Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on Nintendo DS in US stores now

Rockstar Games is pleased to announce that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is now available in stores across North America, and will be available in Europe on March 20. Developed by the award-winning studio Rockstar Leeds in conjunction with series creator Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is available exclusively for the Nintendo DS.

"Our teams set out to create the most massive and intense action experience on the DS," said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. "Rockstar Leeds has innovated on what the 'Grand Theft Auto' series has stood for and the end result is something we’re incredibly proud to share with our fans."

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is an entirely original entry into the critically acclaimed Grand Theft Auto series, and brings a new level of interactivity to the world of Liberty City. Players will assume the role of Huang Lee, a member of the Chinese Triad crime syndicate who must navigate his way through the streets to uncover the truth behind an epic tale of crime and corruption.

Game Informer magazine wrote, "Working on a smaller platform isn't stopping Rockstar from thinking big. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars commandeers the Nintendo DS to deliver the same bombastic mix of humor, violence, and vehicular mayhem found on consoles." IGN.com said, "Believe me...this game is the business."

G4.com wrote, “To call Chinatown Wars feature-laden would be an understatement on par with calling glaciers slow...Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars hits the DS on March 17th and with it comes a whole new rap sheet for Nintendo's handheld…Chinatown Wars looks pretty sick."

Official Nintendo Magazine recently reviewed the game, saying “With the arrival of Chinatown Wars, the DS can now boast a GTA title that's every bit as compelling, impressive and fun to play as its home console cousins.”

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS is rated M for Mature by the ESRB. For more information, please visit www.rockstargames.com/chinatownwars.

Soundtrack details here on gamezplay.org...

Resident Evil tops UK chart beating off Tom Clancy's HAWX and Prof Layton...

All format video games 14 March 2009 from ChartTrack



1 RESIDENT EVIL 5 CAPCOM -
2 WII FIT NINTENDO 3
3 TOM CLANCY'S H.A.W.X. UBISOFT 4
4 PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE CURIOUS VILLAGE NINTENDO 6
5 KILLZONE 2 SONY COMPUTER ENT. 2
6 FIFA 09 EA SPORTS 8
7 CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR ACTIVISION 9
8 EMPIRE: TOTAL WAR SEGA 1
9 HALO WARS MICROSOFT 5
10 MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES SEGA 17
11 SOCOM: US NAVY SEALS CONFRONTATION SONY COMPUTER ENT. -
12 BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE D3P 10
13 STREET FIGHTER IV CAPCOM 7
14 MARIO POWER TENNIS NINTENDO -
15 WII PLAY NINTENDO 14
16 CLUB PENGUIN: ELITE PENGUIN FORCE DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS -
17 DISNEY'S BOLT DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS 12
18 GRAND THEFT AUTO IV ROCKSTAR 15
19 SEGA MEGA DRIVE ULTIMATE COLLECTION SEGA 11
20 MY FITNESS COACH GAMES FOR EVERYONE -

Introduction of - Seal PC Online video game - with video trailers

Gag action 'Seal Online' reformed the PC game Seal into online game, and it is the first online game that embodied 3D cartoon-rendering. Its special features include bright and cheerful worldview, over 1,000 various quests, time-warp system, and unique battle system that contains fairytale-like background with cute and comical monsters and characters.

One example that shows the comical characteristic of Seal Online is 'Sleeping Skill', a skill that characters can use to increase their health point. Characters literally go to sleep in the middle of the game, and depending on the skill level, the materials they use vary from a piece of newspaper to a bed. Also, when users hit monsters in the game, the monsters response in ridiculous ways, such as 'Why are you hitting me!' or 'I really don't want to die', which provides humor to make users laugh.

'Seal Online' started its open service in 2003, and over 30% of the entire users are female. It is well known as a couple-making game, for the fact that over 30 marriages were done by the couples inside the game. As the first online game to reach over $10 million export to China in 2004, 'Seal Online' has been servicing for 6 years now, yet it is still being loved by the users.







