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Games Announced, Dated, and Delayed
The year is finally picking up some steam, with new game announcements, ship dates confirmed, and delays expected. Besides the already announced Zelda delay, Nintendo actually has good news to offer. New Super Mario Bros. is slated for a May 7th release here in the states. Fallout 3 will not be at E3 this year, despite the highly anticipated nature of the game. Oblivion, Bethesda's upcoming RPG, doesn't quite have a release date yet. It should be coming out 'soon', though. NCSoft is apparently working on a dungeon crawler themselves, with the City of Heroes publisher announcing Dungeon Runners at the Taipei game show. For those of you who (like me) loved the title, there are sequels to F.E.A.R. on the way. They won't be carrying the stupid name, thankfully. There will also be a sequel to God of War, slated for release next February. Finally, for classic gaming fans, the GameTap service will be offering the Ultima series of games for play in the near future, probably around the same time that Street Fighter 2 will be on the Xbox 360 Arcade. Looks like we've got a 2006 worth looking forward to. Update: 02/22 20:18 GMT by Z : Changed the God of War information link to Gamasutra; Eurogamer pulled the info after legal threats from Sony.
Didn't the God of War guy just slam sequels less than a week ago?
Woot to even seeing the phrase "Fallout 3" mentioned, even if it won't be at E3.
Bury me in mashed potatoes.
I have been making a habit of buying games that support Linux out of the box. NeverWinter Nights, Unreal Tourney, etc..
Considering how linux-centric this site is, would it be difficult to add the titles that are 'supposed' to work with linux in the summary?
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
Meanwhile Duke Nukem Forever is promised to be out shortly after the sun expands into a red giant and destroys the Earth and the entire population of gamers left on it.
God of War II. Game to include new features: More boobs, more blood, more boobs, more bodies, more boobs. Also, seeing as Kratos has slain basically every mythical creature in The Illiad and The Odyssey, you will now be up agains legions of Nintendogs and Pokemon. Borowing from Don Quixote, you will have to take down the evil windmills and kill random "sorcerers" to cleans the lands. Also, Mario will make an appearence for the GameCube version as Zues, God of Thunder.
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
The 3498329057892379874892374893740983048375860 x 10^999th Street Fighter 2 port.
Oblivion, Bethesda's upcoming RPG, doesn't quite have a release date yet.
I recently recieved the following E-mail from Amazon:
We are pleased to report that the following item will ship
sooner than expected:
"Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Collector's Edition (DVD) [CD-ROM]"
[DVD-ROM]
The new date listed in the order details is 3/20/2006.
Perhaps it's only the 360 version that doesn't have a date yet...
Please don't tell me Cryptic Studios is developing Dragon Runner? That would be so beneath them to create something with such an utterly blatant copy.
Dungeons & Dragons Online is slated to start this Friday for pre-release purchasers. I found myself missing the NPC-PC collision detection physics in DDO (among other things) after my beta ran out and I returned to my regularly scheduled MMORPG.
Considering that Bethesda is finishing up Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, it's no surprise that their next project, Fallout 3, is not going to be at E3. In fact, last time I checked, it was still in pre-production. It is hard to make a demo booth if you don't even have an alpha build.
Might as well pitch this rumor here too.
May 7 is a Sunday. Nintendo doesn't release games on Sundays all that often. One of the more recent big titles they did release on a Sunday was Super Mario 64 DS — as a launch title for the original Nintendo DS.
Draw your own conclusions. I have, and hope to get a DS Lite on May 7.
I think Ultima 1-6 would be great on the DS game play on top and inventory/stats and stuff on the bottom or switchable to use the pen for gameplay.
(DVD) [CD-ROM]" [DVD-ROM]
What now?
(stupid lameness filter doesn't recognize acronyms...)
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
"The information that previously appeared here has been removed under the threat of legal action from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe."
What's going on? Did anyone get the chance to read it before it was pulled? Can't imagine this pretty obvious news provoking such a threat!
(Oh yeah, and nice one Sony, your PR machine pulls another great move)
I'll let X-Play decide that for me.
That's silly Amazon crap. They have PC CD-ROM as the platform like where they'd put "PS2" or "GC" if it were for a console. That makes it so a game that comes out on DVD-ROM ends up having conflicting acronyms in the description. It looks right on the item page, but it always looks screwy in the e-mail if you have it set to 'plain text'.
This item is particularly bad because "(DVD)" is part of the name, so you get "(DVD)" (title) "[CD-ROM]" (platform), "[DVD-ROM]" (media).
I'm shocked that NWN2 didn't even make it into this summary, amid all these squels - and the trash that is Elder Scrolls continues to rear its ugly head. And a Street Fighter title?
Great. Thanks.
...because most of the people playing them probably aren't getting dates!
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There's been a lot of talk about it, but I haven't seen a release date for the DS Lite state side. I know that the Japanese gamers get it in the middle of March, and I believe Reggie said it would hit stateside in the summer (and the original DS would be phased out), but have they stated an actual release date for it?
Sequel? I'm still waiting for them to finish the one I paid $59.99 for. Damn that was a short game. Looked pretty good, some scary parts. Endless "run down this dark corridor and get suprised" motif though.
Anyone have any links on information about this game? The only thing I've been able to find are a few old previews from last August.
Modern copyright is theft of culture from everyone and it retards the progress of the useful arts and sciences.
Of course, Galactic Civilizations II is out right now . . . and yes, I work for Stardock, but it's still a great game. ;-)
I'm excited that they are carying on the fallout line. I still have Fallout, and Fallout 2, though admitedly i didn't like 2 as much. Both were still great games, hope the 3rd is as good.
He whom you called four-eyes yesterday, you call Sir tomorrow.
I don't mind a game getting pushed back by a few months to work out the bugs. What I really hate is the way media is released based on what is 'hot' at the moment. Perhaps it's that they realize the quality is not exactly up to snuff on the majority of what is released.
Hey, where is the Duke Nukem Forever?
Thanks for mentioning what was explicitly stated in TFA:
Many people have pointed out that May 7 is a Sunday, but nearly every other Nintendo title is always released on a Tuesday. What gives? Can't help but notice that Sunday is the preferred day for hardware launches, and May 7 -- just before E3 -- might be an opportune time to have the DS Lite take its bow.
Now if only we could get some copies of Animal Crossing to stay on shelves for more than 2 hours, I might finally buy myself a DS!
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
In 1999 Blizzard announced Ghost to be developed for next year yadda yadda yadda, and it wasnt until last year they finally updated that website...
....suppose to be released what 4 years ago? Is it 5 now?
Also "Shodow of Chernobyl" the best great next yadda yadda
nothing new.... its all about the hype.
I just want them to hurry up and secure a US release for Mother 3! I'd rather not have to play a fan-sub ROM two years later, though I will if I have to!
Earthbound: one of the greatest games ever made.
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