Remember the GhostBusters, well a game based on the popular series may be in grave danger of being busted. The Ghost Busters game assets have been doing rounds of the internet for some time now, but if the new reports are to be believed, the game may be in danger.
Sierra has assured that Ghosbusters “will not be cancelled”, but offered no further details on the title or any of the others believed to be on the chopping block.
Original Story: In the wake of the recently completed Activision Blizzard merger, the company has revealed that only five franchises from Vivendi Games’ Sierra portfolio will be making the transition to the newly-formed company’s publishing operations. Read full story here.
The World of Warcraft is quite easily the most popular PC game right now, and for good reason. The 10 Million Plus WOW population has been eagerly awaiting the Lich King expansion, but there is a new twist to the tale. Some lucky few who got thier hands on the Lich King CD Key are now selling them off on Ebay. This isn’t the first time that a gamer has sold his soul to the devil and stood in line for the moolah. Read below:
The record price paid on eBay’s UK site so far is GBP 513 - that’s EUR 652, or an astonishing USD 1,021.
This may have been a one-off, but keys are regularly changing hands for between GBP 150 and GBP 300.
Beta keys obtained in the normal manner, by opting in to the test on the official website, cannot be sold - they’re attached to the account of the player who registered.
But the keys given out on scratch-cards at the Blizzard Worwide Invitational event in Paris in June, and BlizzCon 2007 in Los Angeles last August, have no such restrictions. It’s these that are changing hands for serious cash. Originally billed as beta keys “for an upcoming Blizzard title”, Blizzard only announced that these would work for the Lich King beta once it had started.
McFarlane Toy company making action figures for Call of Duty: World At War apart from the Guitar Hero Action figures that they promised. It has partnered with Activision in bringing the action figures. The Action figures cost $10-15 each and are expected to be out this fall.
The following are the 4 detailed descriptions of the action figures that are incoming:
* Marine Infantry, Battle of Peleliu - Includes M1 Garand rifle and M1 bayonet
* Marine Corps with Flamethrower, Battle of Peleliu - Includes M2-2 flamethrower with removable flame, and M1911A1 pistol & holster
* Marine Corps with Machine Gun, Battle of Okinawa - Includes M-1928A1 machine gun w/20 round magazine and M1911A1 pistol & holster
* British Special Ops, Battle for
We have seen Starcraft 2, we recently saw Diablo 3 and we know that Wraith of the Lich King is on its way. Those three projects are good enough to keep a small army of developers busy for years, plus add to that Blizzard’s standard, make that almost a decade. But apparently Blizzard is working on one more secret game, which has a small dedicated team working on it. Destructoid.com says that :
At the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, vice president of Blizzard Rob Pardo confirmed that Blizzard is working on an unannounced title. The confirmation came from a video interview with OnlineWelten, in which Pardo fields multiple follow-up questions regarding the “unannounced MMO” job listing. When specifically asked if the job listing was for Diablo III, Pardo answered quite assertively.
“No, [Diablo 3] is obviously not, since Diablo is not an MMO. We have another development team…”
At this point the interviewer cuts off Pardo, and his response gets quite jarbled. But immediately following, Pardo confirms that there is still “another unknown project” in the works. The big question is, was Pardo referring to the MMO ad still, or was he talking about another game altogether?
This is big news……so what do you think, which game is in the making?
The game was just announced and fans are already finding flaws in the latest Diablo game. A few of the organized lot got together to start a petition to voice their concerns. I came across this post on Actiontrip.com:
It appears that Blizzard’s new art direction for Diablo III made certain fans of the franchise rather unhappy. They’ve decided to express their discontent with a petition that asks people to support the notion of a darker, more realistic art style, and not something that’s, as they put it, so similar to World of Warcraft. Here are some of their wishes:
- A darker, gothic, cryptic and creepier environment.
- A more realistic artistic direction, more independent from the Warcraft universe art direction.
- Darker dungeons without a blue/green environment, Diablo dungeons are dark and shadowy.
Well whatever the reason, this isn’t good news for Diablo 3, lets hope that this doesn’t push the game back to 2012.
