Originally Posted by wraggster Cryptic Studios' MMOG Star Trek Online will offer a free-to-playoption, while retaining its existing subscription model, from January 17. The new system, explained at the source link below, will see those paying a monthly subscription fee renamed Gold members, with those playing for free given Silver accounts with fewer features. Free players will be able to recruit additional bridge officers, re-spec characters, and access premium ships through microtransactions using a new virtual ...
Originally Posted by wraggster HD remakes of arcade shooters The House Of The Dead 3 and 4are headed exclusively to PlayStation Network, Sega has announced. The House Of The Dead 3 will be released on February 7, to be followed by The House Of The Dead 4 in the spring. Both games have been updated with HD graphics, with Trophies and support for PS3 motion controller PlayStation Move. Sega Of America senior VP of digital business Haruki Satomi said: "The House Of The Dead has always been one of Sega's most popular ...
Originally Posted by wraggster Sid Meier's Firaxis Games has announced XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a strategy game in the mould of the Julian Gollop classics to be released this autumn for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. The announcement comes from Game Informer magazine, and is billed as a "full-on strategy game" in stark contrast to the FPS reboot in development at 2K Marin, whose president Christoph Hartmann memorably said last year: "Strategy games are just not contemporary … times are changing." Firaxis ...
Originally Posted by wraggster Did you ever wonder what all the writing found throughout The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword translated to? Neither have we, but fan "Sarinilli" did, and discovered that it's just our alphabet represented by new characters. A few of the Hylian characters represent multiple letters, but it's a simple substitution regardless. With this knowledge, Sarinilli then created a font out of the Hylian characters, ...
Originally Posted by wraggster Firearms may have been too suggestive a topic for the Xbox Live Marketplace to broach, but apparently body modification is an A-OK, family friendly activity for everyone to enjoy. Xbox Live customers now have the opportunity to trade real money for virtual tattoos on fake people via the Marketplace. Available designs encompass the whole of "regrettable," from hot-rod flames and meaningless "tribal" ...
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