StarCraft Makes Retail Comeback 03:15 pm
- Robert 'Apache' Howarth
- Games: Real-Time Strategy
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StarCraft makes its big retail comeback in this week's top-10 best selling PC games list for the week of May 20-26th! Heck, I might buy a copy of the Battlechest myself later.
1) World Of Warcraft - Vivendi - $18
2) World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack - Vivendi - $39
3) Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars - Electronic Arts - $49
4) The Sims 2 Seasons Expansion Pack - Electronic Arts - $30
5) Starcraft: Battle Chest - Vivendi - $19
6) Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows Of Angmar - Midway - $49
7) The Sims 2 Deluxe - Electronic Arts - $40
8) The Sims 2 Celebration Stuff Expansion Pack - Electronic Arts - $16
9) Warcraft III Battle Chest - Vivendi - $39
10) Battlefield 2142 - Electronic Arts - $36
Smoking Gun Studios Formed 03:00 pm
- Robert 'Apache' Howarth
- Games: General News
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A few former Relic guys have splintered off to form a new studio called Smoking Gun Interactive. They claim to be the brains behind Company of Heroes: The creators of the critically acclaimed game Company of Heroes today announced the formation of their new interactive entertainment software development studio, Smoking Gun Interactive Inc. The development studio will focus on creating innovative award winning cross platform games based on original or company owned intellectual property.
Smoking Gun Interactive Inc, has been founded by John Johnson, Angie Radwan-Pytlewski and Drew Dunlop all former senior staff from Relic Entertainment. The studio is led by CEO and Creative Director John Johnson who was previously the Director of Franchise Development and Producer on Company of Heroes, while Angie Radwan-Pytlewski served as Art Director and Drew Dunlop as Lead Programmer on the critically acclaimed real-time strategy hit.
"The team at Smoking Gun has worked passionately together for over 7 years, building teams that have created the most critically acclaimed games in their genre." said John Johnson CEO and Creative Director, "As the industry evolves so do the ways that people interact with video games. With our collective input Smoking Gun will be at the forefront of producing innovative best-selling titles, that really push the envelop further than we've gone before".
Working with Smoking Gun Interactive are key personnel from the team that created Company of Heroes including the Audio Director Crispin Hands and Story and Script Writer Duane Pye. Collectively the management and executive team have over 30 years of experience and have worked on best-selling franchises including Company of Heroes, Impossible Creatures, Homeworld, Need for Speed, NHL, NBA Live and FIFA Soccer. With their collective experience in leading passionate teams and creating award winning products, Smoking Gun is destined to become one of the industry's leading premier development studios.
Poll: Microsoft's Grade for GFW? 01:51 am
- Robert 'Apache' Howarth
- Games: General News
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With both Halo 2 Vista and Shadowrun now live (on Live!), this week's VE poll asks, What grade would you give Microsoft so far for its Games for Windows initiative? Vote on your right!
Here are the results of last week's poll:
Whatcha Think about StarCraft 2?
Me Likey [3148 votes]
Me No Likey [848 votes]
T_T [741 votes]
Hardware & Tech Nuggets 01:30 am
- Robert 'Apache' Howarth
- hardware: General News
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Game Reviews 01:06 am
- Robert 'Apache' Howarth
- Games: General News
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In Other News... 01:00 am
- Robert 'Apache' Howarth
- In-House: In Other News...
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Steejee should have our review of Halo 2 Vista online later today. I don't think he ever got the Live! part working properly, but I think it's safe to say that we've waited long enough for them to fix it.
Today's question:
If Microsoft made Halo 3 a Vista title to launch along side the 360 version (as opposed to waiting 3-4 years when no one gives a rat's ass anymore, ala Halo 2), would that motivate you to install Vista?
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