Napoleon: Total War Gets Demo
SEGA announced that RTS gamers can now download a demo for Napoleon: Total War via Steam.
Players can learn how to lead an army to victory in the tutorial for land battles, while testing their strategies at the Battle of Ligny where Napoleon’s army takes on the powerful Prussian forces. As land battles are only a portion of the game, a campaign map video and…
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Long Wait Ahead For MLB 10: The Show Patch
With the numerous issues being found in MLB 10: The Show, the heavy concentration of which are seen in Franchise mode, it would stand to reason that a patch would be expedited. However it is now being realized that the next patch will be a long ways off as work on it won’t even begin until the end of the month. That could make its targeted arrival late April, but even that isn’t going to be assured and it could very well be longer.
As posted today on the MLB: The Show Community Forum by SCEA representative: “We will start working on the next patch when the team comes back from break at the end of the month.”
Last year the main patch for MLB 09 dropped in the final week of April and actually ruined existing Road to the Show and Franchises. No word yet if this upcoming patch will require restarting those modes. The timeline could be similar or, due to more problems to be addressed this year, take more time. The longer the wait stretches on the more unreasonable it would be to expect everyone to start over or hold off until then to begin.
BioWare taking “brand new” approach to end-game content
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s end-game content will mix the traditional MMO system with “something brand new,” BioWare has revealed.
So-called ’end-game’ content is what incentivises players to continue playing once they’ve hit the maximum level.
The Old Republic’s creative director James Olhen told PC Gamer (via CVG), “We’re looking at classic [endgame] systems, but we’re also doing something brand new that hasn’t been done in an MMO before. So we’re going to mix those two together.”
According to the report, The Old Republic’s product manager stopped Olhen from giving any further specific details. However, he did say, ”We want to make sure the endgame isn’t completely different to what you have been doing. So there will be a natural progression… We want to make sure that when people play ToR they feel like they never run out of content… that it’s an epic story.”
