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The Creative Director of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed III title, Alex Hutchinson, has just shared his thoughts on some of the proposed settings for future games in the series, saying that some of those desired by fans, like Japan or Egypt, don’t make sense.
Assassin’s Creed games have delighted fa... |
5 April 2012
03:46 GMT |
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Video game developer Wargaming.net has announced that it is launching a Global Alpha stage for World of Warplanes, its MMO that will simulate the most important air battles of World War II and the Korean engagement.
Gamers in North America, Russia and Europe will be able to register for the alpha stage and will play... |
24 February 2012
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Sniper Elite V2 is set during World War II, one of the most explored areas of history when it comes to video games, but the development team at Rebellion believes that it is the right time to explore the setting once again.
Steve Hart, the senior producer working on Sniper Elite V2 at Rebellion, told GamerZines that... |
25 January 2012
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The developers working on the free-to-play MMO World of Tanks have announced that there are more than 18 million gamers playing the game at the moment.The game was initially launched in Russia on August 12, 2010 and since then it has been also released in Asia, North America and Europe, with the Guinness certifying t... |
22 December 2011
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After releasing a Wii version, High Voltage Software has decided to step up the game and give a new, three dimensional treatment to America's most famous captain. Now, the legendary comic book hero turns to save the world helped by his trusty shield and a handful of allies. Story The game's story was writ... |
24 November 2011
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California's researchers concluded the fact that a vessel which was sunk in World War II doesn't represent a threat for water quality. Their findings are reassuring especially nowadays, when public opinion has its eye set on the damaging effects generated by the oil spill incident in New Zealand. Due to... |
21 October 2011
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Video game developer Wargaming.net has announced that it is working on a new MMO, called World of Warplanes, which will use flight combat action mechanics and will allow players to use some of the most iconic flying combat machines in the history of the world.The developers are saying that World of Warplanes will del... |
9 August 2011
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For the Motherland is the second expansion that Paradox Interactive has developed for their grand strategy game Hears of Iron III, the first one of their line up to use the Clausewith game engine, trying to tweak the gameplay and give a sense of scale to the World War II experience.
The main campaign has received ... |
4 July 2011
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Konami Digital Entertainment has announced a new game called Birds of Steel, which mixes flight simulation and combat, in development at Gaijin Entertainment and set to be launched on the Xbox 360 and on the PlayStation 3, with the release date in early 2012.
Birds of Steel will simulate some of the most important a... |
26 May 2011
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Wargaming.net, a company that develops and publishes its own titles, has announced that World of Tanks, the MMO that it has built around tank battles, based upon those seen in the Second World War, is set to be officially launched in both Europe and in North America on April 12.
World of Tanks has been in a long b... |
21 March 2011
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At their annual convention in New York, the publishers at Paradox Interactive have announced that they are working on a new expansion, called For the Motherland, for their grand strategy title Hearts of Iron III, which allows gamers to take control of any country during the years of World War II.
One of the main f... |
21 January 2011
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This was the year when Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty showed what a real time strategy could deliver in terms of experience when it’s polished close to perfection and plays it traditional, while Relic continues to redefine the tactical level by incorporating even more role playing elements and diverging paths in the C... |
17 December 2010
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The first Call of Duty impressed in the way it approached World War II. It had a grandeur and a surge of feelings which were scarce in video gaming at the moment. It was also sober about the horrors of war, which were depicted in a more lively manner than ever before. It was a game which took a historical period load... |
20 November 2010
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Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise is getting ready to receive its third full pledged iteration, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, but this hasn't stopped its producer, Vincent Pontbriand, from taking about the story of the next title, Assassin's Creed 3.While new titles in the series were pre... |
12 October 2010
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R.U.S.E. is a World War II real time strategy title developed by Eugen Systems and published by Ubisoft which aims to shake up the reliable formula of Allies versus Axis by introducing ruses, special powers that can alter the way the battlefield is laid out and offer an advantage to the one who plays them.I quite lik... |
17 September 2010
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R.U.S.E. is a World War II real time strategy title developed by Eugen Systems and published by Ubisoft which aims to shake up the reliable formula of Allies versus Axis by introducing ruses, special powers that can alter the way the battlefield is laid out and offer an advantage to the one who plays them.It's h... |
15 September 2010
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R.U.S.E. is a World War II real time strategy title developed by Eugen Systems and published by Ubisoft which aims to shake up the reliable formula of Allies versus Axis by introducing ruses, special powers that can alter the way the battlefield is laid out and offer an advantage to the one who plays them.R.U.S.E. se... |
14 September 2010
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Treyarch, the developers of the Call of Duty: Black Ops first person shooter, are not interested in revisiting the World War II setting, which they last used in World at War and which the series has thoroughly exploited during its long history at publisher Activision.Josh Olin, who is the community manager working fo... |
30 August 2010
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World of Tanks is the embodiment of a very enticing proposition: chose a World War II era tank of your liking, load it up with crew and with upgrades and head down to a battlefield in order to take on other armored giants. The game is being developed by Wargaming.net and it is currently in beta stage.My initial impre... |
12 August 2010
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Ubisoft has announced that R.U.S.E., the real time strategy game that is being developed by Eugen Systems, will be getting a free “preview” weekend through the digital distribution platform Steam. The video game will be playable starting with 2 PM East Standard Time on Friday, July 15 and all those who ar... |
14 July 2010
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Ubisoft has announced that its upcoming strategy title R.U.S.E. will allow players to use the new PlayStation Move motion tracking system to control their actions when the game arrives on the PlayStation 3 home console in September. It seems that the developers at Eugen Systems were initially a bit skeptical about th... |
8 July 2010
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Paradox Interactive has officially confirmed that the Semper Fi expansion for Hearts of Iron 3, its grand strategy real time title, will be launched on June 6 this year, the same day that Allied forces reached the beaches of France during World War II in the biggest amphibious invasion in history. Those who are inter... |
24 May 2010
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World War II strategy title R.U.S.E. has been pushed back to September by publisher Ubisoft with the official reason being the fact that it needs to see some improvements on its current state, most of them based on the feedback players offered during the multiplayer beta recently conducted through Steam. The publishe... |
26 April 2010
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With the 1.4 patch for Hearts of Iron 3 now online and available to all players, Paradox Interactive has announced that it plans to launch an expansion for the grand strategy title. It will be called Semper Fi and will be out at some point during the second quarter of this year.The developer is saying that the main f... |
7 April 2010
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If you have a Steam account, then you can do worse than installing and then playing a few matches in the now running R.U.S.E. open beta stage. The game is being created by Eugen Systems, a development outfit, which also delivered the two Act of War titles, and will be published by Ubisoft in June for the PC, the... |
16 March 2010
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Wargaming.net has announced it is developing World of Tanks, a new free-to-play MMO that will allow gamers to control a wide array of World War II tanks in a number of impressive armored battles. World of Tanks is set to arrive in the fall of 2010 and Wargaming.net says that it will not charge for any part of the exp... |
19 February 2010
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Google Earth can be a great tool to explore places you may not be able to get to otherwise. But few people know that it can also be a great tool for exploring times we're certainly not able to 'go to' in any other way. Google Earth has a great feature called 'historical imagery' which enable... |
5 February 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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