Neowin News Feed for: Wars

Microsoft ad: It costs $30,000 to fill a 120GB iPod

Sam Symons — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:36:04 +0000

It seems the ad wars are starting to heat back up, folks. It's been relatively quiet lately, in context of advertisements Microsoft and Apple have been aiming at each other, but it seems that the... Read more...

Microsoft Announces Availability Dates for Halo Wars and Halo 3 ODST

Neowin Staff — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:40:05 +0000

Station Voice Released for EverQuest II & Star Wars Galaxies

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:53:28 +0000

SAN DIEGO, Calif. - July 31, 2008 - Station Voice™, a service powered by Vivox® that allows players to talk to each other in online games, is now available in the role-playing games EverQuest® II... Read more...

A simple way to avoid being the next Star Wars Kid

Steven Parker — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:15:03 +0000

Fifteen years ago, the world wide web was the playground of boffins. Its design reflected the open ethos of those users: it had no central managers, no main menu and no investment in content –... Read more...

Is Halo Wars going cross-platform?

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:34:26 +0000

Halo Wars is rumoured to be Microsoft's next full-bloodied first-party game to support cross-platform play between PC and Xbox 360. According to rumour circulating, a PC version of the RTS is going to be announced... Read more...

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Demo v2.0

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:43:08 +0000

A new Enemy Territory: Quake Wars demo has been released, allowing you to try out this game developed by Splash Damage. The Enemy Territory: QUAKE WARS Demo 1.0 is no longer supported. We recommend that... Read more...

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - Patch 1.4 Released

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:00:16 +0000

A new update has been released for the game "Enemy Territory: Quake Wars", this update fixes a lot of bugs in both single and multi player modes, as well it has lots of game play... Read more...

CES 2008: High-Def video wars

Brad Wardell — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:39:39 +0000

HD-DVD took a hit this week with Warner Bros. defecting to Blu-Ray. But anyone walking the show floor today at CES would be hard pressed to argue that there is a clear winner at this... Read more...

Enemy Territory : Quake Wars performance in-depth

Julio Franco — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:45:43 +0000

While other recently released titles like Bioshock and Medal of Honor: Airborne are based on the visually stunning Unreal 3 engine, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars has been built around a modified version of the Doom... Read more...

Next Star Wars Battlefront is PSP exclusive - huh?

Todd Tanner — Fri, 11 May 2007 02:16:39 +0000

Rumors surrounding the next installment of the Star Wars Battlefront series have been swirling around the Internet for months. However, it's unlikely that most net jockeys saw where the franchise was headed given that its... Read more...

Guild Wars turns 2! Fireworks, cake and presents - oh my

Todd Tanner — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:33:52 +0000

April 28 marks the two-year anniversary of Guild Wars (original Prophecies campaign) as well as the one-year anniversary of Guild Wars Factions, and what an exciting two years it has been! With three campaigns available... Read more...

Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars World Builder

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:10:40 +0000

Worldbuilder for Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars is the toolset that the game's designers used to create all of the single-player missions and multiplayer maps, and we're making it available to our player community... Read more...

Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Xbox 360 demo released

Todd Tanner — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:19:40 +0000

As I mentioned previously, the demo for Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars has been released to Xbox Live Marketplace for you to download and (hopefully) enjoy. The demo clocks in at 1 GB exactly,... Read more...

Guild Wars Updated

Todd Tanner — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:43:59 +0000

A very large new update for Guild Wars was released yesterday. There are way, way to many changes and fixes to list here, but needless to say quite a few changes are here. From skill... Read more...

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars 360 Preview

Todd Tanner — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:24:48 +0000

As most of you know by now, the Xbox 360 will be getting a version of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars - alongside the PC version of course. Well, Voodoo Extreme has brought... Read more...

Geometry Wars headed to PC!

Todd Tanner — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:27:58 +0000

That's right, one of the most popular XBLA games is coming to the PC finally. It was rumored previously, but now we have confirmation that Geometry Wars is heading to the PC. If you... Read more...

New disc & player may sway DVD wars

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:49:23 +0000

Consumers wary of buying new high-definition DVD players because of a technology war reminiscent of the days of Betamax versus VHS will soon have a new kind of DVD that might make the decision less... Read more...

CPU wars to enter new level with 45nm Penryn in 2007

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:59:30 +0000

In response to the news that Intel has started making prototypes of 45nm Penryn processors, motherboard makers said they expect CPU wars to enter a new level with dual-core processors operating at frequencies of 3GHz... Read more...

Star Wars Galaxies The Complete Online Adventures Ships Out

Todd Tanner — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:21:07 +0000

LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment today announced that Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures, the most comprehensive Star Wars Galaxies experience ever released, has shipped to stores in North America and is... Read more...

Guild Wars Nightfall Now Live

Todd Tanner — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:54:57 +0000

Just a reminder and a heads up for everyone. Guild Wars Nightfall as of about 8 hours ago or so, went live and can be played to your hearts content. The new Hero stuff... Read more...

Star Wars Empire At War: Forces of Corruption Ships Out

Todd Tanner — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:25:51 +0000

LucasArts and Petroglyph today announced that Star Wars Empire at War: Forces of Corruption, the highly-anticipated expansion for Star Wars: Empire at War, has shipped to retail stores in North America. ... Read more...

