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Eidos has just launched Battlestations.net, the community-focused website for their upcoming follow-up to Battlestations: Midway, Battlestations: Pacific, and they’re celebrating by bombarding fans with new screens and trailers.

The Battlestations.net website will play host to new screenshots, movies, developer blogs, podcasts, and just about everything Battlestations: Pacific you can imagine. Fans will be able to chat with other fans about the series, offer the developers their helpful input, and even participate in Eidos-hosted Battlestations: Midway competitions in order to polish their skills for the sequel, due out this spring.

While I’m not a big fan of Battlestations’ particular brand of strategy, I have friends who swear the first game was the best thing since World War II. Not going to argue, as they’re a bit off-balance, and armed. Check out the latest screens and the new trailer below.

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Battlestations.net Weighs Anchor

Battlestations: PacificTM community-focused website launches today

Tuesday 6th January/… Eidos Interactive, creator of some of the world’s leading video game properties, today announced the launch of a new community-focused destination site for Battlestations: Pacific™.

Sequel to 2007’s critically acclaimed Battlestations: Midway™, Battlestations: Pacific™ picks up where its predecessor left off. Pitching players into the might of World War II’s Pacific conflict, the game delivers intense, action-packed combat and strategic warfare on an extraordinary scale and features two distinctly different single-player campaigns. A historically accurate US Campaign puts players in command of the US fleet through The Battle of Midway to Okinawa as they try to secure peace in the Pacific. Or play as the Japanese and take control of the Imperial Japanese fleet with the unique chance to fight at Pearl Harbor before attempting to change the course of history and take full control of the Pacific Ocean. Players can also take the battle online with an enhanced multiplayer, offering five new and innovative co-op and team-based modes.

“Battlestations offers a blend of action and strategy unlike any other videogame on the market and as such has a dedicated and committed community of fans,” said Lee Singleton, General Manager of Eidos Game Studios. “The launch of Battlestations.net as a destination site for both information and discussion on the game comes as a direct result of listening and interacting with our communities.”

Launched today, the new Battlestations.net site offers a feature-rich destination for information, entertainment and discussion on this anticipated sequel. News, screens and movies on the game will be accompanied by in-depth developer blogs, podcasts, exclusive website competitions and Eidos-hosted Battlestations: Midway™ multiplayer sessions, allowing fans of the game a chance to brush up on their skills before the launch of Battlestations: Pacific™.

Those interested in enlisting can join the discussions at www.battlestations.net.

Battlestations: Pacific™ is set for release on Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Games for Windows® in spring 2009.

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Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine confirmed that they are working on a new massively multiplayer online game that will sell in-game items for cash.

Word of the game leaked out after a job posting for a micro-transaction and e-commerce manager hit Turbine’s website.

In the description, the company said the position would be for someone “responsible for delivering and maximizing the revenue derived from Turbine’s micro-transaction-based in-game store.”

But yesterday a Turbine employee posted in the company’s forums that the job was for an “unannounced future project.”

Hey guys! We know the recent job listing has caused a bit of a stir, but please be aware that this posting is for an unannounced future project. We appreciate the thoughts and feedback on both sides thus far.

While selling items in a game for additional money has been met with some criticism among gamers, I think it’s much less likely to hit a wall if it launches with a game rather than being added on after a game goes live.

Turbine at work on micro-transaction MMO [Games Industry]

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Crayon Physics Deluxe, last year’s Seumas McNally Grand Prize winner at the Independent Games Festival, hits PCs tomorrow, developer Petri Purho emailed to let us know.

A true indie developer, Purho only entered his whimsical game in the Independent Games Festival so he could get a free pass to the Game Developers Conference.

Now Purho is taking pre-orders for the title, which runs about $20, on his website.

Cryaon Physics Deluxe

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Shacknews has them. The Blizzard strategy extravaganza is looking better and better, if we’re being honest.
Go check out the new images and see what we mean.
Starcraft II is out sometime this year.
By Mike Bowden

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Because they look really great. Blizzard’s released three new (very pretty) SCII images that should hopefully tie you over. Until when? Well, that’s up to you decide, not us.

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StarCraft 2 Screenshot Update: Fire and Rain [Shacknews]

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CCP has announced that it has reached what it consider a milestone by recording 45,186 Eve Online users playing simultaneously.
“It is truly a testament to our loyal fans that 5 years into EVE’s existence we are still breaking records and more people are flying in New Eden than ever before,” said a company rep […]

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CCP has announced that it has reached what it consider a milestone by recording 45,186 Eve Online users playing simultaneously.
“It is truly a testament to our loyal fans that 5 years into EVE’s existence we are still breaking records and more people are flying in New Eden than ever before,” said a company rep […]

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In the latest Crysis monthly update it is revealed that a new patch and level editor for the game are in the works and although no specific time-frame is given they will arrive “sooner rather than later.”
“The Editor and SDK are being worked on and will be available for release in the new year, we […]

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In the latest Crysis monthly update it is revealed that a new patch and level editor for the game are in the works and although no specific time-frame is given they will arrive “sooner rather than later.”
“The Editor and SDK are being worked on and will be available for release in the new year, we […]

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Just a quick heads-up to let you know that a minor patch has been released for Atari RPG, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition.
It’s a “hotfix for EAX and graphics blur issues,” apparently.
Anyway, grab it here.
By Mike Bowden

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