Ghostbuster video game on PlayStation 3 resolution drop from Xbox 360 version

Something appears to have gone a little wrong with Terminal Reality's PlayStation 3 Ghostbusters engine. At first touted as their lead platform, the native rendering resolution of the game is a little shocking.

In previous interviews, the game developers at Terminal Reality had talked up their PlayStation 3 technology for their upcoming Ghostbusters game. In a conversation with VideoGaming247 Terminal Reality president Mark Randel said:



"Personally, I want to show off our PS3 technology. We’re one of the few developers who love the PS3 and have a great time with it. We have great technology for the PS3 and we want to show it off.

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Worldwide Party in Fantasy Tennis Season 2 video game

June Update Welcomes Summer to the Courts with New Outfits, Free Gifts, and Plenty of Prizes!

The start of the Summer Festival in colorful sports MMORPG, Fantasy Tennis Season 2. Kicking off the June update, the festival lets players experience summer on the courts with parasols, popsicles, and a variety of poolside attire. As a reward for braving the heat, Burda:ic will even be handing out free, limited edition t-shirts as gifts!

Of course, the June update adds more than just the festival proceedings. A few in-game tweaks have been made and three new Gacha sets have been added, including the truly fantastic Literature Set. Dress up as Robin Hood, Zorro, or the great Sherlock Holmes and take to the courts as your favorite fictional hero!

About Fantasy Tennis Season 2
Fantasy Tennis Season 2 is a fantastic and colorful free-to-play MMORPG with a twist. Take to the courts and compete against players from around the world with a combination of serves, swings, and spells as you level up and customize your character. Whether you choose to be speedy, hard-hitting, or an expert at calling down meteor storms and tossing fireballs, you’ll need quick reflexes and a sharp mind to win the match!

WarpForce - Artix fifth RPG announced

Artix Entertainment, with over 80 million gamer accounts for their four game titles, today announced WarpForce, its fifth RPG, scheduled to launch July 15, 2009.

“WarpForce is all about taking the Player on Star Trek and Star Wars-style adventures from the point of view of characters that come from a traditional swords-and-sorcery fantasy world,” said Tony Deller, Project Lead, WarpForce. “It’s all about going on a journey through the stars on a search for every bit of humor and action in the universe.”

WarpForce begins on the world of Lore, familiar to the Artix audience as a world inhabited by wizards, warriors, dragons, and all types of fantastic creatures.

WarpForce is about the people of Lore (Humans, Dwarves, Elves, and a reptilian race called Drakel) who band together to create a fleet of starships powered by both magic and science, and zoom into outer space on missions to defeat a powerful and vast alien network that is working to take over the universe. The game takes ideas of traditional fantasy and rockets them into a Sci-Fi universe, combining classic RPG elements with the hallmark Artix Entertainment humor.

WarpForce is a massive single-player storyline that unlocks as the player levels up (much like a console game), becoming more powerful by increasing stats and getting advanced equipment. Players will be able to choose from several races (each with benefits), dynamically change equipment during colorful and exciting animated battles, and also be able to combine their efforts in large wars and crossover events.

Beta is scheduled to begin July 3, 2009, and will be free to players of Artix’s AdventureQuest game who have upgraded to Guardian status. The full public launch of WarpForce is scheduled for Wednesday, July 15, 2009.

Players can visit www.warforce.com to get more game details.

Dirt Racers Mission Drift

OrangePixel releases a race game named Dirt Racers. Drift your way through many tracks.

In the Arcade mode you race against four opponents on a track of your choise.

You may choose your own difficulty: 50 cc, 100 cc or 150 cc.

In the Cupmode you compete at four tracks against opponents to gain driver points.

The driver with the most points at the end of the four races wins the cup.

Win the cup and you could unlock additional tracks.

Think you're fast? Then we've got a Time attack in which you can race on your own and practice the tracks and beat your best laptimes.

Short feature list:

* 3 different modes: Arcade, Cupmode and Time attack
* choose your difficulty: 50 cc, 100 cc or 150 cc
* easy quit and continue mode
* unlockable tracks
* music
* unlockable achievements (RumbleX.com)
* online highscore rankings (RumbleX.com)

NHL Superstar Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals as Cover Athlete for NHL 2K10 video game

"Ovi" and friends hold 2K Sports' first-ever outdoor motion capture session tonight at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas

2K Sports announced today that Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals, the 2009 Maurice “Rocket” Richard Award winner and Hart Memorial Trophy candidate, will be featured as the cover athlete and spokesman for the next iteration of the popular NHL 2K franchise, NHL 2K10.

