Week of July 22, 2007

In connection with Comic-Con currently underway in San Diego, CA, Ubisoft released a 15MB trailer for their upcoming game, Lost, based on the popular television series. The game is due out on the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 Q1 2008.

Watch the trailer

EA released five new images of the next installment of The Sims 2 series, The Sims 2: Bon Voyage, for the PC.

Akella sends word their new website for Showdown: Scorpion has launched, providing screens, videos, info and more.

Visit the site

JoWood has released a patch for Spaceforce: Rogue Universe, which fixes several bugs and adds a few new features:

- Added support for higher resolution and 8x antialiasing
- New minimap features (for quests and space stations)
- Easy mode has been made simpler
- Solved or failed quests can now randomly be reactivated
- When the player hits other objects the bounce power is now lower
- Durability now depends on ship damage, instead of gameplay time
- Rebalanced experience rewards
- Time to recharge mega jump has been reduced
- User can now enable switching weapons in the middle of their battle
- Joystick options added

NCsoft released another in-game trailer for Guild Wars: Eye of the North.

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These were released a couple days ago but we finally got them up. Six new images and two new gameplay videos for Heroes & Gods: Rome Rising, the latest MMORPG in development for Sony Online Entertainment.

IRVINE, Calif. – July 24, 2007 "K2 Network, Inc. (www.k2network.net), an online game publisher, today announced that it has launched GamersFirst.net, a dedicated landing page where gamers can now go to access all of K2 Network’s upcoming and current titles in one place.

While visiting GamersFirst.net gamers can download games and learn about all of K2 Network’s titles. Special features and services that the company offers will also be listed, including a new community destination, Gamer Scene, the Affiliate Center and much more. The company plans to expand the site further in the future with various convenient features including a consolidated log-in and other community friendly content and functionalities.

"There are more than 10 million users worldwide who enjoy K2 Network games,” said Joshua Hong, CEO and co-founder of K2 Network. “We wanted to create one destination where all the communities from our different games could go to find out everything that we have going on. GamersFirst.net is something we are really excited about and we look forward to growing it over time.”

This year K2 Network plans to attend and exhibit at more than 10 consumer video game related conventions around the world including The San Diego ComiCon, Leipzig Game Convention, GenCon, PAX, DragonCon and more. GamersFirst.net will be a destination where K2 Network gamers can find out about the latest promotions, contests, photo opps, prizes and other exciting happenings at these events on its GamersFirst news section.

One of the first contests that players can learn about and participate in through GamersFirst.net is the Sword of the New World: Granado Espada Photo Model Contest with prizes sponsored by K2 Network’s official sound technology partner CREATIVE Labs (www.creative.com). For more information about this special event, please visit www.k2network.net/gftour.php

While it's already out in Europe, here in the States we're expecting to see firmware 1.90 released this week. Here's what to expect:

• Ability to rearrange games on the XMB
• Option menu now includes "eject disk"
• Press triangle to eject games/CDs/movies in the XMB
• XMB backgrounds
• Change the folder classification
• Emoticons
• Change CD output to 44.1/88.2/176.4kHz
• Force 24Hz output for Blu-ray over HDMI
• Change PS3 video settings in-game
• "Bit Mapping" in the "Music Setting"
• Save AVCHD type animations from a Memory Stick
• Change settings like upscaling while playing PS and PS2 games
• Add bookmarks
• Web browser security function in the browser's tool section
• Avatar moves during audio visual chat

A new first-person shooter has been announced, The Scourge Project, coming from Tragnarion Studios, and a website is up featuring a trailer and a handful of screenshots.

Three new classic games go live at 9 a.m. Pacific time.

Kirby's Dream Course™ (Super NES®, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone, 800 Wii Points)

Devil's Crush (TurboGrafx16, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone – Animated Blood, Mild Fantasy Violence, 600 Wii Points)

Shining Force™ (Sega Genesis, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone – Mild Fantasy Violence, 800 Wii Points)

NCsoft released fourteen new images of their upcoming MMORPG Aion: Tower of Eternity for the PC.

Liezen, Austria, July 23rd 2007: JoWooD Productions Software AG and digital infrastructure provider, VeriSign, are happy to announce „Gothic 3 – The Beginning“ for mobile systems. The popular role playing game will be ready for mobile gamers at the beginning of 2008. HandyGames™, with their extensive experience in programming mobile phone games, have been chosen to develop Gothic – The Beginning. We are looking forward to delivering another great Gothic Story to gamers around the world. Have a look at the first known features:

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