Megaton News

Kingdom Under Fire 2 is looking pretty great for one of these one million troops, hack & slash type of games. This trailer is focused purely on the online cooperative mode.

Runic put out this trailer for Gamescom, touting how they listened to the fans when they decided to focus on cooperative play for Torchlight 2 the sequel to the Steam sale mega-hit Torchlight. The most interesting piece of info to come out about Torchlight 2 is the retirement system, which allows you to retire a high level character, and have him give special bonuses to your new character.

It seems Bioware isn’t changing strategies when it comes to advertising Dragon Age games. Present a God of War style we’re so hardcore attitude, and then cover it in blood. Dissappointing that they continue to treat the most traditional franchise they have, and the fans of classic western style RPG’s with so little respect.

Reakktor put out a new Black Prophecy trailer for Gamescom. Black Prophecy, aka FrEve Online, is the free to play space sim MMo with real-time combat. It doesn’t look like that huge of a graphical leap over EVE graphically, though the ship designs do seem to have a fair bit more detail, and polish.

ArenaNet put up their MMO Manifesto trailer for Guild Wars 2 here. This game is truly setting itself apart from the crowd with it’s character designs, and atypical environment design. The world is far less flat than your average WoW clone or World of Warcraft itself for that matter.Plus that whole no monthly fee thing is a nice plus.

Irrational Games continues to tease their new title on whatisicarus.com slowly revealing this image in a flash video.

Looks like an infinity symbol to me, but no need to keep guessing, Ken Levine today made it clear that we will be seeing their new game August 12th.

On Thursday, August 12th, at 1:45 Eastern Daylight Time, we will launch the trailer for our new game at Whatisicarus.com. Our hope is that you all will see it PRIOR to reading any news in the press (which will start to come out around 15 minutes later).

According to Blizzard Starcraft 2 sold more than a million copies on launch day, which according to them makes it the best selling PC game of the year already. Blizzard also stated that SCII went on to sell 1.5 million in the first 48 hours.

This was of course a worldwide launch, and Blizzard didn’t release a breakdown of sales by region. The original Starcraft is notoriously popular in South Korea where it’s treated like a sport including televised matches, and player betting scandals.

For those of you into the goofy, and impotent DC Comics characters, here’s the goofy DC Universe Online trailer you’ve been waiting for.

Superman falls for that kryptonite trick every time.

EA finally released some media for the Alice sequel Alice: Madeness Returns. It looks like the real deal, the same atmosphere and style with a modern graphical upgrade. The teaser trailer is short, but shows us that they won’t be holding back on the weird for the sake of grabbing the mainstream audience, This is a true sequel to a flawed classic of PC gaming.

EA today announced their latest Maxis game Darkspore. Not a very creative name for a Spore spinoff, though I suppose it’s better than Spore: Dark.

Darkspore will be a Diablo style game with the twist on the formula being that you upgrade using parts created with an updated version of the Spore creature creator.

Darkspore is planned for an early 2011 release for the PC.