Activision announced that COD 5:World At War will support both and offline co-operative play for up to four players online on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, in addition to two-player local split-screen cooperative play on home consoles. Coop usually makes games about twice as fun as they would normally be so it will probably be worth it.
The campaign will allow gamers to gain experience points and unlock perks for use in competitive multiplayer modes. This is quite similar to the perks system in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. As players participate with different ranks the difficulty or the toughness changes accordingly.Mark Lamia of Treyarch studio who made COD 5 says that he wants gamers to feel the WWII in a completely different way. A host of new enemies is being provided to employ new tactics as well as new, groundbreaking tools–like co-op and the flamethrower–to succeed in the epic fight.
World at War lands on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Wii, Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS this fall.
Motion Sensitive games and content seem to be the call of the day, every new game is coming up with a motion sensitive take on it. The latest is Tony Hawk Series, this skating franchise has chose to reinvent itself with new motion controls.
Kotaku reports that the next Tony Hawk title for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, will use motion controls via a peripheral that sits on the floor. The game has three working titles, listed in alphabetical/awesomeness order: Adrenaline, Amplitude, and Huck Jam. Wait, “Huck Jam”? We assume that’s some kind of skateboarding term, and not a product made from crushing Huckleberry Hound into a fine paste.
Though this is all rumor until Activision gives official word, it does certainly match up with recent comments from the company about taking a year off to revitalize the franchise. It even makes sense of recent, officially-endorsed Xbox 360 peripherals that were announced by a third-party, including a skateboard model. What makes less sense is that the leak doesn’t mention the Wii, which already has the Balance Board, a peripheral that was regarded with interest by Hawk himself. If the rumor pans out, Activision, we promise to still look surprised.
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COD 4 was an awesome game, it truly was. The game made a very positive impression on gamers and critics alike. The game was set in modern warfare and has sold over 10 million units, making it one of the most successful games in the genre. Setting such high benchmarks is a double edged sword, this makes the next game in the series highly anticipated and open to comparisons with the predecessor.
COD- World at War is the next installment in the series and it has bounced back to its WWII roots. The WWII genre has reached its peak and the plethora of games coming out every year, isnt making it any better. But COD 5 will use the COD 4 engine and support co-op play. As per a report on Voodoo Extreme:
It all takes place in the Pacific theater (and partially in Russia’s advance into Berlin) says OXM, which all in all was a much grittier and darker conflict that the one in muddy Belgium fields.
Treyarch has had a full extra year over CoD3’s development to make World at War - and it’s using the excellent CoD4 engine, which is plenty of reason to be excited.
“This is a scarier Call of Duty than we’ve ever seen,” Treyarch head Mark Lamir says in the mag.
To help simulate the Japanese’s different style of warfare, Treyarch has completely re-tinkered the enemy AI in World at War. Instead of taking cover and flanking in traditional European battle strategies, the Japanese hide in trees, sneak through the overgrowth and scrabble, katana in hand in violent suicide attacks.
“We figured out early that the Imperial Japanese fought in a different way that was full of suspense,” creative lead Rich Farrelly tells OXM. “From that point we started to skew the game in that direction.”
Excitingly, for the first time in Call of Duty’s campaign 4-player co-op is supported over Xbox Live - and it supports meta game perks as in CoD4’s excellent online mode
Hot on the heels of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith comes another Guitar Hero title, this time featuring Metallica. Scheduled for release in 2009, the details were uncovered in an SEC filing made by Activision.
While this bodes well for the series commercially, one can’t help but feel that this series is being milked to proportions that would make EA’s usual treatment of their franchises seem normal (NFS: ProStreet anyone?).
“In fiscal 2009, we plan to publish Guitar Hero: On Tour for the NDS; Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Guitar Hero: Metallica, and Guitar Hero IV across multiple platforms,” the company said in the filing.
The charm of the Guitar Hero series was to play songs from bands you never even heard of rather than bask in the already popular tracks from well-known acts.
According to our sources (the voices in our head) Activision plan to release Guitar Hero: Madonna and Guitar Hero: Britney Spears as soon as possible.
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