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MySpace Launches a Gaming Section

March 10th, 2010

In an effort to revive a slowly-dying site, MySpace launched MySpace Games – a social gaming environment with new tools and functionality for users and developers.

MySpace Platform developers are now able to:

  • Review application-specific analytics via a new API, including invitation conversions, active users, notification responses and demographics.
  • Build games in rich, 3D-like quality with Unity’s powerful 3D engine and allow MySpace users to access the games with a new plug-in. For example, Paradise Paintball utilizes this technology.
  • Encourage cross-platform competition with Scoreloop, which allows games on different platforms to share the same high scores, achievements, challenges and buddy lists.
  • Utilize GroovyCortex, which is a cloud-based solution for onsite application developers, to provide low latency push data for multiplayer games.
  • Track the source of application invitations and utilization to learn how users are finding and choosing specific games.

MySpace also announced the MySpace Neon iPhone application, giving users access to their MySpace games on the iPhone.

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Activision being Sued by Fired Developers for over 36 Million Dollars

March 5th, 2010

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has led to legal warfare at Activision.

Jason West and Vince Zampella, the former heads of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare development studio Infinity Ward, who were fired on Monday, have filed a lawsuit against publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. alleging wrongful termination and breach of contract.

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Civilization V is Announced

February 19th, 2010

The race is not over yet! Fans of Sid Meier and strategy games, rejoice! 2K Games announced that Sid Meier’s Civilization V is currently in development at Firaxis Games for PC.

Civilization V reinvigorates the classic turn-based strategy genre with an new engine built from the ground-up for this flagship edition of the Civilization franchise. Players are introduced to an entirely new combat system, deeper diplomatic interactions and a cavalcade of expanded features that deliver a fully immersive experience.

Civilization V will introduce hexagon tiles, allowing for deeper strategy, more realistic gameplay and good-looking organic landscapes. Expect to see fully animated leaders, speaking in their native language for the first time.  In addition to the new gameplay features debuting in Civilization V, an extensive suite of community, modding and multiplayer elements will also make an appearance.

The Civilization series has been one of the most popular strategy games of all time, and has a loyal following of fans. The game has been around for about 20 years, and it’s very interesting to see its development along the years.

Recommended Strategy Games

  • Civilization IV – Sid Meier’s Civilization IV is the ultimate PC strategy game, offering players the chance to lead their chosen nation from the dawn of man through the space age and become the greatest ruler the world has ever known.
  • Age Of Empires Collector’s Edition – Control 10,000 years of human history and rewrite it to suit you. Lead your civilization to glory across the Millennia by choosing your path to greatness. Battle alongside legendary heroes as you conquer rival empires. Discover new technologies and chart your course well – from the Stone Age to the Imperial Age – and your legacy shall live forever!
  • SimCity 4 – The Deluxe Edition turns you into a citizen, a criminal, an architect, a mayor, even a god — bringing you deeper into SimLife than ever! As you create railways, ferries, plan out streets, you also get to use that transportation in a series of great new driving missions.

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Dragon Age: Origins Sold Over 3.2 Million Games

February 9th, 2010

BioWare, a division of Electronic Arts Inc., announced that Dragon Age: Origins has sold-in over 3.2 million units worldwide, according to internal EA data.

Dragon Age: Origins has been named “RPG of the Year” as named by many game sites, and has won over 30 “Best of 2009” awards. This is the sixth consecutive successful game from BioWare, alongside Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire and Mass Effect.

“This is a tremendous start for the Dragon Age franchise and we are extremely pleased with the great reception the game has already received from critics and fans worldwide,” said Dr. Ray Muzyka, co-founder, BioWare and Group General Manager of the RPG/MMO Group of EA. “Our team is dedicated to crafting high quality, engaging new adventures and stories in the world of Ferelden for our fans!”

Dragon Age: Origins – Game Review

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BioShock 2 Now Available Worldwide

February 9th, 2010

2K Games announced that BioShock 2, the sequel to the 2007 Game of the Year, is now available worldwide for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Games for Windows-LIVE.

The original game shipped more than 3 million units worldwide.

The single player serves as a sequel to the original game and provides fans with an unsettling storyline, dazzling visual design and the evolution of the genetically enhanced shooter gameplay. Set almost a decade after a grueling civil war consumed the once magnificent city of Rapture, evil reverberates through the halls and a wickedness once thought gone forever returns along the Atlantic seaboard. An unspeakable series of kidnappings from local seaside communities by an unseen monster leads to the repopulation of Little Sisters in Rapture’s failed utopia under the ocean.

Players must step into the boots of one of gaming’s most iconic characters, the Big Daddy, as they traverse through the fallen city, fending off attacks from an army of genetically modified Splicers, while searching for escape and the key to their survival.

Bioshock IGN Review

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