Game Title : Seal Online
Developer : YNK GAMES Inc. (Representative Yoon Yeong Seok)
Publisher : YNK KOREA Inc. (Representative Chang In Woo)
Genre : MMORPG
Official Website : www.sealonline.co.kr
Date of Service : Formal service started in January 14th, 2004

A Market Day in Cronous - Meet up, chat, and trade with players from different servers!

Cronous, a popular MMORPG developed and published by Lizard Interactive, will be having a Market Day event from PST March 27th to 29th 2009 where players from different servers can be in one place and trade items with each other.

An Arena Server will available during the event period where players can gather together. It is open to all players, it doesn’t matter which server you are playing in. Market Day event offer more than a chance to meet up, chat and trade with players from different servers. A Union, an aggregation of guilds, can own a castle through Siege Warfare and impose taxes to non Union members in buying and selling of items. Depending on the Union owning the castle, imposed taxes may be huge. In the Arena Server, during the event, there will be no taxes imposed. This means you can buy and sell items with no burden.

GMs of Cronous are also preparing special events and prizes to be given away to add festivity to the Market Day. For further information, please visit the official website cronous.neofun.com.

RAN online 3d MMORPG gets massive update

- Modern School Action with verisimilitude and accessibility possessed full 3D MMORPG.
- Global Online game enjoyed together by the users from 10 different nations around the world.

1. Introduction
Genre : 3D MMORPG
Developer : Min Communications Inc.
Service : Min Communications Inc.
Official Site : www.ran-online.co.kr
System Requirements : Geforce 2 GTS, Pentium3 1.0 GHz

Scenario :
18 years ago, all Asian regions faced phenomenon of sudden solar eclipse with meteoric shower. 16 years have passed by and the Saint cooperation which has a nation like a force was founded and it has built 4 special educational systems in Asia.
The Geomantic scholar Dr. Choi, Tae Kyu has discovered that the meteoric shower was an incident that connected this world with other realm and started an unrealistic experiment called "Great Geomantic Studies". During the experiment, some gang members have lost their lives and gang started a bloody fight against school.

During this battle, strangely dressed people intruded and the battle seemed to be in favored to Chung's side but from this point the world started to change unpredictably. With this change some students awakened powers of 'Stone' hidden inside of their body. Finally, the forces of this world's 'Ultimate Point' and other realm's 'Stone' have isolated Saint Cooperation and its surrounding regions. The impact of this sudden phenomenon turned people into something else and students were scattered after losing their fight near the school. As their hidden powers were awakened little by little and guided them to remember the missions they received from their fore lives, the new battles begin to clear their missions.

2. Special Features

1) The Chemistry created with realistic theme.
RAN ONLINE's theme is about 'Modern' and 'School' and it has various of familiar streets and downtown sights and items, 'School' which everyone would have experienced in their lives at least once is the main story point. Users can enjoy more accessible game theme than very unrealistic fantasy themes.

2) Unique Game Contents
Ran provides the independent game play as a package game by isolating other players from the party or the character whom are participating in certain quests.

The quests connected to scenario provides the feeling of leading the game to the users to play the game more actively
Not only the normal game mode of hunting monsters and doing quests but also users can play the game together with other users without concerning the scenario to give more fun and uniqueness to users when playing RAN ONLINE.

3) Character Control
Mix of skill combinations are main attacking method of this game and to execute the skills, number keys from 1 to 0 will be used when skills are assigned. Plus, Q,, W, E, A, S, D buttons are used to move and eat healing potions to maximize console like feeling of game playing.

When the character is in the motion preparing to execute a skill, it would be canceled if pushed by another player. So, the use of 'Cancel Skill' naturally embosses the control ability of a character.

PK, between the characters with same level and item settings, ways of using skill combinations and 'Cancel Skill' can make whole lot of difference in the result.

4) Various Game System
Unlike the general items, Question Box with '?' is dropped in a very low rate. The trait would be a secret and it could be a plus or minus in SPEED, POWER, EXP to a character for certain time. Question Box is expected to bring more tension and concentration into the game.

