News Roundup: Sword of the Stars of the New World

by: Randy - posted: 4/21/2007 1:55:00 PM

Demos

• All hands to starboard!  The 32nd America's Cup -- The Game is looking gorgeous, even if sailing ain't your thing.

Videos, Screenshots

• Blast! these Infernal gameplay trailers!
• Clive Barker's Jericho gets a cinematic.
• Screens:  Shrek the Third (PSP, DS, GBA), Wordsnake (DS), Sword of the New World: Granado Espada (PC), Aces of War (PSP), Exit 2 (PSP), World Championship Poker Deluxe Series (DS), Raw Danger (PS2), Stranger (PC), Sword of the Stars: Born of Blood (PC), The Sims 2: Pets (Wii), Transformers (featuring Bumblebee).

Reviews, Previews, Interviews, Articles

• While it's a cute, clever movie, see what happens when Happy Feet taps its way onto the video game medium.
• Casual puzzle gamers (in the match-three-of-a-kind vein) can taste the Rainbow Mystery.
• Based on an interview with Executive Producer Jeffrey Steefel, here's a launch preview for Lord of the Rings Online.
• An Age of Conan afficionado editorializes on "Living the Cimmerian."
• The urban sprawl grows in this review of City Life: World Edition.
• GamersInfo wraps up its coverage of the Indie MMO Game Developers Conference: Day Two.
• The contemporary equivalent of the Wild West (?), it's Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia.

Patches

• DEFCON 1.4 patch.

Thanks to GamersInfo.net, WarCry, AtomicGamer, and Killer Betties for this weekend's News Roundup.