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Dave Chappelle on WoW in Game News Stardock Forums

Gamespot has an article on Dave Chappelle. What does Dave Chappelle have to do with gaming you ask? Well apparently the comedian loves his World of Warcraft, along with 2 million+ other people. In a little-publicized appearance at the Punchline in San Francisco Chappelle said "You know what I've been playing a lot of? World of Warcraft!" Gamespot reports that when a few cheers broke out, Chappelle responded, "I knew I had some geek brothers and si

Gaming Web News in Game News Stardock Forums

Two new official game sites have gone up recently, Pacific Storm and Blitzkrieg II. Lesta Studios' upcoming WWII game has received its corner of the web complete with game info and screenshots. Blitzkrieg II has also received a corner and oddly enough CDV has supplied just about the same kind of information as Lesta Studios did for its upcoming release - game info and screenshots. Source: <A href="http://www.steelmonsters.com/en/index.

Ghost Recon 3 Named in Game News Stardock Forums

The rumor that Ghost Recon 3 has been titled "Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter" has been confirmed. Various outlets including Gamespot have received official word from Ubi that the EBGames product page was indeed telling the truth. As the title suggests the game will revolve around a new kind of elite field soldier who uses advanced weapons technology, satellite communications, and new squad interactivity. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter will

Reply to Ironforge is not a safe city! in WoW Stardock Forums

Haha that really funny, but nothing beats the GM conversation in on of the RP realms. *digs for link* ATR Forum - hysterical GM conversation

Max Payne Movie Optioned in Game News Stardock Forums

Yahoo/Reuters and The Hollywood Reporter have found that the popular cop action game from Gathering of Developers, Max Payne, has been optioned for the movies by 20th Century Fox. Max Payne is a story about a cop turned DEA agent after his wife and child are killed by thugs hopped up on a drug called Valkyr. He is later framed for the murder of his partner by the mob he seeks revenge on, now turning the police force against him. The movie will focus o

Kuju Entertainment Hits Tracks Again in Game News Stardock Forums

Kuju Entertainment has announced a new game titled Rail Simulator and has already created its official website. Also revealed is that they have already acquired a publishing deal for the game, with mega publisher Electronic Arts. Terms were not disclosed. Kuju Entertainment is best known for working on Microsoft's Train Simulator which has sold over a million copies. In Rail Simulator players will be tasked with taking charge of steam, diesel and ele

Guild Wars Content Update in Game News Stardock Forums

Following hot on the steps of the World of Warcraft expansion announcement , Guild Wars has also released new information about upcoming content. Via their Game Update Notes page, the ArenaNet crew has revealed that a new PvP rewards system will be added next week after extensive testing on the closed test servers. The development team also warns that the system will be re

SAG Rejects Game Contract in Game News Stardock Forums

Reuters is reporting that the Screen Actors Guild, SAG, has rejected the recently negotiated contract with the video game industry. The announcement comes after a vote by SAG's national executive committee to reject the deal, after it was recommended by other SAG members. The contract has caused a rift in SAG, creating two parties that can't seem to agree on a newly structured deal. The other side of th

World of Warcraft Expansion in Game News Stardock Forums

Blizzard has officially announced that a World of Warcraft add-on is in the works, via the World of Warcraft forums. The post came from Blizzard Lead Producer of the World of Warcraft Development Team, Shane Dabiri, as he outlined all the changes and updates that have come in the game's first six months. Dabiri also looked to the future, explaining more about upcoming content, including Blackwing Lair, Zul’Gurub, and much needed development to the Silithus a

New Gaming Websites Up in Game News Stardock Forums

The Enemy Territory: Quake Wars site has gone live and has almost nothing on it. As of press time the only things on the site are the E3 trailer and a small snippet of backstory for the game. The recently announced Supreme Commander, from Gas Powered Games has also received teaser treatment, with a simple domain registered to the company and redirected to a "Coming Soon

Alice Movie Gets Star in Game News Stardock Forums

Why is a five year old game making news you ask? Simple, American McGee's take on the children's tale Alice in Wonderland has finally nabbed a leading lady for its film adaptation. Variety and the Hollywood Reporter have discovered that Sarah Michelle Gellar has signed on to star in the film version of Alice. The movie adaptation is almost as old as the game itself, stretching back to 2000 with rumors of a Wes Craven directed film, but finally the details

Monolith Lays of 80 in Game News Stardock Forums

The Seattle Times confirms reports that Monolith employees have been laid off after The Matrix Online was dumped by WBIE. The Times also reports that of the 80 employees to be laid off, 25 of them have already been offered jobs at Sony Online Entertainment, a mere five miles from Monolith, to continue development on The Matrix Online. Monolith has attributed mos

Reply to The games I did not buy... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

For games that are to be played online I think that the authentication is pretty harmless, plus it can help track any possible cheaters (which annoy me far more than any of those DRM problems) and therefore those are good. But games that are mostly single-player or all single player and yet force a check just to play/install it for single player usage is just nuts in my mind. As for games with just the CD in drive check the NoCd things are nice but w

Reply to AGP is not dead! in ATI Stardock Forums

He says AGP is dieing because they made a faster bus for video cards, the PCI-X or PCI Express. Most of the top end cards support both at the moment but that probably won't last for too long.

