Out of the... Umm, fake?

Recently a Need for Speed fansite, Need for Speed Shift, posted a picture on their website and claimed that it was concept art of EA’s newest Need for Speed project, called Out of the Law.

It didn’t take long for Criterion to debunk this. Criterion posted a tweet on their twitter account, stating that all the stories of this newest project are fake.

NFS stories on the net today – 100% FAKE!

Bad news for Need for Speed fans. I have never been into racing games myself, so I didn’t feel too bad to hear that this was fake.

FPSMMO?

There has been quite a lot of rumors going around that Infinity Ward may be working on a CoD MMO for quite some time now. And now Destructoid reports that Infinity Ward is hiring people from from Sony Online Entertainment with one of them possibly being the lead designer of EverQuest II.

We’ve gotten word that IW is hiring people from Sony Online Entertainment, one of which may be the lead designer of EverQuest II, and that a member of Blizzard employees may also be involved to help Infinity Ward get this new title off the ground. Our Intel seems to indicate that Call of Duty will continue as an annual franchise while IW runs this MMO alongside it.

FPSMMO! Is Infinity Ward going for it? Who knows.. Just remember that this is speculation and nothing is official yet! So don’t go down to Infinity Ward’s offices with torches and pitchforks yet.. or if you like the idea of an FPSMMO, don’t go hugging and throwing flowers at the staff members of Infinity Ward just yet!

Something like this if you replace everyone with cartoonish characters.

After reading today’s gaming news, I stumbled upon a couple of mentions about this new “Xbox Game Room” that was revealed at CES 2010 (International Consumer Electronics Show). So I decided to find out what it was. Luckily I found a trailer that shows what it’s like.

According to Destructoid, this Game Room will be a channel that has over 1000 old school classic games. You will be able to create a custom arcade rooms and play against your friends.

Destructoid later added that you can buy these arcade games for 240 to 400 points or you can buy them for just 40 points and every time you die, you have to pay 40 points to play again.

I guess it’s going to be like “The Sims meets Xbox Live Arcade” or something. Virtually playing virtual arcade games? That may sound a little weird, but I do like the idea behind it. Let’s see how it turns out!

"Your orders, Templar?"

Zerg and Protoss fans weren’t happy to find out that StarCraft II was going to be released as a trilogy of games, first part of the trilogy being Wings of Liberty that only has the Terran campaign playable.

But Protoss fans do have something to look forward to because StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty also contains a Protoss mini-campaign! Xordiah from Blizzard’s RTS Community Team confirmed this on the Battle.Net forums

I won’t go into details, since we don’t give out information on the campaign of StarCraft 2, but I can confirm that there will be a Protoss mini-campaign that lets you control Protoss units. This part of the campaign mode is of course way shorter than the Terran part, but it is very fun to have a very different playstyle to add even more variety to the game. I am sure every Protoss fan will love this part of the Campaign!

That being said, the Protoss mini-campaign will not prepare you for the multiplayer as Protoss, you won’t be using all units or getting to know buildings and upgrades.

Protoss is my favorite race in StarCraft so I am happy to hear that there is going to be a short mini-campaign for Protoss in SC2: WoL, even though it might be just 2-4 missions. Thankfully both Protoss and the Zerg will be playable in the multiplayer of WoL.