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27
Jul

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you’re eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today’s Daily Filter includes the official reveals of Thor and Amaterasu in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, a behind the scenes video from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 and a short clip from the …

27
Jul

At Comic-Con 2010, Harmonix and MTV Games revealed six more songs for Rock Band 3 as well as three songs for Kinect-based dancing game, Dance Central.


Rock Band 3 and Dance Central

For Rock Band 3, gamers will be able to play the following six tracks as part of the disc’s 83-song offering:

  1. Marilyn Manson – “The Beautiful People”
  2. Filter – “Hey Man, Nice Shot”
  3. Foreigner – “Cold As Ice”
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27
Jul

FileShack has added two new PC demos to its database today for both strategists and those who love adorable anime characters.

Tipping the scale at 1.04GB is a demo for Nitro Games’ RTS Commander: Conquest of the Americas alongside a small demo for the Japanese RPG, Recettear.


Commander: Conquest of the Americas and Recettear

For Nitro Games’ RTS, the sizable trial gives players a taste of European superpowers vying for control of the New World in Commander: Conquest of the Americas allows players to take control of their favorite European superpow…

27
Jul

At Comic-Con 2010, 343 Industries’ Frank O’Conner revealed that “we haven’t seen the last of Master Chief,” in a statement given to IGN.


Bungie’s final Halo game, Halo: Reach

Bungie’s final Halo universe game, Halo: Reach, is a prequel to the original game and will not feature Master Chief, that we know of at this time. The ending of Halo 3 left things quite open for more Master Chief action.

Microsoft-owned 343 Industries will pick up the reins on the franchise and handle all things Halo-universe, which is not just limited to games. It is unclear if Master Chief will be returning…

27
Jul

With so many gamers picking up StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty tonight or tomorrow, it’s time to have an important talk about account security. There are bad folks out there that will try to gain access to your Battle.net account for nefarious reasons. Now, the risk is certainly higher for a World of Warcraft player — their precious gold can be stolen and sold for real money — but it can’t hurt to protect your Battle.net account.

To do this, go ahead and add a Blizzard Authenticator. There are two options. The first is to purchase a <a href="http://us.blizzard.c…

27
Jul

Have you met my friend, StarCraft II?

Tomorrow we’ll probably do a discussion thread for the game, but keep spoilers tagged, please. For anyone picking up the Collector’s Edition, be warned that the art book supposedly contains story spoilers.

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27
Jul

Gavin Cheshire, VP of studios for Codemasters, has confirmed in an interview that the company is working on new entries for DiRT, Race Driver: Grid, and Operation Flashpoint.


DiRT 2 and Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

DiRT 2 was released in September 2009, while Race Driver: Grid was released in June 2008. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, the first in the series not developed by Bohemia Interacti…

27
Jul

[Update: 6:25pm] THQ has told Shacknews that “no details” regarding Games for Windows Live support for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine are being announced at this time.

[Original Story] For PC users experiencing a serious lack of balding space marines, we have some good news for you this afternoon. THQ has just announced its upcoming third-person action-shooter Warhammer: 40,000: Space Marine is headed to the PC alongside previously announced Xbox 360 and PS3 versions.

“The loyal PC audience is incredibly important to us here at Relic so we are delighted to be able to announce the PC version of the game,” Relic Entertainment general manager Jonathan Dowdeswell said in a press release announcing the PC version. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is scheduled to hit stores in early 2011.

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27
Jul

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days will use Valve’s Steamworks for PC DRM, the publisher announced today. A 10% discount is also available through Steam for pre-order customers bringing the price down to $44.99.

As promised, the PC demo for the game has also been released through Steam. Previous Square Enix/EIDOS published PC games like Just Cause 2 and Supreme Commander 2 have utilized Steamworks DRM and have been digitally exclusive to Steam.

27
Jul

Today–otherwise referred to as the day the video game industry decided to keep quiet as people wait in line for StarCraft II–we bring you two videos released by Blizzard over the weekend, developed to prepare players for the upcoming RTS sequel. The first trailer gives players an overview of the first chapter in the StarCraft II trilogy.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty takes place four years after StarCraft: Brood War (originally released in 1998), and brings players face-to-face with classic characters Zeratul, Arcturus Mengsk, Artanis and Sarah Kerrigan; however, the star of the game (and the campaign overview trailer) is the grizzled solider James Raynor.

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There are more than a few skeletons in the veteran’s closet and in his upcoming battle, the soldier has nothing to lose. The long-awaited continuation in the StarCraft series hits stores tomorrow.

A video o…