While leading the National Hockey League (NHL) in goals scored for the second consecutive season, Ovechkin has become one of the most recognizable faces of the NHL in only his fourth season, and will bring his electrifying personality and unmatched passion for the game to NHL 2K10 this year.

"It's a good time to be Ovi!," said Ovechkin, left winger for the Washington Capitals. "It's an incredible honor, and I look forward to working with 2K Sports to make NHL 2K10 the most fun and amazing hockey video game experience ever. I can't wait to put some of my moves in there."

In celebration of the announcement, Ovechkin will be participating in 2K Sports’ first-ever outdoor hockey motion capture session tonight in the Roman Plaza at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from 8:30-11:30pm PT. The open-air rink recalls the September 27, 1991, LA Kings vs. New York Rangers hockey showdown when Wayne Gretzky led the Kings to victory in a similarly unusual and picturesque open-air setting at the famed Las Vegas resort. Joining Ovechkin on the ice will be Vancouver Canucks center and 2009 Selke Trophy finalist, Ryan Kesler, along with play-by-play commentator for the San Jose Sharks, Randy Hahn, who will act as host MC. Only media will be allowed into the rink area for this private event, as synthetic ice will be laid down to create a special hockey rink and 2K Sports’ game producers will put Ovechkin through a number of dynamic drills to capture his signature style data for NHL 2K10.

The 2009 NHL Awards™ will take place on Thursday in Las Vegas, and Ovechkin is one of three finalists that are being considered for the highly coveted Hart Memorial Trophy, an annual award given to the player judged to be the most valuable to his team. The winner is selected via a poll of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association in all NHL cities held at the end of the regular season. Ovechkin is also a finalist for the Lester B. Pearson Award, which honors the NHL’s most outstanding player as selected by the members of the NHL Players’ Association. Ovechkin was the winner of both awards last year, and has already received this year’s Maurice “Rocket” Richard Award for leading the NHL in goals scored during the regular season.

Ovechkin, also known to fans as “Ovi”, was the first overall selection in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft and is one of the most heart-pumping players to watch in the NHL today. After winning the Calder Memorial Trophy for Rookie of the Year in 2005-06, Ovechkin went on to lead the NHL during the 2007–08 season with 65 goals and 112 points to capture the Maurice “Rocket” Richard Award and Art Ross Trophy. That season, he also won the Lester B. Pearson Award and the Hart Memorial Trophy. He is the first player to win all four awards in the same season, and has participated in the NHL All-Star game in 2007, 2008, and 2009. This past season, Ovechkin led the NHL again with 56 goals, winning his second Maurice “Rocket” Richard Award in as many years, joining Jarome Iginla and Pavel Bure as only the third player to win the award twice, and the second player after Bure (2000–2001) to win the award in back-to-back seasons.

Developed by Visual Concepts, NHL 2K10 is not yet rated by the ESRB and will be available this fall for Nintendo Wii system from Nintendo, Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system.

EverQuest II Monument and Might Game Update Reveals Kurn's Tower and its Secrets to Norrath!

EverQuest II’s game update, Monument and Might reveals the true appearance of Kurn’s Tower to Norrath; panicking the inhabitants of Kunark and intriguing adventurers to its doors. A new void anchor emanates from the tower, as if a ghastly chord has tied its fate with the invading void. A warlord from a far-off land has turned his conquering eye upon the lands of Kunark and will stop at nothing to find a great power that may lie just within the tower’s walls!

UPDATE FEATURES:

• Let someone else do the work for you! Monument and Might introduces Research Assistants which allow players to train their spells up to higher grades one at a time! They are available around Qeynos and Freeport, Neriak, Haven, Gorowyn, and Kelethin. Check out the research guild hall amenity that allows you to access the research system in the comfort of your own house or guild hall!
• More than 80 new quests in the Rise of Kunark overland zones!
• Player-written books - Leave your permanent mark in Norrath by writing and distributing books! Books look and act just like the current books in the game, and you can hold them in your inventory or place them in your house or guild hall for other players to read. Read Rothgar’s blog about user-written books here!
• All-new Charasis West Wing group quests!

