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This week in Gaming
- http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/706172/Call-Of-Duty-Black-Ops-Pre-Orders-Reportedly-Outpacing-Modern-Warfare-2.html
Treyarch’s traditionally been perceived as the “B” development team for the Call of Duty franchise, but impressive showings for Call of Duty: Black Ops have suggested their latest could be a coming out party of sorts for the studio, a culmination of their work on the series. Besides industry buzz, it seems to be translating to potential sales, as GameSpot reports a Pacific Crest Securities analyst is currently estimating that Black Ops pre-orders are outpacing those for Modern Warfare 2.
Pacific Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson made the claim in a report released to various outlets. Wilson increased his sales estimate for Black Ops’ holiday sales from 10 million to 12 million.
In the past, the Treyarch-developed Call of Duty games have performed extremely well but failed to achieve a similar blockbuster status to the Infinity Ward-produced installments. Growing evidence suggests that could change with Black Ops, scheduled for a release on November 9.
Source: GameSpot - http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/12/star-trek-online-producer-could-easily-see-the-game-using-turb/
Star Trek Online’s new executive producer Daniel Stahl recently stated that he “could easily see” a hybrid free-to-play model working for Cryptic’s MMO. Stahl specifically mentions (recent Warner Bros. acquisition) Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online as “interesting plans” worth taking note of. DDO went freemium last year to create a dungeon full of gold for the developer; LotRO will roll the die for the same fate this autumn.
Stahl expressed that Turbine’s model creates a “robust way to demo the game” and allows those wanting more to pay for a subscription or purchase items á la carte. With Cryptic’s parent-company Atari operating at a loss, ways to beam up revenue would appear logical. It’s unclear if it’s a sign of the future, but Cryptic did conduct a free-to-play away mission back in May. - Star Wars the Old Republic has entered BETA
- This just in. Bobby Kotick has left Activision and in search of the real Sookie Stackhouse. Either that or new legal documents reveal the inner douche.
- Dragon Age 2 announced by Bioware and EA :
Dragon Age 2 thrusts players into the role of Hawke, a penniless refugee who rises to power to become the single most important character in the world of Dragon Age. Known to be a survivor of the Blight and the Champion of Kirkwall, the legend around Hawke’s rise to power is shrouded in myth and rumor. Featuring an all-new story spanning 10 years, players will help tell that tale by making tough moral choices, gathering the deadliest of allies, amassing fame and fortune, and sealing their place in history. The way you play will write the story of how the world is changed forever.” The release goes on to detail a new, “more responsive” combat system, improved graphics, and a “dynamic story” that will offer up as-of-yet unseen locations, characters, and chapters in the expansive Dragon Age lore. - Team Fortress 2 Engineer Update is Live (full teams of engineers play head to head within 10 minutes of release)
Valve has finally released the long awaited,and incessantly teased, Engineer update forTeam Fortress 2. Included in the update are four new maps: Thunder Mountain, Hightower, Upward and (the “community built”) ColdFront as well as 35 Engineer-based achievements, among a slew of other bonuses.
Engineer fans will have new weapons and items in their arsenal, including the wrench-replacing “Gunslinger” that allows engineers to build mini-sentries, the sentry-controlling “Wrangler” and the devastating shotgun replacement, the “Frontier Justice.” - http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/10/maxis-spore-based-action-rpg-to-be-announced-at-comic-con/ Neat! Apparently going to be announced at the SDCC is the MMO ‘based on the hit game of Spore.’
- http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/09/rumor-aksys-localizing-999-9-hours-9-persons-9-doors/ This great-looking game has been given the green light for localization! “999 is a graphical text adventure with a sort of Saw-like premise. Nine people are trapped on a cruise ship and somehow wired to explode. A sadistic mastermind requires them to work together (but only in groups of up to five people) in order to open the nine doors that correspond to the nine passengers and escape from the rooms in which they’re held.”
Rumor Mill
- Borderlands 2 is in production and are currently seeking voice actors as the game will be fully voiced this time.
- Nintendo has been made an offer to purchase them. Word is that they are seriously considering it and the person trying to buy them is Sir Richard Branson.
Question of the Week
If given a choice of gender in a game, which do you choose and why?
- lufitoom: I always play a female. I never wanted a penis irl, don’t want one in a game either.
- greyseer: If I have a character concept in mind: whichever gender best honors the concept. Otherwise: male, to match self.
- dechion: Generally male, since I am one. Excepting Draenei which will always be female since I dislike the male model. – it depends on the game and the persona of the character I want to play.
- david_carroll: Depends on the game. If I can make a sleek, roguish male, I’ll probably do that. Otherwise, it’s all chicks.
- tartdarling: female. Playing a guy character just feels awkward to me.
- arcania: Female unless I need a male character for RP plot reasons. I can and will play them. Females are just more natural.
- stoppableforce: Honestly, it’s a coinflip. I’m going with female right now in P3P, though, to check out the storyline (for a review, maybe!).
- rzrstrm: I get cool female ideas,but I often have a hard time playing them. Most of my characters are male.
- glassofwater2: female, cause they tend to look better then the male chars. IE female worgen to worgen in cata.
- __deadpool__: I go with male toon for all except for casters or any class that wears full body robes, cause guys shouldn’t wear dresses.
- valkyrierisen: I play chicks. And I’ve played chicks for so long I keep considering rolling a male but feel odd.
- next_jen: Female, because that’s what I am and I can relate better w/the character when it’s the same sex as me.
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