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The Second World War has been the Holy Grail of first-person shooters for some time now. It might have started well before it, but a big series that has stuck to its guns and has remained strictly in this time period is Medal of Honor. Before Call of Duty and its infinite regeneration came into play, Medal of Honor w... |
10 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Modern Warfare is already an established brand in itself. Infinity Ward and Activision are set to deliver the second videogame bearing the name on November 10 this year and players will no doubt line up to pick it up. The original title managed to move no less than 14 million units since it was released and it is sti... |
8 October 2009
05:41 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that Order of War, its Western style real time strategy title part of the company's campaign of enlarging its audience, should be released on September 22 for the PC.The game is set in World War II during the year of 1944 and will allow strategy fans to play two single player campaigns,... |
3 September 2009
03:20 GMT |
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Hearts of Iron 3 arrived at the end of last week and since then much of my day has been taken up by extended playtime and by anxiously checking the official forums of the game looking for opinions, improvement ideas, reactions and, of course, the inevitable bug reports. And they all came fast and furious, with some p... |
11 August 2009
17:51 GMT |
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On Friday, Paradox Interactive released Hearts of Iron 3, a new grand strategy title allowing players to take the reins of any country in the world and guide it through the turmoil of World War II.The game was eagerly expected by fans of the series and those who have played other Paradox Interactive titles, like Euro... |
8 August 2009
06:21 GMT |
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1C Company has announced that it plans to develop and publish a new World War II tactical simulation, called Theatre of War 2: Kursk 1943, set to arrive in the coming year and will, as the name shows, simulate what historians describe as the biggest armor battle in the history of warfare. Kursk 1943 should build on t... |
5 August 2009
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When Pandemic announced that it was creating another World War II shooter, a lot of people were unimpressed, as the genre is already overcrowded. Since then, it has revealed some details that make Saboteur interesting and worthy of a second look. One aspect is the way in which it tries to reconcile history with the n... |
18 June 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Following news that it has picked up the rights to publish Nitro's East India Company, a strategy title focused on the diplomacy and warfare waged to secure trade to the Indian theater, Paradox Interactive has talked at the Game Developers Conference about its arguably biggest title of this year, Hearts of Iron ... |
25 March 2009
04:17 GMT |
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Because of the great scale on which World War II (WWII) was fought, national armies could not afford to rely on their traditional recruitment methods, and therefore often had to resort to drafts to select their combatant forces. This means that all sorts of people ended up in the military, including very smart and ve... |
19 December 2008
18:01 GMT |
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I'm torn about reviewing Call of Duty: World at War, Treyarch’s latest game in the Activision published series. On the one hand, it does a lot of things very well. The action is fast and the environment is engrossing. Checkpoints are well placed, co op is well implemented, the mission intros are well direc... |
10 December 2008
05:11 GMT |
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The Call of Duty franchise is one of the most popular series of shooters out there, largely because it introduced a wide range of features in a time where games were becoming less original. The series gained a massive boost in popularity with the launch of the fourth title, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which was t... |
13 November 2008
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There's a trend in PC gaming which says that as soon as a game comes out, a patch is needed to tweak some aspects which somehow turned out wrong. Sometimes, a patch is required to stop game crashing bugs, game mechanics don't work as previously announced or players demand more control over one part of the g... |
12 November 2008
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THQ, which has recently announced cutting five studios and significantly reducing staff at two others, is trying to get a new hit out as quickly as possible and revealed that developer Relic is creating Tales of Valor, a stand alone expansion for Company of Heroes, the real time strategy title set in World War II whi... |
4 November 2008
12:21 GMT |
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The holiday season is already getting started and for gamers this means that a lot of eagerly anticipated titles are beginning to appear on store shelves, along with questions as to what title should be the first one bought. Call of Duty: World At War developer Treyarch also pondered a bit on this and it reached the ... |
30 October 2008
04:27 GMT |
