As we reported earlier, the biggest single developer convention, BlizzCon, took place this past weekend. It was filled with announcements especially regarding the two most expected titles under development, Starcraft II and Diablo III. It also gave the attendants the opportunity to play through some of the missions from the two games and give valuable feedback to the developers that were at the conference.The third title in the Diablo franchise was on everybody's lips mainly because it was rumored that a new class of characters was to be announced during the conference. And so it was, as Mike Morhaime, chief executive officer of Blizza... [read more >>] It seems that this fall is a season for videogames which target the imagination of the players. Spore has sold well on the promise of allowing you to imagine, design and then play with creatures and now LittleBigPlanet is getting ready to launch, promising to permit players to design any adventure they wish.At the Tokyo Game Show, 1UP managed to catch up with Alex Evans, one of the main creative forces behind LittleBigPlanet and co-founder of Media Molecule, to chat with him about the way the game is shaping up. He said that all the player made custom levels of the game that had been created during the on going beta would be available after... [read more >>] With Fallout 3 going gold and preparing for launch, Bethesda has decided to release the system requirements, both minimum and recommended, for the PC version of the post apocalyptic role playing game. After a quick glance, it doesn't seem like the game will require a lot of computing power to run.At a minimum, you will need a 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4 processor with 1 GB of RAM to play the game. On the video side, players will require a card with 256 MB of RAM with a processor that is at least an NVIDIA 6800 or an ATI X850. This kind of hardware will only make the game run at minimal graphics setting and will likely result in an experience whi... [read more >>] Fallout 3 is going to be a very big game. The latest title developed by the company that brought you The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Bethesda, promises a gaming experience of over 100 hours, with the addition of DLC (Downloadable Content) packs after the initial launch. Set to occur in a post apocalyptic future where the dominating nations have waged a nuclear war, its action unfolds in a bombed out Washington DC. As the game is set to hit the United States shelves on October 28, with other territories getting it on October 31 or early December, Bethesda is really getting the hype up around this title.Part of this marketing campaign are the... [read more >>] Blizzard has always made its games quite simple, in order to run on a wide variety of PCs, and it generally avoided creating visually stunning titles that would run on only the most expensive configurations, like Crysis or its sequel Crysis: Warhead. The developers always focused on the mainstream players, who don't really have a powerful rig in order to run their games, because this was always Blizzard's goal - to appeal to a wide audience, you need to make games that can run on a lot of machines. Its upcoming expansion to the hit MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) World of Warcraft, entitled W... [read more >>] High Voltage Software is putting out a few new details regarding its shooter for the Nintendo Wii called The Conduit, which is supposed to be the first hardcore focused action game for the platform.Talking to the MTV Multiplayer blog, Eric Nofsinger, the Chief Operations Officer of High Voltage, said that they aim to take advantage of the unique motion controls the Wii can offer. He stated that the Motion Plus features heavily in their projects, with plans to hook it up. "We want to support it. Probably for this version of the game there’s not going to be a whole ton of really extensive use of the Wii Motion Plus. For the sequel to th... [read more >>] Oh, Microsoft, only you can make a very exciting announcement about a new Halo game duller than watching grass grow. Microsoft has denied Bungie the possibility to reveal their latest project at E3, apparently because the Redmond giant thought it had more interesting things to show (like what? Oh , yeah, Final Fantasy XIII, which is also coming to the Xbox 360) so the developer put out a trailer pretty much revealing that the next title would be a new stand alone single player campaign not featuring the very famous Master Chief. At the Tokyo Game Show, Microsoft finally made an announcement of its own.During the Microsoft keynote speech, w... [read more >>] Microsoft sure had a lot of things prepared for the Tokyo Game Show. After teaming up with Square Enix and deploying one of the biggest stands at the presentation, racking up almost 140 demo booths for its Xbox 360 console, the company made its top announcements yesterday, during its TGS keynote. First of all, the new dashboard update got a firm release date, and second of all, as a major blow to Sony, the next title in the very popular fighting franchise Tekken will also be coming to the Xbox 360.The New Xbox Experience, which has been very talked about these past weeks, with the demo site up and running and the PR department at ... [read more >>] Superstruct is a game like no other. It actually allows you, the player, to create the future. By entering the game world and contributing to it, you are actually taking part in a gigantic live experiment which is set to alter the way big companies, governments and non governmental organizations prepare for the coming of 2019.Superstruct was an initiative of The Institute for the Future which, since its foundation in 1968, has managed to create ten-year forecasts that have been used by a lot of organizations to prepare for the challenges and the opportunities of the future. They brought in Jane McGonigal, a game designer and thinker best kn... [read more >>] Halo has really evolved over the years. From the humble origin of first person shooter, the franchise has become the flagship for the Xbox 360 gaming console and has already spawned a host of other merchandise, from action figures to novels. And with Halo themed games not ready for release for another six months, a novel is a great way to bridge the gap. Halo: The Cole Protocol is the next novel in the series including The Fall of Reach and Ghosts of Onyx.The novel is set, of course, during the conflict between the Covenant, a collection of alien races, which is dominated by the Brutes and the Elites, and the human forces of the ... [read more >>] | 
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