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Alganon Immortal Contest AnnouncedDo you have what it takes to become Immortal?
GamersHell Sunday, October 25, 2009Armada 2526 Announced and ScreensA blend of turn-based and real-time strategy from a lead designer of the Total War series
GamersHell Sunday, October 25, 2009Game Retailers Facing Digital Distribution TransitionThis editorial at Eurogamer examines how the games industry is dealing with the growth of digital distribution — a transition they're handling better than other entertainment industries, but not without a few stumbling blocks of their own. "The examples from other industries undergoing this transition are not promising, since they tend largely to focus on metaphors involving creeks and a distinct lack of paddles. Bricks-and-mortar retailers of music and movies have largely sat back and grumbled while their businesses were hijacked, first by
online retailers of physical product and then by digital distribution services. ... Specialist games retailers who follow that model face little more than a decline into insolvency in their medium-term futures. Worse again, they face competing with far bigger companies to retain their slice of an already shrinking pie — as boxed game retail sales fall off in favor of digital distribution, supermarket chains are increasingly seeing high p
Slashdot Sunday, October 25, 2009Destiny Online New Expansion Pack AvailableCartoon-style MMORPG gets new content
GamersHell Sunday, October 25, 2009Sony?s PSX tanks in JapanThe western release of the PSX, Sony?s souped-up version of the
playstation 2 that comes with a built-in hard drive and can double as a digital video recorder, keeps getting pushed back and pushed back, and the latest news that...
About Sunday, October 25, 2009Dungeon Fighter Online Gameplay Trailers and Halloween ScreensFive gameplay trailers and six new screens
GamersHell Sunday, October 25, 2009Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Nintendo Wii ScreenshotsGameinfowire.com Sunday, October 25, 2009DJ Hero could debut with low salesExec isn't sure about opening numbers Perhaps in an attempt to moderate expectations, RedOctane boss Kai Huang has said that sales of DJ Hero may begin slowly following the new music game's launch - this, despite Activision banking on the game opening up the genre to new players."We're not expecting a typical
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curve where you sell the majority of the units in the first month and then it decays quickly. We're expecting this to be the type of game that may came out of the gate a little bit slower, but continue to grow over time," Huang, one of the original creators of the Guitar Hero series, tells IGN."We've got a bit of a head start, people have an understanding what music games are, it has the 'Hero' brand on it. But at the same time, people don't know what a DJ game is, they don't know what you're supposed to do. Our strategy again is to focus on in-store demos."We'll have more on DJ Hero very soon. Thanks VG247.
Ferrago Sunday, October 25, 2009New Elder Scrolls game sightedPremise mooted in novel description Hints purporting to reveal that a new Elder Scrolls game is in development have surfaced
online, the Waterstone's book retailer website giving the game away via a new Elder Scrolls novel synopsis.Apparently, the next game - yet to be unveiled by Bethesda - will take place two-centuries after the events of Oblivion."A novel that takes places forty-five years after the Oblivion Crisis, which is the story of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion game and the expansion pack Shivering Isles. It partly bridges the gap for the next game, which is set 200 years after the Oblivion crisis," reads word on the site.We're hopeful that Bethesda will announce this new RPG soon.
Ferrago Sunday, October 25, 2009Epic Mickey is right for the Wii - SpectorDesigner talks up merits of platformChatting
online about the now-unveiled Epic Mickey for the Wii, Junction Point boss Warren Spector believes his new Disney game is perfect for the system."Well, think about it. Would you really want to tackle convincing Halo or Grand Theft Auto players that they want to be Mickey Mouse? Would you really want to do that? In terms of finding a congenial audience, let's go for a platform that's known for Mario and Link and now Sonic. Come on. Honestly, with the unit sales on the hardware, it was kind of a lucky happenstance. We made the call to go to the Wii long before it was clear that the Wii was going to be, at least for now, the best-selling platform," the designer told Game Informer."It was about going where the audience is and going somewhere where they're going to accept a visual style that is more cartoony than people are used to seeing and where we don't feel obliged to throw in every shader on the planet. 'Look at the normal maps and shaders.
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