News Briefs (6-23-09)

Games headed out o retail, demos available, cover athletes, and more

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Posted by Daniel "monk" Pelfrey on Jun 23rd, 2009

The videogame of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has shipped out to retail.

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GamersGate is getting set to distribute the Unreal games.

 

The library includes Unreal Gold, Unreal II: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor’s Choice Edition, Unreal Anthology (which includes the previous four titles) and Unreal Tournament 3 Black. Unreal Tournament 3 Black is the fully updated version of UT3 that includes the massive Titan Pack title update and bonus downloadable content.

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The Punisher: No Mercy for the PlayStation Network is set to be available July 2.

 

Powered by Unreal Engine 3, The Punisher: No Mercy was designed with fast-paced online multiplayer FPS action in mind. The game allows players to choose from an eclectic mix of Punisher allies and villains.  Battle arenas span from shipyards rife with contraband to the “birthplace” of the Punisher’s archenemy, Jigsaw, and up to eight players can blast away at each other in a variety of solo and team-based missions.

 

In addition to exceptional online play, The Punisher: No Mercy also offers a single-player story mode featuring exclusive artwork from acclaimed Marvel artist Mike Deodato.

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Pangya: Fantasy Golf for the PlayStation Portable has shipped out to store shelves.

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Spore: Galactic Adventures is now available.

 

Expanding on the original Spore game, Spore Galactic Adventures adds variety and fun by allowing players to get out of their spaceship and explore colorful, wacky new planets. Players will turn their creatures into space captains, battle epic monsters in intergalactic arenas and fight intense planet-side races. In each mission, players earn experience to rank up their captain and earn game-changing items such as the Plasma Pulser and Swarm Magnet. In the box, the game includes 16 off-the-wall missions as well as an “Adventure Creator” tool that players can use to design their own missions. These personally-created missions can be shared with friends online and can be classed in leaderboards that track accomplishments, rank and medals earned.

 

In addition to the adventures in the box, players can download ten all-new adventures created by the writers of the outrageously funny, pop-culture parody TV show, Robot Chicken. Available for free to all Spore Galactic Adventures owners, the Robot Chicken adventures take players through such wacky quests as a mission to obtain a library card by finding a ruler-yielding librarian her true love, and an adventure to save a princess by battling demonic snowmen in a snowglobe. Conceptualized by Robot Chicken co-creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich, the Robot Chicken Adventures were imagined by the show’s writing team including Matt Beans, Doug Goldstein, Mike Fasolo, Breckin Meyer, Dan Milano, Tom Root, Kevin Shinick, Hugh Sterbakov and Zeb Wells. With such a unique cast of imaginative characters, players can expect to experience missions with exploding poo, angry yetis, and banana wars.

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Aion is announced to officially launch in North America September 22. Pre-ordering the game nets players access to a variety of closed beta dates for the game:

 

Friday, June 19th to Monday, June 22nd

Thursday, July 3rd to Monday, July 5th

Friday, July 17th to Monday, July 19th

Friday, July 31st to Monday, August 3rd  

Friday, August 14th to Monday, August 16th

 

http://www.aiononline.com/preorder

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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite for the PlayStation Portable has shipped out to store shelves.

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Former Oklahoma Sooner Blake Griffin is announced as the cover athlete for NCAA Basketball 10.

 

Griffin has an explosive presence, exciting college stadiums with massive dunks, huge blocks, and aggressive rebounds, and was a natural choice to represent the college game as cover athlete for NCAA Basketball 10. Griffin is the consensus national Player of the Year, winning the Big 12, Associated Press, Naismith, Sporting News, and John Wooden Player of the Year awards, and led his team to an Elite Eight appearance in the 2009 March Madness Tournament, where they lost to eventual champions, UNC.

 

NCAA Basketball 10 builds on a new game engine introduced last year, refining and improving core gameplay functions, and adding more depth to the popular ’styles of play’ and ’set your tempo’ features, making NCAA Basketball 10 a strategic and entirely unique basketball gameplay experience.

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Now shipping to store shelves – the latest in the Overlord franchise of games:

 

Overlord II (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

Overlord Dark Legend (Wii)

Overlord Minions (NDS)

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A demo for Mega Man Star Force 3 is now available for the Wii through the Nintendo Channel.

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