Pre-order Dragon Age: Origins and get two in-game
items

post from Destructoid on 10 June 2009 06:00:00 AM. © Destructoid

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GameStop is offering in-game item bonuses with pre-orders for Dragon Age: Origins.

According to GameStop’s official Web site, people who pre-order the upcoming BioWare RPG will receive two in-game items: The Memory Ring and The Feral Wolf Charm. The ring, as it’s described, will net players experience points bonuses. The charm -- considered a GameStop exclusive -- will give armor a statistical boost and increase health regeneration.

It is not known if the items will be useful for the entirety of the game.

The Memory Ring and The Feral Wolf Charm will be made available for online and in-store, oily-skinned and near-sighted customers when the game ships in November this year. The items will also be available across every platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Neat.

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Five Minutes Break: Little Wheel

post from Unigamesity on 10 June 2009 05:53:57 AM. © Unigamesity

If you have five spare minutes and you’d like to enjoy a great flash game, for free, straight in your browser, you should give Little Wheel a try ? a point and click adventure that is quite easy to solve and fun to watch and, without the cutscenes[...]

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COD 4 Gets Ripped Off, Cover-Wise (at Least)

post from Unigamesity on 10 June 2009 05:41:54 AM. © Unigamesity

When it comes to piracy or to making things look like something they’re not, I believe that the Asians are the most inventive ? I’ve seen tons of stuff made to look like something of a higher quality, from pens to glasses, sportswear,[...]

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Warriors Orochi Z canceled for North America

post from Destructoid on 10 June 2009 05:40:00 AM. © Destructoid

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Well poo. Warriors Orochi Z, the PS3 repackacing of Warriors Orochi and WO2 has been canceled for North America. Still available for Japanese fans, the game included new bonus content such as extra characters. It was originally scheduled to release in the West as Warriors Orochi: The Collective, but Koei has since decided to scrap it.

It's very rare that Koei doesn't want to bring a Warriors title to the West, so it's a strange bit of news indeed. Still, with Warriors Orochi 2 already heading for the PSP, perhaps Koei realized that there is such a thing as market saturating and it may be wise to hold off. Either that or it's Swine Flu.

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Sims 3 Sells 1.4 Million in the First Week

post from Unigamesity on 10 June 2009 05:23:49 AM. © Unigamesity

Despite the Sims 3 piracy problems and some issues with the Disc Authentication Errors, Electronic Arts managed to strike lucky with the release of the highly anticipated simulation game and sold in the first week 1.4 million copies of the game ? more[...]

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Surprise: Valve thinks PS3 is too hard to develop
for

post from Destructoid on 10 June 2009 05:20:00 AM. © Destructoid

Surprise: Valve thinks PS3 is too hard to develop for screenshot

The reason Valve Software doesn’t develop games for the PlayStation 3 is simple: the studio doesn’t like tricky hardware. The stance -- legitimate or not -- has been documented by bloggers since the Internet started in the mid-1920s (shortly after Alexander the Great sacked Coruscant). Still, it’s fun to pull the lion’s tail. The beast responds differently every time.

Thus Loot-Ninja (spotted by Kotaku) asked Valve designer Tom Leonard why Valve doesn’t develop for Sony Computer Entertainment’s shiny black console.

“The PC and the 360 are just more straightforward,” Leonard said. “We can focus on what we want to do, which is make game experiences, instead of sweating bullets over obscure architectural decisions they make with their platform.”

“[...] I didn't come into this business in the 90s because of some technical fetish. I came in because I wanted to give people experiences that made them have fun.”

Whoa -- that's a killer response. But it only makes us wonder how Valve really feels about the hardware. We should probably ask.

The image is taken from Jim's article, "Wah, Wah, Wah, Left 4 Dead 2." It's a brilliant read.

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300,000 player Xbox video online game on the
cards...

post from Gamezplay.org - daily games news on 10 June 2009 05:11:00 AM. © Gamezplay.org - daily games news

Microsoft have advertised for developers to help create a new backend game system that can support up to 300,000 player games...

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?We are building an extremely high performance system to extend console games to the server in new was; creating a completely new set of web services to support dynamic programming information of games and scheduling data.?

The engineer will be responsible for ?building a backend capable of hosting a 300,000 player game in real-time with real money on the line (anti-cheating, etc).?

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Prepare for the Darkest Hour in Red Orchestra!

A new Red Orchestra mod was released, this time by Tripwire Interactive. Titled Darkest Hour: 1944-45, this cool mod finally brings the American forces into play and takes the players to Normandy for some great action. Even more, in order to give[...]

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Treasure Seekers 1 - Visions of Gold Online

This is online version of Treasure Seekers 1 - Visions of Gold point and click type hidden object game. "Adventure runs in the family! Join Nelly and Tommy in their quest to retrieve their pirate...