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Battlestar Galactica MMO coming this fall

NBC Universal and Bigpoint Games have announced that an MMO based on hit Sci Fi TV series Battlestar Galactica is currently under development and will be released this fall season on Syfy.com

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RUSE Beta initial impressions

As promised, Ubisoft launched today (or rather unlocked) the R.U.S.E. beta on Steam. Anyone with a Steam account can download the Beta file (around 1.6 GB) and start playing. The Beta is understood to last for a month, after that Ubisoft may extend it further or just pull the plug on the testers, so waste no time, rush and click the download link. The Beat starts with a small video by producer Mathieu Girardand and Alexis from the developers; Eugen Systems, showcasing the major additions since the VIP Beta version of RUSE was launched.

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New Trailer for Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands فيلم دعائي جديد من لعبة “برنس أوف برشيا” القادمة

Ubisoft has released a new video for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, showcasing the next instalment’s gameplay techniques, going back to its roots (i.e. side scrolling levels), while showing a small glimpse at the story and how it unfolds, the wall runs and the acrobatics jumps that the prince is famous for. The video – once again – comes after the jump!

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Behind the Scenes video for Lost Planet 2 فيلم من كواليس لعبة “لوست بلانت” الثانية

Capcom has released the first Behind the Scenes video for Lost Planet 2 (3rd person shooter with some RPG elements). The Producer, Takeuchi-san, and the Director, Oguro-san, both talk about the story to the sequel to Lost Planet. Turns out that planet of E.D.N. III has warmed up, revealing jungles and more tropical areas, making life a bit better for the humans living there. But with the temperature warming up, it’s made the Akrid more hostile. On top of that, the factions of humans on the planet are in constant war over Thermal Energy. The video comes after the jump!

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Sony launches its Facebook MMO game: PoxNora سوني تطلق لعبة مغامرات اللعب الجماعي “بوكس نورا” على فيسبوك

In January 2009, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) announced the acquisition of the PoxNora, an online collectible strategy game from Octopi, LLC (now known as SOE Tucson). Since then, the game has enjoyed steady expansion in reach and popularity with over 2.5 million registered accounts. PoxNora combines turn-based strategy elements with basic mechanics of a collectible card game. While the game is free-to-play initially, a player who wants to build his or her own deck needs to spend money at PoxNora’s item shop to acquire new cards, or “runes” in game terminology.

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Steam coming to MAC, everyone happy متجر “ستيم” الإلكتروني يحاول إرضاء الجميع و يوسع خدماته لتشمل حواسيب ماكنتوش

For years PC owners have been enjoying Valve’s online distribution platform exclusively, and for a good reason too, since many studios outright abandoned Macs due to the severe lack of development support from Apple.

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Codemasters’ FPS named: Bodycount بودي كاونت” لعبة الرماية القادمة من كودماسترز”

After being rumored for some time, it has been confirmed now. According to the artwork published on the cover of the latest edition of Official Xbox Magazine, Codemasters’ long rumored shooter is called “Bodycount”.  Described by OXM as the “Ultimate shooter” with “Astonishing destruction” and ” Insane action”, it’s the first game from Codemasters’ new studio in Guildford, headed up by Stuart Black, the former senior designer of the 2006 EA Criterion shooter: Black!

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