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1. “Just a Girl”
2. “It’s My Life”
3. “Hey Baby”
4. “Bathwater”
5. “Sunday Morning”
6. “Hella Good”
7. “Underneath It All”
8. “Excuse Me Mr.”
9. “Running”
10. “Spiderwebs”
11. “Simple Kind of Life”
12. “Don’t Speak”
13. “Ex-Girlfriend”

Elementally-Aligned Skills and Resistances Bring a New Twist to the Fantasy MMORPG

WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE

LEGO Batman scoops Best Videogame at the UK’s Prestigious 2008 Children’s BAFTA Awards

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today reveals that LEGO Batman: The Videogame won the prestigious Award for Best Videogame at the Children’s BAFTA Awards this week.

Produced by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s development studio, TT Games, Lego Batman: The Videogame beat off stiff competition from Nintendo’s Mario Kart Wii, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, and its very own sister title, Guinness World Records: The Video Game to seal the BAFTA win.

“We’re absolutely thrilled with this win,” said Jonathan Smith, Head of Production, TT Games. “It crowns a brilliant year for us.”

TT Games was bought by Warner Bros. in 2007 and has since enjoyed a hugely successful 2008 with the releases of, among other titles, LEGO Indiana Jones and LEGO Batman: The Videogame.

Diary Follows Fantasy Strategy Title Through Development

Paradox Interactive today announced the launch of the Elven Legacydeveloper diary. The developer diary is written by Max Bodrikov, theElven Legacy lead game designer from Ino-Co, and will follow the development of the turn-based strategy fantasy title leading up to its release.

The first entry discusses the revolutionary camera. Max Bodrikov writes, “In our concept for Elven Legacy, the game camera allows not only zooming in close to the ground, but also allows the player to tilt the view so low that the player can see the horizon, the sky and the boundless scope of the Illis kingdom. However, by putting the camera in this position and changing the scale, the load on a graphics card grew like a snowball. When just a moment ago, 800,000 polygons were being drawn, there are now all of a sudden 8,000,000 polygons! We had to use an intricate optimization technique to remove the objects that won’t be seen in the frame from the graphics processing. As a result, the change of scale function works really well and, as far as we know, it is a unique graphics solution among war games.”

To read the complete developer diary entry for Elven Legacy, please visit: http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/2706/elven-legacy-developer-diary-1

New entries will be posted every two weeks on Strategy Informer.

Elven Legacy is a fantasy strategy game that sends players on an epic quest aimed to restore the former glory of the Elven race. With a thrilling non-linear storyline and tools that allow players to create their own missions and campaigns and share them in multiplayer mode, Elven Legacy will provide hours of exciting game play for strategy fans.

Elven Legacy is scheduled for release in March 2009 and will be published worldwide by Paradox Interactive. It will be available for digital download at GamersGate for a suggested retail price of $29.99 / €29.99.

Here’s the trailers that came from the Atari Live event in London on the 2nd….

The Chronicles of Riddick – Assault on Dark Athena
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhkA9acpSq8] 

Codename Panzer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX_BTTtp3iM]

Eve Online
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QesjZNDhwWE]

Ghostbusters
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-7rm6tVV8E] 

Heroes over Europe
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lSO8_cOjFc] 

Q3 (Qubed)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYtyUYan2fM] 

Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayU-HnLtIbg] 

RacePro
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_uyPG2FxOs] 

Sam and Max Season 2
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNCehyP0_pc] 

The Chase
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn0MAdt72PU]

Sega has just opened PlaySega http://www.playsega.com/. It’s still “beta” but the casual games portal from Sega is taking on users. It’s free to join and you can create your own avatar (all the rage these days I guess). Go give it a try, some fun Sega-themed casual games.

5 December 2008 Stickman Studios announces the release of their latest game, Buccaneer: The Pursuit of Infamy.

The game is available for download from Steam for $19.99 from 16:00 PCT today.

Buccaneer is an epic fully-integrated 3D arcade game with a single player campaign and multiplayer options. Players take control of a single pirate ship using a simple and intuitive control method, allowing them to drop straight into the game and tackle missions with little or no practice.

Originally inspired by a naval-themed battle game set in the Napoleonic Wars, Stickman Studios wanted to make a faster-paced arcade-style game based on the same period in history.

