PsychoSy
05-07-03, 03:17 PM
Some recent morsels on the gaming front.
Vampire: The Masquade - Bloodlines has ditched the Unreal engine for the Half Life 2 Engine. Bloodlines will combine first-person action with role-playing elements, and it is being developed by Troika Games, the studio that was responsible for the 2001 RPG Arcanum, and which was also founded by RPG veterans Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, and Jason Anderson, who helped create the Fallout role-playing game series.
Inforgrames, publisher of Unreal Tournament 2K3 and Enter The Matrix has announced that, effective immediately, their name will change to Atari. The French-American developer & publisher has been using the Atari moniker for some time. The Atari name has changed hands many times over the years because the corporation and arcade departments were seperate entities. When the corporation went bust, JTS bought it from the Tramiel brothers while Time Warner bought the arcade division until selling their entire interactive division to Midway Games prior to the AOL merger.
Hasbro Interactive snagged the corporate rights from JTS in the late 90s and used it to revamp classic titles in 3D such as Asteroids and Centipede. Hasbro Interactive was then sold off to Inforgrames. Midway Games had renamed the Atari arcade division when they bought it in the mid 90s and recently closed the vintage facilities in Milpitas down earlier this year.
Sega is set to merge with either two Japanese game gurus. Originally, Sega was given a merger offer by Namco but talks derailed shortly after. But earlier this year, Sammy Corporation announced interest in Sega and issued an offer and it has forced Sega to forgo merger talks until they get to fully scrutinize Sammy's assets sometime this month. Namco has since put pressure on Sega demanding that they make a decision within 9 days. My money is on Sega taking the Namco deal.
Konami of Japan is teasing gamers at its website with a "Hungry For Some Snake?" tagline along with a picture of a snake wrapping itself around a map of what appears to be Russia complete with the Caspian Sea. They also have a countdown to E3, too. Look out Sam Fischer...Konami looks poised to show some Metal Gear Solid 3 footage!!
Return To Castle Wolfenstein: Tides Of War has shipped for the Xbox. This souped up version of the PC game supports X-Box Live while the PS2 version doesn't support any online modes.
Famitzu magazine is reporting that Tecmo is developing Dead Or Alive Online for the X-Box. DOA Online will be a compilation of the first and second games of the series. DOA 1 will have the graphical quality of the Dreamcast version while DOA 2 will sport enhanced graphics of the X-Box. Rumors state it'll be in playable form at E3.
Vampire: The Masquade - Bloodlines has ditched the Unreal engine for the Half Life 2 Engine. Bloodlines will combine first-person action with role-playing elements, and it is being developed by Troika Games, the studio that was responsible for the 2001 RPG Arcanum, and which was also founded by RPG veterans Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, and Jason Anderson, who helped create the Fallout role-playing game series.
Inforgrames, publisher of Unreal Tournament 2K3 and Enter The Matrix has announced that, effective immediately, their name will change to Atari. The French-American developer & publisher has been using the Atari moniker for some time. The Atari name has changed hands many times over the years because the corporation and arcade departments were seperate entities. When the corporation went bust, JTS bought it from the Tramiel brothers while Time Warner bought the arcade division until selling their entire interactive division to Midway Games prior to the AOL merger.
Hasbro Interactive snagged the corporate rights from JTS in the late 90s and used it to revamp classic titles in 3D such as Asteroids and Centipede. Hasbro Interactive was then sold off to Inforgrames. Midway Games had renamed the Atari arcade division when they bought it in the mid 90s and recently closed the vintage facilities in Milpitas down earlier this year.
Sega is set to merge with either two Japanese game gurus. Originally, Sega was given a merger offer by Namco but talks derailed shortly after. But earlier this year, Sammy Corporation announced interest in Sega and issued an offer and it has forced Sega to forgo merger talks until they get to fully scrutinize Sammy's assets sometime this month. Namco has since put pressure on Sega demanding that they make a decision within 9 days. My money is on Sega taking the Namco deal.
Konami of Japan is teasing gamers at its website with a "Hungry For Some Snake?" tagline along with a picture of a snake wrapping itself around a map of what appears to be Russia complete with the Caspian Sea. They also have a countdown to E3, too. Look out Sam Fischer...Konami looks poised to show some Metal Gear Solid 3 footage!!
Return To Castle Wolfenstein: Tides Of War has shipped for the Xbox. This souped up version of the PC game supports X-Box Live while the PS2 version doesn't support any online modes.
Famitzu magazine is reporting that Tecmo is developing Dead Or Alive Online for the X-Box. DOA Online will be a compilation of the first and second games of the series. DOA 1 will have the graphical quality of the Dreamcast version while DOA 2 will sport enhanced graphics of the X-Box. Rumors state it'll be in playable form at E3.