Fury is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game where player advancement is 100% PvP focused (that’s player versus player) and is scheduled for release sometime this year (probably October 2007) by developer Auran and publisher GameCock Media Group. It basically looks to bring the first-person shooter style of say something like Unreal Tournament and bring it to the MMO genre.

In Fury, there are no classes, you basically enter a fight by putting together a character from one of four specific school’s of magic: Life, Death, Growth and Decay and your character can eventually learn all the magic in the game. Before entering a battle, you use points to determine what magic, weapons and armor you can play with, similar to deck-building in a card game (so you can’t use everything you have earned).

Unleash the Fury Trailer - Shows up-close combat

And unlike the combat in most MMO’s, combat in Fury is instant, meaning you push a button and you get a reaction. There are over 400 spells and abilities in the game, and combat can be either solo, or in teams (of 4 to 16) and uses a matchmaking feature to place equally skilled players against each other. Read more…

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Today Ubisoft in collaboration with ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios, announced the Lost videogame will be released in Q1 2008 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Based on the award-winning television series, the Lost videogame will allow players to experience an untold adventure of “Lost” in an immersive, interactive world. The Lost video game is being developed by Ubisoft’s Montreal studio.

Ubisoft has unveiled the first Lost videogame trailer at the San Diego Comic-Con 2007 at Lost’s Season 4 panel:

About the Lost game:
As a passenger of Oceanic flight 815, you survived the crash and find yourself on an uncharted island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. As you begin to unravel mysteries of the island, you begin to discover secrets of your own. You will have to understand your past mistakes in order to survive and find your way home…
* Play as a survivor of Oceanic Flight 815: Confront your dark past, seek your redemption, and ultimately find a way home.
* Authentic Lost experience: Explore familiar locations, unravel mysteries, and interact with the main characters from the show.
* Survive the challenges that the island throws at you: Solve puzzles, outsmart enemies, battle the smoke monster, and overcome many other challenges to survive the island and come out alive.
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Fans of hack-and-slash style action games look to be in heaven in the coming months leading up to Christmas and beyond. Games like Heavenly Sword, Conan the Barbarian, Devil May Cry 4 and now Beowulf are sure to satisfy your bloodlust.

Beowulf is an upcoming hack-and-slash action game coming for Xbox 360, PS3, PC and PSP on November 13th 2007 from Ubisoft and developer Ubisoft Tiwak.

It includes tactical squad elements and is based on the upcoming Beowulf movie of the same name (also coming in November) which in turn is based on an old poem from the Middle Ages that’s inspired everything from The Lord of the Rings to The 13th Warrior (I’d be willing to bet 300 and Conan could be added to that list).

For more in-depth info on the game watch the early debut trailer (emphasis on early, much of the graphical enhancements and effects are yet to be added) and read a question and answer with the developer.
Click on the bottom-right corner arrow of the video to view it full-screen.
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Today Ubisoft announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group to create a videogame based on the television drama series Heroes. The third-person action/adventure game will come to next-generation consoles and PCs in early fall 2008.

The first season of Tim Kring’s hit TV series has attracted over 14 million viewers each week and is one of the most popular shows among 18-49 year-olds. Time magazine named Heroes one of the Top 10 TV shows for 2006, and the phenomenon is now broadcast in more than 30 countries across the globe.

“With a gripping storyline and rich characters, Heroes lends itself naturally to a video game format,” said Christian Salomon, vice president of worldwide licensing at Ubisoft. “By offering people the chance to interact directly with the show’s captivating universe, there is no doubt that the game will appeal to both fans of the series and avid gamers.”

“We are very excited to be making the Heroes video game with Ubisoft,” said Tim Kring, executive producer and creator of Heroes. “Time and again, Ubisoft has proven they can turn licensed properties into fantastic games.”
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Today at Comic-Con International 2007, Microsoft announced it will lower the price of the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player from $199 to $179 (in the U.S. only) starting August 1, 2007, and will add five free HD DVD movies for anyone purchasing an Xbox 360 HD DVD Player between August 1 and September 30.

You can choose five HD DVD titles free from a selection of 15 popular titles through a mail-in offer. With a retail value of over $140. The 15 titles to choose 5 for free from are: Apollo 13, Seabiscuit, The Chronicles of Riddick, Casablanca, Constantine, Dukes of Hazzard, Four Brothers, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Rundown, Blazing Saddles, U2: Rattle and Hum, U-571, The Perfect Storm, and We Were Soldiers.

In addition to the price drop and extending Toshiba’s “Perfect Offer” of five free HD DVD discs to Xbox 360 consumers, Microsoft further solidified the Xbox 360 as a high-definition entertainment platform, with announcements like the HD DVD launches of 300 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group and Heroes: Season 1 from Universal Studios.