Activision gets new CEO from Procter & Gamble in Game News Stardock Forums

Last Friday Activision announced that they had received a new CEO of publishing, Michael Griffith. Griffith spent more than a decade as Procter & Gamble Co.'s former head of global beverages and worked with Activision's Ron Doornink. Doornink has also moved around the business world, vacating his CEO of publishing job to become a chairman of publishing for Activision. Source:

Reply to The Matrix Online Dead? in Game News Stardock Forums

I would have to agree with you on both points, Sony does have the power already to support the Matrix, and hopefully turn a profit out of it but that means some of the development teams will have to slide over to TMO or they will have to hire new people, both diverting funds/time to their current slate of MMOs. As for the Matrix license, yea let it go already...

DICE & EA Stay Together in Game News Stardock Forums

Digital Illusions CE has announced that it has signed a new contract with publisher Electronic Arts. The contract comes with funding for a new DICE game that will be within the shooter genre and is to be developed by DICE's Canadian studio. The project has yet to be named and is to be debuted in Spring 2006. Source: Press Release

THQ & Gas Powered Games Team-Up in Game News Stardock Forums

THQ has acquired the worldwide publishing rights to Gas Powered Games upcoming RTS, Supreme Commander. Yesterday's announcement also explains that the companies "will work together on the Windows PC Real-Time Strategy." Heading the development is Chris Taylor, a man who kicked off the RTS genre and hopes to revolutionize it with Supreme Commander. Unfortunately, that is all the details for now but more information is promised this summer. "

MTV Buys NeoPets in Game News Stardock Forums

MTV has announced that it has purchased the insanely popular tween site NeoPets. According to the Associated Press, NeoPets has accumulated over 25 million members with 60 percent of them being over the age of 13 in just over five years. NeoPets has created a virtual world called Neopia for the users to raise virtual pets. The players gain NeoPoints by playing games, creating art or clicking on ads, thus giving them money to spoil their fu

Artificial Studios Releases Zombies in Game News Stardock Forums

Artificial Studios has announced that with the help of Immersion Software & Graphics, they will be developing Monster Madness, a 4-player co-operative online-enabled action game. Monster Madness is being developed as a top down, third-person shooter, and is set for release on Xbox and PC in 2006. Monster Madness will pit four players, Zack, Carrie, Andy, and Jennifer, who were just trying to have a good time after Zack's parents went away, ag

The Matrix Online Dead? in Game News Stardock Forums

Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment has announced that they have sold off The Matrix Online, along with the rights to some DC Comics games, to Sony Online Entertainment. The deal comes after the game was plagued with numerous problems including a tainted license, publisher change (Ubisoft to SEGA), delayed launch and bad sales figures. Variety reports that The Matrix Online was only able to sell around 43,000 units since its release i

Reply to Getting Up No Longer PS2 Exclusive in Game News Stardock Forums

And if thats true why did Jet Set Radio and Jet Grind Ratio not do so hot when they actually had alot of cool stuff to them. Maybe the graffiti community is larger than we expected?

EverQuest to Continue in Game News Stardock Forums

Even with EverQuest II pulling in more users than its predecessor, Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it will continue support for the originator. EverQuest: Depths of Darkhollow is slated for a September release at $29.99 and will naturally be a feature rich expansion for the long running MMORPG. Players will be given seven new zones filled with new creatures, new in-game events and a "re-envisioned Nektulos Forest." Players will also be able to p

Reply to Thinking about buying a Mac. in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I have gotten alot of people here at work to use NeoOffice and haven't had a single complaint about it being slow. I also don't think it is slow, its not the quickest thing to load up but once its there its fine.

Hitman Movie in the Works in Game News Stardock Forums

According to the Hollywood trade sites, Variety and Hollywood Reporter, Vin Diesel has signed on to play Agent 47 for the Hitman movie. Chuck Gordon and Adrian Askarieh have been signed on to produce the 20th Century Fox picture but there is currently no Director. Hitman is one of Eidos' biggest franchises and will be getting another game added to it later this year. No announcement has been made whether a tie-in game, like Escape from Butcher's