“We wanted to give the player control over a single ship rather than a squadron.” explains Simon Nevill of Stickman. “The idea was for the ship to become the character, and what would have more character than a pirate ship?”

And so Buccaneer was born. During the single player campaign, players are only given a basic ship to start with. They have limited gold and no knowledge of the surrounding seas. As missions are completed, more areas are opened up and new ships unlocked.

There are 56 non-linear missions within the campaign, which allows players to attempt their goals in any order they prefer.
Multiplayer pits the Golden Buccaneers against the forces of The Crown in what is essentially a deathmatch with a difference. Battles are fought across ten different multiplayer maps with all ships rated by overall effectiveness.

“The multiplayer is a major aspect of the game and tremendous fun to play.” says Chris Swan, Business Development Director for Blitz Arcade “And you really have to focus on the team-play in order to tackle the larger ships. The experience itself is full of contrast: one moment you’re sailing around an island that is full of tranquility, while the next you find two great Condor Galleons coming out of the bay and you’re being bombarded by cannon fire!”

Stickman Studios was set up in 2005 and is a two-man indie developer, comprising co-founders Simon Nevill and Harvey Greensall. Both the guys are artists with limited programming experience. Their years in the industry gave them the contacts and coder help to complete Buccaneer by hook or by crook.

And while doing some freelance for Blitz Games Studios, based in Leamington Spa, Stickman found the last piece of the puzzle to help them get their game to market.

“We showed Buccaneer to Blitz way back when it was very much a work in progress,” says Simon. “They saw a lot of potential in our game and offered us the chance to sign up to the Blitz 1>UP programme, which has benefitted us in a number of areas – especially QA support. Having been so close to the game for so long, it’s been invaluable to have unbiased feedback. This has helped us make something more polished and more enjoyable.

“Another massive area of support from Blitz has been with industry networking. While our own ‘cheeky charm’ might land us a free ice cream, Blitz’s connections and influence within the industry are considerable. Already this partnership has secured Buccaneer a release on Steam, one of the world’s leading digital distributors, as well as interest from a number of more traditional distributors for a boxed version of the game for 2009.”

2K Play and Nickelodeon team up to bring you a totally new Dora adventure on Nintendo DS™, Nintendo Wii™ and PLAYSTATION®2!

Grab your gloves and hat and get ready for a wintery journey with Dora! A mean witch has put a spell on the Magic Snowy Forest, and now it’s starting to melt. With help from new friends like the Snow Fairy, and everybody’s favourites Boots, Swiper and Pirate Piggy, you’ll need to build a snowman, paddle a canoe, steer a dog-sledge and ride Pegasus to reach the Castle Grounds and save the Snow Princess!

• Authentic character voices of Dora and many other characters from the Dora The Explorer TV show!
• Grown-ups can join in using the Snowy Forest Helper Feature and a second Wii Remote™ or a DUALSHOCK®2 analog controller!!
• Make your way through the Snowy Forest, Icy Coast and Frozen Mountains to reach the Castle Grounds and save the Snow Princess!
• Over 12 unique Wii Remote™ motions including: ringing a crystal bell, digging with a shovel and raising a flag on a pole!
• Ice skate, snowboard and ski your way to find the magic crystal!
• Shout into the Nintendo DS™ microphone to make the sea snake go away!
• Blow into the Nintendo DS™ microphone to help Snow Fairy fly across the moat!
• Nintendo DS™ version is packed with over 24 Adventure Mode games plus 3 Snowy Forest Games!
• Kid-tested and approved by children and moms for age-appropriateness, fun-factor and quality!

An Epic Adventure Awaits Thousands of Heroes 

Last Chaos is already taking players all over the world by storm, becoming one of the biggest free to play games in Asia, the US and Germany. Finally, the surprise MMORPG-Hit is coming to French and Spanish speaking gamers. The closed beta servers are now up and running, so interested players have the chance to be the first to experience the whole new versions. Beyond that, they can give their feedback to gamigo, influencing the further progression of the game.

On the official websites www.last-chaos.eu players are not only able to sign up to win a spot in the closed beta, but they can get all informations about the game and it’s features as well. In the forums players can talk about their first achievements in the game, or if they are still waiting for a spot share their expectations with the quickly growing community.

In addition to the normal registration, gamigo is working with different partners to give even more people the chance to get a sneak peak at the game before it commences official operation. Players can go to different websites to win a key, that grants them immediate access to the beta.