News Roundup: Road to Lost Planet

by: Randy - posted: 12/12/2006 12:35:00 AM

Demos

• Sprint car fans now have Sprint Cars: Road to Knoxville to get their gears grinding.
  

Videos, Screens

• The cel-shaded roleplaying Rogue Galaxy rakes in a couple new trailers.  You can get with this, or you can get with that.
• Close shut the jaws of Hellgate: London!  This trailer claws its way up from the 9th ring.
• The cool, cool Lost Planet: Extreme Condition pushes the 'Actions' button.
• It's better than screening your phone calls; it's screening your video games:  Blitz: The League, Gluck'Oza: Action!, and Virtua Tennis 3.
  

Articles

• Sigil Community Manager (Vanguard: Saga of Heroes) begins a four-part series addressing the question: "So You Want to be an MMO Developer?"
• Dan Fortier at MMORPG.com is turning the tables on the awards shows and introduces his 2006 MMOWTF Awards:  The voting booths are open!
• Killer Betties continue their Killer Women series, this time interviewing Cricket, a Community Coordinator over at the City of Heroes camp.
• The venerated Castlevania series looks at a Portrait of Ruin, with Killer Betties painting a clearer picture for DS fans on this one.
• Atomic Gamer cranks out the previews.  We're so over Gears of War, The Legend of Zelda, and Resistance: Fall of Man.  Just kidding.  But still -- see what's next:  Dark Sector (360, PS3), Cube (PSP), Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (PSP, DS), Onechanbara: vorteX (360), and Earth Defense Force X (360).
  

Downloads

• Armed Assault comes packin' heat with its Dedicated Win32 Server - v1.01 Beta 5099.
• Vietcong 2: Fist Bravo (Fist?  Bravo?)  throws a punch, er, patch with v1.1.
• Warmhammer: Mark of Chaos pounds out retail patch v1.6.
• Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales hauls in the yard arm to its v1.43 patch.
  

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