It´s always fun when regular media casts an eye on the gaming world. This time CNN’s Kristie LuStout talks to Blizzard Korea’s Jungwon Hahn about reasons behind the popularity of StarCraft and PC gaming in South Korea.
Gametrailers.com has an exclusive trailer from Dogfights the game on their site. Here you can
climb into the cockpit of history’s most famous fighter planes. Th egame is produced in cooperation with the History Channel.
This is a trailer showing the Crysis nano suit … God I can barly drag myself from Bioshock to write this …and this is an awesome game too. What should a girl do?
At the Games Convention in Leipzig, Microsoft has announced their SideWinder mouse, built from the ground up specifically with gamers in mind.
even though I never been a fan of microsofts gaming products this might ne something to look at if you are a hard core gamer … The Microsoft® SideWinder Mouse was created to meets gamers’ individual needs, providing custom tuning tools and a design for ultimate handling. The mouse also features a new “Quick Turn” feature, adjustable weight, adjustable glide, an LCD, a Vista Quick Launch button and more.
The best news? It will only cost $79!
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Blizzard Entertainment is well versed in legal action with yet another attempt to sue their organisation. The case is the latest in a series of lawsuits between Chinese and U.S companies.
This time a Chinese font supplier company ( Beijing Founder Electronics Co Ltd) has sued Blizzard due to the illegal exploitation of Founder’s copyrighted fonts.
Beijing Founder Electronics Co Ltd is the largest font supplier company in China and they have created hundreds of multi-language fonts which are widely used by Chinese people.
According to Founder Group, Blizzard has illegally copied and used five of Founder’s fonts in World of Warcraft game, and that this rip off has caused 1 billion yuan (97.7 million in euro) loss to Founder.
“Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft has been illegally copying and using five fonts exclusively developed by Founder Electronics, without our permission, which is an infringement of our copyright,” commented the spokeperson of Founder Group, Song Zhenying at ChinaDaily.
Since this is a fight between good lawyers I don’t think there will be any big issues around this, but I do think everybody , especially blizzard that always talks about their EULA and people violating it, should respect the copyright protection …
According to Kotaku.com the expansion to World of warcraft cat’s a little further out of its bag today, with a bunch of listings bearing its name turning up on the United States Patent and Trademark Office registry.
Remember this is just a rumor and Blizzard have not confirmed anything jet but on July 28, Blizzard had three trademarks issued. One covers the name of the expansion itself.
This text below is also what is sad been a leak about the FAQ for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
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The guys over at 1Pstart.com are reporting that “Rockstar has finally made its decision to fight for their much anticipated, highly controversial title, Manhunt 2, by issuing an appeal to the Video Appeals Committee in the UK.
Rockstar filed their plea yesterday, in hopes of defending the artistic merits of Manhunt and convincing the BBFC (the British Board of Film Classification) to overturn their decision to refuse a rating to Manhunt 2 given on June 19th.”
This is great news; course even though I do not like manhunt I still think that’s its up to the individual to decide if he or she wants to play the game and not the government.
Read more at 1pstart.com
Variety reports that a man stuck between heaven and hell will come to the movies across the world … soon. Oh yes I am talking about the First Person shooter Painkiller that is latest to get the Hollywood make-over. C’mon guys stop doing movies of games …it doesn’t work and if it does its so rare that its not wort it …
The game is being brought to the movies by the team behind up coming Eddie Murphy film Starship Dave, written by Mystery Science Theatre 3000 scribe Bill Corbett and some other guy.
Why a Painkiller flick? After movie producer Jon Berg (Elf) saw the title on a 60 Minutes segment last year about competitive gaming (the one with fatal1ty), he decided to pursue the film rights.
The Painkiller adaptation will be penned new comer Ben McGaw let’s hope he doesn’t set his eyes at Uwe boll when it comes to directing the movie …
This is the trailer from Clive Barrkers Jericho you know the video game that even before the release makes the audience pissing or pants of scared excitement..
