thursday, August 21st, 2008CHICAGO – August 21, 2008
YUKE’S Company of America, the U.S. publishing arm of Japanese game developer YUKE’S Company Limited, today unveiled screenshots of several leading characters found in the upcoming title Neverland Card Battles for the Sony PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system. Including an introduction to the story protagonist, Galahad, in addition to several others, players can get a first look at the characters with whom they will form alliances and battle against. Also included are brand new in-game screenshots.
Neverland Card Battles is slated for release in October of 2008 and has been rated “T” for Teen with Mild Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, Partial Nudity and Use of Tobacco by the ESRB. Additional information can be found by visiting the Neverland Card Battles teaser site at:
http://www.neverlandcardbattles.com
NaturalMotion Launches morpheme 2.0 at NVISION 2008
Thursday, August 21st, 2008SAN JOSE, Calif. – August 21, 2008
NaturalMotion, the animation technology pioneer behind the revolutionary euphoria motion synthesis engine, today announced it will launch morpheme 2.0 at the NVISION 08 convention in San Jose. The new version of morpheme, the company’s multiplatform, graphically authorable animation engine, features tight integration of NVIDIA PhysX™ technology.
The integration of PhysX gives programmers and animators direct graphical control over how characters and objects interact in their games, whether it be through ragdolls or animation-driven physics. Continuing morpheme’s ultra-flexible paradigm, animation and physics can be blended and combined across body parts, authored via graphical nodes and controlled by user-defined parameters.
Moreover, morpheme 2.0 introduces a powerful graphical character authoring tool, allowing users to set up and edit physics rigs including collision surfaces and joint angles.
morpheme is currently licensed by an array of top-tier developers, including Bioware, Eidos, Ninja Theory, 38 Studios, Futuremark, Total Immersion Software, CCP, Gearbox Software, and many others.
“The goal of morpheme has always been to streamline the animation production pipeline, offering faster development times and higher fidelity,” said Torsten Reil, CEO of NaturalMotion. “We selected NVIDIAs PhysX technology because out of all commercial physics engines, it offers the highest character-grade fidelity, an essential requirement for creating believable characters.”
“NaturalMotion’s technology marks a turning point in gaming. Its fidelity of movement makes characters seem so real that you want to touch them. And the PhysX integration lets you do just that,” said Manju Hedge, vice president of PhysX technology at NVIDIA.
In addition to unveiling morpheme 2.0 at NVISION, NaturalMotion is also demonstrating Backbreaker, the company’s upcoming American Football game powered by euphoria, morpheme and PhysX.
Wonderland Online: Choose Your Events
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Wonderland Online (http://wl.igg.com/) has created a section called ‘Event Center’ on the official site. This is a place where players can get to know the details of every event available. There will be short ‘Official weekly events’ and ‘Long-term official events’ held by GMs. While ‘Weekly system events’ are the normally scheduled in game events players all enjoy. Below are some of the interesting events being featured:
The Early Bird Gets the Worm
The event goal is to carry away all the items in the GM’s tent.
Righteous Harter
No one knows where Harter came from. Some say outer space, some say he crawled from the swamp. One thing is known though, he will never say no to a friend; and as he always says “All the players are my friends!” If players would like to pay Harter a small fee, he will help them to complete a difficult quest.
Search for a Super Pet
There are many different pets in Wonderland Online, a GM will guide players to search for a rare pet, such as the Unicorn, Clumsy Elephant, Pumpkin Monster.
Crazy Flea Market
Merchants from all over the world travel to Wonderland Online to find the strange and mysterious things that are on sale there. Many of them will even pay exorbitant prices for the items they want. Find out what they want and sell it to them to make some easy money.
For more info please visit: http://wl.igg.com/event/weekly_events.php