The fact that MMORPG needs to be played for very long time, game interface has been created for the convenience of the user. The navigation function called 'Auto Path Finding which allows character to go through a labyrinth to a destined location with just one click and 'Auto Attack' function which will automatically catch up to running away enemy to the end with a click of 'Ctrl key + Click' are the example.

5) Game Engine Technique
RAN ONLINE is created with using the first Korean made 3D game engine. The combination of the tools possesses and provides very high financial efficiency, shortening of Development term, and high expandable system.

In Addition, the game engine's harmony between the Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Physical Engine, Sound Engine, and Etc made it possible to create the RAN ONLINE the result of pure development technology.

Ninja Gaiden 2 (Xbox 360 Exclusive!) video game coming to PlayStation 3...

Kotaku are reporting that the Exclusive Xbox 360 video game Ninja Gaiden 2 is coming to PlayStation 3.

With all the bells and whistles this brings - PSN support and new content...

Looking at the Kotaku post, a Japanese magazine was first to report the story...

You can read the full post here...

Class FPS video game - STING introduction with video

From its beginning, 'STING' has been developed to target the international market.

In order to satisfy the FPS game users' high expectation standard, 'STING', a classic FPS game, was made based on thorough planning with 5 trial tests.

To target the international market, 'STING' went through careful consideration for choosing a best-suitable engine for game development, and by finally selecting Source Engine, created by 'Valve Software' and rated as the best existing FPS game, 'STING' was created with exquisite graphic and realistic contents.

'STING' embodies realistic character movement and firearm usage, physics processing related to objects, and accurate network synchronization with this, and by exhibiting an online FPS of 'extreme-realistically form' that advanced from previous FPS games through thorough investigations related to firearms that are used in actual fields, 'STING' provides tension and concentration that originated from realistic and accurate game characteristic to users.

Game Title : STING
Developer : YNK GAMES Inc. (Representative Yoon Yeong Seok)
Publisher : YNK KOREA Inc. (Representative Chang In Woo)
Genre : FPS(First Person Shooting)
Website : www.stingonline.co.kr
Date of Service : OBT starts on December 20th, 2008

Protect yourself will playing PC games online...

Introduction of 'nProtect GameGuard'

System Requirements

- Server
Any WEB Server supporting WEB
- Client
OS : Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP
System : Intel Pentium 133MHz
Memory : 32MB Minimum
First library drive : 1.2M Maximum

About nProtect GameGuard
Online games have changed from a device for pure entertainment to a part of internet society consisting of five hundred thousand people connected 24 hours, and the huge community is still in the process of growing.

nProtect GameGuard protects the users from illegal manipulations, viruses and malignant codes by blocking various cheats and hacking programs. This provides the game service suppliers a safe game playing environment, minimizing the outflow of incomes and assets.

nProtect GameGuard is being accepted as the number one global market share holder by various corporations, and has already been distributed globally in around 100 games in 250 different game clients, providing approximately 100 thousand end-users' PCs safe gaming environment.

Why nProtect GameGuard?

*Background
Rapidly growing illegal online hacking tools has reached the point to harm the game industry and is being recognized as a criminal act. Recently, hacking attacks trying to obtain game items to trade for cash has occurred, attacking not only game companies like in the past but also stealing and abusing information of individual PC users, and therefore, general users are also being exposed to the dangers of hacking.

- Private data outflow - Legal problems
- Game's imbalance - Users' upset
- Unnecessary server load - User complaints and higher maintenance cost
- Faster character growth - Game's lifecycle shortened

* Benefits

• Provides user security policy in Internet service
• Covers the vulnerability of Internet service
• Enjoys marketing effects by protecting clients against online crimes
• Auto-update enables prompt response against new hacking tools and viruses
• Reduces maintenance cost for client security
• Increases clients' loyalty among users by providing a high-quality security system
• Prepare against new danger factors through consistent service management

Special Features of nProtect GameGuard

*Provides stable security service for online games
Having the longest experience and accumulated know-hows in the game security industry, nProtect GameGuard possesses database on game hacks based on security references from around 100 online games consisting of approximately 260 game clients. Therefore, nProtect GameGuard provides most stable and fast counteraction against new hacking tools and viruses in various game genres such as MMORPG, racing and casual games.

