Monthly Archive for September, 2008

Tiny Spore Billboard

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on September 22, 2008
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Telescope for Spore Billboard at Union Square

With the hype all around Spore DRM issue and intense marketing campaign to promote this game to the public, somehow, somewhere, the publicity seems particular ‘attractive’.

Telescope for Spore Billboard at Union Square

Mini-size billboard for Spore. Visible with Telescope built near there.

Measured 14″ by 6″, it’s hardly visible with naked eye when it is on top of the building.

Spot it?

Spot it?

Let’s reveal it.

Revealed!

Revealed!

Pictures from Kotaku.

World of Warcraft : Wrath of the Lich King release date announced!

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on September 21, 2008
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Blizzard has announced the release date of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack. 13 November is the date to watch!

Pre-order for the normal edition has already started at the various retailers (Best Buy, GameStop, Walmart, Amazon and Circuit CIty)

Blizzard's Pre-order with Online Retailers

Blizzard's Pre-order with Online Retailers

As for the Collector’s Edition, price has not been confirmed.The Collector’s Edition comes with the following items:

  • World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King on DVD-ROM.
  • The Art of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, a 208-page book featuring never-before-seen images from the game.
  • An exclusive in-game pet: Frosty, the baby frost wyrm.
  • A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, the Wrath of the Lich King intro cinematic with director’s commentary, and more.
  • The official soundtrack CD, containing 21 epic tracks from the game, along with exclusive bonus tracks.
  • A mouse pad featuring a map of the newly opened continent of Northrend.
  • Two World of Warcraft Trading Card Game March of the Legion™ starter decks, along with two exclusive cards available only in the Collector’s Edition.

Hang on tight as we awaits the arrivial of the Wrath of the Lich King!

Spore 1.01 patch released!

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on September 21, 2008
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Patch has been released for Spore. Below is the change log for the new patch.

Fun and entertaining: Spore

Fun and entertaining: Spore

Features

  • New Cheat: “evoadvantage”. Enter this cheat when are starting a new Creature game to choose any creature from the Sporepedia. Start a new game with one of your more evolved creatures!
  • Display part statistics when you are in Build mode. Rollover any part and hold down the ‘i’ key.
  • New Cheat: “blocksmode”. Turns creatures into their blocky representations.
  • More style filters. Open the cheat window and type: “stylefilter -microscope” or “stylefilter -norainbows” or “stylefilter -nextgen” to see the new styles
  • Added 70 new planet scripts with a low terraform score, especially of the “hot and high atmosphere” type

Graphics/Aesthetics

  • Animation improvements
  • Improved the planets fogging, blooming and lighting
  • Fixed animation issues with tool handling, hand walking and some of the more oddly shaped creatures

Tuning

  • Creature phase: Improved the pacing towards the end of the game, and increased the challenge in Normal and Hard modes.
  • Tribe phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
  • Civilization phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
  • Space phase: Made Empires in Easy and Normal modes demand reasonable amounts of money in exchange for peace and adjust the level of punishment if the player doesn’t pay
  • Space phase: Made disasters less likely to occur in Easy and Normal modes and increased the time between each attack from the enemy empire when the player is at war.

Miscellaneous

  • Creature phase: Improved the way posse members behave during threatening situations and fights.
  • Space phase: Made finding your home world and colonies easier in the Galactic view.
  • Tribe phase: Made it so that tribe members can travel on steep hills if they need to do so now, but their speed will be reduced a lot.
  • Fixed an issue with attacks not working on some bigger animals and larger animals not dying correctly
  • Fixed collect mission not completing correctly when all parts have been collected
  • Fixed problems with the “Rolling Thunder” and “Deja Vu” achievements not being awarded as they should
  • Fixed floating parts not being deducted from the budget when loaded into creator
  • Fixed an issue with the rotation rings not resizing correctly when a part was resized and improved their look
  • Fixed an issue where the terraforming score of planet could differ when revisiting a solar system
  • Fixed the keyboard controls for zoom & pitch in the Colony Planner not working properly
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when watching an epic creature attack a city
  • Fixed some issues where the game would freeze when using the Creature Tweaker tool or when capturing a planet in solar view
  • Fixed an issue where not all tribe members would obey the raid order when a large group was ordered to raid
  • Fixed an issue where banning a creation from one of your other saved games would black out the main menu

Patch Download:

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Football Manager 2009 Features release!

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on September 6, 2008
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SI Games has released the news on the new features for Football Manager 2009 as well as Football Manger Handheld 2009 for PSP. This time, they did it on video. The video is right below. You can watch it or you can read my summary below these videos.

Firstly, let’s summarise the new features for Football Manager Handheld 2009 for PSP.

The new version allows multiple leagues from other countries now. Previously, it was impossible. They have added 2 new skins to add to the variety of interfaces. I guess the hottest feature is the 2D match engine ported from the PC/Mac version over to PSP. You can choose to watch the full field mode or partial field mode.

Now, for the Football Manger 2009 PC/Mac version.

This new version is definitely exciting. The new System Manager Feedback gives you feedback on your players’ motivation as well as your general tactics. You can grab tips from this new features to counter your opponent’s tactics and improve on yours!

The media has been playing an important role to football scene in the recent years. Now you are able to do press conferences in the game and answer series of questions posted by the media and what you answer will have a effect on your team and yourself. The virtual journalists can remember what you said, so be tactful!

Training will always be an important part of the game. Now you can assign your players to learn specific skills, such as cross overs or free kicks.

What’s more is that you can choose to become a female manager, if you are not female. Not exactly a big introduction.

Improvements on the current system is always something that we are looking forward to. This new version has several big improvements to the game, so let’s check it out!

Your board of directors will have better feedback on your club performance on or off field. You can receive more advices from them now.

The game database incorporates 51 countries’ leagues now and there are more than 350,000 players and staffs in the game database at the moment of video press release.

The revised financal modelling is definitely a good improvement to have.

The interface will be improved as well. Now they have added wide screen support so you can play on your wide screen TV or LCD monitors!

The new match engine is definitely something to look forward to, as they have ported the match engine from Football Manager Live over to the standard FM. It shall be more realistic and more exciting. The live view of match is now 3D! You can watch the match ongoing just like you are watching those real matches on TV now. However, if you want to watch it from bird-eye view, you can still do that! Don’t worry! They have also added time bar which allows you to control choose which part of the game you want to rewatch. Very cool! Another cool feature is a TV view, which allows you to watch the match in FULL SCREEN and add widgets to the screen so you can see statistics or player rating on the go. NICE!