Archive for February 28th, 2010
February 28th, 2010 | 
Author: EA and Dr. Pepper officially announced a promotion to giveaway exclusive content for EA games. Battlefield Heroes character customizations as well as Bad Company 2 kit upgrades are some of the prizes.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & PLANO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) and Dr Pepper today launched an innovative brand marketing program delivering custom built interactive entertainment to Dr Pepper fans. Beginning this week, consumers who buy 20-ounce bottles of Dr Pepper can also download new, exclusive content in EA games like virtual clothes for their Sims or body parts for their Spore? creatures. Gaming fans will receive access to these exclusive add-ons for select EA titles throughout 2010 with codes* found on more than 500 million Dr Pepper bottles and fountain cups.
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New Features Advance Leading Game Platform
February 23, 2010 — Valve announces a new version of Steam which is immediately available in public beta.
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By Brian Ekberg, GameSpotThe folks behind the Project Gotham series are back with a new look at arcade racing.
If you believe the current wisdom, the racing genre has become stale and repetitive. Simply running mindless lap after lap or competing with a compelling AI (or real-life opponents online) isn’t enough anymore; as a result, racing fans feel like the genre has hit a rut. Our personal feelings about the fallacy of those arguments aside, that conventional wisdom is forcing developers–particularly those who concentrate on arcade racing games–to take a hard look at their games and try to discover new ways to keep racing fans engaged. Bizarre Creations knows a thing about racing games and user engagement–they’re the folks responsible for the long-running Project Gotham Racing series. Moving on from PGR, and now part of the Activision fold, Bizarre recently took the wraps off its latest racing project, Blur.
For those of you who pre-ordered BFBC2, you can now pre-load your game! Follow instructions from your retailer on how to pre-load.
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/02/26/…ng-to-the-mac/
A forum thread has been generating some buzz around the Mac web by suggesting that Valve will be porting their Steam platform to the Mac. Steam is a digital distribution system for PC games — essentially an PC game App Store. A Mac version of the store would still require games to be ported over to the Mac platform before becoming available.
The screenshots (above) posted to the thread reveal Mac OS X menu components in the Steam file directory — though some have suggested that these could simply be a Mac OS X-based theme. More convincing, perhaps, is the presence of Mac OS X-like menu definitions and strings that suggest support for multiple platforms:”steam_welcomeaction_platformwrong” “%gamename% is not available on your current platform.”
Even more suggestive of Valve’s plans was a recent report that Valve Software’s Chris Green has been recruiting for Mac engineers:Chris Green’s Summary
I work for Valve. You should work for Valve.
REALLY looking for senior Linux + Mac engineers.
Always hiring Senior Engineers, Artists, and Mappers
Steam is only available on Windows/PC at present.
List of the top free games
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Continent of the Ninth
The most anticipated MMORPG C9 (Continent of the Ninth) in South Korea for the year 2009 started the first closed beta in South Korea. The closed beta test will last …more -
Luna Online
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Blade and Soul
Blade & Soul is under development by Lineage II development team, and the characters in this oriental style MMORPG are designed by the famous illustrator HyungTae Kim. NCsoft is scheduled …more Read the rest of this entry »
Too many hours spent playing videogames indoors is contributing to a rise in rickets, according to a new study by doctors. Professor Simon Pearce and Dr Tim Cheetham of Newcastle University have written a paper in the British Medical Journal which warns of the rickets uptake – a disease which sufferers get when deficient in Vitamin D. Read the rest of this entry »
Total Germany campaign. September 1939.
Britain and France declared war to Germany following their invasion of Poland. The player’s long term goal is to try and cut off Britain’s supplies forcing her out of the war. Great Britain possesses one of the largest naval fleet and Germany is no match for her. This will make the U-boats Germany’s main offensive weapon against the British.
Earlier this evening a couple of our members had their steam accounts hijacked. After the hijacking takes place, private messages are sent out to everyone on the accounts friends list. This private message comes with a link.
DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK