Entertainment

Obscure II: The Aftermath, coming to PSPgo this fall

Obscure: The Aftermath is the sequel to Obscure, a critically acclaimed teen survival horror game from 2005. It PSPgo version will arrive with the debut of this new portable game system that is expected in fall. According to Rogier Smit Executive Vice President of Playlogic, Obscure’s publisher the game will be adapted to fit co-op capabilities and controls of the PSPgo but keep the gameplay and graphics present in original version. Story of Obscure: The Aftermath takes place two years after the events at Leafmore High. Teens who survived being trapped in their school and hunted by their maniacal headmaster and monsters are now starting

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Mickey Rourke is the Rogue Warrior

Rogue Warrior, Bethesda’s upcoming shooter is inspired  by Richard “Demo Dick” Marcinko’s New York Times bestseller of the same name. Marcinko is a former real-life Navy SEAL and founder of the elite SEAL Team 6 and this game will follow a story based loosely on his own past military experience. Considering Mickey Rourke, the voice behind ingame Marcinko is one tough mofo, according to Todd Vaughn, Executive Producer of Rogue Warrior, absolutely one-hundred percent captures Marcinko’s raw and gritty personality. In game players are sent on a clandestine operation to disrupt a suspected North Korean ballistic missile program. Not so long after they enter a

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Point Lookout, yet another Fallout 3 DLC expected in June

To access this new content players will have to buy a ticket from Tobar the ferryman and hop aboard the Duchess Gambit, a ferry boat that will take them to the strange seaside town of Point Lookout. This downloadable content pack will offer a mysterious adventure involving a decrepit town, spooky mansion, unpleasant marshes and of course, some dark and creepy secret that awaits us in the end. Entrance to the Swamp or a nice place to have post-apocaliptic vacation Players will have to uncover the secret of mansion, importance of something called Punga Fruit, traverse the marshes, and face many horrors that lurk inside

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Left4Dead 2 announced

The sequel to Valve’s best selling multiplayer survival horror game Left 4 Dead, appropriately named L4D2 is coming to us on Xbox 360 and PC. L4D2 promises to set a new benchmark for cooperative titles and become one of 2009’s most prominent titles. It is set for release on November 17, 2009, a year after the fantastic debut of the first game of what is looking to be a franchise title. According to Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve, a large part of Left 4 Dead’s status as one of the 2008’s top selling games was custom-tailored gameplay made possible by its AI Director.

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Tales of Monkey Island, Yar har har

LucasArts and Telltale Games have joined forces to resurrect the Monkey Island series with two new projects. Telltale games will release a brand new Tales of Monkey Island series with episodic games over five months for PC and WiiWare starting with the first episode on July 7. After that later in summer, LucasArts will release The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition that will be a complete rework of original series with updated graphics, musical score and the addition of voiceovers. One Guybrush and the bottle of Rum… we all know how that song started, right matey?!? With the infamous disbanding of LucasArts adventure game

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Citérémis releases Aztaka, old-school side-scrolling RPG adventure

Created both for those who miss the old 8- and 16-bit era and younglings who prefer good graphics Aztaka is a mix of classing side-scrolling games and roleplaying adventures. Inspired by the Aztec setting and the old school games Citérémis and Stardock Corporation released a new side-scrolling adventure RPG game Aztaka on Impulse. Player is cast into the role of Huitzilo, an heir to the Sun God who seeks to fulfill his destiny reuniting the seven Ancestral Phonograms. This should open the Path of the Gods and enable him to lead his people out of darkness and bloodshed. Loyal companion Ayopha, trapped into a form

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The return of Bionic Commando

Bionic Commando, a classic Nintendo Entertainment System arcade game from 1988 is about to receive its first proper sequel but this time for the PC.  Coming to uson July 28th, about 20 years after the original, the game will put us into combat boots of a bionic-enhanced soldier once more.  The main feature of the game was a bionic arm with grappling gun that could attach itself to ceiling and allowed for scaling objects by swinging instead of jumping. Studio GRIN, makers of games such as Ballistic or the Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter series for PC are behind the project. After the console gamers got their

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Wolfenstein 3D is coming back through Xbox and PlayStation 3

Activision Publishing, the publishing branch of Activision Blizzard and idSoftware are making the original Wolfenstein 3D game downloadable for Xbox Live Arcade on June 3rd and for PlayStation Network on 4th. Wolfie is the legendary title that spawned the whole genre of so-called Doom clones, today known as first person shooters. Inspired by Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein it placed us in the boots of American soldier BJ Blazkowitcz who is trying to escape from the infamous Nazi castle. After the escape, he decides to stick around to snuff some more Nazis and spoil their war plans. The enemies he faces range from lowly

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Myst Revisited – The Ages of Ilathid team speaks out

Myth-fan game The Ages of Ilathid is an upcoming adventure game that will bring nine new ages to the Myth universe and further expand this popular series. What made this project interesting to us is the fact that the authors of Myst gave their official seal of approval, making this a more official project than just a mod for this legendary adventure title. In order to find what’s going on we shot couple of questions to Jennifer Parsons and Paulo Monteiro, leaders of the team working on the game. BSN*: Greetings Jennifer, could you introduce yourself to the readers of Bright Side of News* and

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Age of Conan celebrates anniversary and an increase in player base

Funcom is celebrating a one-year anniversary of Age of Conan, their MMORPG [Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game] and a supposed increase in player base numbers. According to the released information, Funcom claims that the game shipped in over 1.2 million copies around the world. The press release claims that new players are joining every month. While this might be true, it is weird that we constantly hear about constant server migrations and reductions in number of game servers. Then again, I really wonder what are they actually celebrating? Faux numbers, phantom subscribers or their ability to milk the money out of naive suckers who believe that the

