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Alpha Protocol gets release date and new sub-title

by John Callaham Jul 2nd 2009 @ 4:00PM

It's a game that we have been waiting for a long time to get our hands on and today Sega took the unusual move of announcing a release date for a game that isn't due out for over three months. The game in question is Alpha Protocol and the Obsidian Entertainment-developed action-RPG is now due out in stores on October 6.

The Unreal Engine 3-powered take on the super-spy genre has also picked up a newly revealed sub-title: The Espionage RPG. Perhaps Sega wasn't too sure that the Alpha Protocol title was good enough to identify the game as part of the spy genre.

Gallery: Alpha Protocol

Filed under: Action, RPG

Obsidian finally confirms Aliens RPG cancelation

by John Callaham Jun 27th 2009 @ 9:00AM

It's a bit of an anti-climax at this point but Obsidian Entertainment has finally confirmed what was highly suspected for months; their Aliens RPG project for Sega is no more. In a post on their message board, a rep for the game developer stated, "Unfortunately, it is true that we are no longer working on the game, and we wanted to finally announce that officially to everyone who has been following its development."

Don't weep for Obsidian; they have two more announced projects in the works; the super-spy action-RPG title Alpha Protocol and the still mysterious Fallout: New Vegas game. They also have a third game under development that nothing is known about yet.

Filed under: RPG

Empire: Total War patch released; new separate paid download adds units

by John Callaham Jun 22nd 2009 @ 5:00PM

As promised, the best selling historical RTS game Empire Total War has a new patch available only via Steam. The free patch not only has a number of bug fixes and performance improvements but adds 14 free units to The Creative Assemby-developed game that replace generic units for each faction of the game.

However if you are willing to spend a few extra bucks ($3.49 to be exact) there's also a new downloadable expansion available for the game called Elite Units of the West. This DLC, also available via Steam exclusively, adds an additional 14 units and this time each unit is unique to the game.

Gallery: Empire: Total War

Filed under: Downloads, Expansions, RTS, Empire: Total War

Empire: Total War on sale on Steam this weekend

by John Callaham Jun 19th 2009 @ 12:00PM

We kind of expected this and this weekend we were right; just a few days before a major patch to the game is release, Steam is offering both the regular version of Empire: Total War and the Special Forces edition for 50 percent off their usual prices for this weekend only. The regular edition of the historical RTS game is now just $24.99 while the Special Forces Edition (with a number of extra and powerful units) can be bought for $34.99.

As we have mentioned, the game's developer The Creative Assembly is planning to release a major new patch to the game on June 22 (that's this Monday) that will have not only performance improvements and bug fixes but will also add 14 additional units to the game.

Gallery: Empire: Total War

Filed under: Downloads, RTS, Empire: Total War

Next major Empire: Total War patch coming June 22

by John Callaham Jun 18th 2009 @ 3:00PM

We've been reporting that The Creative Assembly has been working on their next major update for Empire: Total War and today the developer revealed on their blog site that the 1.3 patch will in fact be released on June 22. As with previous patches this new update will be delivered via Valve's Steam service.

As we have mentioned before, this new update will add 14 new units to the game with many of them replacements to established "generic" equivalents. That should give players more unique units to play with. The blog has a list of all 14 units. In addition the patch will improve multi-threading for PCs with multi-core processors along with performance improvements for single-core PCs.

Gallery: Empire: Total War

Filed under: Downloads, Patches, RTS, Empire: Total War

New Sega of America head man named

by John Callaham Jun 16th 2009 @ 9:00PM

On Monday it was revealed that Simon Jeffery, the long time president of Sega of America, had decided to leave the company in order to join the iPhone game publishing company ngmoco. Now Gameindustry.biz is reporting that Jeffrey's replacement has already been named.

According to their story Mike Hayes, previously the chief operating officer of Sega Europe, has now been named as the new president for Sega of America. Hayes gets named to his new post as Sega preps up a number of game titles for the next 12 months including Alpha Protocol and Aliens Vs Predator for the PC platform.

Filed under: Biz

More info on upcoming free Empire: Total War units

by John Callaham Jun 16th 2009 @ 1:00PM

Last month The Creative Assembly revealed that they would be releasing new free units and replacing existing ones for their best selling historical RTS game Empire: Total War. This month the game's official message board has posted up more info and screenshots of many of those new units.

One of them is pictured above; the line infantry units called the Holland Guards. Other new units revealed in the message board's daily updates include the Spanish Guardias de corps cavalry unit, a replacement for the Spanish Grenadiers and the The Prussian life guards. There still no word on when these new free units will be released.

Gallery: Empire: Total War

Filed under: Downloads, RTS, Empire: Total War

Sega of America head departs

by John Callaham Jun 15th 2009 @ 8:30PM

Changes are coming for one of the biggest game publishers in the US. A press release from iPhone-iPod Touch game publisher ngmoco has announced that they have brought in Simon Jeffery to be its chief publishing officer. Jeffrey was previously the president and chief operating officer at Sega of America.

Jeffrey came to Sega in 2003 after being President of LucasArts. During his tenure Sega began to release more PC games including the PC exclusive titles like the current best selling RTS game Empire: Total War (made by Sega owned developer The Creative Assembly). When contacted by Big Download, a spokesperson for Sega for America would not comment on Jeffery's departure, saying that more news would be revealed later this week.

Filed under: Biz

Other Sega Aliens games still alive in some form

by John Callaham Jun 15th 2009 @ 7:45PM

Earlier this year rumors hit the Internet that Sega had decided to put two game projects based on the Aliens movie franchise on hold in favor of a new Aliens Vs Predator title. Now comes word that both games are still in production but question remain about one of them.

Kotaku reports that Gearbox Software is still working on their FPS Aliens: Colonial Marines. However the title, which was first announced three years ago, won't be released in 2009. Meanwhile while our sister site Joystiq is reporting that the other Aliens title, under the code name Aliens RPG, is still in development according to Sega questions remain as to whether the game's announced developer, Obsidian Entertainment, is still working on the project.

Filed under: FPS, RPG

E3 2009: Alpha Protocol eyes-on impressions

by John Callaham Jun 10th 2009 @ 4:00PM

Last year at E3 we got our first gameplay glimpse at Alpha Protocol, the super-spy themed action-RPG from developer Obsidian and publisher Sega. This year at E3 2009 we got yet another live gameplay look at the title which is currently due for release this fall.

The behind-closed-doors demo (which we didn't get to play for ourselves) gave us another shot at checking out Michael Thorton, the lead character in the game and a spy-agent in the "JB" tradition (that would be James Bond, Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer) . The demo emphasized that this will be a true RPG game with action elements. Your character will have a number of different skills that you can improve upon as the game progresses, such as weapons, stealth and more. You will have to choose a few skills to specialize in and you can even get some perks that will give you some extra improvements

Gallery: Alpha Protocol

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Filed under: Features, Hands-on, Action, RPG

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