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BioWare’s Award-Winning Mass Effect 2 Makes PlayStation 3 Debut Today

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

The Highest Rated Game on Xbox 360 and PC in 2010 Comes to PS3, Including Six Hours of Bonus Missions and New Exclusive Mass Effect Genesis Interactive Comic

EDMONTON, Alberta–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The time has arrived for PlayStation®3 owners to take on the role of Commander Shepard and to join his fight to save humanity! BioWareâ„¢, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS), announced today that Mass Effectâ„¢ 2 is now available on the PlayStation 3 for $59.99 in North America at retail and on PlayStation® Network*. The PlayStation 3 version of Mass Effect 2, which received a perfect 10 out of 10 score from PlayStation: The Official Magazine, will include six hours of bonus content, including ” Kasumi – Stolen Memories”, “Overlord” and the award-winning “Lair of the Shadow Broker”.

“The PlayStation 3 version of Mass Effect 2 offers gamers a great entry point to the Mass Effect experience,” said Casey Hudson, Executive Producer of the Mass Effect franchise. “We’re extremely excited and proud to now bring PlayStation 3 owners the opportunity to explore the rich and tumultuous universe of Mass Effect and shape the story and events within it by the individual choices they make.” (more…)

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Valve Announces Portal 2 PS3 Steam Features

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

PORTAL 2 PLAYSTATION 3 STEAM FEATURES REVEALED

January 18, 2011 — Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the Steam features shipping with the PlayStation 3 (PS3) version of Portal 2.

Marking the debut of Steam functioning on any next generation console, the features shipping in the PS3 version of Portal 2 include cross platform play (PC/Mac vs. PS3) for multiplayer games, persistent cloud-based storage of PS3 saved games, and cross platform chat (PC/Mac and PS3).

In addition, those who purchase Portal 2 for the PlayStation 3 may unlock a Steam Play (PC & Mac) copy of Portal 2 at no additional cost by linking their PSN and Steam accounts.

“We made a promise to gamers at E3 that Portal 2 for the PlayStation 3 would be the best console version of the product,” said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. “Working together with Sony we have identified a set of features we believe are very compelling to gamers. We hope to expand upon the foundation being laid in Portal 2 with more Steam features and functionality in DLC and future content releases.”

“We designed the Portal 2 PS3 experience to be very straightforward for gamers,” said Josh Weier, project lead on Portal 2 at Valve. “PS3 gamers will be able to simply drop the Blu-Ray disc in the PS3, link to their Steam account from inside the game, and all their Steam friends (on PC and Mac) will be visible and accessible for chat and game invites.”

These features are made possible thru the use of Steam, Valve’s platform for the delivery and management of games and digital content.

Portal 2 is due for release on the PlayStation 3, PC, Mac and Xbox 360 this April.

For more information, please visit www.thinkingwithportals.com

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2010: This Year in Gaming

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

Another year has passed, and what do we all remember from the gaming world? It’s pretty tough to put a finger on one defining moment this year for two reasons. One, there weren’t any jaw-dropping ZOMG!1!! headlines. Secondly, there were A LOT of very solid, polished, titles to choose from this year. I don’t believe there was anything in particular that revolutionized the industry, but there were plenty of juicy, new titles to pick and choose from. Here are a few of the major happenings of 2010:

Infinity Ward and Activision Fallout

Activision and Infinity Ward had quite the playground brawl this year. According to G4TV, a lawsuit of thirty-eight people from Infinity Ward was filed to sue Activision for not paying royalties. The suit was filed from anywhere between 75-500 million dollars. Activision spokesman Dan Amrich stated that employees who stay with Activision will have a bigger bonus due to the departure of these employees. The fallout may have been frightening to CoD fans, but I don’t believe there is anything to worry about. As far as Activision holding money as ransom, it almost appears they were acting as financial terrorists, bribing employees to stay for a bigger bonus. So much for integrity. (more…)

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Outside the Box: The Cast-aclysm

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

The Boxes, They are Empty.

Bad news everyone! Well, not that bad. The holidays are upon us and as such things are getting busy  and hectic. (Also you know…there is this big game that just came out…that I’m kinda busy playing…) Any-who, we’ll be stopping Outside the Box: PC Edition for the 2010 season. However, we’ll be back with a freak’n vengeance in 2011! There were 10 episodes for 2010, and we’ll be starting 2011 with episode 11. I hope you all tune in come January for more wonderful play-throughs and inane ramblings. I hope to see you there!

