News Roundup: Nightmare Brain Pressure

by: Randy - posted: 9/1/2007 4:55:00 PM

Demos, Full Games

• Young man, there's no need to feel down.  It's always fun to stay at the F.I.F.A.  (Ahem.)  Here's FIFA 2008.
• AtomicGamer has mirrored the full game (Aug. 2007) to NCsoft's free-2-play Dungeon Runners.
• Turn-based strategy demo, Fantasy Wars, is up for grabs.  (Snappy visuals for a small-house production...)

Videos, Screenshots

• Video Stack:  Mafia 2 GC07 trailer; EA Playground;and Nightmare House: Remake.

• Screen Stack:  Horsez 2, Fashion Designer, Dolphin Island, Jam Sessions, Babies (no, seriously), Pet Vet, My Word Coach, Worldshift, Fatal Fury Special, Brian Lara 2007 Pressure Play, Madden NFL 2008, DiRT: Colin McRae Off-Road, Zoo Hospital, and Tabula Rasa.

Articles

• As Fallout 3 continues the Cold War game renaissance, ActionTrip ducks into a bomb shelter with Lead Producer Gavin Carter for a Q&A session.
• Get your brain all fresh and nubile again.  Read AtomicGamer's review of Brain Age 2.
• WarCry talked to Auran CEO Tony Hilliam and Fury Lead Designer Adam Carpenter at PAX.
• Get up to date on the state of Darkfall with this latest dev diary.
• And the next heavyweight MMO, Age of Conan, gets another WarCry editorial regarding the lengthened beta (due to the delayed release).
• Killer Betties reviews CDV's Pearl Harbor (although I think they fully meant Attack On Pearl Harbor.)
• One of the first out the gate (and probably one of the lengthiest you'll see), here's a review of BioShock from GamersInfo.net.
• First we get screenshots of Babies, and now we've got a preview of ... Weewar?  (No, actually, they're not related in the least.)

Patches

• Median 2008 1.55c patch.

Thanks to ActionTrip, AtomicGamer, WarCry, Killer Betties, and GamersInfo.net for this Labor Day Weekend's News Roundup.