Exclusive Marketplace Content: To promote the HD DVD versions of 300 and Heroes: Season 1, Microsoft unveiled exclusive content for Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Xbox LIVE will offer 300 on demand in HD starting August 14, and is working with Warner Bros. at Comic-Con on a Bringing It Home campaign featuring 300 and other Warner Bros. properties.

In advance of the street date for the Heroes: Season 1 HD DVD boxed set, Xbox LIVE members will be able to download the show’s pilot episode free in high definition for a limited time. Members will also be able to download trailers, teaser scenes, and other promotional materials highlighting the Heroes: Season 1 boxed set on HD DVD.

PS: On Xbox Live today are demos for MotoGP’07 (everywhere) and Dynasty Warriors: Gundam (only in Canada, Mexico, USA).

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What’s up on the PlayStation Network in North America:
Games:
* Heavenly Sword demo (developer guide)
* Gripshift 2.0 update

Trailers:
* Resident Evil 5
* Haze
* Metal Gear Solid 4 (gameplay)

What’s up on the PlayStation Network in Europe:
Games:
* Heavenly Sword demo (developer guide)
* Crash Bandicoot 2 (PS1 for PSP/PS3)
* Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer (PS1 for PSP/PS3)
* Medievil (PS1 for PSP/PS3)

Trailers:
* Resident Evil 5
* Haze
* Assassin’s Creed
* Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction
* Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

Big thanks to tanod & threespeech for the list.

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At the Metal Gear 20th Anniversary Party in Tokyo, the sequel to the Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel was announced with the subtitle Bande Dessinee, which is French for Comics. The new digital comic for PSP will be based on the 2001 PS2 stealth action game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Like the first PSP graphic novel it will feature the artwork from Ashley Wood.

Be sure to click on the bottom-right corner arrow of the video to view it full-screen, so you can read the English text.

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The Resident Evil series continues with this highly anticipated sequel on Xbox 360 and PS3 due early 2009. Witness the first real-time footage from Resident Evil 5! The story unfolds in a land simmering in the heat of a merciless sun where the contrast between light and dark enhances the feeling of dread as a new evil draws closer.

You can download the trailer off Xbox Live Marketplace, the PlayStation Network, or watch it below. It’s a longer cut of the RE3 trailer shown at E3:
Click on the bottom-right corner arrow to view it full-screen.

It’s still not clear if Chris (who has a new voice and new moves like dodging) is working for good or evil. And who’s the woman? Maybe it’s Sherry who survived the Raccoon City incident?

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The past few weeks a lot of big Grand Theft Auto 4 previews have appeared in magazines and websites that got exclusive interviews with the game’s developers at Rockstar.

One of the more surprising comments was when Rockstar’s Hosi Simon in an interview with Gamesradar says when people are met with the choice between the Xbox 360 and PS3 version of the game, they should choose the Xbox 360 version because of the extra episodic content that will be downloadable after release: “They’re identical games. We’re not hardware makers, and we’re not like a pawn between these companies, we try not to be as much as we can. We make great games for people to enjoy on whichever system they want. But I guess if you want the complete experience with the episodes, then yeah, you should buy [the version on Xbox] 360, I suppose.”

Here’s a summary of what the new GTA 4 previews tell us:

* The GTA 4 demo which was shown is from the Xbox 360 version of the game. The PlayStation 3 version is still “a week or two behind,” according to Rockstar. The build shown is 5 weeks old, and the framerate has improved considerably since the last demo.
* At Star Junction (the GTA IV equivalent of Times Square) there is a theatre show on called T.S Pirate at the Thespian Theatre, and a camera store called Liberty Cameras. On the way to Rotterdam (where Little Jacob is situated) they passed a cocktail bar called “Bahama Mamas.”
* Little Jacob is a Jamaican gun dealer from Dukes (the GTA IV equivalent of Queens.) The weapons on offer were $100 a piece. Read more…

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Ubisoft announced a game based on Twentieth Century Fox’s Avatar, the upcoming film written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron, whose previous films include Titanic, True Lies, The Abyss, Aliens, The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The game is expected to release in conjunction with the movie’s planned opening in May 2009.

Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people. More than ten years in the making, Avatar marks Cameron’s return to feature directing since helming 1997’s Titanic, the highest grossing film of all time and winner of eleven Oscars including Best Picture. The Avatar cast includes Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and Sigourney Weaver. Academy Award-winning visual effects house, WETA Digital, renowned for its work in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and King Kong, will incorporate new intuitive CGI technologies to transform the environments and characters into photorealistic 3D imagery that will transport the audience into the alien world rich with imaginative vistas, creatures and characters.

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