Dead Space Gone Gold

EA’s upcoming sci-fi survival horror title has gone GOLD. Dead Space will haunt the retail shelves later this month.

Electronic Arts announced today that Dead Space™, the highly anticipated new survival horror game, has gone gold and will go on sale in the UK as planned on October 24 for the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and the PC.

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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures 400,000 copies sold

 

Funcom’s much hyped and anticipated MMORPGs has became one of the fastest selling PC titles of all of time — with 400,000 copies sold in the last few days. Full PR below:

Press Release:

Funcom is proud to announce that Age of Conan is one of the fastest selling PC games of all time. More than 400.000 gamers have entered Hyboria over the last few days, with almost half coming from the North American market. This amazing figure for a PC game shows that the positive pre-order trend has transferred into actual sales, and people from all over the world are now flocking to the most savage, sexy and brutal MMO ever created. Read more

Mass Effect Gone Gold

BioWare’s PC port of their successful RPG Mass Effect has gone gold. The game has completed development and has been sent to DVD-replicating facilities to ready it for retail.

Press Release:  

BioWare announced today that the award-winning action role-playing game (RPG) Mass Effect for PC, published by Electronic Arts, has gone into manufacturing. Mass Effect will be available in North America on May 28, 2008 and June 6, 2008 to European retailers.

Gamers can still take advantage of pre-order specials1 and should check with their preferred retailer for information. Alternatively, gamers who pre-order Mass Effect through the Electronic Arts online store at www.eastore.ea.com will receive bonus items2 from the game Dead Spaceâ„¢, the highly anticipated sci-fi survival horror game by EA, including the first issue of the Dead Space comic book and a Dead Space poster while supplies last. Read more

Stargate Worlds Closed Beta Registration Now Open

Stargate MMO is now available as a closed BETA. Check out the Press release below:

Stargate Worlds, the massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) from new publisher FireSky, is now taking registrations for closed beta at www.StargateWorlds.com .

The closed beta is an invitation-only test of the upcoming science fiction MMORPG Stargate Worlds. Invitations will be sent out this spring and summer as the Stargate Worlds team ramps up the numbers for testing.

The select group of beta testers will provide feedback to the development team about their game experience while also providing vital insight into the performance of the servers. The closed beta will begin with a small core of gamers and gradually expand as more functionality is added. Beta testers will experience Stargate Worlds alongside the developers who also will be playing the game. Read more

WorldShift Demo Released

Black Sea Studios have released a playable demo for their upcoming sci-fi RTS; WorldShift. Download links below:

The demo contains two cooperative multiplayer maps (The Lost Coast and Tay-Rammin tundra), also playable 1vs1.

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The Immortals of Terra: A Perry Rhodan Adventure Screenshots

Five brand new screenshots for this upcoming sci-fi adventure game.

Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel Announced by Lighthouse Interactive

Leading Publisher Lighthouse Interactive today announced that they have signed a deal with Russian Publisher Akella Corporation, acquiring publishing rights for North America, Germany, UK, Scandinavia and Benelux territories to Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel; an intricate and shocking ‘whodunit’ mystery-style Adventure game for Windows®. Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel is a non-linear character-driven game inspired by award winning Russian sci-fi novelists, the Strugatsky Brothers. Scheduled to release in Q3 2008 for PC CD-ROM, players must solve the astonishing murder of one of the hotel’s guests and unveil the startling secrets surrounding the mystical Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel. Read more

WorldShift Open BETA

FilePlanet currently has sign-ups open for WorldShift BETA those who are interested in this upcoming sci-fi RTS from Black Sea Studios. The game takes place in the 21st century, a mysterious object collides into Earth ending all known civilization. WorldShift is set thousands of years after those events, when the human civilization is no more than just a fading myth. The remains of the mysterious object, known as Shard Zero are still spreading its Plague and reshaping the Earth. The human race has developed a new culture and are now living in 5 mega-cities, struggling to survive from day to day. The rest of the Earth is populated by what is know to be the Tribes, successors of the early humans that were affected by the Plague, and The Hive, a mysterious alien race with unknown origins. Sign-up link after the break. Read more

Borderlands Delayed

In the same Investor QnA in which BioShock 2 went official, Take-Two have announced that Gearbox Software’s upcoming sci-fi first person shooter has been delayed from the original Fiscal Year 2008 to Fiscal Year 2009. From the official press release:

Fiscal 2008 guidance reflects the release of Borderlands for Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3 and Games for Windows® in fiscal 2009 instead of fiscal 2008 in order to allow additional development time for this highly anticipated game and provide a better balance in the release of Take-Two’s triple-A titles.

In the meantime, check out 5 high resolution Borderlands screenshots after the break. Read more