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Maxis heading to San Diego next week.

Maxis plans to discuss a new action role-playing game based on the Spore series at Comic-Con next week.

That’s according to the event’s sessions programme, which after blowing the lid on the game itself is then coy about details.

“Video Game Reveal: Maxis Studio – Maxis Studio (The Sims and Spore video games) has just announced their next project, a brand new, Sci-Fi Action-RPG based on the DNA of Spore,” it says.

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When Korean MMO and Welsh mythology meet.

Saying that Mabinogi looks like a Korean free-to-play MMORPG from 2004 isn’t an elaborate insult, just a statement of fact. It was originally released in its homeland six years ago. The Americans have had it for two years. On the plus side, though, we’re theoretically getting an MMORPG already a half-decade into its life, with all that early tweaking and refinement well behind it.

You wouldn’t know it from first impressions. Aside from looking ropey, which you can mostly forgive because it’s free and designed to run on PCs powered by potatoes with electrodes in … Continue Reading

Look behind you etc.

Guybrush Threepwood does not have an American accent. He just doesn’t. He has a cool British accent. Case closed. The more LucasArts attempt to cut and paste the ‘official’ vocals of Dominic Armato over Threepwood’s voicebox, the further they are straying from the vital template that exists inside my head. In the days before CD-ROM, I forged this character’s voice in the more central parts of my brain, and ever since its creators have done their utmost to undermine it. The same goes for Stan the used ship/coffin salesman. Stan doesn’t sound like that in my head … Continue Reading

Apple continues pushing their easy to use the video conferencing of the iPhone 4 as its main marketing message. Four new FaceTime TV ads debuted tonight on Apple’s website. Two (Meet Her and Big News) are embedded above. Th…

Apple continues pushing their easy to use the video conferencing of the iPhone 4 as its main marketing message. Four new FaceTime TV ads debuted tonight on Apple’s website. Two (Meet Her and Big News) are embedded above. Th…