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After several ban threats from Australian organizations, Bethesda Softworks made several alterations to the post-apocalyptic RPG, Fallout 3.The updated version giving fictional names to all drugs available inside the game has been later approved for sale in Australia
Pete Hines, the vice-president of Bethesda Studios, has announced that this censored version will be sold globally and that there will not be any other regional versions, in order to prevent rating issues or other content related "misunderstandings".
Blizzard Entertainment studios have officially confirmed the release date of the second expansion for World Of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King.
The game will be released on the 13th of November, in a 39.99 Euros standard version and a 69.99 Euros Collector's version.
The Collector's edition will include:
- the Art of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, a 208-page book featuring never-before-seen images from the game
- a Making-of movie
- the official soundtrack CD, containing 21 epic tracks from the game, along with exclusive bonus tracks.
- World of Warcraft Trading Card Game March of the Legion™ starter decks, along with two exclusive cards available only in the Collector’s Edition
- a mouse pad featuring a map of the newly opened continent of Northrend
- An exclusive in-game pet: Frosty, the baby frost wyrm
According to Ubisoft, the first person shooter Far Cry 2 will be available in retail stores starting from the 24th of Octomber.
Along with versions for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox360, there will be a collector's edition, which will be sold in an exclusive wooden box, with a t-shirt, an art book, a map and a "Making Of" DVD.
During the NVISION 08 event, Electronic Arts has announced the system requirements for the action game Mirror's Edge, currently under development at DICE studios.
The game will run on Windows XP or Windows Vista, will need at least a Pentium 4 at 2.4 Ghz and 1 GB of memory. The recommended video cards should be at least as powerful as a GeForce 6 series card, with 256 MB of memory.
According to GSC Game World and its publishing subdivision GSC World Publishing, the first person shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is now Gold.
However, the game's launch date has been delayed to the 5th of September 2008, from the previous date of 29th of August, 2008.
At Games Convention 2008, Electronic Arts has revealed the launch date for The Sims 3, the 20th of February, 2009.
Electronic Arts and Crytek studios have announced that the first person shooter Crysis Warhead will be available in European retail stores starting from the 12th of September. In the United States of America, the game will be sold starting from the 16th of September.
Along with the release date, the system requirements were presented:
- Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Windows Vista), Intel Core 2.0 GHz (2.2 GHz for Windows Vista), AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Windows Vista) or better
- Memory: 1GB (1.5GB on Windows Vista)
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or better, with at least 256MB of video memory and DirectX 9.0c/DirectX 10 compatible
- Disk space: 15GB
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
- Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Microsoft Windows Vista
The game will feature sergeant "Psycho" Sikes, the action of the place taking place in parallel with the story of Crysis but presents the events from another perspective.
Rockstar Games studios have officially announced that Grand Theft Auto 4 for PC will be released on the 18th of November in the United States of America and the 21st of November in Europe.
The PC version will include an extended multiplayer mode, unlike console version of the game.
dtp entertainment has officially announced that the Belgian studio Larian is currently working on the new action-RPG called Divinity 2: Ego Draconis.
The game's action will take place in Rivellon. Players take part as dragon hunters, improving their abilities and choosing various specializations, aiming to become a Dragon Lord.
Besides the high number of available guns, the quests will be different compared to previous games in the series, in order to offer various techniques of solving situations.
Eidos announced that the action game Tomb Raider: Underworld, developed by Crystal Dynamics, will be available in European retail stores starting with the 21st of November, 2008.
At the Worlwide Invitational Entertainment event in Paris, Rob Pardo, the vicepresident of Blizzard, has mentioned that the single player campaign of the much expected real-time strategy game Starcraft 2 is only 33% complete.
The game producers are confident they'll be able to have something close to complete by the end of this year.
Elizabeth Tobey, currently the 2K Games Community Manager, has announced on the official forum that the activation restrictions have been from the first-person shooter Bioshock.
Previously, players were able to activate the game using a CD key up to five times.
Crytek has announced through their usual monthly news update that they will no longer offer the 1.3 patch for their first person shooter, Crysis.
At the same time, they will stop development on the Linux version of the dedicated multiplayer server.
Electronic Arts has announced that the PC version of the role playing game Mass Effect is now Gold and will be available in European retail stores on the 6th of June, after being released in US on the 28th of May in US.
CD Projekt RED Studios have announced the decision to delay the launch of The Witcher Enhanced Edition in order to fine tune it.
The programmers promise to improve loading times with up to 80%, over 100 new animations for Geralt and non playing characters, a better inventory systems and a complete rewrite of the dialogue system.