News Pop! 10/02/06
By Eli Green
October 2, 2006 - 23:20
Welcome to another week here at News Pop!. We're starting this week with a late edition. For those of you who weren't aware, today was Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. As such, we had to get things started at night, rather than our usual day time edition. We also hope all of our Jewish readers out there had an easy fast.
EA
acquires Digital Illusions
The
big news out of Redwood City, California today is that Electronic
Arts has acquired Digital Illusions CE (DICE), the development team
and creator of the acclaimed Battlefield franchise. Digital
Illusions, based in Stockholm, Sweden, will become a fully integrated
EA studio dedicated to growing its already popular Battlefield
franchise and developing new PC, next gen and other multi-platform
titles. The acquisition is effective immediately, so anyone trying to
go to DICE's website will, at the moment, not find anything but a
coming soon logo. The site should be up again soon.
Unreal
Engine 3 grows
The
Unreal Engine 3 Integrated Partners Program, run by Epic Games,
gained a new partners today. Fonix Speech Inc., a subsidiary of Fonix
Corp., which specializes in embedded speech interfaces for mobile
devices, systems and processors, will be integrating its Fonix
VoiceIn Game Edition into Unreal Engine 3. What this means for
licensees of Unreal Engine 3 is that VoiceIn is fully integrated and
fully supported for its use within the engine. What this means for
gamers depends on what the licensees of the engine decide to do with
the features provided in the engine. For more information on Unreal
Engine 3 you can check out www.unrealtechnology.com
or for more information on Fonix Speech and what games are currently
compatible with VoiceIn go to www.fonixspeech.com.
Bethesda
Softworks announces Star Trek shipping dates
Bethesda
Softworks will be releasing three new Star Trek titles for multiple
platforms in the near future, one of which is to be in stores this
week. The games are Star Trek: Encounters, Star Trek: Tactical
Assault and Star Trek: Legacy. Star Trek: Encounters, releasing
tomorrow for the Playstation 2, is an arcade style shooter featuring
ships, characters and weapons from the 40 year history of Star Trek.
Star Trek: Tactical Assault, shipping October 24th for the
PSP and Nintendo DS, is a real-time spaceship combat game for up to
two players. The game will feature a wide array of authentic Star
Trek races, ships and weaponry from the original Star Trek series.
Star Trek: Legacy, shipping November 7th for PC and Xbox
360, is an epic Starfleet combat game, covering the entire Star Trek
universe. For complete information on these titles, you can check out
startrek.bethsoft.com.
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