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Battlefront.com/1C Launch Theatre Of War 2 Developer Diary

7:40AM Stuart Houghton | 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] More »

1C’s Games Convention Line-Up Featuring Playable Theatre of War 2

6:00AM Brian Crecente | 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. More »

First Wow, Now Age of Conan: Russian Faints From Excitement

1:00AM Brian Crecente | 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. More »