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Call of Duty: World at War, the shooter created by Treyarch using the Call of Duty 4 game engine, will be launched shortly and will again offer the player a chance to participate in World War II, either as an American fighting on an island in the Pacific or as a Soviet soldier making his way to the Nazi ca... |
21 October 2008
15:21 GMT |
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Paradox Interactive has just released the first screenshots from Hearts of Iron 3, the upcoming grand strategy game in its World War II series. The game itself is a long time away, with the release date scheduled sometime in the third quarter of 2009, but it's nice to see that the developers are interested in sh... |
3 October 2008
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After a series of delays, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway is finally arriving on the PC, the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. The release date is set in stone for October 10 and Ubisoft has just issued the hardware requirements related to the PC version of the title.Because the game uses the Unreal 3 engine, it&... |
23 September 2008
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Activision Blizzard is finally announcing a clear release date for Call of Duty: World at War. The North American market will get the game on November 11 and while no clear European date has been announced yet, we surely hope it will arrive in Europe at the same time. The game is set to launch for the PlayStation 3, ... |
8 September 2008
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Fans of the tactical flight genre will be delighted to hear that Atari and Red Mile Entertainment are planning to add a new title to their "Heroes" franchise. Dubbed Heroes over Europe, the game will be released in 2009 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles, as well as PC systems.The sequel to the appreciated World... |
18 August 2008
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Hell's Highway is again getting delayed. The tactical World War II shooter, which was in development for the last three years, is now expected to reach gamers no later than the end of September, when the original date was set for August. Most retailers are now saying that September 23 will be the final date, but... |
31 July 2008
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Treyarch has a bad reputation. And some of it might be deserved, because Big Red One was not worthy of being a Call of Duty game. But as it is developing the next game in the franchise, there might be a chance that the fifth title in the series will redeem them in the eyes of gamers.We have already told you that the ... |
25 June 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Call of Duty 5 is getting "World at War" as a subtitle. Even more, progress is really coming along in the shooter which takes the Call of Duty series back to World War II (guys, if you like history so much, let's mix it up a little; Korea, maybe Vietnam will make much cooler battlefields than another landing in ... |
10 June 2008
09:36 GMT |
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I'm growing pretty tired of World War II. I mean how many times can you play through Normandy, Market Garden and all of that before you get the urge to shoot your comrades and do a quick Alt F4 to get the hell out of there? It seems that game developers believe that our World War II thresholds are pretty high, b... |
18 April 2008
16:06 GMT |
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B-17 Flying Fortress or B-17 Flying Fortress World War II Bombers in Action is a flight simulation/role play video game released in 1992 for DOS on the IBM PC compatible personal computer by MicroProse. Commodore Amiga and Atari ST versions were released a year later. The game simulates training, combat missions and ... |
27 November 2007
10:06 GMT |
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Electronic Arts (EA) has just pushed up front another mobile game and its thrilling challenge. Medal of Honor Airborne is a World War II game which emphasizes an airborne invasion in Europe.War has always been a good subject for developing game concepts. It involves strategy, action and virtual blood spills. What can... |
10 September 2007
12:28 GMT |
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Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 is a first-person shooter video game created by Gearbox Software for the PC, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It is published by Ubisoft and was released in early 2005. The game takes place during World War II and focuses on team strategy rather than the faster paced run and gun tactics of t... |
31 August 2007
03:44 GMT |
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Welcome to the 8-year old franchise that just managed to chase away all the fans with its latest installment. If anyone had doubts, I'm talking about Medal of Honor: Vanguard, the biggest disappointment that EA could provide as a present from the Easter bunny. Joke aside, how exactly do the producers expect to c... |
12 April 2007
09:53 GMT |
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Before the beginning of the Second World War, the Hungarian physicist Szilard visited Albert Einstein, who had taken refuge in the US, to communicate him his concern over the possibility that Hitler would try to build the atomic bomb. That's why he asked him to convince the US president Roosevelt about the benef... |
14 February 2007
09:36 GMT |
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