-The J.C.

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Iceberg Interactive and WRF Studios Release Tomb of Zojir

Friday, November 26th, 2010

Press release:

Haarlem, The Netherlands – 23 November 2010 – PC videogames publisher Iceberg Interactive and independent game developer WRF Studios today unveil the pack shot of the European retail version of Last Half of Darkness: Tomb of Zojir (PC), a classic point-and-click horror adventure for those who like solving puzzles and immersing themselves in a scary yet not gory story.

The secret tools and clues inside the box that players will need in order to solve the mystery of the Tomb of Zojir will remain hidden until the English-language European release on 10 December 2010. The game can already be pre-ordered in the Iceberg Webshop with free shipping up until the release. Localized versions have not been announced.

For more information on Last Half of Darkness: Tomb of Zojir, please visit www.iceberg-interactive.com to keep up with the latest breaking news. (more…)

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VALVE ANNOUNCES SHORTEST DELAY IN VALVE HISTORY

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Press release:

Valve today announced that Portal 2–the sequel to the ground-breaking title that won over 30 game of the year awards, despite missing its original ship date–will now be available the week of April 18th, 2011. This two month slip not only marks the shortest delay in Valve’s proud tradition of delays, it represents the approaching convergence of Valve Time and Real Time. Though this convergence spells doom for humanity, it will not affect the new Portal 2 release date.

For more information, please visit www.thinkwithportals.com

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Blizzcon in Review

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

Another Blizzcon has come and gone, and even though there weren’t any major announcements, like last year’s World of Warcraft: Cataclysm unveiling, there was still plenty of news and information to go around. Unfortunately, our coverage only covered the Warcraft and Diablo panel, meaning we were unable to pass along any new information on the Starcraft franchise, but we hope that you’ll find our offering more than satisfactory.

Below is a list of all the news and most interesting tidbits we covered on our twitter feed. We’ll hopefully have a podcast for you Soon(tm) as well, offering more of our opinions on everything.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Available on Steam

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Press release:

CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COMING TO STEAM WITH FULL STEAMWORKS SUPPORT

Most Anticipated Title of 2010 Prepares for PC Launch

Oct 22, 2010- Valve and Activision Publishing, Inc today announced the upcoming holiday blockbuster, Call of Duty: Black Ops (PC), is now available for pre-purchase via Steam, a leading platform for PC and Mac games with over 30 million accounts around the world.

Those who pre-purchase Call of Duty: Black Ops on Steam will be able to start playing immediately upon release on November 9, 2010, when Activision expects the title will be available worldwide. Developed by Treyarch, Call of Duty: Black Ops utilizes the Steamworks suite of tools. The title is rated “M” (Mature – Blood, Drug, Reference, Intense Violence and Language) by the ESRB. (more…)

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Dungeons and Dragons Online Update

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Press release:

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE®: EBERRON UNLIMITED™ LAUNCHES HALF-BLOODS UPDATE

Massive New Update Introduces Two New Races, a New Raid, New Free Adventure Pack, DX-11 Graphics Upgrade and Much More!

Turbine, Inc. today launched a massive new update to Dungeons & Dragons Online®: Eberron Unlimitedâ„¢ (DDO Unlimited), the world’s best free to play massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG). DDO Unlimited’s newest update introduces two new player races–Half-orc and Half-elf–a new 12-player Raid, a major upgrade to the graphics engine and UI and adds a brand new free adventure pack – Deception in Stormreach – as well as dozens of new items to the DDO Store.

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Raven Software Layoffs

Monday, October 11th, 2010

According to sources with Kotaku, about 40 people were laid off from Raven Software today. Raven software is known for Quake, X-Men Legends, and most recently Singularity.

Activision was reached for comment this morning by Kotaku, “With the recent completion of Singularity, Raven Software is realigning its workforce to better reflect the studio’s upcoming slate.”

Whether this is in reaction to the poor showing from Singularity or simply another round of layoffs in the wake of a large release is unclear. But this leaves Raven with only a single development team, after large layoffs last year cut them down to two.

Hopefully the studio will restructure and recover from these losses, but we’ll have to wait and see.

-Mark Godec

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