Tomorrow I will be heading to San Francisco to attend a press event. Hopefully the airplane will have WiFi aboard. In the meantime check out some game related news items.
- Civilization World, the Facebook based strategy game from Civilization creator Sid Meier, has launched its open beta test.
- More info on the next version of Minecraft (1.8, also known as the Adventure update) has been announced.
- Torchlight, the fantasy action-RPG from developer Runic Games, has now sold 1 million copies between the Xbox 360, PC and Mac versions.
- Mass Effect, the movie? A panel at this month"s upcoming San Diego Comic-Con will discuss the upcoming adaptation of the sci-fi RPG series.
- Resistance 3, the upcoming PS3 exclusive shooter, will be the first PS3 game to have a PSN Pass which is a one time code to enable the game"s full multiplayer features.
- Spiral Knights, the free-to-play action game from Three Rings and Sega, has reached 1 million registered users.
- Want to play a level from the next Left 4 Dead 2 DLC pack? Valve lets you know how this might happen?
- The upcoming Star Trek third person action game, first shown at E3 2011, will apparently be an "official" story in the Trek canon.
- PC game publisher Paradox Interactive says that 90 percent of their game"s sales now come from digital download sites rather than retail stores.
- Sony has decided to discontinue selling digital downloads of comic books via its PSP console.
- Could a new Mirror"s Edge game related project be in the works?