The Big Round-up: Tuesday, June 10

Posted Jun 10th 2008 12:00PM by Dan O'Halloran
Filed under: Expansions, Mods, Meta BD, Spore, World of Warcraft

Your daily wrap-up of the hottest stories in PC gaming in the last 24 hours.

	Call of Duty 5 news reveals "new" military theatre Computer and Video Games has become the first web site to reveal the first details on the next game in Activision's Call of Duty shooter franchise. The game is subtitled World at War and as expected is being developed by Treyarch. It uses the Call of Duty 4 engine as created by Infinity Ward. While Activision had stated the game would be in a new military theater the story states that's isn't exactly true; the game will go back to the familiar WWII setting but will take place in the Pacific theater of war (with a side trip back to Europe to see the fall of Berlin by Russian forces).
	Alone in the Dark completed, hits shelves later this month Atari and Eden Games' Alone in the Dark has gone gold. All work on the game is finished, and the discs are being pressed. It will be available at retail on June 20th in Europe and June 24th in North America. The extravagant limited edition package will be released on those days as well.
	Shipping this week: Hulk Smash! While releases this week are lighter than usual, a smashing new title is hitting PC (we get paid per lame joke here apparently). Based on the new film surrounding the popular Marvel character, The Incredible Hulk hits PC on Tuesday as well as the rest of the week's releases that include the first downloadable episode of GameCock's film noir style action adventure game, Insecticide and a free content expansion for EVE Online.
	Achievements coming to World of Warcraft? One of the Xbox 360's biggest innovations is the use of "Achievements", those cool goals in every Xbox 360 game that can be made with points added to a player's Gamertag score. Valve has added similar achievements to Team Fortress 2. Now comes world that Blizzard might be planning to add something like Achievements to its hit MMO World of Warcraft.

	New Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion revealed Neverwinter Vault brings word that a new Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion, Storm of Zehir, is in development. As per translation from Spanish site Neverwintos, Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir will include "full party customization, dungeon crawling, and free exploration of a non-linear game world via an Overland Map."
	Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization announced 2K Games has announced Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization, a stand-alone expansion that recreates the classic Colonization game.
	Will Wright speaks on future of game possibilities, art Similar to how Maxis and EA's upcoming Spore game allows players evolve a creature from humble unicellular beginnings to daring space explorer, venerable designer Will Wright is adamant that games are quickly morphing into a full-fledged art form.
	MODvelous Monday: 6/9/08 StarCraft map designer Goran1's description of his custom map is explanatory enough. Pac-Man. 'Nuff said. We've all played the iconic yellow pizza's game before, right? In summary, you guide the titular hero through mazes filled with white dots while keeping away from four ghosts. Grabbing a power pill renders Pac-Man temporarily invulnerable, which allows players to increase their score by turning the tables on the ghosts.