Mythic and The Black Library, a division of Games Workshop, today announced Dark Storm Gathering, an original novel based on the critically acclaimed MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR).
The second in a series of novels based on the hit massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Dark Storm Gathering will be available in all major bookstores and on the Black Library website in Spring 2009.
Dark Storm Gathering, by noted Black Library author Chris Wraight, provides a colorful and gripping account of the Realm vs. Realm battles that rage throughout WAR. In the novel, human and Elf adventurers are forced to form an uneasy alliance with the armies of the Empire to repel the forces of Chaos. Across the lands, the grim march of Tchar’zanek, dread Champion of the fell powers of Chaos, is underway.
Throughout the Empire of Man, the toll from plague and mutation continues to grow, and hope begins to fade. Only the intervention of the H... More »
SEGA's glorious past is gathered in one colossal collection that is heading to both the PlayStation 3 and XBox 360 in early 2009.
Press Release: LONDON&SAN FRANCISCO – SEGA® of Europe Ltd. and SEGA® of America, Inc today announced the development of SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system.
This compilation will feature the best first-party games from SEGA’s respected 16-bit Mega Drive years, as well as bonus content from its 8-bit Master System and 1980’s arcade era games library.
“SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection is a must-have for any SEGA enthusiast,” commented Gary Knight, European Marketing Director for SEGA Europe.“Fans will get a chance to relive fond memories from these classic games in HD format.”
Developed by Backbone Entertainment, SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection contains over 40 ce... More »
Last week, Sega opened up a teaser site for a mysterious new RPG that was being produced by Rieko Kodama of Phantasy Star fame, directed by Kazuya Niinou of Ertain Odyssey fame, and would feature music from Yuzo Koshiro of Streets of Rage fame. Famitsu managed to unearth proper details on the game, including a name and first gameplay information.
Titled 7th Dragon, this new fantasy RPG is set in the world of Eden, a world that is ruled in large part by seven dragons and their massive armies of dragon minions. The lands that are ruled by the dragons grow a special flower which sucks the life out of the land. When the whole of the planet is covered in these flowers, mankind will become extinct. The only hope for survival for mankind is to hunt down and defeat the dragons.
7th Dragon combines overhead exploration with party-based battles. During the overhead sequences, you travel through the land, visiting different continents, islands and re... More »
There are almost a million Trophies to collect in Burnout Paradise. By almost, we mean there are a whopping 64 Trophies to find.
You'll need to do almost everything imaginable in the game... and there's a lot to do. Make sure you have some online friends and a PS Eye if you want to get the Platinum. Thanks to PS3Trophies.org for the list, detailed below:
Bronze Trophies
• Repair your car - Awarded for driving through any Auto Repair
• Set a Time Road Rule on any road - Awarded for beating any of the original Time Road Rule scores
• Set a Showtime Road Rule on any road - Awarded for beating any of the original Showtime Road Rule scores
• Win a race - Awarded for winning any Offline Race
• Smash 3 Burnout Billboards - Awarded when you smash through your 3rd pristine Burnout Billboard
• Smash 30 Burnout Billboards - Awarded whe... More »
We announced a few weeks back that you'd soon be able to buy Burnout Paradise on the PlayStation Store. We're now able to confirm that this will be released on this coming Thursday (25th of September).
Buying the game gets you all the original Burnout Paradise disk content. If you missed it, that's all 5 neighbourhoods in the Paradise City open world filled with hundreds of Road Rage, Stunt Run, Marked Man and Burning Route events. Every street in the city features a Road Rules record time and Showtime score to beat.
Take it online, and you'll witness the seamless arrival of up to 7 friends. Collaborate with them to beat 350 Freeburn Challenges – simple challenges taking you all over Paradise City.
Starting the game will then immediately trigger the download of all our updates, including the recent Cagney Pack and Burnout Bikes. A pack delivering PS3 Trophy Support will be released imminently and included for free.
The limitations of the DVD medium and XBox 360 hardware have not forced id to cut content from all versions of Rage (PC, PS3, 360), the studio has told Shacknews.
Following a report that id had removed "significant content" from all versions of the shooter so the game would fit onto two XBox 360 DVDs, id Software's Tim Willits denied that the XBox 360 version required the studio to sacrifice its vision for the game.
"There was NO CONTENT removed from RAGE because of the 360--NONE AT ALL," wrote Willits. "We feel the 360 is a great platform and will provide a fantastic Rage experience."
id has previously stated that the XBox 360 version of Rage will look worse than its PC and PS3 counterparts due to the limitations of the DVD medium. The studio had hoped to circumvent this by spreading the 360 release across three DVDs, though Microsoft's royalty rates apparently make anything beyond two discs financially impracticable.
Today KOEI announced 'DYNASTY WARRIORS: MULTI RAID' for the PSP platform. In Japanese, you might know this as 'Shin Sangoku Musou Multi Raid'.
This PSP game is based on 'Dynasty Warriors 6', but also adds new features and abilities such as the 'Shin Musou Kakusei'. There will also be new Stages and a somewhat upgraded version of 'Musou Rage' which is similar to 'Super Saiyan Effects' for you Dragonball Z fans out there.
In the title, we know that all characters will be able to transform into 'super' versions of themselves. Set for release this Winter in Japan, no North American date has been announced yet.
The first scan from Shonen Jump magazine can be found below!
Tim Willits and Todd Hollensead of ID recently spoke to GameInformer regarding their latest focus - RAGE. Hollensead has revealed that the first thing his PS3 programmers will say is that essentially it is a pain to work with.
However, he revealed that while there are challenges to it, it's certainly "not as hairy" as people originally said it was.
To quote from the Interview:
Q: Have you found developers for the PS3?
Hollensead: I think the programmers will tell you first that it’s a pain in the ass to work with. They have said that it’s a pain in the ass to work with, but at the same time, that’s our job—making games—and the strategy that we wanted was to have a game that worked on all the platforms.
John, to his credit, came up with a technology solution that allowed us to do something unique, which is to have one source base for the media, not source for programming source, art source. Once ... More »
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