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Gets All-Star Cast

Todd Tanner — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:16:51 +0000

Battlestar Galactica's Six and Sharon in Command & Conquer 3? Sign me up. Here's the scoop from Voodoo Extreme: Electronic Arts today announced that the highly-anticipated Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars (C&C... Read more...

Command and Conquer Tiberium Wars blog update

Todd Tanner — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:36:07 +0000

The Command and Conquer Tiberium Wars (well more like EA itself) site has updated their blog on the upcoming NOD vs. GDI RTS blastfest. It goes into detail on the technologies both sides will be... Read more...

Guild Wars Nightfall Preview Weekend

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:27:14 +0000

ArenaNet and NCSoft invite players from everywhere around the world to take part at the Guild Wars Nightfall Preview weekend, starting this Friday, September 22 at 12:01am PDT (07:01am GMT) and running until Monday, September... Read more...

Virtual App Wars Move From OS To Desktop

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:20:16 +0000

Microsoft, Citrix Systems and AppStream are among the pack of vendors rushing to gain a foothold in the emerging application virtualization software market. As the focus on virtualization moves beyond the server and operating system... Read more...

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars screenshots

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:22:19 +0000

Nine new screenshots for Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars are now available for download to more than double the amount of officially released imagery for this near-future 3D real-time strategy sequel in the works... Read more...

New star wars title in 2007

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:05:02 +0000

Steve Sansweet has confirmed that a new Star Wars videogame will be released during 2007. The news broke at the 2006 Comic-Con in San Diego with a short 'pre-visualisation' movie showing exactly what LucasArts is... Read more...

Guild Wars Nightfall announced - Beta coming soon

Todd Tanner — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:14:08 +0000

ArenaNet®, developer of the world's leading subscription-free online roleplaying games Guild Wars® and Guild Wars FactionsTM, and NCsoft® Corporation, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games, announce today the title of the... Read more...

Big Guild Wars update released

Todd Tanner — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:30:38 +0000

Arenanet released a rather large update to Guild Wars yesterday, and it includes some fairly major changes and fixes. This "patch" so to speak affects both Guild Wars and Factions. Needless to say, the change... Read more...

Guild Wars hits 2 million sales worldwide

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:47:40 +0000

Korean MMOG publisher NCsoft has announced that its US-developed free to play franchise Guild Wars broken the two million sales mark worldwide in the wake of the launch of the second title, Guild Wars Factions.... Read more...

Guild Wars Factions is #1 in North America and Europe

Todd Tanner — Wed, 24 May 2006 13:47:49 +0000

May 22, 2006 (BELLEVUE, WA) — ArenaNet®, developer of the award-winning online roleplaying game Guild Wars®, and NCsoft® Corporation, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games, announce today that the studio's latest... Read more...

Lego Star Wars II on 360 Too

Fri, 05 May 2006 15:02:50 +0000

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy is heading to Xbox 360 as well all the previously announced formats, says publisher Activision. Do I really have to list them? Okay, it's now due on X360,... Read more...

Guild Wars Factions ships out

Todd Tanner — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:57:58 +0000

ArenaNet®, developer of the award-winning online roleplaying game Guild Wars®, and NCsoft® Corporation, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games, announce today that one of the year's most-anticipated PC titles, Guild Wars... Read more...

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars official

Todd Tanner — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:31:12 +0000

The epic struggle between the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) and The Brotherhood of NOD continues...and the third Tiberium War is about to begin. Welcome back, Commander. Electronic Arts today announced that Command & Conquer, the... Read more...

Guild Wars going semi-annual

Todd Tanner — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:58:44 +0000

Gamespot is reporting that ArenaNet the development gods of the super successful MMOG Guild Wars will now release new "expansions" every 6 months or so once the release of the upcoming Factions expansion is done.... Read more...

New Lego Star Wars 2 Details

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:59:59 +0000

Traveller's Tales has revealed more details of the sequel to Lego Star Wars - including news that you'll now be able to create your very own character. Lego Star Wars II: The Original... Read more...

Blu-ray vs. HD DVD: The Format Wars

Julio Franco — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:57:46 +0000

DVDs are the current standard for data storage, and perhaps more importantly the publishing format standard as well. The question is however, how much longer will they be sufficient? A much anticipated battle, or 'format... Read more...

Retailers Upset Over Format Wars

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:48:53 +0000

Major US retailers such as Best Buy, Circuit City, and CompUSA are fuming over the ongoing battle between HD DVD and Blu-Ray, calling the consumer-bewildering battle "nightmarishly unfriendly" and "stupid." While consumers grow increasingly... Read more...

Star Wars Battlefront 2 goes gold

Todd Tanner — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 02:33:25 +0000

As promised, Star Wars Battlefront 2 has just gone gold according to Ve3d, just in time for the super-launch of both the game and the Star Wars Episode III DVD on November 1st. Star Wars... Read more...

PowerUser.tv Ep 11: ISP Wars, Killing Game Designers & More!

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:55:24 +0000

This week Kristin and the gang (minus Tom Chick) at PowerUser.tv discuss the recent Cogent vs. Level 3 issue. Brad Wardell rants against a holier-than-thou attorney who is willing to donate $10,000 to charity... Read more...