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Commander Nord
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 |  Subject: Re: Media  Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:59 pm | |
| [quote"=ign.com"]Valve Confirms Steam Mac Support, Portal 2 Gets Simultaneous Release
Mac users getting access to entire library next month.
by Jim Reilly
March 8, 2010 - Valve confirmed this morning Mac users will finally be able to use Steam, the company's digital distribution service, and Source, its proprietary game engine this April.
"As we transition from entertainment as a product to entertainment as a service, customers and developers need open, high-quality Internet clients," said Gabe Newell, President of Valve. "The Mac is a great platform for entertainment services."
Valve's titles, which includes Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series, will all be available at launch. The recently announced Portal 2 will also be Valve's first simultaneous release for both Mac and Windows. No word on when, or if, the entire Steam library will be made available to Mac users in the future.
"Our Steam partners, who are delivering over a thousand games to 25 million Steam clients, are very excited about adding support for the Mac," said Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development at Valve.
"Steamworks for the Mac supports all of the Steamworks APIs, and we have added a new feature, called Steam Play, which allows customers who purchase the product for the Mac or Windows to play on the other platform free of charge. For example, Steam Play, in combination with the Steam Cloud, allows a gamer playing on their work PC to go home and pick up playing the same game at the same point on their home Mac."
"This makes it very easy for us and for anyone using Source to do game development for the Mac." [/quote]
when will Half Life 2: Episode 3 done? the only product from Valce that i care about. |
|   | | Commander Nord
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| | Subject: Re: Media Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:05 pm | |
| | IGN.com wrote: | Battlestar Galactica MMO On the Way
Yet another reason for nerds to not leave the house.
by Nick Kolan
March 9, 2010 - With the release of Star Trek Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic due out next year, and the announcement that, despite the developer filing for bankruptcy, development on Stargate Worlds would continue, there was only one more huge sci-fi franchises yet to hit the MMO market; Battlestar Galactica.
Well, no longer, as Bigpoint, a European browser-based MMO publisher, has announced that they will be publishing Battlestar Galactica MMO Online with "tactical space combat, exploration and mission-based gameplay". Running off the Unity engine, Battlestar Galactica Online will probably be playable both on your desktop PC and your smartphone, and will require no installation or download.
Players will be able to take the side of humanity or as cylons, and will fight for control of the universe.
This comes after the announcement that NBC acquired 35% of Bigpoint. As a result, NBC logos can be seen in games like the upcoming GTA-esque Poisonville, slapped onto walls. Maybe there will be a "The Office" MMO. We can only hope.
Battlestar Galactica Online will launch and be playable for 30 days this fall exclusively on syfy.com. |
Star Trek Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Stargate Online and now Battlestar Galactica will more Sci Fi Movies be MMO, but wish are i missing |
| | | | Tando
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| | Subject: Re: Media Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:36 pm | |
| _________________  "I Never Draw My Gun, Unless I Intend to Use It" Tando Alums |
| | | | PrioryJK (Flash!)
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| | Subject: Re: Media Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:18 pm | |
| | Lord_Nord wrote: | | IGN.com wrote: | Battlestar Galactica MMO On the Way
Yet another reason for nerds to not leave the house.
by Nick Kolan
March 9, 2010 - With the release of Star Trek Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic due out next year, and the announcement that, despite the developer filing for bankruptcy, development on Stargate Worlds would continue, there was only one more huge sci-fi franchises yet to hit the MMO market; Battlestar Galactica.
Well, no longer, as Bigpoint, a European browser-based MMO publisher, has announced that they will be publishing Battlestar Galactica MMO Online with "tactical space combat, exploration and mission-based gameplay". Running off the Unity engine, Battlestar Galactica Online will probably be playable both on your desktop PC and your smartphone, and will require no installation or download.
Players will be able to take the side of humanity or as cylons, and will fight for control of the universe.
This comes after the announcement that NBC acquired 35% of Bigpoint. As a result, NBC logos can be seen in games like the upcoming GTA-esque Poisonville, slapped onto walls. Maybe there will be a "The Office" MMO. We can only hope.
Battlestar Galactica Online will launch and be playable for 30 days this fall exclusively on syfy.com. |
Star Trek Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Stargate Online and now Battlestar Galactica will more Sci Fi Movies be MMO, but wish are i missing |
However much I love Battlestar Galactica this will suck, no download needed and you can play it on phones?
Puuuurlease 
I love the way the media spins bullshit around, from what I know Terry had an affair after the two had split up but the footballer seems to be getting tons of sympathy yet his wife seems to have been forgotten?
Not that I care in the slightest
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| | | | Commander Nord
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| | Subject: Re: Media Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:31 pm | |
| | PrioryJK wrote: |
I love the way the media spins bullshit around, from what I know Terry had an affair after the two had split up but the footballer seems to be getting tons of sympathy yet his wife seems to have been forgotten?
Not that I care in the slightest
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I agree with you the wife of Terry will get all my sympathy and Cheryl Cole will also get my sympathy after separate wit Ashley Cole. John Terry, Ashley Cole and Tiger Woods are all cheating bastards |
| | | | PrioryJK (Flash!)
