VALVe Doesn’t Mind Being Acquired
August 5, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Digital Distribution, Steam
Having Independent game studios/publishers is always a good thing, independent studios place emphasis over quality instead of quantity and you’re always guaranteed a good game. Valve is probably the largest independent developer around and has some of the most popular and best selling titles in it’s portfolio. Unfortunately, that also makes it an attractive target for biggest companies like Activision, EA and Ubisoft. How does Valve feel about being acquired?
If anyone is interested in acquiring Valve, VP Doug Lombardi is “happy to have that conversation,”
“EA was very progressive about saying, ‘We understand who you guys are. We understand what Steam is. We don’t want Steam to go away.’ Well, they might want Steam to go away, but they’re not asking us to make Steam go away.”
The “valuable add” of EA’s distribution power to Valve’s business was all the company needed from EA. “And [EA Partners] is obviously in a sweet spot right now. I mean, all publishers go through personality changes, and that caused them to be at better points in time,” said Lombardi.
Ofcourse, If Valve was acquired, they would actually release titles/content on time. Which, hey, no one would mind.
Microsoft Lists 16 New “Games for Windows” Titles
June 25, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, First Person Shooter, Genre
Microsoft has released details about 16 new titles that will come with “Games for Windows” certification. The library will include:
• Battlestations: Midway (Eidos)
• Battlestations: Pacific (Eidos)
• Borderlands (2K Games)
• Call of Duty: World at War (Activision)
• Crysis Warhead (Crytek/EA Partners)
• Dawn of War 2 (THQ)
• Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
• Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Sierra Entertainment)
• Quantum of Solace (Activision)
• LEGO Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Video Game (Activision)
• Mafia II (2K Games)
• Project Origin (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• Red Faction: Guerilla (THQ)
• Saints Row 2 (THQ)
• Zoo Tycoon 2: Ultimate Collection (Microsoft Game Studios)
Avalon Style Licenses Unreal Engine 3
May 6, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Press Releases, Racing
Yet another developer has decided to go the Unreal way and use Epic’s Unreal Engine 3.0 in their upcoming title.
Avalon Style Entertainment, one of Russia’s leading developers of interactive entertainment, today announced that it has licensed Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 to develop the latest installment in its popular “4×4 Off Road” off-road driving simulation series for PC, Xbox 360™ and PLAYSTATION®3. “4х4 Off Road III” (international title, “Off Road Drive”), will be published by 1C Company, a top Eastern and Central European publisher.
Bethesda Softworks Announces Fallout 3 Collector’s Edition
April 18, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, First Person Shooter, Genre, Press Releases, RPG, Release Dates
Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media company, officially announced today that it will release a special Fallout 3 collector’s edition worldwide for Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Games for Windows, and PLAYSTATION3 computer entertainment system. The limited collector’s edition is available for pre-order through participating retailers.
Salvation - New Screenshots
March 21, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Release Dates, Screenshots
Six new screenshots of this upcoming third-person-shooter from Black Wing Foundation and N-Game Studios.
Fallout 3 to be Spells Free
GamePro.com sat down with Bethesda Game Studios’s Todd Howard to discuss their upcoming RPG, Fallout 3. Here’s a snip:
GamePro: To Oblivion players, what will Fallout 3 feel like? It’s obvious (to us at least) that combat mechanics and design play a much larger role in Fallout 3 than Oblivion.
Todd Howard: The overall game flow feels like Oblivion, in that you make your own character and then explore a huge open world and do whatever you want. The basic gameplay of Fallout 3 is similar, which is one of the reasons we really wanted to do Fallout in the first place. I’d say the amount of action is similar to Oblivion, not more, not less. The basic combat in Fallout 3 may seem more complex then Oblivion’s, but at the same time, there is no magic in Fallout 3, so we felt we needed to do as much as we could with the guns and add a nice layer of being able to shoot body parts and feel the effects of a crippled leg and such.
Full interview and 25 images after the break. Read more
Salvation Announced Plus Screens
March 11, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Press Releases, Release Dates, Screenshots
Black Wing Foundation is glad to announce its Salvation project currently in development for PC and Xbox 360. The game, powered by Valve’s Source Engine, is developed in cooperation with N-Game Studios.
Salvation is a third-person shooter game set in the near-future. The world government, making use of genetic engineering managed to successfully imitate the Judgement Day and establish new stiff rules – a new ‘Regime’. World war and death of genetic replicants of Christ and Antichrist drastically changed the mindset of people. Now they are creatures without the right of opinion, they are slaves of the ‘Regime’. An army of Angels, genetically cloned humans, are watchful of keeping the order. Any dissidence threatens either death or exile to Hell – a cybernetic virtual reality system, causing a human to suffer unbearably. Full press release and 21 images after the break. Read more
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