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The Hired Guns could be one addictive summer game

RTS combining Blood Diamond and The Expendables is coming. Next week, gamers will be a ble to lead a group of mercenaries hired to overthrow the brutal dictator of The Diamond Shores in Africa. Game Factory Interactive (GFI) and Morphicon plan to release their real time strategy game The Hired Guns: Jagged Edge in May 29th. Players will lead a group of ruthless mercenaries hired to overthrow the brutal dictator of The Diamond Shores who waits hidden in the darkest part of Africa. You will be able to assemble your team from a pool of quite nasty soldiers of fortune, e.g. mercs: Ernest Rogers Ernest loves

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NCsoft does it again, City of Heroes is going Rogue

NCsoft’s Paragon Studios, the makers of City of Heroes and City of Villains games (CoV is a game/stand alone expansion that was merged with CoH) are giving the players what they wanted for a long time yet again. Among many changes asked for by the fans during the years unlike the competition, they actually made a few come true: The ability to change the original look of your hero or villain’s weapon of choice was one of the first and most wanted ones. At first glance not so major but still a great addition was the introduction of police radio missions for heroes, similar to

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Fallout 3 and its DLC: Is Bethesda for real?

Back in the days Bethesda was known for some pretty good games like The Terminator: SkyNET,The Terminator: Future Shock, The Elder Scrolls: Arena and its brilliant sequel Daggerfall. While both Terminators were made of awesome indeed , Bethseda’s focus always were The Elder Scroll games. First game of the series; Arena was pretty epic for its time but its sequel Daggerfall was and still is "a god amongst roleplaying games". The possibilities It offered were limitless and ages ahead of competition. Bethseda got known for its gameplay immersion, and Daggerfall was the best example – it had a good selection of playable races, each with

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Fighting the bad weather: Wallace & Gromit start The Last Resort

Absent-minded inventor Wallace and his trusty canine companion Gromit are back in yet another episodic adventure game from Telltale Games. Time for vacation has finally come but there is only one tiny problem. The weather outside is dreadful and the best course of action would be to delay the vacation and stay at home. Of course, after Wallace sees the sadness in his companion Gromit he decides to save the vacation by any means possible. The idea how to spend your time on the beach, instead of worrying about the bad weather.. Since they cannot go to vacation, a cunning "genius" as he is Wallace

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Guild Wars sold in over six million units

NCsoft’s and ArenaNet’s Guild Wars, the only online roleplaying game that has managed to win over a huge amount of former WoW junkies and PvP [Player versus Player] fanatics has now sold over six milion units. There are many factors that contributed to this great success. One if not the most important one was free playtime. While you have to buy the game itself the gametime itself is completely free – a combination of conventional playing games model and an refreshing change when it comes to the world of MMO titles. There are many free to play games out there each with their own trick to

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"Strong Bad" game goes from online-only distribution to DVD

Telltale Games‘s Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People series can now be pre-ordered on DVD. Like the previous Sam & Max games – this series of episodic games was originally available only through digital distribution. The new Collector’s Edition box will be shipped like a usual TV series DVD box, region free extras included. That’s an interesting weapon… Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People is a point and click adventure series that follows the adventures of Strong Bad, star of Homestar Runner online flash animation series. Even though it has a point and click gameplay each episode also features arcade style mini game.

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LCD display shipments grow by 30%, highest in six months

Across the industry, we have signs of a steep angled recovery – after Volterra posted impressive growth earlier today, we received a report from DisplaySearch, the research unit from NPD Group. The report states that shipment of TFT LCD panels for notebooks grew to 11.6 million, marking a 38% growth over February/March, and equaled last year’s March results. Conventional desktops grew by 24%, and LCD TVs grew by 30%. Overall, astounding results from the industry that shows the demand for all market segments. You can see the results in the table below, but these numbers are encouraging, to say the least. Source: DisplaySearch, NPD Group

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Former Blizzard employee talks about Activision-Blizzard

Once the news of Activision’s merger with Vivendi Games got out, a lot of Blizzard fans didn’t exactly welcome the news. The general opinion is that no matter how it is sugarcoated – the merging of two companies that have nothing in common is generally a bad thing. Especially a merger of Activision and Vivendi Games, and then with a company whose Blizzard Entertainment division is known for ingenious and highly popular games franchises; Diablo, WarCraft and StarCraft (the best Real Time Strategy game of all times – no discussion). According to their own statement, Activision Blizzard is "the world’s largest and most profitable pure-play

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City of Heroes/Villains: The Architect has arrived

NCSoft’s unique and most importantly casual friendly MMO has hit the jackpot with a new addition to its content. One of them being players’ gleefully awaited mission editor, named Architect has arrived. Announced by devs for Issue 13 it suffered a delay and finally came to us now with Issue 14. Once inside the game players can find it in newly emerged Architect Entertainment facilities that are now in every street and corner of Paragon City and Rogue Isles. Upon logging into your character, a game tip pops out showing some hairless guy who has all the information you need to learn to be able

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Sam & Max celebrate Eisner nomination of 20th Anniversary Edition

The Eisner Award comitee has nominated the  20th Anniversary Edition of Surfin’ the Highway, the complete Sam & Max comic collection for the Eisner award in the Best Graphic Album – Reprint Category. To celebrate this, Telltale is offering three special price bundles that include Surfin’ the Highway and other Sam & Max merchandise. Telltale’s Sam & Max games are currently available for PC and Wii but are expected to come to Xbox Live Arcade this year. The canine version of Humphrey Bogart  Sam and always pissed off rabbit maniac Max are detectives from a bit different New York City where they solve crimes and

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