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Nuclear Union Sounds Like A Third-Person Hybrid Of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. And Fallout
You may not have heard of a developer called Best Way, but you probably have heard of Men of War. Yes, Best Way is responsible for this well-received WWII RTS. Now you’re going to know it for another game — Nuclear Union. Set for a 2013 release on PC, this free-roaming RPG looks to take a little from the likes of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Fallout 3 and blend them into its own video game concoction.
IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey Preview: If You Think Planes Are Nice
Never mind, for a moment, how this game plays — though I will tell you. Check out how it looks.
Double Round-Up Special: 1C And Ubisoft
The hazy period between Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett’s untimely ends and the celebration of my our great nation’s birthday was dominated by two game companies that couldn’t be more different.
Battlefront.com/1C Launch Theatre Of War 2 Developer Diary
Battlefront.com and developers 1C have launched a developer diary for their upcoming strategy sequel Theatre Of War 2 : North Africa 1943.
The diary is the product of all the designers and coders who are working on the title & is intended to illustrate the kind of decisions and creative choices that go in to making a game.
Or rather, it will be – at the moment there are only two entries. The first — “What shall we do?” — looks at how the sequel came into being, and how the team decided on the North African campaign as the focus of the game (spoiler: it involved palm trees).
Next is “Blood, Sand… & Map Editor” which looks at how the map designers took real-world locations and turned them into playable environments. Honestly, its more interesting than it sounds.
Theatre Of War 2 Developer Diary [Battlefront.com]
1C’s Games Convention Line-Up Featuring Playable Theatre of War 2
1C Company is invading this year’s Games Convention with a hefty line-up of first-person shooters, role-playing games, strategy and racing titles.
Their booth at the Leipzig show will include new builds of King’s Bounty: The Legend and Men of War, Cryostasis, NecroVisioN, 4×4 Hummer, Death Track: Resurrection, Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943 and two new console titles – Captain Blood and IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey.
Hit up the jump for the full press release and a bit more detail on the games. And remember we’ll be at this year’s Games Convention with bells on*, so check back for our coverage later this month.
*Fahey will not actually be wearing any bells.
First Wow, Now Age of Conan: Russian Faints From Excitement
If Russia were a 5-year-old boy wearing overalls he’d be jumping up and down right now laughing hysterically, waving his over-sized lollipop about in glee. (Yes, that’s how I picture Russia)
Funcom just announced that they have signed an agreement with 1C to fully localize the voice and text for a Russian version of Age of Conana: Hyborian Adventures. 1C will also operate local customer service, which I believe requires a gun licence, deal with the community websites and in-game support for Age of Conan in Russian. Funcom still plans to take care of the back-end tech and server infrastructure as well as handling all future development for the game.
The companies plan to build a dedicated Russian realm to allow the Russian community the chance to stick together and communicate with each other in their native language. Didn’t Czar Nicholas II try to create a Russian realm once? I’m pretty sure it didn’t end well.
Russian Publisher 1C Going Multiplatform, Worldwide
Russian game publisher 1C has its sights set on the global market. The company has announced two multiplatform titles: the in-house developed Captain Blood for Xbox 360 and PC and the outside developed multiplatform IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey. Says 1C Company’s International Sales Director Nikolay Baryshnikov:
1C is using cutting-edge technology, including the amazing power of modern consoles, to bring superior games to every market… Our aim is to bring our games to even more players and expand our vision with cross platform development. We are embracing any new gaming technology that will improve our products including digital downloads, consoles, handheld gaming, Epic’s Unreal 3 Engine, NVIDIA PhysX and DirectX 10.
Both games will be out late 2009 and will be the first cross-platform titles “from 1C to be developed and published worldwide”. Seems like multiplatform is the new, big thing.
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