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| | | | | Tando
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| | Subject: Re: Media Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:47 am | |
| | PrioryJK wrote: |
Maybe it does something to the brain when you hit a little ball around all day that makes you want to cheat on your hot wives with airhead bimbos  |
I think it also has to do with the fact they get paid £110k a week and have women throwing themselfs at them_________________ "I Never Draw My Gun, Unless I Intend to Use It" Tando Alums |
| | | | Soude
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| | Subject: Re: Media Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:36 pm | |
| When I was in Bristol last year, there was that "funny" (based on local british humour) joke about Scotland not existing. I'll tell you Star Trek is the same thing ! It simply does not exist ! Star Wars, my friends, Star Wars will be our redemption !!!  I thought SG-O was cancelled due to the branruptcy of Cheyenne Mountain... Is it not ? As for a BSG-O... It's a fun TV show but I don't see it as a fun | Quote: | | Maybe it does something to the brain when you hit a little ball around all day that makes you want to cheat on your hot wives with airhead bimbos |
+1 ^^' I always said soccer was dangerous for brains..._________________   VIP in special group "n00bs who crossed PJK!"...has been Suode for 1:06:13 on June 29th |
| | | | Soude
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| | Subject: Re: Media Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:17 pm | |
| _________________ VIP in special group "n00bs who crossed PJK!"...has been Suode for 1:06:13 on June 29th |
| | | | Commander Nord
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| | Subject: Re: Media Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:12 pm | |
| | IGN.COM wrote: | GDC 10: New Info On EA and 38 Studios' New RPG
Writer R.A. Salvatore talks Copernicus, Project Mercury and how to deal with death.
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March 11, 2010 - Electronic Arts announced this week that it has teamed up with former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's fledgling 38 Studios to publish a new role-playing game called Project Mercury. The RPG is under development by Big Huge Games, which 38 Studios purchased from THQ. But beyond that fairly basic information, neither EA nor 38 Studios released much about the new title. That changed a bit today when bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, who serves as Executive Creator of Worlds at 38 Studios, spoke about his role at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
In a talk titled, "From Franchise To Fantasy: How to Build a Universe Worthy of Devotion," Salvatore spoke mainly about Copernicus, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game whose universe he created from the ground up with Schilling and others at 38 Studios. He revealed that the Project Mercury RPG is actually part of the Copernicus universe but will be set in a different time period than the MMO.
Salvatore said he and his team spent six months developing a 10,000-year history for the world of Copernicus and Project Mercury so the artists, writers, designers and programmers would have a solid basis for development before work even began on the project.
"That was what I insisted on. We need a huge history. We need deep threads so we're all going to be painting on the same canvas. You need consistency. It has to make sense. The way the races interact with each other has to make sense. You have to know how it all fits together. The way you do that is you do a history of the world," Salvatore said.
Salvatore is best known for his novels set in the Forgotten Realms universe, but he's also an avid MMO gamer, and he spent much of his talk telling stories about his time spent playing the original EverQuest. The author has also spent decades playing Dungeons & Dragons, and he tested out the early ideas for Copernicus on his D&D group. Although he's a writer at heart, he said he also understands what game narratives need.
"The primary difference between writing books and writing games is, when I write a book I'm giving you characters to live vicariously through. Even though we will have iconic characters in our games, the most important character in a game is the one you create," he said.
Salvatore also spoke about the importance of believability in games, especially MMOs, where players are asked to ignore the way the world really works in order to buy into a fantasy experience. As an example, he explained the way player deaths will be handled in Copernicus.
A system called the Well of Souls is introduced at the beginning of the game, and players learn that the device is able to bring people back from the dead, if they have met the right conditions. The Well of Souls also plays an important role in the game's storyline, as its keepers have a special position in the world's hierarchy.
"So what we tell all of the content guys is, what would that do to the world? What would happen if someone came up with an immortality pill? What would that do to religion? This is the way we are approaching the entire Copernicus IP," Salvatore said. "Think about the power of the people who turned the Well of Souls in these cities on. Especially if they could turn them off."
38 Studios is a dream team of creative talent. In addition to Salvatore and Schilling (also a longtime MMO fanatic), the company has pulled in legendary artist Todd McFarlane and former Bethesda Softworks developer Ken Rolston. The latter was the lead designer on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion before joining Big Huge Games.
Although the world of Copernicus is just now coming into view, it's going to get a whole lot bigger. 38 Studios says its new "entertainment products will include a massively immersive Online Entertainment Experience that transcends the traditional MMOG genre, novels, comics, toys, console games, movies, TV, and more." EA said Project Mercury is planned for release on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, but no date has been announced. 38 Studios has not yet revealed a publisher for the Copernicus MMO. |
EA comes with two new MMO next year 
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| | | | Commander Nord
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| | Subject: Re: Media Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:18 pm | |
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| | | | PrioryJK (Flash!)
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| | Subject: Re: Media Sun Mar 14, 2010 2:03 pm | |
| Yeah this looks cool, I'm playing Deus Ex 1 right now and it holds up remarkably well consodering, much better then some games I've played recently |
| | | | Commander Nord
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| | Subject: Re: Media Sun Mar 14, 2010 3:38 pm | |
| | PrioryJK wrote: | | Yeah this looks cool, I'm playing Deus Ex 1 right now and it holds up remarkably well consodering, much better then some games I've played recently |
I agree pjk Deus Ex is one of the best game i have played, but DE2 is not one of the best.
The my bigest sceptic with DE3 is that its not the same people that will make this game |
| | | | Commander Nord
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| | Subject: Re: Media Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:05 am | |
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| | | | Lunarwolf
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| | Subject: Re: Media Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:15 pm | |
| We like random, oh yes we do.... |
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