Director man Sam Raimi has revealed the 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'The Patriot' screenwriter, Robert Rodat, is going to be crafting "an original story" for Warcraft.Raimi says they'll be "really faithful" to the game lore, he wants it "accurate and true" to Azeroth's inhabitants. So gold farmers confirmed? It will feel like a "'World of WarCraft' adventure."
Army Of Two: The 40th Day Producer, Matte Turner, in a recent interview with PLAY magazine, reckons that retailers must "hate them", after the recent release of its download-only PSPgo.Turner also reckons the whole "download only thing is very cool", pointing to the fact that the end of discs is potentially far closer than we think, he goes on "It's all going that way and Sony is going that way early. I'm sure [retailers aren't] very impressed, but I think it's cool and we'll see how it does".
Publisher Black Bean plans to revamp the World Rally Championship licence into a new annual games franchise, MCV can reveal.And the firm has set its sights on challenging Codemasters' recent success with fellow racer Dirt 2.Black Bean has signed up the licence on an initial three year deal, with the first game set to arrive on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in Spring next year.
Blizzard Entertainment has set a deadline to convert World of Warcraft accounts to a Battle.net account on or before November 11th. StarCraftWire.net speculates Starcraft II beta is getting closer to be announced.At BlizzCon 2009,the press kit CD contained images of Battle.net 2.0 interface which showed the Starcraft II friend list and World of Warcraft friend list sharing players among each game via Battle.net.The reason Starcraft II beta did not start in the summer according to Bob Kotick was that Battle.net 2.0 was not ready.
TOKYOPOP released preview images of their upcoming manga titled World of Warcraft: Death Knight by Dan Jolley. With the closing of Warcraft Legends at Volume 5, they plan to launch stand-alone manga books for each class including a mage and a shaman manga based on characters of the MMORPG.The Death Knight manga is based on Thassarian, the first Death Knight converted by Arthas the Lich King.
Activision is banking on Modern Warfare 2 to sell a lot of copies. Well, if the recent pre-order stats are correct, Activision could be looking at selling more than 2 million copies on the first day. The game has been pre-ordered on the Xbox 360 1.6 million times, and a little less than 600,000 times for the PS3.
GamingShogun.com writes: "Developer Mindware Studios and publisher Aspyr Media have launched their first-person shooter, Dreamkiller, on PCs via Valve's STEAM service. Dreamkiller puts the player in the shoes of Dr. Alice Drake, a psychologist who can enter the minds of her patients. The game is due out later this month on the Xbox 360 platform..."
Msxbox-World spoke with Steve Masters of Ubisoft at the recent X09 event in Canada and unearthed some interesting news about the length of the forthcoming stealth em up.
Omiee says: "A IMBd page has been found under the title "Infamous" and is set to be released in 2010. The movie is being published by "Sony Pictures", if you enter "www.infamousmovie.com" into a web browser, it will redirect you to Sony Pictures's main page which means Sony already own the domain name. With this new info, and the previous rumors of Sony Pictures trying to get Avi and Ari Arad and screenwriter Sheldon Turner to make an Infamous film, this may lead to a greater chance of an Infamous movie currently in production by Sony Pictures, which may be due to release in 2010.
Gamesthirst: For many gamers it's not an issue, but for others, excessive curse words in a video game just don't make sense. Some actually take offense when games come laden with f-bombs and the likes.Certain developers have cleverly steered away from such language, making the path for a friendly rating from ESRB much easier. Others have created an option that allow gamers to bleep out the curse words. One game that comes to mind is Battlefield: Bad Company, the other game is one released today, Brutal Legend. Speaking in an interview, Double Fine's Tim Schafer was asked about the feature.EG: Why did you include a feature that lets people bleep out the swearing?
