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LucasArts and BioWare to dish the dirt on KOTOR MMO real soon
Posted: 03.10.2008 07:09 by Technet2k Comments: 8
According to a column piece in The Daily Star, a UK newspaper, BioWare is soon to start letting the secrets tumble out to the public.

Their reporter is off to "file an exclusive report on the game" in San Francisco next month. Knights of the Old Republic was a huge hit for BioWare, set 4,000 years before the films.

Fallout 3: Apocalypse? Check. Mutants? Check. DRM? Missing...
Posted: 03.10.2008 06:45 by Technet2k Comments: 8
In what many people expected to be another horrid chapter in the DRM saga, Bethesda have announced that they won't be including Spore-like DRM at all.

In fact all they'll be including for copy protection says Peter Hines is the standard disc check, just like in Oblivion. Even that's a "pain in the ass" he says to have to add.

Mythic unleash first 'official' WAR update 1.01, some new features
Posted: 03.10.2008 05:48 by Technet2k Comments: 1
The team have released a number of hot fixes before to address client-side crashes but only until now have they unveiled an update 'proper'.

Yes there's been bug squishing and plenty of tweaking like pet and mob pathing to chat UI. There's a whole host more plus a letter from Destin Bales, Live Producer.

Bungie with Halo news at TGS, MGS get "industry heavy hitters"
Posted: 03.10.2008 05:29 by Technet2k Comments: 6
Phil Spencer, head honcho at Microsoft Game Studios has revealed to Edge that they've scored a "group of industry heavy hitters". Ex-Kojima Ryan Payton nabbed.

Also it was mentioned that team Bungie will be making a 'major announcement' in regards to the recently released Halo teaser trailer. The show begins on the 9th.

City falls to siege in MMO WAR, some fans cry Mythic "messed up"
Posted: 03.10.2008 04:55 by Technet2k Comments: 5
The first European sacking of a city has taken place in EA's MMORPG Warhammer Online, except its way ahead of projections from the dev team.

Apparently it would be "impossible" to siege a city in one night, someone evidently forgot to tell the game that. Bugs are being blamed for the easy sacking of Altdorf.

Left 4 Dead pre-orders healthy, over 40% more than Orange Box
Posted: 02.10.2008 06:36 by Technet2k Comments: 8
Valve's Doug Lombardi has revealed that their upcoming zombie kill-athon has already exceeded the Orange Box for pre-orders, speaking with VGChartz.

He said this was mostly down to the 10% off promotion which had "driven largely" the retail pre-order sales. The demo and a massive ad campaign will help that trend he adds.

Sega brings Valkyria Chronicles Release Date Forward, releasing on 31st October
Posted: 02.10.2008 06:35 by Jamie Comments: 2
Sega announced this morning that the release date of Valkyria Chronicles, an exclusive RPG for the PlayStation 3, has been brought forward to 31st October.

Konami to tease second MGO expansion at Tokyo Game Show
Posted: 02.10.2008 06:20 by Technet2k Comments: 3
The "Meme Expansion" for Metal Gear Online will feature three new maps and two new playable characters to choose from.

The first expansion was so popular with fans it seized up Konami's Internet as they struggled to supply the ravenous demand. Konami will showcase "Meme" at the TGS.

Blizzard awarded $6 million against WoWGlider bot creator MDY
Posted: 02.10.2008 05:57 by Technet2k Comments: 3
US District Court Judge David Campbell ruled back in July that bot did in fact breach the terms of license players must agree to in order to play World of Warcraft.

MMOGlider, as it is now known, is thought to have shifted more than 100,000 copies at $25 a time. It helped automate many of the more laborious tasks like grinding.

Neither "positive or negative" announcment for PC Fable II "yet"
Posted: 02.10.2008 05:33 by Technet2k Comments: 5
In an interview with VideoGamer.com, Molyneux has skirted around the question that many Fable gamers will want to know: Is Albion coming to PC again?

Famous for his slip of the tongue paragraphs of speech, Molyneux is remaining as self controlled as possible and managed to leave it rather ambiguously answered.
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