WHEN: The Monument and Might game update is scheduled to go live on June 16, 2009.

Cate West Seek and Solve game comes to Europe

Visual clues to help Cate West unravel the mystery of the Vanishing Files!

Oxygen Games presents the trailer for Cate West’s first European seek & solve console adventure – The Vanishing Files – which is coming to Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii this Autumn.

In Cate West: The Vanishing Files, a series of unsolved mysteries are plaguing Arcadia City. The police have no leads, and so they turn to Cate West, a crime novelist, for help. Do Cate’s visions hold the key to solving The Vanishing Files? And how are the crimes linked to a mystery from Cate’s past?

Clues to the answers to these questions can be found in the gamer trailer here

Cate West – The Vanishing Files coming to Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii in Europe, Australia and New Zealand in Q3 2009.

Rock Band Unplugged PSP game in European stores this week

Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game development company, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks, along with distribution partner Electronic Arts, announced today that Rock Band Unplugged for the PSP (PlayStation Portable) system will be available in retail stores across Europe beginning this week.

Developed by Harmonix in partnership with Backbone Entertainment, a Foundation 9 Entertainment studio, Rock Band Unplugged creates a full band experience in the palm of players’ hands by combining traditional beatmatch gameplay with key elements from both Rock Band™ and Rock Band 2.

The game features 41 master recordings including nine songs new to the Rock Band music catalog that are exclusive to the PSP system for a limited time, spanning all genres of rock, from punk and metal to alternative and classic rock. Rock Band Unplugged also features the first in-game store for downloadable content on the PSP system leveraging the PSP system’s wireless capabilities and powered by PlayStation Network. The first 10 DLC tracks available at the Rock Band Unplugged music store now are:

• 30 Seconds to Mars “The Kill”
• Belly “Feed the Tree”
• Disturbed “Inside the Fire”
• Lynyrd Skynyrd “Gimme Three Steps”
• Muse “Hysteria”
• Mute Math “Typical”
• No Doubt “Just a Girl”
• Oasis “Wonderwall”
• Paramore “Crushcrushcrush”
• Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge”

In Rock Band Unplugged your hands are the “peripherals,” allowing players to take direct control of the lead/bass guitars, drums and vocals. In addition, players can capture a deep and interactive Rock Band experience by taking their band on the road in World Tour mode, practicing their chops in the Band Warmup Mode, or by taking on the most extreme musical challenge imaginable in Band Survival mode.

Rock Band Unplugged is available at a MSRP of €39.99 in Continental Europe and £29.99 in the United Kingdom. The game is rated 12+ by PEGI. Please visit www.pegi.info for rating information.

My baby video game is back and he talks!

Nobilis is proud to announce that MY BABY is back in a new sequel on Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii!

Remember, last time you saw him he just made his 1st steps and today, in My Baby 2, he’s 15 months old.

Plenty of new challenges for you : you’ll have to teach him to talk but also dancing, climbing the stairs, jumping… but above all you’ll have to give him all your attention and loving!
New cool features, amazing and improved A.I., enhanced graphic engine… EVERYBODY WILL FALL FOR HIM!

INFORMATION

• Genre: baby life simulation
• Editor: Nobilis
• Developer: Dancing Dots
• Platform: Nintendo DS™ & Wii
• Release date: Winter 2009
• Pegi: +3

Legend IV Plus, The Next Chapter In The Saga Of Fantasy MMORPG Silkroad Online

All-New Dungeon, the Roc's Nest, to be Unveiled with the Launch of Legend IV Plus this July

Joymax, an independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment for the global market, today unveiled the teaser site for Legend IV Plus, the next update for historical fantasy MMORPG Silkroad Online. Launching this July with a celebratory Jewel Box event, Legend IV Plus will open the way to the peak of Roc Mountain and an all-new dungeon for players level 80 and above.

Adventurers resourceful enough to reach the summit will find themselves face-to-beak with the ancient king of the Rocs, a monstrous, crimson bird that stands nearly 100 feet tall. His anger at the humans who disturb his rest knows no bounds, so those who wish to steal his treasures should be prepared for an epic battle. Of course, he has collected some incredibly powerful items over the centuries, so that reward might just be worth the risk!

To find out more about the Legend IV Plus update, including details about the new dungeon, visit the teaser site at http://www.joymax.com/silkroad/.