Another free to play game has launched, and this one seems to be a mess. Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies is a take on the classic Counter-Strike game, adding zombies to the mix across 50 maps of play and dozens of modes. Unfortunately my first impressions with the game were poor - a confusing interface, an engine based on Half-Life 1, and poor performance all yielded a sub par result in game play.
The World of StarCraft MMO mod for StarCraft 2 has been rename and retooled into Starcraft Universe. The change comes on the heels of a wild week for the mod's creator in which he was given a cease and desist letter from Activisions Lawyers, offered a job by League of Legends developer Riot Games, and finally flown out to Blizzard HQ to present his case to the team. The end result of this yielded a new mod that's slightly retooled, renamed, and not quite the MMO people originally hoped for.
BattleForge, EA Phenomic's card-trading-meets-RTS game, has received another expansion entitled the Lost Souls Edition. As you might recall, BattleForge is a free-to-play game where you can purchase BattleForge points for real money which you can then use to buy booster packs in-game or use to trade with other players for specific cards via an auction system. The Lost Souls Edition introduces 120 new cards, 28 of which are from the Twilight and Lost Souls factions (14 of each), previously only seen as enemies in the game.
It looks like we'll be waiting a bit longer for the impressive looking co-op modes of Splinter Cell Conviction. During an Ubisoft earnings call today with investors, they sited a new release date of April 2010 for the game. Previously the game was set to launch on February 23rd.
Electronic Arts has announced that a demo for Army of Two: The 40th Day will be released this Thursday, December 17th, on the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network.
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