*Blocks hacking tool technologies for fair game plays
nProtect GameGuard blocks critical functions of online game hacking tools, disabling the attempts to hack from the basis. This function of GameGuard minimizes the harms done to the general users from the users who attempt to hack games illegally. As a result increase of users who try to illegally hack games will be stopped and the damages that games will receive due to hacking tools will be minimized.

*Blocks online outflow of personal information
nProtect GameGuard has its own vaccine engine, blocking personal information stealing malignant tools such as keyloggers or backdoor programs. This function of GameGuard provides high-quality security services to protect users' personal information from the hackers trying to illegally abuse other peoples' personal information.

*A security solution pursuing high-end functions and fast counteractions
GameGuard engine will be updated automatically to the latest version when the game is run. The latest hacking prevention technologies will be applied in GameGuard through automatic updates, protecting the users' PC from fast evolving hacking technologies and viruses.

*Real-time hacking tool blocking
nProtect GameGuard will not only diagnose various patterns latest hacking tools that can harm games, but also memory debugging prevention technology will be applied, completely blocking hacking tools through real-time hacking tool monitoring and blocking function.

*Blocks hacking attacks through memory scan
nProtect Gameguard will not only protect games by blocking access to the memories which the game program is using from other programs, but also, it will diagnose malignant codes(viruses, backdoors, Trojans) that are running in the users memory, allowing the game user to enjoy the game safe from hacking attempts.

*Real-time server authentication
nProtect GameGuard constantly communicates with the game server and checks whether GameGuard is functioning correctly and whether the version of GameGuard is correct. This function will prevent hacking attempts that try to hack game clients and disable GameGuard functions by detecting the attempts in the game server.

*Provides packet encryption service
nProtect GameGuard provides public key based packet encryption module. This service not only provides basic packet encryption but also protects game packets by checking for packet variations or duplications.

*Proxy server prevention function
nProtect GameGuard can block attempts to detour game servers by using proxy server settings. This function will block users who try to connect to the game server by faking connection IP addresses. Therefore, GameGuard will diagnose connection status real-time, and will detect hack whenever the connected IP address is not a confirmed one.

*Log server
You can collect and receive report on hacking attempts that nProtect GameGuard has blocked real-time. This will help you to understand the latest hacking trends and counteract effectively according to the information that has been received.

Website : www.inca.co.kr

Call of Duty World at War DLC Map Pack 1: Knee Deep - Station - Nightfire demos

Call of Duty World at War DLC Map Pack 1: Knee Deep. Treyarch's COD Community Manager Josh Olin takes us on first of a series of demos. Team Deathmatch on the map Knee Deep!

Videos after link below... (age gate)



Call of Duty World at War DLC Map Pack 1: Station. Treyarch's COD Community Manager Josh Olin takes us on another tour of Map Pack 1. Team Deathmatch on the map Station!



Call of Duty World at War DLC Map Pack 1: Nightfire. Treyarch's COD Community Manager Josh Olin takes us on yet another tour of Map Pack 1. Team Deathmatch on the map Nightfire!

Championship Manager 2009 delayed until at least July 1st

Eidos have announced that Championship Manager 2009 video game has been delayed at least until 1st July (Eidos next financial year).

"Eidos has a total commitment to producing the highest quality games and we believe by moving the release date of Championship Manager we will give the product the additional time needed to deliver a more polished and highly competitive game within the genre," CEO Phil Rogers said.

"We will not compromise on quality and we are confident that this decision is right for consumers and will benefit the continued popularity of this franchise."

The game was due for release on April 24th on PC including the new 3D match engine, scouting and new media option. Looks like Football manager, the game's main rival may get a head start.