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NFS Shift: Demo comes after the release

roadstar93 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:39:45 GMT

Last week the release of a demo of Need for Speed Shift was uncertain. Now we have good news for all who are waiting: EA listened to your demands and there will be a demo of NFS Shift available for Playstation 3, Xbox360 and PC. The bad news is, that the demo is coming at the end of September/start of October. (Well, better late than never :).)
So if you want to try out the game before purchase, you have to be patient.

The NFS Shift demo will most likely contain the two tracks London River and SPA Francorchamps. You can drive with four cars at the beginning: the Dodge Viper, Lotus, BMW M3 and Nissan R35. If you manage to collect all ten driver badges, you could unlock a Pagani Zonda and take it for a spin.

Source: NFS PLanet

NFS Shift: Successor of ProStreet

roadstar93 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:18:10 GMT

Need for Speed Shift is being developed by the Slightly Mad Studios. On a question from GamerZines, whether SMS had always intended for Shift to be a Need for Speed title, Lead Designer Andy Tutor replied the following:

"Yeah. It (Shift) actually started out as ProStreet 2.

You'll see the obvious references, like we've got the Tokyo track in there, albeit a bit more mature; there's no balloons or anything like that. The thing with ProStreet was that they couldn't go straight from street racing to a track racer - that would have annoyed a few people. So it was really the first stage of the transition, mixing courses with the street stuff, and this is where they (EA) always wanted it to go.

We've had a few battles, you know, 'put cops in, put nitrous on everything', but we just said 'come on, let's do this properly, shall we?' And we did. Shift is the game we always wanted to make, just under a different name to how it started."

NFS ProStreet was the first "outlier" from the Need for Speed series in 2007 and featured more realistic races. It's no surprise the developers took an existing game as a model, but on the technical side it's likely that NFS Shift is based on the Ferrari Project which was put on ice after the announcement of SMS's involvement with the NFS series.

Source: NFS-Planet

Log in

roadstar93 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:09:32 GMT

EN : From now on you'll have to log in to download any file . Thank you

RO: De acum ca sa descarci un fisier va trebui sa te loghezi.Multumesc

NFS Shift: System Requirements

roadstar93 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:06:16 GMT

Finally the official system requirements for Need for Speed Shift were published! You need at least the following minimum system configuration to play NFS Shift:

Required: Internet Connection
OS: Windows XP (Service Pack 3) or Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) / Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core™2 Duo 1.6 GHz or faster
Memory: XP: 1 GB RAM; Vista/Windows 7: 1.5 GB RAM
Hard Drive: 6 GB
DVD Drive: 8 SPEED
Video Card: 256 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 3.0*
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c compatible
Online Multiplayer: 512 Kbps or faster; 2-12 Players
Input: Keyboard, Mouse
Optional: USB Steering Wheel / Dual Analogue Gamepad

*Supported Video Cards: ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB or greater; NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT 256MB or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.

Need for Speed Shift will hit stores on September 15th in North America and on September 17th in Europe.

NFS Shift: Demo uncertain

roadstar93 — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:32:14 GMT

Need for Speed Shift goes into a different direction than most previous NFS games, which makes a demo quite indispensable, if you want to get an impression of the game before purchase. Unfortunately the following statement reached us from EA:

In the last few weeks we've received a lot of messages and forum posts about a demo so we're currently looking into the feasibility of releasing a demo for SHIFT. We are committed to releasing the best Need for Speed game so we kept the entire team working on the game to make sure we release a really great experience.

We're really proud of what the guys at SMS and Black Box have created and we can't wait to get the game in your hands.

So basically it's not sure, whether or not a demo can be released before the launch date on September 15th (17th in Europe). As soon as we know more we let you know.

Source: NFS Planet

Episodes From Liberty City to sell 2.25-2.75 million - Analyst

roadstar93 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:23:38 GMT

Michael Pachter predicts GTAIV expansion will sell well, next GTA will arrive by the 2010 holidays, and next 18 months will see release of Agent and Ken Levine's mystery shooter.

On Tuesday, Take-Two Interactive reported a loss of $55.5 million for the May-July quarter, the third of its fiscal year. The result? Its stock price shot up over $1 the following day. The reason? Besides the fact that the sizable loss was less than expected, analysts remain bullish about the New York-based publisher in general and its upcoming lineup in particular.

Michael Pachter isn't doing a double-take on Take-Two.

Wedbush Morgan Securities' Michael Pachter thinks that the decision to release the stand-alone disc Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City, which contains the two Grand Theft Auto IV expansions, will reap major rewards.

"We estimate that around 7 million copies of GTAIV were sold on the Xbox 360, meaning that approximately 25 million Xbox 360 owners did not buy the game," he said. "While we don't expect a huge attach rate, we think that it is reasonable that Take-Two could see a 5 percent attach rate among this audience, plus another 1 to 1.5 million discs sold to the 7 million prior owners."

Episodes from Liberty may do a global Smash-'n'-Grab.

Since 5 percent of 25 million is 1.25 million, by Pachter's calculus, Episodes From Liberty City could sell anywhere from 2.25 to 2.75 million units worldwide. And that figure doesn't include downloads of one of its episodes, Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony, from Xbox Live. Both it and Episodes From Liberty City are due out on October 29.

Pachter also believes that, despite Take-Two's repeated refusals to comment, the next Grand Theft Auto game will be released next holiday season. He also thinks Agent, the 1970s-set espionage game revealed at June's Electronic Entertainment Expo, will arrive during the publisher's 2010 fiscal year, which ends on October 31, 2010. The middle two quarters of that fiscal year will also see the release of four former 2009 Take-Two tentpole titles: Mafia II, Max Payne 3, BioShock 2, and Red Dead Redemption. Pachter believes all will sell at least 1.5 million units, helping Take-Two see "at least $250 million in revenue growth."

Finally, the analyst believes the next 18 months will see the release of the mystery shooter that BioShock creator Ken Levine is working on at 2K Boston. In addition, Pachter writes, "We understand that the company has made some progress in finishing L.A. Noire," the long-in-limbo 1950s-set crime game set in Los Angeles. He also thinks that 2K's Firaxis studio will "be in a position" to put out a new Civilization game during Take-Two's next fiscal year.

Source: Gamespot

Assassin's Creed II Official Trailer 1

roadstar93 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:19:36 GMT

Need for Speed Shift Preview

roadstar93 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:34:49 GMT

Gears of War 2

roadstar93 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:12:18 GMT

Venezuelan violent game ban advances

roadstar93 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:14:21 GMT

Following in the footsteps of China, Germany, Japan, Brazil, and Australia, Venezuela is considering a ban on games it deems excessively violent. This week in Caracas, lawmakers voted in favor of a bill banning the sale of violent games or toys, reports Reuters. The bill was drawn up by legislators who believe getting rid of violent games will help reduce crime in the robbery-plagued country.

On Wednesday, the National Assembly announced that the game-ban bill passed its first vote in the legislative body. It must pass a second vote and be signed into law by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez before it can take effect. However, no time frame has yet been determined for the second National Assembly vote.

This isn't the first time Venezuelan lawmakers have taken aim at games. In 2006, backers of Chavez decried Electronic Arts and Pandemic's Mercenaries 2, which was set in Venezuela and where players take on "a power-hungry tyrant" in control of the country. At the time, it was decried by one legislator as "a justification for imperial aggression."

Ironically, many lawmakers in that "imperial aggressor" have themselves been trying to restrict access to violent games. Recent years have seen failed attempts to ban their sale to minors in a number of US states, from left-leaning California to conservative Oklahoma.

Source : Gamespot