Beyond Protocol - Fact Sheet

Beyond Protocol is an MMO RTS game that places you in a time where billions of Earth's exiles seek out the leadership of a few. You are placed in control of a group of colonists who believe that you can bring them the happiness their ancestors had on Earth. Your actions, leadership, and desire will bring forth changes sought by all who decide to step Beyond Protocol.

• Epic MMO Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game set on thousands of unique worlds in hundreds of star systems with each planet giving specific advantages and disadvantages to those who call it home.
  
• Lead your forces in planetary and space combat simultaneously and in real-time against thousands of other players.
  
  
  
• The first ever RTS that provides fully customizable units. You have the ability to design each component of every unit and facility giving you the ultimate power and flexibility to create your own strategy.
  
• Intense 3D graphics with player customizable features such as engine glow, beam color, clarity, and shield bloom provide cinematic video effects and scenery. With 3D planet terrains, planning for defensive and offensive positioning are required as you discover the terrain and how it can benefit your endeavors.
  
• Form alliances, join guilds and take part in the most dynamic and intricate political arena available in gaming. Employ your political skills to change the course and even the laws of the game through the galactic senate.
  
  
  
• Everything you do remains when you log off. Your empire continues to build, grow and battle even while offline in this truly persistent universe.
  
• Build a colony on your home world- allying with or destroying other players also claiming that world as home, launch endeavors to build space stations, explore your solar system, exploit and colonize other planets and other star systems.
  
• Gather mineral wealth for use in trades or technology design.
  
• Organize your forces and colonies so that control can be maintained even while offline through portable electronic devices and email.
  
• You choose your destiny! Are you to be a conquering emperor? A manipulative trade mogul seeking the highest prices for your wares? A diplomatic leader forming powerful alliances and influencing others to aid you in your goals? A treacherous leader of espionage seeking out and leveraging the secrets of other empires? The opportunities and options are limitless.
  
• You choose your depth of play! Through cooperative play, you and your friends can control a single empire and through aliasing, your friends can play your empire from their own account allowing for multiple players to control the actions of the empire simultaneously. Truly cooperative play in an MMO setting.
  

Unreal Tournament 3 out July 7th

Xbox 360 Version of Highly Anticipated and Award-Winning Franchise has New Features, Exclusive Content and Gears of War 2 Multiplayer Video.

Unreal Tournament 3, for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, is scheduled to be available on July 7, 2008, with several new features including split screen, five exclusive maps and two all-new characters, as well as all previously released downloadable content. Unreal Tournament 3, the award-winning first-person-shooter, has already shipped more than 1 million units for the PC and PLAYSTATION 3 systems.

In addition, the game will feature an exclusive video preview of Gears of War 2, the eagerly anticipated sequel to the 4.7-million-unit selling blockbuster third-person action game. The exclusive video content will include never-before-seen footage of the game's multiplayer modes featuring new maps, new modes, new weapons and new gameplay elements. The video is narrated by design director, Cliff Bleszinski, and producer, Rod Fergusson.



"Unreal Tournament 3 for the Xbox 360 will deliver fans the award-winning gameplay of UT3, complete with exciting exclusive content that will make it a must-have title for the Xbox 360" said Mona Hamilton, vice president of marketing, Midway Home Entertainment.

"We're very excited to be shipping Unreal Tournament 3 for Xbox 360," said Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games, Inc. "This is a great title and, with two-player split screen support and some very cool new content, Xbox 360 players should be thrilled with this fantastic version of the game."

About Unreal Tournament 3
Unreal Tournament 3, the world's premier PC first-person shooter, will make its debut on the Xbox 360. Unreal Tournament 3 unleashes the full power of Unreal Engine 3, taking graphics, gameplay and challenge to a whole new level. Players engage in intense battles with other human players online, or against Unreal artificial intelligence that sets the industry standard. With the most powerful futuristic weapons and vehicles available, this is FPS action at its best!

Kojima: MGS4 too big for 50 GB Blu-ray disc

t's not much of a shocker to learn the latest (and final) installment in the Metal Gear Solid series is a sizable one -- MGS games have a history of being big (and beautiful). However, a recent interview with series creator Hideo Kojima revealed a startling fact about MGS4

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MGS4 impressions - a movie's worth in four hours

We've played through the early part of Metal Gear Solid 4 and have some first thoughts about the length and frequency of the cut-scenes.

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Sit down with Metal Gear Solid 4's Hideo Kojima

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the epic action-stealth game from famed designer Hideo Kojima is out today, concluding his more than 20-year directorial involvement in the series. I got a chance to sit down with Kojima and ask him about his popular franchise and what's up next for him.

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Codemasters Raising Hell in Hunt for UK's Worst Boss

Win a PlayStation 3 and a copy of Overlord - Raising Hell by revealing your hilarious stories about terrible bosses

To celebrate the upcoming release of Overlord: Raising Hell on the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, Codemasters is calling on the hardworking employees of Britain to lift the lid on their terrible boss – with one lucky person walking away with a PlayStation 3 and a copy of the game.

