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Aug 5th
And another title on my watchlist has unveiled its release date/timeframe: Torchlight II will be released in spring 2011. Hooray. The first “Diablo clone”
From the developers website comes the feature list:
Torchlight II ignites the franchise created and developed by Runic Games in this exciting sequel to the award-winning Action RPG Torchlight. Runic Games, located in Seattle, is a veteran team composed of the designers and leads of projects like Diablo, Diablo II, Mythos, Fate, and Torchlight, which won the Game Developer’s Choice Award for Best Debut of 2009.
Torchlight II is richly textured with our unique art style, drawing from traditional More >
Aug 5th
As you can see on amazon.co.uk the release date has been set for the March 25, 2011. As we all know that the release dates from amazon are fairly accurate we can hope to see The Old Republic in spring for 2011. This timeframe was always announced from the publishers itself.
Jul 29th
Now that’s some news. Creative Assembly and SEGA display a first in-game look with a cinematic trailer.
Let’s hope that CA doesn’t mess it up like they did with Empire. The diplomacy AI in Empire still doesn’t work, refusing to recognise that you have the upper hand in all conflicts and condemning you to fight every conflict and eliminate every faction that’s foolish enough to declare war on you. Probably they will do two or three patches and say it’s ok now to release three add-ons to the original game fixing some more bugs. Additional DLC will be available too, most probably More >
Jul 27th
Seems the nice guys from Battlefront are nearing the release date for the upcoming Add-on “NATO” which adds three more Armed Forces: German, Dutch and Canada. There is a nice AAR from the Dutch Armed Forces against the Syrian Army done by two beta testers.
Jul 24th
There have been some updates to the four-player co-op game Alien Swarm. Quick Fixes for some major bugs.
Updates to Alien Swarm have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Thursday patch:
Friday patch:
Jul 19th
As previously posted Alien Swarm is now on Steam available for free on this day.
If everything goes well i will have a first overview / hands on tomorrow.
Jul 18th
Found at the UK-Forums of EA, written by DICE Associate Producer Barrie Tingle:
What are your biggest bug issues in BFBC2 PC at this point? Lets try to keep this thread on track, we’ll delete any post that isn’t constructive or reporting a problem (no, too many snipers on my team is not a bug ).
Issues that we know are a pain and are looking into:
- Revive invulnerability
- Blue chat box square on some PC’s and settings
- AT4 weapon balance
- Reload text in the middle of the screen
- VoIP
- Insignia bug (no requirement for SPECACT)
- C4 does not always work
- Custom resolutions
- Horn isn’t audible to other players
- UAV on White Pass More >
Jul 17th
Valve announced a new game, which is free on July 19th, 2010 with these words:
Two years ago Valve hired the talented team behind the popular top down co-op mod Alien Swarm. Since then they have been busy working on the Left 4 Dead Series, and now Portal 2. However, we never forgot about Alien Swarm and the team has spent a lot of time bringing the game to Source in between their contributions to the other Valve projects. On Monday, July 19th Alien Swarm is going to be released for free via Steam. In addition to the game, Valve will More >
Apr 7th
Press-Release
GLENDALE, CA – March 2nd 2010 – Ignition Entertainment, a UTV Media Communication Company, and Zombie Studios are developing Blacklight: Tango Down, a near-future first person shooter that will offer AAA-quality military shooter action in a downloadable package. Blacklight: Tango Down will be available Summer 2010 through Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®Network for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and for personal computer.
“We’re excited to be working on a gripping new franchise that will deliver the intense action, thoughtful tactics and in-depth strategies of today’s best multiplayer shooters immersed in an all new More >
Apr 7th
Press Release:
NEW YORK, April 6th – Paradox Interactive unveiled Hearts of Iron 3: Semper Fi, a downloadable expansion to its World War II grand strategy game. Semper Fi gives players more control over their country’s warfare and politics, while pleasing history buffs with a variety of new features and events. Hearts of Iron 3: Semper Fi is scheduled for release during Q2 2010.
“Our vision for Semper Fi is to transport the player into World War II in a way that previous installments have not been able to do,” said Henrik Fåhraeus, Associate Producer at Paradox Interactive. “For instance, negotiating and More >