Posts Tagged ‘expansion’
EVE Online: Dominion coming this Winter
The eleventh free expansion for CCP Games’ MMORPG EVE Online has been announced today. Titled Dominion, the expansion is currently set for a Winter release this year.
EVE Online: Dominion will focus on primarily endgame content – alliance warfare. A complete overhaul of sovereignty mechanics will occur, and new epic arcs for pirate factions will also be introduced.
The game has been around since 2003, so it’s very surprising that it’s still going strong against giants like World of Warcraft and Lineage II. Blizzard only offers paid expansions for their game, so CCP Games’ approach is a very unique one.
Read (EVE Insider)
New Gears of War 2: Dark Corners screens
With only a week away from release, Epic is teasing fans with a handful of new screenshots for the Gears of War 2 expansion, Dark Corners.
Seven new multiplayer maps will be added with the expansion, along with a new single-player campaign chapter known as “Road to Ruin”.
Both single player and multiplayer content is showcased in these beautiful screens. Dark Corner is scheduled to launch in the Xbox Live marketplace on July 28th for 1200 MS Points.
New FFXI DLC gets dated for presale
Square Enix has taken time away from sueing French retailers to announce that an upcoming mini-expansion for their MMORPG, Final Fantasy XI, will be made available for pre-purchase on July 5th.
The upcoming expansion is entitled A Moogle Kupo d’Etat – Evil in Small Doses, and reportedly focuses on the Moogles in the game and problems that encompass them. RandomNPC reports that a job level of at least 10 is required to start this new story line.
Final Fantasy XI’s upcoming expansion, A Moogle d’Etat will be available for $9.99 when it drops.
Spore: Galactic Adventures details emerge
Remember Spore? The game that everyone thought was going to change the way we looked at the gaming industry in general? Yeah, well EA has finally taken the time to reveal some details regarding the game’s Galactic Adventures expansion that was first announced back in January.
In Galactic Adventure players will take the rank of Space Captain as they adventure the galaxy (ironic huh?) unlocking and collecting 30 new “game-changing items and accessories”.
And what’s a game without some sort of achievements, right? Players will be given a Creature Card, that showcases their ranking and accomplishments.
Yep, that’s all we have to go by for now, no release date or pricing.
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NCsoft releases information on upcoming Lineage II expansion
NCsoft has recently made public a whole slew of information regarding an upcoming expansion for their popular MMORPG Lineage II.
Entitled Gracia Final, this free expansion will include an entire new continent for players to explore. But that’s not all as NCsoft is also adding the ability for players to use new aerial transformation skills such as Aurabird Falcon, Aurabird Owl which will allow players to view Gracia fro an all new angle.
Gracia Final will expand the game’s Olympiad tournament to allow for 3 vs 3 matches along with a new arena that allows players to duke it out against random opponents. Also included is a new PVP mode pitting players against eachother in capture the flag inspired games.
Kotaku is also reporting that the expansion is playable now in a beta form on the game’s public test servers which you can get by swinging by FilePlanet, here.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Expansion, Sequel in Development
GSC Game World is reported to be developing a second stand-alone S.T.A.L.K.E.R. expansion as well as a full-fledged sequel.
This comes from Clanbase and TTLG, both of whom cite the same Russian language interview with studio president Sergey Grigorovitch.
The expansion is subtitled “Call of Pripyat” and is due out later this year. While S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 was mentioned, no details were given.
The post-apocalyptic first-person shooter/RPG was released back in 2007, with “Clear Sky”, the expansion prequel, out the next year.
Red Alert 3 Uprising Due Today
Whip out your bear-blasters, as EA LA’s stand-alone PC expansion for Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 is set for release sometime later today.
Priced at $19.95 and dubbed Uprising, the expansion contains four new mini-campaigns, one of which can be called a dungeon-crawler that explores the origins of psychic Japanese schoolgirl Yuriko Omega.
The expansion also features a new Commander’s Challenge mode with 50 new scenarios and live-action cutscenes featuring the charisma of nature boy Ric Flair and Gemma Atkinson, among others.