Look and weep, this is the game you want I tell you …
Since I am also a mother I get to hear this following phrase a lot: “Will you really let your son play video games”. Yes it’s true, even though we live in the 20’Th century people are still afraid for things they don’t know. My advice to parents around the country is to get involved in what their kids are doing …hey you might even like it. Anyway a new study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health has found that playing violent video games does not lead to violent behaviour in teens. The study also found that violent video games can help teens deal with their emotions like stress and anger.
Researchers looked at more than 1,200 seventh and eight graders who played video games regularly. “We found that most boys 12-14 years old are playing mature-rated video games, so this idea that ‘M’ rated games cause shootings or major violence just doesn’t hold water,” said Cheryl Olson SC.D., Massachusetts General Hospital.
I should summarize the E3 07 for you shouldn’t I?
You probably know, by now that this year’s E3 was a lot different than in years past. There were no booths to tour, no crowds to navigate, and no lines and of course no bootbabes …sorry guys no pictures for you there …
While the nature of the show changed, the amount of games on display did not.
This holiday season should be the best the industry has ever seen, and the software at E3 is proof of that. With literally hundreds of games to sort through, choosing the nominees in each category was no easy task.
The GameTrailers editorial team locked themselves inside a conference room for hours sorting through all the nominees and winners to bring you our annual Best of E3 Awards. A year until next time and with that in mind, enjoy the very best of E3 2007!
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The E3 07 videos never stop coming … well I found a goodie here. Have you ever playgames like Heroes of Might and Magic, Disciples, and Age of Wonders? You might even know that the precursor of the game was Kings Bounty?
Well talking about Kings Bounty and E3 07 …here is a trailer from the remake or sequel of the original King’s Bounty that came out 17 years ago. The original King’s Bounty was released in 1990 (by the now-defunct New World Computing) and blends RPG adventure, real-time exploration with turn-based tactical combat.
According to my friends at xbox360rally.com Call of Duty 4 now has a release date.
According to my friends at xbox360rally.com Call of Duty 4 now has a release date.
This will be the fourth installment in the CODseries and the first not to be set during WWII, we are all thankfull for that… also Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has been announced to have a new mode called Hardcore Mode. In Hardcore Mode, a single shot in the chest, heart, etc. can kill, while getting shot in the leg will cause the player’s character to fall down.
Infinity Ward has now slated the US Release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for October 30th.
Did you walked around the ruins of Chernobyl in S.T.A.L.K.E.R wondering …what the hell happened here?
Now you can have the answer … since GSC Game World announces S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky for PC, bringing the players one year prior to the events of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game in 2011.
You and a group of stalkers has for the first time reached the very heart of the Zone – Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and brings about a cataclysm on the brink of a catastrophe. An immense blowout of anomalous energy changes the Zone. There are no more reliable and relatively safe roads. The entire levels vanish in the outbursts of anomalies. Stalkers and even expeditions die or end up sealed on the lost territories. New areas, which remained unknown since the time of the Zone emergence, appear on the Zone map. The Zone continues to shake with blowouts. The Zone is unstable. The anomalous activity is at its maximum.
Experienced stalkers and newbie’s! Get ready for the new challenges in the exclusion zone in Q1 2008.
Read more about the game here:
Finally a little World of Warcraft news … even if it’s in fact little for all of us that are expecting a new expansion for Wow or a Diablo III announcement.
Anyway, at E3, Blizzard recently reveled that along with fully integrated voice chat and guild vaults, Blizzard will be adding a new outdoor 10-man dungeon called Zul’Aman in an upcoming patch. It’s located in the south-east corner of the Ghostlands, an area ruled by Zul’jin and his Forest Trolls. These guys, under a witch doctor, have started fusing animal spirits into some of their warriors. In fact, they’ve done it to four, who will serve as the majority of the dungeon’s six boss encounters.
Source: here
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