Datum objave: 10 March 2010, Autor: Eurogamer - News
$15 per month plus cost of games.
The OnLive cloud gaming service is set to launch in the US on 17th June.
The service allows players to access PC games from 2K, EA, THQ, Ubisoft and Warner Bros. The games run on OnLive’s beefy servers and players control them remotely through the OnLive client.
OnLive will initially charge a subscription fee of $14.95 per month and special offers and longer subs deals are also planned.
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Datum objave: 10 March 2010, Autor: Eurogamer - News
Sim pull.
EA has revealed that The Sims 3 will be heading to console this “holiday” season.
The publisher’s top money man Eric Brown spilled the beans during a Wedbush Morgan Securities conference in New York today.
Specific platforms for The Sims 3 were not mentioned, but we expect a full spread akin to The Sims 2, which was ported to DS, GBA, GC, PS2, PSP and Xbox.
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Datum objave: 10 March 2010, Autor: Eurogamer - News
Turn-based RPG series changes hands.
Acclaimed turn-based role-playing series Jagged Alliance is to return after more than 10 years.
Independent German publisher bitComposer has acquired full IP rights and plans to release a third game sometime in 2011. There are no other details to be had.
Previous licence owner Strategy First took control after Jagged Alliance 2 was released in 1999, but only managed to put out an expansion pack and a DS port.
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Datum objave: 10 March 2010, Autor: Eurogamer - News
DICE “investigating” adaptation now.
DICE may adapt Battlefield: Bad Company 2 to the Mac.
“We’re currently investigating the possibility of making BFBC2 available on Mac,” Tweeted Karl Magnus Troedsson, executive producer.
“Mighty hangover after a legendary release party for BFBC2 last night,” he later added.
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Datum objave: 09 March 2010, Autor: Eurogamer - News
Buy Metro 2033, get RF: Guerrilla free.
THQ digital distribution has stretched to Europe today with the launch of the E-Shop.
To drag you away from Steam, THQ will offer anyone pre-ordering promising shooter Metro 2033 a free copy of Red Faction: Guerrilla. What’s more, the first 6000 people to pre-order Dawn of War II expansion Chaos Rising get the Librarian Wargear Pack for nothing. Nadda.
THQ’s E-Shop is available in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, according to the little flags at the bottom of the site.
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Datum objave: 09 March 2010, Autor: Eurogamer - News
PC vs. Mac from next month.
Valve has said that Left 4 Dead owners on Windows and Mac will be able to join forces or go head to head cross-platform in multiplayer.
It’s all thanks to the new Mac version of Steam, due out next month, which will be supported by the Mac-ification of the entire Valve catalogue, including both zombie shooters.
Thanks to Valve’s “Steam Play” feature, Windows players who also have Macs don’t have to worry about forking out for a separate version either. As the Left 4 Dead blog points out, “if you own Left 4 Dead 2 for Windows, then you already own it for the Mac.”
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Datum objave: 08 March 2010, Autor: Eurogamer - News
Launching in April with all Valve’s games.
Valve has confirmed its not entirely secret plans to bring Steam to the Mac, and revealed the extent to which the Apple platform now weighs on the studio’s thinking.
Steam will launch on Mac in April, and Valve’s games – including Counter-Strike, the Half-Life series, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2 will be ready then too.
But Valve will also make its future games available simultaneously on Windows and Mac, starting with Portal 2 this Christmas.
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Datum objave: 08 March 2010, Autor: Eurogamer - News
“95 per cent of players were not affected.”
Ubisoft has blamed problems with its controversial digital rights management solution for PC games on outside attacks.
The publisher told Eurogamer that very few players were unable to access PC versions of Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter 5 yesterday due to the outage, but apologised to those who did experience problems.
“Ubisoft would like to apologise to anyone who could not play ACII or SH5 yesterday,” the company said in a statement this afternoon.
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Datum objave: 08 March 2010, Autor: Eurogamer - News
New modes to be added to PS3 game.
Sidhe has revealed that its excellent PS3 arcade game Shatter will be arriving on PC in “the coming weeks”, according to Joystiq.
The modern twist on Arkanoid and Breakout will have new game modes in its new incarnation: Endless, Endless Co-op, Time Attack and Time Attack Co-op.
That’s in addition to its novel sucking-and-blowing twist on a classic formula and its thumping, best-of-2009 electro soundtrack, naturally.
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Datum objave: 08 March 2010, Autor: Eurogamer - News
PC gamers unable to play ACII or SHV.
Reports are emerging that the servers for Ubisoft’s new digital rights management system have gone down, preventing users from accessing their games.
Ubi recently introduced the new system with Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter V. It requires players to remain connected to the internet at all times. But posters on the company’s official forum claim an error message is being received when trying to connect to the servers.
The problems appear to have begun over the weekend. Community manager Ubi.Vigil wrote on the forum, “I don’t have any clear information on what the issue is since I’m not in the office, but clearly the extended downtime and lengthy login issues are unacceptable, particularly as I’ve been told these servers are constantly monitored.” The server issues have been attributed to “exceptional demand”.
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