The writer who created the immensely successful fantasy series The Wheel of Time with 44 million copies sold worldwide, James Oliver Rigney aka Robert Jordan has been dead and gone for some time. Now scavengers gather to salvage what they can, and press as much money out of his creation as possible.

Red Eagle Entertainment, the film studio that owns the rights to The Wheel of Time, are planning to make at least three films based on the best-selling books. Starting at the first part in the series "The Eye of the World". It is rumoured that Universal has been given the task to take the book to the big screen with a 150 million dollar budget.

Red Eagle Entertainment has also announced the most recent addition to their company. Red Eagle Games, which will be given the task of publishing the nowadays obligatory game based on the film. Oh, and they have plans for an MMO aswell.

Lets all pray to the powers that be that these games and movies turn out decent, and does not completley ruin the entire series for us. Although I am hopeful I have my doubts.

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Introduction
Three men have a meeting every morning at work not to discuss the work to do today, but to talk about their experiences last night in the post apocalyptic world as we know it in Fallout 3.

The Fallout Universe
In the Fallout universe America has been in a nuclear war against other communist countries. Because of the nuclear threat the government started building vaults. When the nuclear war became a reality, some people could get inside the safety of the vaults and others couldn’t.

Fallout 1 and 2 were Turnbased Strategy RPG-like games that took place in California (I actually don’t know for sure, because I never played 1 and 2, you should ask Darkvain).

System
Fallout 3 is a RPG with a thick layer of shooter sauce or actually a RPG where you don’t click on your enemy but have to aim to hit it (first or third person). A RPG always has stats and skills. Fallout 3 also has perks which also influence your ability to shoot, talk, sneak, picklock etc.

The RPG system used in Fallout 3 isn’t hard to master (which I heard wasn’t that easy in Oblivion). One of the main reasons is the best character creation and tutorial I have ever had in a game.

Atmosphere & Environment
At the beginning of Fallout 3 you experience your own birth through your own eyes. You hear your father say: “Honey it’s a …”. A menu pops up which let you chose between boy or girl. “boy”, father says, I chose to be a boy. After that your dad shows you how you will look like when you are an adult with some fancy machine. You can completely customize your character and even let it look like yourself. Which I tried, but didn’t really succeed, because I didn’t want to waste too much time with it. You can customize your face in so many ways it is even better than the one in Mass Effect. From the size, height, width, slope of your nose to your cheek bones, eyes, eyebrows, forehead, chin, everything (only haircuts and facial hair are standardized). When finished your will start the game inside Vault 101 (the game is full of these sort of cool names and things) where you further built up your character stats and learn the basics of the game. A nice example is the first thing you do in the game, learning to walk with the WASD keys and interact with your environment with the E key when you are about 2 years old. Don’t be afraid to mess up though. When you leave the Vault you can completely alter your character from buffed male to smart female.

At this moment the game starts a large open world opens up for you. I think most of you already heard, read or maybe experienced how incredibly epic Fallout 3 is. The world sucks you in like a…vacuum cleaner…? Straight from the start (even the tutorial is awesome).

On November 11 the demo will be made available to all PC and Xbox 360 gamers worldwide, with no obligation to purchase. The demo concludes on November 18, when Left 4 Dead will be made available at retail outlets across North America and worldwide via Steam.

Setting out to do for co-op gaming what Counter-Strike did for team combat, Left 4 Dead is an ambitious survival horror game. Running on the Source engine, Left 4 Dead leaves four armed survivors of a world overrun with zombies, and they must fight their way out to escape the outbreak.

Designed for co-op play, the four players must work together to finish each stage of the game, lending each other artillery support, sharing ammo and rescuing each other when zombies are on top of them. In addition to the standard four players as humans, another four players can be amongst the masses of assaulting zombies, seeking to take down the other players. Zombie players might even find themselves become one of the four mutant "boss" zombies, who have unique powers that can be used to devastate, injure, tie up, mark and track, confuse, or even humiliate the gun-toting human survivors. More here!

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Here is a really useful looking tool I found for FireFox, still a prototype but I think it'll take off alot when it becomes a little more userfriendly.

I can't wait to test it out for myself. The developers are looking for people to test it aswell, even if you just report some bugs back to them, I'm sure it would be a big help.