Chinese gamers to wait even longer for the Lich King
It seems like Blizzards latest expansion for the popular World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King, has been out here in the states forever but the same could not be said for China.
Apparently, the expansion’s release date has been delayed even further, but why?
Well speculation has circulated that Blizzard and The9, China’s WoW distributor, are in a bit of a quarrel. Apparently, Blizzard wants more money for WoW’s license and the9 doesn’t want to give it. Oh you two.
Read (IncGamers)
Spore Galactic Adventures Announced
Electronic Arts today confirmed that the first full expansion to Sporewill be dubbed Galactic Adventures. Already revealed by online retailers, no details were offered on the space-centered add-on, though a rough release window of Spring 2009 was noted. Retailers had previously pegged the game for release in March.
The publisher is expected to reveal more information on the add-on, as well as other Spore titles, in an upcoming 2009 Spore lineupevent later this month.
Blizzard knows what’s going into next WoW expansion
It hasn’t even been a month since Blizzard launched the latest World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, and already they are talking about the next expansion.
Blizzard’s COO Paul Sams was quoted in a recent interview with PCRetail, when asked if they have plans for the next exanpsion, to have said:
Well, we don’t have anything to share on that but the development team has a very long forward look, and they don’t know all the specifics elements of the future, but the general framework is in the heads of the production staff, designers and team members. So they do know where it is going to go, but a lot of specifics they determine along the way”. Sams continued “We have a lot of creative people on the team and they have no shortage of great ideas – it’s a matter of figuring out the right ideas for each content update or expansion that fits the story that we’re trying to tell. Every time I talk to that group the ideas just keep overflowing, so we feel there’s a lot still to do.
But just how many expansions is Blizzard going to keep pumping out until they move onto something like World of Warcraft 2? Sams went on to say that while there is a significant user base playing WoW, Blizzard will continue to support them and add new content.
Sins of a Solar Empire Expansion Delayed
In more delay news, VE3D carries confirmation that Entrenchment, the upcoming microexpansion for Sins of a Solar Empire, has been delayed to January 2009.
While the retail release may have been delayed, those who pre-ordered the game will get to take part in a beta test to help balance the expansion. However, no date for the pre-order beta has been given.
Entrenchment is the first in a series of microexpansions for the game that will add new ships, technologies and more to the core title.
The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria Trailer
Turbine, Inc. has released a new trailer for The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria. It is the first expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. In addition to the new content, the game’s level cap will be raised to level 60. Moria is set to be released on November 18th.
More Halo 3 Recon Info
Even more information on Bungie’s expansion Halo 3: Recon has come from the Tokyo Game Show. Destructoid attended a conference where it was mentioned that the game takes place “during the events leading up to Master Chief’s return to New Mombasa” meaning that the game takes place between the last two Halo games.
Meanwhile, over on NeoGAF, Bungie’s Luke Smith posted word that Recon “isn’t a stealth action game like Splinter Cell.” What that means is that core gameplay mechanics like health regeneration may be out of the question, but Smith is being cryptic about it: "No, I’m not talking about how it’s different.”
Halo 3: Recon is expected to be released exclusive to Xbox 360 in Fall 2009.
Halo 3 Campaign Named, Dated
Announcing the game in a country where no one gives a damn is a nice move by Microsoft. Anyways, the company announced at its TGS conference that the recently-teased Halo 3 campaign will be released in Fall 2009.
Dubbed Halo 3 Recon, the expansion will serve as a prequel to the original Halo 3, having players step into the shoes of an USNC recon soldier. It will feature brand new multiplayer maps.
More information is expected soon.
Spore Expansion Pack Unveiled by Retailers
Retailers have recently become the source for looking up unannounced games and expansions. This time around, GameStop and Amazon are both responsible for possibly revealing the “Cute & Creepy Parts Pack” for Spore, which was recently released to much critical acclaim.
Fan site Hooked on Spore points to Google caches of either retailers, noting that both listed the item for release on November 18, with GameStop even putting a price tag on it: $19.99.
EA is yet to comment on the “rumor”. It seems they will be milking the Spore franchise like they did The Sims.