Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Coming This September

EA’s long awaited MMO is coming to stores near you on September 18th.

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GOA, Orange’s games unit and Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced the release date of 18th September 2008 for the eagerly awaited MMORPG, Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™ (WAR), as well as confirming retail launch offerings and subscription fees.

Based on Games Workshop’s epic and longstanding tabletop fantasy war game which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning features a unique Realm vs. Realm™ (RvR) gameplay that immerses players in a world of perpetual conflict. Read more

Borderlands - E3 Factsheet

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Product Overview:
Borderlands combines the best in first-person action with player customization and vehicular combat for incredible layers of gameplay depth. The game features a groundbreaking content generation system allowing for near-endless variety in weapons, item drops and character customization. Borderlands allows for multiple players to share the same game experience simultaneously online in co-op gameplay. Players can freely join or leave each other’s games at anytime, or choose to play in the full single-player mode. These features, along with a rich and deep fiction that touches upon the mysteries buried beneath the surface of a danger-filled planet, combine to form a breakthrough experience that challenges the conventions of modern shooters. Read more

EA Announces Spore: Galactic Edition

The Spore collector’s edition aka Galactic edition will boast making of DVD, hardback, poster and handbook.

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For the ultimate Spore fan, Maxis, an Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio today announced the limited Galactic Edition of the highly-anticipated game from the creators of The Sims. This special box will contain the ‘Making of Spore’ DVD, ‘The Art of Spore’ hardback mini-book, a fold-out Spore poster, and a premium 100-page Galactic Handbook. The Galactic Edition will also feature a DVD documentary from the National Geographic Channel called “How to Build a Better Being”. Read more

Left 4 Dead Delayed

A press release from Akella, the european games publisher, has revealed that Valve’s upcoming zombie co-op shooter has been pushed back yet again. Left 4 Dead will now be getting released in Fall 2008.

Akella is thrilled to be able to bring this unique game to Russian speaking territories. We are very excited by all Valve’s games and pretty sure of huge success of this new cooperative shooter hit in Russia and CIS countries. ” said Vladimir Koudr, VP of Publishing at Akella, “Left 4 Dead is already highly expected throughout the world, and Russian FPS players are eager to play this game.”

The release is scheduled for Fall 2008 and planned to ship simultaneously all over the world.

Epic Games Arrives on Steam

As we reported earlier, a curious user found a key which was related to EpicGames in Steam’s clientregistry.blob file, which hinted that Epic Games maybe coming to Valve’s reowned content delivery service. Now, It’s official. Epic Games has arrived on Steam. Press release below:

World-renowned developer Epic Games makes its debut on Steam today, delivering the award-winning Unreal and Unreal Tournament franchise to Steam gamers everywhere.

The Epic hits now available on Steam include the debut classic Unreal Gold, Unreal 2: The Awakening and the Unreal Tournament series: Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor’s Choice Edition, and the recently released Unreal Tournament 3, which has shipped over a million copies to date. For the ultimate Unreal experience, nab the Unreal Deal Pack, an incredible value at just $59.95.

To celebrate the launch, all of Epic’s games on Steam are available for 10% off their regular price (offer ends March 24).

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BioWare Talks Sex, Games and Piracy

BioWare corp, the developer behind great RPGs such as Knights of the Old Republic and Neverwinter Nights, sat down with Rob Wright of Tom’s Games to discuss their upcoming PC port of Mass Effect, the FOX news lesbian scene controversry, as well as what they think about the PC platform in general. Here’s a snip:

TG: So what’s going to happen with Mass Effect 2? Are we going to see the next title anytime soon, and will the trilogy be for the Xbox 360 life cycle?

Greg Zeschuk: That’s certainly the hope. Of course part of that is dependent on Microsoft and what their timing is for that lifecycle.

Ray Muzyka: I think it’s good if the console life cycles increase because it allows the artist to really craft the game and use the technology they’ve to its potential, instead of having to rebuild a movie camera every time you shoot a movie. It’s a lot of work to make a new engine every time a new platform comes along.

Full interview after the break. Read more