Overlord - Raising Hell, sees players take control of the all-powerful Overlord, a mysterious figure who commands a group of slavish Gremlin-like creatures who do anything for their big bad boss. They’re happy to savage sheep, throw themselves into the claws on enemies and even sacrifice their lives in a bid to carry out the desires of the Overlord.

But now Codemasters wants to find out if UK employees have been forced - just like Minions - to do the bidding of their mean manager and is asking them to anonymously submit their own stories and bizarre boss experiences. Codemasters will print the weirdest and funniest on www.codemasters.co.uk/worstboss and the author of the best tale wins a PlayStation 3 and a copy of Overlord: Raising Hell.

Submitting your story couldn’t be easier, just email worst.boss@codemasters.com and then wait to see if your awful experience makes it onto the website. All anecdotes will remain anonymous, so participants can be as frank as they like about their laughable leader.

Overlord - Raising Hell is available in Europe on June 20th

Classic Video Game Scenes Recreated in LEGO

Katamari, Metal Gear, even Duck Hunt! Lego - don't you just love it.

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Oregon Trail Video game now available for Mobile Cellphones

Mobile games developer Gameloft has released its updated version of The Oregon Trail. The game costs $4 (or more, depending on your carrier) and introduces several new gameplay elements to the elementary school classic.

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City Interactive Launches Code of Honor - The French Foreign Legion

City Interactive Launches
Code of Honor - The French Foreign Legion

Title: Code of Honor: The French Foreign Legion
Publisher City Interactive
Format: PC CDROM
Genre: First Person Shooter
Brand: Premiere Silver
Price: £4.99
Age Rating: 16+
Available: 13 June 2008


Code of Honor: The French Foreign Legion, a first person shooter game for the PC launches from City Interactive’s Premiere Silver range of brand new games priced at just £4.99. For almost two hundred years, the French Foreign Legion has attracted adventurers from all over the world. Enter Senior Corporal Claude Boulet, a 26 year old Parisian, brought up in harmony with tough street rules. The Legion is where he found his place and where he will now lead players into the hellish African savanna, where a revolution inspired by the African Revolutionary Group is threatening to spiral out of control.


News is filtering through that the rebels have taken over a transport of radioactive waste on its way from nuclear power plants. They now have enough material to create several “dirty bombs”. The risk of nuclear attach has forced the international community to intervene immediately. France is first to react and initiates transfer of its elite 13th half-brigade to the Ivory Coast. Leading the several hundred men, Boulet could never predict, not even in his darkest dreams, the trouble he would find himself in. From now on he will always associate the Ivory Coast with the war path he had to tread in defence of freedom and democracy.

Players join the game as a new member to the Legion, taking on the role of a volunteer and vowing to uphold the Legionnaire’s Code of Honor - to serve France with honour and fidelity and to know that a mission, once given, becomes sacred and must be carried out to the end, and at any cost.




Game Features

• Join the famous French Foreign Legion on its latest real world operation; extinguishing a civil war raging in Ivory Coast.
• Together with your comrades, fight in real-world locations, using authentic Foreign Legion weapons and equipment.
• Modern French weaponry, not available in other games including FAMAS, LRAC 89, AAT mod.F1, FR F2.
• Contemporary vehicles and attach helicopters at the disposal of the Foreign Legion including VAB, VBL, AMX, Puma, Gazelle.
• Amply equipped enemies (AK74 plus GP30, RPG7, BRDM and BTR-70 vehicles, Ka-28 and Ka-50 choppers).
• Feel the heat of combat on battlefields, meticulously recreated from satellite photos.
• Painstakingly rendered uniforms, weapons, and equipment, convincing graphics, plus rich visual and sound effects make you feel you’re there.
• Photorealistic graphics and an outstanding musical setting supported by the Chrome engine.
• Eight playable levels providing hours of great player entertainment.

Supreme Boxing - Multiplayer Online Boxing Game Launched

Online game developers Gamejam have launched the multiplayer online boxing game Supreme Boxing (www.supremeboxing.com). The launch follows a successful beta testing phase which attracted over 8,000 players.

Supreme Boxing is a massive multiplayer online boxing simulation that allows users to create and build a stable of boxers that will compete with other boxers across different weights and regions in a bid climb the rankings and become champion of the world. Players can develop their boxer skills, buy enter tournaments, join boxing clubs and fight other boxers in either spar or professional bouts.

As the users character grows in rank and reputation, there is the option to buy houses, luxuries and special items, or channel resources into the player’s professional development. The user may choose to build his own skills in a role-playing style that will, in turn improve the in-game skills of the character.

According to Gamejam’s Director Dave Bird, the introduction of certain innovative features hand real control over to the player.

“Our intention with Supreme Boxing is to accurately represent the rivalry and competition of the boxing world as they battle for titles, reputation, fame and fortune,” said Bird.