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Posted by IGN Mar 18 2010 16:26 GMT in PC Gaming News
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Upcoming massively multiplayer online real time strategy game takes the RTS genre to a new level with complete MMORPG-style control over characters.

Posted by Joystiq Mar 18 2010 17:04 GMT in Gaming News
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If you've been nervously tapping your fuzzy Hobbit toes in anticipation of the project behind the trademarked "Lord of the Rings: War in the North," then prepare for a delicious second breakfast of information. Warner Bros. Interactive has officially announced the game which, as it turns out, is an RPG from Champions of Norrath / Justice League Heroes developer Snowblind Studios, due for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 in 2011.

It sounds like it will be familiar gameplay to fans of those games, as well. Snowblind head Ryan Geithman calls it "a natural evolution of the acclaimed RPG gameplay that Snowblind has consistently delivered over the past years." In this online co-op RPG, up to three players will take part in the War of the Ring, visiting areas and meeting characters from the films as well as "unseen lands, story elements and characters from Middle-earth."

The game will receive a full reveal in PlayStation: The Official Magazine's May issue, which will be on shelves April 6. Head past the break for a trailer.

Posted by Joystiq Mar 18 2010 17:18 GMT in Heavy Rain
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While the Joystiq staff hasn't experienced a game-ending Heavy Rain crash, there are a number of vocal members of the PlayStation forums that have reported some serious issues, most notably save file corruption. Quantic Dream is working on a new patch for the adventure game, one that "address a range of minor issues," but isn't "targeted purely at the issues reported." According to Sam_Protagonist, SCEE has had difficulty in reproducing the reported bugs, but hopes that the patch should fix various "contributing factors" that may be at the root of Heavy Rain's issues. "We're optimistic that this patch resolves your problems but cannot guarantee that this will be the case."

Development on the patch is now complete, and is undergoing the "final stages of testing." Let's hope the patch actually does its job -- otherwise, angry Heavy Rain owners will be left with nothing to play but Press X to Jason.

[Via VG247]

Posted by Kotaku Mar 18 2010 16:00 GMT in Metroid: Other M
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#metroidotherm Playing through a section of Metroid: Other M last week, I couldn't help but notice that the More »

Posted by Joystiq Mar 18 2010 17:04 GMT in Gaming News
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If you've been nervously tapping your fuzzy Hobbit toes in anticipation of the project behind the trademarked "Lord of the Rings: War in the North," then prepare for a delicious second breakfast of information. Warner Bros. Interactive has officially announced the game which, as it turns out, is an RPG from Champions of Norrath / Justice League Heroes developer Snowblind Studios, due for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 in 2011.

It sounds like it will be familiar gameplay to fans of those games, as well. Snowblind head Ryan Geithman calls it "a natural evolution of the acclaimed RPG gameplay that Snowblind has consistently delivered over the past years." In this online co-op RPG, up to three players will take part in the War of the Ring, visiting areas and meeting characters from the films as well as "unseen lands, story elements and characters from Middle-earth."

The game will receive a full reveal in PlayStation: The Official Magazine's May issue, which will be on shelves April 6. Head past the break for a trailer.

Posted by IGN Mar 18 2010 16:00 GMT in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
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The Wii is getting its own unique adventure. Check out the first footage straight from Ubisoft.

Posted by IGN Mar 18 2010 15:53 GMT in World of Tanks
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Massively multiplayer online tank action game is developed employing BigWorld Technology.

Posted by Kotaku Mar 18 2010 15:40 GMT in Dragon Age: Origins -- Awakening
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#releasedate A blood dragon-emblazoned card tucked within retail copies of the Dragon Age Origins: Awakening expansion suggests that February 1, 2011 is a date of some importance to BioWare's latest RPG franchise. Is this the release date for Dragon Age 2? More »

Posted by IGN Mar 18 2010 15:32 GMT in The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
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Mature RPG explores new areas of Middle Earth.

Posted by Kotaku Mar 18 2010 15:20 GMT in Gaming News
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#squareenix From Square Enix and the developers Wild Arms comes Chaos Rings, an iPhone game that looks like it could be the first great 3D Japanese RPG on the platform, with production values on par with PlayStation-era Final Fantasy titles. More »

Posted by Joystiq Mar 18 2010 16:23 GMT in Battlefield: Bad Company 2
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Not content to wait for March to end, EA went ahead and announced that "Battlefield: Bad Company 2 tops March sales charts." The somewhat hasty press release goes on to explain that with 2.3 million copies sold so far, Bad Company 2 is "on pace" to be the top selling title in March 2010. It is already, according to EA, the best-selling March release yet, which lends credence to EA's early claim of March dominance.

We look forward to seeing if this claim rings true at the end of the month, after Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver have had two weeks to sell. Or maybe that's why why EA issued the "we won" press release now?

Posted by Kotaku Mar 18 2010 15:00 GMT in Super Street Fighter IV
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#capcom The man behind Street Fighter IV doubts that Capcom would want him to work on a Hyper Street Fighter IV after iterative Super Street Fighter IV hits stores this year. Instead Yoshinori Ono has something else in mind: Darkstalkers. More »

Posted by IGN Mar 18 2010 15:16 GMT in Military Madness
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TurboGrafx-16 classic coming soon to WiiWare.

