Warhammer Online started out like gangbusters when it was first launched last September. Now developer Mythic Entertainment is working its subscribers to get their family and friends to try out the fantasy MMO title. If you are a subscriber to the game and manage to get one of those kinds of folks to subscribe as well you will get 30 more days of free play in the game.
Relic's latest RTS game is showing signs that not only it is selling well it will continue to sell well. The sci-fi themed game Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II has stayed on top of the latest list of the best selling retail PC games in the US, this time for the week ending Feb. 28. This is the second week that the game from publisher THQ has been number one on the charts, keeping Blizzard's fantasy MMO expansion pack World of Warcraft: Wrath of the the Lich King at number two. F.E.A.R 2 and Crysis Warhead depart this list this week with World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade and the ultra-cheap The Sims Carnival: Snap City replacing them.
The Independent Games Festival isn't the only place where indie game developers can strut their stuff nowadays. The annual Penny Arcade Expo has been running the PAX 10 competition for a little while now and today they announced they are taking applications for the 2009 edition.
It just goes to show you that even if you get it on video and audio you still sometimes can't quite get what's going on in an interview. In a DICE Summit interview at Gametrailers.com id Software's Todd Hollenshead commented on the release date for their next internally developed game Rage.
About this time last year the PC-video game trade group the Entertainment Software Association started losing members at a huge rate. Activision and Vivendi Games (now merged as Activision Blizzard) both left the group, followed in the coming months by LucasArts, NCsoft, id Software, Crave Entertainment and Midway (although with the latter two companies their financial troubles were partly to blame).
Immerse Yourself in Magic—Interact with magical objects, ghosts and portraits in every room, corridor and courtyard—all faithfully recreated from the movies.
Perfect Your Wand Work—Cast spells to unleash powerful fifth-year magic.
Lead Dumbledore’s Army—Recruit fellow students and teach them defence against the dark arts.
Relive the Magic of the Movie—…from the Dementor attack in Little Whinging to the epic battles at the Ministry of Magic.
Unleash Advanced Magic—Play as Sirius and Dumbledore as they fight Lucius, Bellatrix and Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic.
access almost everything in the environment that will help them defeat enemies
pulling off stunts on motorcycles or in a variety of vehicles
high-powered police issue weaponry
Dangerous situations involving multiple NPCs -- avoid shooitng fellow officers and innocent bystanders or you'll become a fugitive
Your actions will affect each of NYC's districts - The environments will change drastically to showcase the current crime level
Chrace is of strategic value to the defending High Elves, as the terrain offers many positional advantages. Furthermore, the area is guarded by fierce predators such as the White Lion - after which a noble Asur regiment has been named.
A few days ago we further explored the lore of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, exploring the story of the Witch King as he plotted to conquer the lands of Ulthuan.
Quite a number of players have been asking if World of Warcraft has support for SLI or Scalable Link Interface. For those who aren't familiar with this, SLI essentially has two graphics cards sharing work when rendering a 3D scene.