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Iron Lore closed due partly to piracy issues says THQ

iTZKooPA — Sun, 17 May 2009 08:34:51 -0400

We reported on the closure of Iron Lore Entertainment last week much to our chagrin. While it is sad to see such a talented company stop its development it is even more sad that THQ, their publisher, blames the closure largely on piracy.

THQ director of creative management Michael Fitch took the time yesterday to draft a long rant on the Quarter to Three forums where he ranted on piracy and the messed up PC market in general. This is the second time the PC gaming market has come under att...

Big Huge Games RPG Gets Publisher, Date

iTZKooPA — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:53:46 -0400

THQ and Big Huge Games have announced a new development deal which will see the publisher bringing BHG's newly announced RPG from Ken Rolston to market for PC, PS3 and Xbox360 in 2009. Rolston whom only joined the company in February will be leading the project and so far has liked what he has seen at BHG.

Rolston said the following about the development team behind Rise of Nations, "I'm flabbergasted by the talent, craft and boundless energy of the Big Huge Games team. In such splendid com...

'Fallout 3' Collector's Edition Confirmed

iTZKooPA — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:13:42 -0400

GamingTarget.com has broken some hot news regarding Bethesda Softworks' next massive RPG, Fallout 3. The news team over there (cough) has confirmed the expected Collector's Edition of the title that is officially coming out in Fall 2008 for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. The exciting part is that the information also contains details on all the included feelies:
* A Vault Boy bobblehead* The Art of Fallout 3 hardcover book* The Making of Fallout 3 DVD* Vault-Tec Lunch box for the game and all the aforem...

'Doom 4' Announced!

iTZKooPA — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:12:29 -0400

id Software announced today that development has started on Doom 4, “the next journey into the legendary DOOM universe.” Recently Carmack, Hollenshead and company have been farming out their franchises to outside developers such as Splash Damage's Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Raven Software's Quake 4 but not so with Doom 4.

id Software has alluded to the fact that the title will be developed in-house, "It's critical for id Software to have the best creative minds in-house to d...

Crytek no longer making PC-exclusives

iTZKooPA — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:27:22 -0400

Crytek's Cevat Yerli dropped a smallblurb as part of an interview with PC Play that is surely to take theInternet by storm. During the course of the interview he was polledfor his opinion on the state of PC gaming, this was his response:

“We are suffering currently from thehuge piracy that is encompassing Crysis. We seem to lead the chartsin piracy by a large margin, a chart leading that is not desirable. Ibelieve that’s the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy. To thedegree PC Gamers that pir...

Ubisoft Brings Back the Prince

iTZKooPA — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:17:12 -0400

Ubisoft has announced that the Prince will be flying again in Ubisoft's 2008-2009 fiscal year. The Prince, of course, refers to the Prince of Persia franchise, which will see a new title heading to the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. The title will be “a new chapter” in the franchise, and not an extension of the Sands of Time trilogy that sold so well for Ubisoft, ending with Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones.The game will feature "an entirely new storyline and new characters" along with bringing a "bran...

'The Witcher Enhanced Edition' Delayed

iTZKooPA — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:36:51 -0400

CD Projekt RED has announced that the Enhanced Edition of The Witcher has been delayed from May to an unannounced release date. The developers attribute the delay to their goal of making “Witcher: Enhanced Edition as close to a flawless product as possible.”

The team is taking the extra time to polish the title for a worldwide launch with the exact date coming soon. As detailed in the original announcement the Enhanced Edition will feature highly re-written and re-recorded languages and dial...

'Pirates of the Burning Sea' hit by rogue wave

iTZKooPA — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:19:57 -0400

Wired.com is reporting that Pirates of the Burning Sea has shuttered seven of their servers, just three months after the title launched. The closure will see only four servers remaining online as Flying Lab Software tries to consolidate the playerbase.

"Through feedback from our players and evaluation of our server populations, it has become clear that key game features require populations of higher density in order to function at optimum levels," said developer Flying Lab Software.

