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Fallen Age, the new massively multiplayer online game from Netamin.com is now ready for public unveiling. A science fiction fantasy hybrid, Fallen Age utilizes crisp Isometric 3D graphics and combines the main storyline with a colonization sub-game. While most of the other games on the market have moved to first person 3D graphics, we chose instead to keep Isometric 3D alive in the massive multiplayer genre. The graphics of Fallen Age are on par with any single player Isometric on the market today. A closed beta testing will begin in April. Only 5,000 beta applications will be accepted over the course of two months. Information on how to sign up for the beta test is available at the Fallen Age website. Fallen Age will be available in retail locations by the end of the year.
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Clive Barker, one of the world's best-known horror authors, contributed his talents to the making of "Clive Barker's Undying," a first person action game developed by Dreamworks Interactive. We were recently given the chance to sit down with Clive to talk about his work on Undying as well as what he feels makes a video game truly frightening, and his thoughts on games in general.

Sharky Games: As far as the actual development of the game goes, how involved were you, once you came on board?

Clive Barker: Well, I was there constantly, at the other end of a phone whenever there was a question about plotting, or the way a character should look or whatever. I was there to answer their questions. We would meet very regularly to draw, to critique, to talk about why this didn't work, or why this did. In other words, it was an ongoing dialogue, and it went on for eighteen months.
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Alpha testing has begun for Nexon's Elemental Saga on Monday, as scheduled. Elemental Saga is the world's first science fiction/fantasy MMORPG, set in a post-apocalyptic earth in the year 2099. where only mutants and the powerful and the brave survive. Will you be a spirit magician who reclaims the Earth by force from the monsters and terrors? Or, will you be a demon, to annihilate the humans which ravaged the planet with pollution? The choice is now yours to make. Those lucky players who have already signed up for alpha testing, are the first to enjoy the fantastic graphics and deep, involving game play, on a scale which allows up to 16,000 players on a single server. However, if you missed the sign-up for the alpha test, more testing opportunities are only days away. Beta testing is scheduled to begin on March 5. To sign up for the Elemental Saga beta test, visit the official website.
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The Verado Corporation, a public company that specializes in providing managed and dedicated services and fulfilling co-location needs of businesses has released the first computer game specifically for Information Technology (IT) professionals. "Verado The IT Security Game" is a fun, yet frenetically paced 'first-person shooter' game that puts the player in the position of a harried IT worker with too many responsibilities and too few resources. Featuring constant attacks from a wild collection of eccentric but dangerous adversaries, Verado takes the experiences that IT experts face daily and turns them into a humorous barrage of data threats. 

The IT Security Game makes an IT professional's worse nightmare a session of comic relief. There's only one thing standing between them and total network destruction, and you're it! By registering on the Verado website, you can download The IT Security Game for free (yes they promise not to release your name or e-mail address to any third party). Download Verado The IT Security Game here.
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Lock-n-Load is hosting a CPL pre-qualifying event March 10 in Houston TX. The team from Lock-n-Load has come together with the HACS (Houston Area Counter Strike) team to put together another incredible Counter Strike event. The event will be capped at 32 teams and they expect to fill the brackets, so register today!
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Luna is the first ever 3-D Sim / Strategy game featuring complete camera freedom and dynamic surround sound within ultra realistic, fully 3-D environments. Build lunar colonies, create industries, trade with Earth and alien races, and survive the perils and disasters of life in space! This week Anarchy Enterprises is busy finishing up the new Beta Version 1.2, which will be released next week. In celebration of reaching this milestone, they have also released some brand new screenshots:

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Screenshots:

• RPGPlanet has eight new Ultima Online: Third Dawn screens
• GameSpot UK has new screenshots of Emperor: Battle for Dune
• GameSpot has new Anarchy Online screens posted.

Interviews:

• Stomped Interviews Third Law game designer David Namaksy about Normandy and creating a "budget title"
• XGR.Com has interviewed the producer of Giants: Citizen Kabuto
• Twin Galaxies has recently interviewed "-X-Treme" and the "Mulletmen", two clans currently ranked within the top five in the Unreal Tournament League.
• GameGirlz interviews Gatorhole's Ragnar Lonn about this upcoming massively-multiplayer title 'World Eater'

Reviews (and Previews):

• GameSpot has previewed the upcoming fantasy/ strategy game Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
• The Avault has posted a review of Chicken Run from Eidos Interactive
• PC Zone UK has published a review of Starfleet Command II: Empires at War
• GameSpot previews Micro Forte's upcoming massively multiplayer action game, BigWorld

Patches:

• Shrapnel Games has released the Space Empires IV Patch 1.27
• 3DFiles has the Half-Life Opposing Force 1.1.04 Patches