Set in a land rooted in ancient Persian mythology, the Prince finds himself caught in an epic battle between the primal forces of light and darkness: the God of Light, Ormazd versus his brother Ahriman, the destructive God of Darkness. The Prince arrives just in time to witness the destruction of the legendary Tree of Life an act which threatens to plunge the entire world into eternal darkness. Manifested in the form of the Corruption, a dark substance that physically contaminates the land and the skies, the Prince must partner with Elika, a deadly companion, to heal the world from the evil Corruption.

The official launch date for Tomb Raider Underworld is November 21st, 2008. The latest trailer released by Eidos is a gameplay one, where Lara tries out her moves in a cold environment (Arctic). Enjoy!

This is what Paul Sams, COO at Blizzard, said:

“We want to create a great game… Something that’s cool, and new, and different, and kind of next generation in terms of look and feel and gameplay. That’s a challenging endeavour…We’re definitely at the beginning, in the first half of development…”

After four years of WoW, and the previous experience with Battle.net, Blizzard is more than capable of creating a superior MMO. Looking forward to hearing what it will be about.

Source: cvg.co.uk

Alright, so I played Fallout 3 and I finished it just now. Overall, the game is good, but I had higher expectations from it, so for me it’s a little disappointing. I’m really looking forward for the Construction Set to be released, so I can start the game over.

The good parts:

• a lot of options in-game. You can be the bad guy or the good guy and finish the game how you like.
• you do what you want: do the main quest, or just the secondary ones. Explore the Wasteland or try to finish the game, it’s your choice. Watch it though, when you finish the main quest the game ends.

What bothered me:

• the game ends when you finish the main quest. This annoyed me as hell. I was expecting this to be a game with no end if you want it to be this way. I thought that after I made the main quest I could still go out and explore the rest of the Wasteland, do the rest of the quests and so on. Maybe because I did the same with the Elder Scrolls series, and I shouldn’t have expected the same thing here, but it still annoys me. I would’ve played the game for at least 10 more hours to see what I’ve missed if it didn’t end.
• dialog boxes and inventory don’t show all the options, you have to scroll down a lot to find what you’re looking for. This problem was in Oblivion also, so I guess it’s universal with Bethesda products.
• no sleeping in the Wasteland, unless you can find a tent or an abandoned bed. This kind’off blows. The amount of sleep depravation that was forced on my character would make a grown man cry.
• no wife in Fallout 3? I didn’t play Fallout 2, but I understood that you could have a wife there, so why not here as well?
• couldn’t find the damn sniper rifle. Not exactly something that can be found easily.

Overall, the game was OK, but to fully reach its potential it needs the Construction Set to be released. Oblivion had tens of thousands of mods released by the community and I played it for months because of that.

Without the Construction Set, the mods that can be made are limited unfortunately. You can find a few basic ones here, including a better sniper rifle, 10mm pistol, power armor and a few others.

Yes! This is the announcement I was waiting for, even if the launch is 2 years away. Until Morrowind and Oblivion, no other game has ever kept me in front of the computer for so long. The success of the Elder Scrolls games (as far as I’m concerned at least) is brought by the Construction Set and the impressive community of modders that use it.

It’s the reason I play Fallout 3 these days, even though I haven’t played the previous versions. I play it because I expect a Construction Editor to come out, and the modders to go wild, creating objects, NPC’s, towns and new worlds based on this game.

Though I would be interested of buying a Wii just to experience the next Elder Scrolls game in a new way, they don’t seem to be interested in this platform, with plans to release it only for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

Unfortunately, GTA IV will remain a console game for a bit longer. While the official launch date was November 11, Rockstar announced that it’s delayed for a few weeks, with the new launch date being December 2nd.

Until then, check out the system requirements below, and make the needed upgrades to your gaming PC, if you don’t qualify.

Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows Vista – Service Pack 1 / XP – Service Pack 3
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4Ghz
Memory: 1.5GB
HDD: 16GB Free Hard Drive Space
Video Card: 256MB NVIDIA 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900

Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows Vista – Service Pack 1 / XP – Service Pack 3
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz, AMD Phenom X3 2.1Ghz
Memory: 2 GB (Windows XP) 2.5 GB (Windows Vista)
HDD: 18 GB Free Hard Drive Space
Video Card: 512MB NVIDIA 8600 / 512MB ATI 3870

They also said what the system requirements will be for this game:

* OS: Windows XP or Vista
* Processor: XP: 1.4GHz or Faster / Vista: 2.0GHz or Faster
* Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core, AMD Athlon
* Memory: XP: 512MB RAM / Vista: 1.0GB RAM
* Hard Drive Space: 2GB
* DVD-Drive: 4x Speed *
Video Card: 128MB *Supported Chipsets (see below)
* Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
* Directx: Version 9.0c (included) * LAN: TCP/IP compliant
* Input: Keyboard, Mouse

Now, Microsoft decided not to release Fallout 3 in India at all, since some of the content might offend the Indians.

“Microsoft constantly endeavours to bring the best games to Indian consumers in sync with their international release. However, in light of cultural sensitivities in India, we have made the business decision to not bring Fallout 3 into the country.”

It really pisses me off when stuff like this happens. A small group of idiots that feel offended in their religion or sensibilities make sure that nobody can play the game like it was meant. Now an entire game can’t be found in India because of them, and we’re talking about a great game here. Too bad.