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Mass Effect PC Delayed; PC Enhancements Detailed

iTZKooPA — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:49:22 -0400

Electronic Arts, the new publisher for Mass Effect, announces a delay in the enhanced PC port from May 6th to May 28th. The delay is due to BioWare's level of commitment to quality, citing the new PC-centric Heads-Up Display as the main cause. BioWare community administrator Chris Priestly said in a forum post "The new release date for North America is May 28, 2008 and June 6, 2008 in Europe."

BioWare and Demiurge Studios, the team handling the port, have re-designed the HUD to...

Electronic Arts Signs Up For More Unreal Engine 3

iTZKooPA — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:30:21 -0400

Electronic Arts and Epic Games have made it public that EA will be using the Unreal Engine 3 in five more upcoming products. EA has used the middleware in previous titles such as Medal of Honor Airborne and the recent Army of Two but has not divulged which upcoming games will use the platform, only that they are all currently in development.

We will keep you informed as the news hits.

'The Witcher: DuelMail' open beta begins

iTZKooPA — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:07:43 -0400

CD Projekt RED announces via theofficial The Witcher website that the open betafor The Witcher: DuelMail has begun. TheWitcher: DuelMail is a recently announced web-basedextension to the award winning PC RPG, set for full release May 9. CD Projekt and one2tribe pointed out that the title players will seein beta “does not represent the quality of the final product” andthey hope the beta will allow them to flesh out the “help document,full support for non-standard fonts (such as Cyrillic) as well...

Ubisoft Unveils First New Clancy-Based Property

iTZKooPA — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:16:55 -0400

Ubisoft has officially unveiled their Tom Clancy branded aerial combat game dubbed Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X or high-altitude warfare. The property was announced some time ago although without an official title. HAWX is the first Tom Clancy news since the best-selling author and French publisher reached an agreement giving the publisher rights to his name. Ubisoft has their Bucharest studio working on the title and hopes to have HAWX out this Fall for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. “Tom Clancy’s HAWX marks th...

Relic Entertainment Announces 'Dawn of War II'

iTZKooPA — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:37:03 -0400

THQ and Relic Entertainment have officially announced Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, the sequel to Relic's award-winning Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and its many expansion packs. The PC exclusive title is slated for a Spring 2009 release and those who purchased Iron Lore Entertainment's Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Soulstorm will receive a chance to participate in the invite-only beta of DoWII beginning “at a future date.” So far little has been announced feature or content-wise, but we ...

Capcom Acquires Worldwide MotoGP License

iTZKooPA — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:15:58 -0400

Trying to avoid all the April Fool's day pranks? Well, you have come to the right place as Capcom has announced that they have secured the worldwide rights to publish video games and create peripherals based on the MotoGP motorcycling championship. The agreement covers all platforms for the first time and will cover the next five years. The move has allowed Capcom to begin production on titles for the 2008 season for PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PlayStation 2 and mobile platforms. Mar...

Sega Closes Korean Subsidiary, Cancels New Factory

iTZKooPA — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:31:58 -0400

Sega (now of Sega-Sammy Holdings) has been hit with some hard times, forcing the company to close down a Korean subsidiary and abandon plans to construct a new $330 million arcade complex outside of Tokyo, Japan. According to Bloomberg the firm had been trying to acquire 10 acres of land for the facility, spending some $227 million on land already.

While Sega's home console and PC business remains healthy, the other side of the coin, Sammy, has seen its core market of pachinko and amusement c...

'Warhammer Online' Delayed Till Fall 2008

iTZKooPA — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:07:34 -0400

EA Mythic has announced the expected limited edition for their upcoming MMORPG Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. The Warhammer Online Collector's Edition will reportedly be a true limited edition with limited qualities available only upon the title's launch. Videogamer.com reports that Europe is to have only 55,000 Collector's Editions for the region and EB Games states 60,000 copies are destined for North America.

The Collector's Edition is to include the game, "Art of Warhammer Online" a ...