Posted by Kotaku Mar 18 2010 14:40 GMT in Star Wars: The Old Republic
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#money For about fifteen bucks a month, you can play World of Warcraft or most other massively multiplayer online games. That's the genre standard. Could the next big MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic shake that up? More »

Posted by Joystiq Mar 18 2010 15:54 GMT in Pokemon HeartGold / SoulSilver
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I can't remember a single game release I ever anticipated more in my life than Pokémon Gold and Silver. By the time the game hit U.S. store shelves in 2000, I'd been rendered a shivering addict to versions Blue and Red for nearly two years. The promise of new pocket-sized monsters and new areas to explore thrilled me to the central of my very being -- and thankfully, the franchise's massive second generation did not disappoint.

I'm a decade older now, and while I've retained most of my love for the franchise since my middle school career, I worried that the recently released remakes, HeartGold and SoulSilver, wouldn't have the same intoxicating properties as their source materials. Now that I've spent about eight hours in the game, I feel confident in reporting that these remakes possess the same gripping magic as the originals -- partially due to the infusion of new elements introduced in later generations of the series, and, surprisingly, due to the bundled Pokéwalker peripheral.


Posted by IGN Mar 18 2010 14:54 GMT in Supreme Commander 2
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Square Enix and Gas Powered Games deliver the next dimension of real-time strategy games.

Posted by Kotaku Mar 18 2010 14:00 GMT in Age of Conan
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#pc Wolf and Tiger mounts, choices and consequences that roll out branching storylines and emotes that trigger puzzles and help to conquer bosses are just a few of the new concepts coming to Age of Conan later this year. More »

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Posted by Joystiq Mar 18 2010 15:15 GMT in Skate 3
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There's nothing quite as satisfying as learning how to skateboard from a crazy old coot named Coach Frank (as played by ex-pro skateboarder Jason Lee -- you know, the guy from Mallrats?). Experts that they are, the folks at EA developer Black Box are well aware of the attraction, and they've employed the character to teach Skate 3's "Skate School" mode.

Frank acts as a framework for the fleshed out Skate 3 tutorial, teaching players how to nail tricks and polish their execution -- it probably helps that he's full of goofy, if occasionally awkward, humor to lighten up the mood as well. And hey, if we learned anything from the previous two Skate games, we're going to be spending a ton of time just figuring out how to ollie without faceplanting over and over (and over), so we could use the levity.

Posted by PlayStation Blog Mar 18 2010 14:01 GMT in Echoshift
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Hi Everyone – I have some exciting news to share with you today about echoshift, one of the most unique puzzle games available for the PSP on PSN. The development team created seven extra levels full of the challenging puzzles and gimmicks that make the full game so much fun! Best of all, SCEA is offering these to our fans for FREE, but only for a limited time.

Beginning with today’s PlayStation Store publish and lasting until April 1, PSN users who have yet to purchase the echoshift game will find a bundle offer on the PlayStation Store. The bundle offer includes the full game plus all seven extra add-on levels for the original price of $14.99! Now is a great time to try echoshift’s innovative take on puzzle games, where you have to create echoes of your actions that you’ll replay and cooperate with to solve challenging puzzles. To learn more about the game, check out our previous posts.

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the mind-bending add-on levels:

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Pretty cool huh? This is the first time these levels have been available in SCEA, and this offer is only good until April 1!

For those fans who have already bought echoshift and have been enjoying the game, don’t worry we’ve got you covered too! When you sign into the PlayStation Store using the PSN ID that you purchased echoshift with, you’ll see the “echoshift Add-on Levels” content available for free in the “echoshift” page under “view all”. This offer is also only available from March 18 – April 1 though, so hurry and download them before they’re gone!

Thanks for reading!

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Posted by IGN Mar 18 2010 14:00 GMT in Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer
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The newest features, and why you should care.

Posted by Kotaku Mar 18 2010 13:00 GMT in Dissidia Final Fantasy
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#finalfantasy PSP game Dissidia: Final Fantasy features a smorgasbord of Final Fantasy characters. The game was a hit! It sold over a million copies. Do you know what means? More »

Posted by Kotaku Mar 18 2010 12:30 GMT in Gaming News
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#japan For years now, manga textbooks have been explaining things like the English language and cooking. So why not electronic circuitry, quantum mechanics or even thermodynamics? More »

Posted by Kotaku Mar 18 2010 12:00 GMT in Gaming News
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#c64 The Commodore 64, perhaps Britain's greatest ever invention, is a machine beloved by many who grew up in the 1980s. Like me. Which is why it's fun to hear that it's parent brand is making a comeback. More »

Posted by Kotaku Mar 18 2010 11:30 GMT in Gaming News
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#ubisoft Frenchman Frédérick Raynal, known to most as the creator of horror series Alone in the Dark but beloved by us for creating cult hit Little Big Adventure, has a new game due this year in the works for publisher Ubisoft. More »