News Roundup: Ultimate Ninja Pinata

by: Randy - posted: 11/16/2006 10:30:00 PM

Demos

• In The Mark's ripped-right-from-the-headlines premise, you're ordered to stop a nuclear package from reaching its London target.
  

Videos, Screenshots

• The sharply-drawn Silverfall fantasy RPG looks into its Making Of Trailer.
• Armed Assault, another foray into modern combat shooters, assembles a montage movie.
  
• Screenshot grab bag:  Sonic Rivals (PSP), NFL Street 3 (PSP, PS2), Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (PS2), Viva Pinata (X360), DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road, Halo 3 (X360), Glyph (PC).

Reviews, Previews, Interviews, Editorials

• To a gamer, COD isn't Cash On Delivery.  It's Call of Duty.  And Atomic Gamer delivers a review on Call of Duty 3.
• Killer Betties get some questions & answers out of Mad Doc about Star Trek: Legacy for the PC and X360.
• And they've also got a massive character reveal for the first half of the over 100 characters in Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (who's buying all these Dragonball games?  Do you know of anyone?)
• Couldn't make it to Iceland for the EVE Online fanfest?  MMORPG.com has got your back.  This portion of their fanfest report covers avatars, Linux, and many other announcements.
• In an editorial column, Garrett Fuller looks at "MMO Release Dates: Timing the Market."
  

Patches, Mods

• Cover up some potholes in Battlefield 2 with the 1.41 patch and 1.41 dedicated server.
• Max Payne chops it up with the new Katana mod.
• And Diablo II crosses the Prime Meridian 2008 in this latest mod.
• X3: Reunion has several gradations of patches to choose from: 1.4.03 to 2.0.02, 1.4 to 2.0.02, or 2.0.01 to 2.0.02.
  

Thanks Atomic Gamer, MMORPG.com, and Killer Betties for hookin' up today's News Roundup.