NCSoft Licenses Unreal Engine 3 for Two MMOGs

iTZKooPA — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:04:20 -0400

NCSoft has announces that they are employing Unreal Engine 3 in two upcoming MMOGs. NCSoft has been a customer of Epic Games' technology for some years, employing Unreal Engine 2 in a pair of their top-tier MMOGs including the popular Lineage II and once again in the mech-based third-person shooter Exteel.The only details NCSoft released on the projects, other than the engine technology, is that they will be “top-tier” MMOGs, neglecting to even mention if the titles would be for the PC, consoles...

EA CFO Warren Jenson Steps Down

iTZKooPA — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:50:20 -0400

Warren Jenson, the Chief Financial Officer over at Electronic Arts, announced this morning that he will be leaving the company, but failed to specify as to why. EA was quick to point out that the executive's departure has nothing to do with the recent takeover bids EA has offered to Take-Two shareholders.Jenson will remain with the company through the end of the company's fiscal year, which ends March 31st. Jenson joined EA in 2002 after serving in the same capacity for Amazon.com and Delta Airl...

id Software's Nix Defends PC Gaming

iTZKooPA — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:31:04 -0400

id Software's Director of Business Development, Steve Nix, joined the growing number of developers to comment on the “State of PC Gaming.” Unlike his previous colleagues, the id Software employee defended the platform as being more powerful than consoles, while stating at the same time that the market holds “plenty of people who are diehard mouse and keyboard guys that may never go to console.”

Nix stated, “If you have the highest of high-end PCs, you're generally going to get a better visual...

Clancy Sells Rights to His Name to Ubisoft; Ubisoft Contemplating Clancy-Based MMO

iTZKooPA — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:28:53 -0400

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said in a conference call today that the company believes they are in a good position to “go for” a Tom Clancy brand MMO. The news comes out in conjunction with an agreement between the best-selling author and French publisher that will see Clancy pocket an estimated sum of €20 million with additional payouts coming over the next two years. The deal will give the publisher access to the author's name enabling royalty-free future titles. The wording points out that Ubis...

EA drops more 'The Sims 3' details

iTZKooPA — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:18:56 -0400

Electronic Arts has released some moredetails on their upcoming sequel to The Sims 2. The unimaginatively named The Sims 3 will belaunching globally in 2009 for PCs everywhere. The title will boastan all new engine that has been in development for almost threeyears, and will allow your Sim to live in an “open livingneighborhood.”

Announced features include theaforementioned outside world, a new Create a Sim ability and deeper,more realistic personalities. Of course, no Sims title would beco...

Prey 2 Confirmed for PC & Xbox 360

iTZKooPA — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:45:35 -0400

News has come out that The Radar Group/Human Head Studios are making a sequel to what could be the best title based on id's Doom 3 Engine, Prey. Prey 2 will have players reprise their role as Tommy, the Native American who saved the planet from an alien invasion. The sequel will see Tommy abandon his home world after he was framed for the disappearance of his family.

The game will sport the same “adrenaline-pumping,” portal hopping gameplay as the original with additional twists. The Radar Gr...

Unreal Engine 4 "will exclusively target the next console generation"

iTZKooPA — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:19:34 -0400

Epic Games' Tim Sweeney has laid it out for PC gamers once again, confirming that his company is focusing on consoles. Sweeney, the company's CEO, stated that Unreal Engine “Version 4 will exclusively target the next console generation, Microsoft's successor for the Xbox 360, Sony's successor for the PlayStation 3 - and if Nintendo ships a machine with similar hardware specs, then that also. PCs will follow after that.”

Few concrete details about the new version of Unreal Engine were release...

'Lord of the Rings Online' Expanding This Fall

iTZKooPA — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:00:36 -0400

Lord of the Rings Online has been successful enough to warrant its first expansion. The MMORPG was launched in late April 2007 to solid reviews and has since seen a number of free content updates, or Books, as they are called. Although LotR Online is nowhere near the level of popularity of World of Warcraft, which captures over 62% of the market, it is the most successful high profile title to come out since WoW and Everquest II, capturing 1.2% of the market according to MMOGChart.com....