Can Warner Bros amount to EA

If One True Media didn't just become a bitch then Crash Bandicoot: The Sins of the Father Part 8 would have been up already.

Her'es the thing, EA's stronghold in in TPS game's came from Lord of the Rings video games, they don't have the license anymore, but they have BioWare, you get one, you lose one.

Now Warner Bros has the license, the first thing they released was Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest. It was an average start, a good game, but an average start. EA had a tremendous start and an awesome game. Warner Bros is likely going to be more or less consistent with their license, having given it to Snowblind Studios. It looks as if they are trying to beat EA's Lord of the Rings video game fame with Lord of the Rings: War in the North. If this succeeds, you can expect Snowblind to make a Hobbit video game using the Dark Alliance Engine while working on a sequel to War in the North.

This is how it'll work out if War in the North is successful. Snowblind will be commissioned to making the Hobbit video game, parts 1 and 2, which they'll work on while working on a sequel to War in the North likely. The Hobbit will receive positive reviews, but it wont be as good as War in the North because of the developers desire to work full time on War in the North 2 and because they'll have less freedom when making the game.

Will Warner Bro's Lord of the Rings best EA's? Look at the games:

EA:

The Two Towers : 8.3/10
The Return of the King : 8.9/10
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth : 8.4/10
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age : 8.5/10
The Lord of the Rings: Tactics : 7.7/10
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II : 9.0/10

Warner Bros

The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest : 6/10

You choose.

The Playstation Vita

It started with the launch of the Playstation Portable as a competitor to to the Nintendo DS. When one company came out with a new model for their handheld system, the other did as well. So this put Sony and Nintendo as the primary competitors for the handheld market, always releasing new stuff to compete with each other in every way.

This was until the Nintendo DSiXL was released; Sony did not release any handheld back, at this time people assumed it to be because of the PSPgo's failure. Sony did not even discuss something like the PSP has a long or short life ahead of it. Nintendo had already announced the 3DS.

It was after the Nintendo 3DS' launch that people began to speculate a PSP2, for about two month's these rumors were halted due to the many presumed official revelations of the Sony Experia Play, the Playstation Phone. Then the big announcement came, the NGP.

As the 3DS lagged in both sales and good quality games, with the most anticipated (yes, Assassin's Creed: Lost Legacy is not going to come out) being canceled, Sony showcased the NGP, showing its power to the max, without giving any specifics.

At E3, Sony unveiled the NGP's spec's and details, everything about the NGP was revealed from price to hardware. The NGP became known as the Playstation Vita and from its time known as the NGP, it already had a blockbuster lineup in its hand, Call of Duty, Killzone, Uncharted and yes, Badman.

Also at E3, the Wii U was announced, and upon announcement, Nintendo lost a lot of shares. The Playstation Vita was then shown to replicate what the Wii U could do and on a modern generation console, no need to switch to the future. It can do what the Wii U controller can do, but more, such as a back touchpad and co-op.

To show their advantage over the Nintendo 3DS and the Wii U, the Playstation Vita and the Playstation 3 showed off something they else they could do that Nintendo's products couldn't do: get good games and work together.

The 3DS' sales then bombed, Nintendo cut its price by $ 100. Nintendo then lost a lot of money and shares.

That my friends is the story of the Playstation Vita.

Movies of the Decades

2000 - 2010

That is the first decade. The movie of this decade is Return of the King. Why? Its simply just a film about poverty, a film about two young businessmen who encounter a loan shark that one of the businessmen do not trust, together the two businessmen must stop the mayor who will get the city under debt. To add to that, the two businessmen have friends that are fighting a political war against the mayor. Now take that story and add: Hobbits, goblins, trolls, dwarves, elves, rangers, medieval weapons, giant eagles and wizards and you have Lord of the Rings. Think about that.

2010 - 2020

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two

You want my reasons, check my previous post. I know this decade has nine more years in it, but I guarantee you, this movie will be the best, unless they somehow manage to make a ninth Harry Potter movie.

Goodbye.

Goodbye Harry Potter.

You were the first movie I watched in the theater, you were one of the many things that sprouted my childhood and made me the man who I am today. Yesterday I watched your final movie, it will not be the last movie I see in the theater. We all have to move on with our lives, and a simple goodbye can suffice to that.

This my goodbye to Harry Potter for all my viewers to see. People can write a million Last Apprentices' and Skullduggery Pleasant's, both amazing books, but there will only be one Harry Potter. With this goodbye, I say I have moved on from Harry Potter.

But now, I'm for better things (for my life, not my hobbies), like a career.

Dark Alliance 3's Story - Does Snowblind Own the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance

Well, I don't know the full story but I am going to give you what I know. Its codename was Project Joe Jackson minus the Joe.

In Dark Alliance II: Karne was looking to get the artifacts before the Harpers were. However, when the Harpers got the artifacts, Karne found out that somebody was spying on them and learned of Mordoc's plot. Now Mordoc wanted the Onyx Tower reactivated because he would be the only person who could enter it (He just had to add Mordoc's Gate to the tower) for his allies in the East. Now, Keep of Pale Night is located in the Battle of Bones. So that gives you Cormyr, not evil, Dalelands, Zhentarim controlled, Mordoc's enemies. If you go far enough east in 3E Forgotten Realms, you will get Mulhorand. In the Keep of Pale Night, skeletons come out of Sarcophagi, Egyptian themed. Mulhorand is also Egyptian themed. At the very end, it is confirmed, Mordoc's leader is a Pharoah God-King from Mulhorand.

He tells his cleric/or priest to ready the Tomb Soldiers and his Sun-Barge to invade Baldur's Gate and destroy the city for the sake of the Pharoah God-King's Sacred Mission. Now what could these Tomb Soldiers be? Probably just a whole bunch of those skeletons you see in the Keep of Pale Night but in greater numbers and possibly magic (Cant have a Faerun game without magic right?) Sun-Barge, this gives you few hints, other than he could be part of the Mulhorandi Pantheon, not likely, or an enemy of theirs, likely. Sacred Mission - Panago Pizza.

Now, like I've said before. I've tried to find out information on this canceled game's story. Its just not happened. Although, Chris Taylor did tell me it was in works at a time, he did not know the story or how far into development it was.

http://www.secinfo.com/d13nF9.vFs.c.htm

I have not read it all. But I think it means that Snowblind had the rights to make a Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance game or just a Dark Alliance game (No Forgotten Realms at all) for a time, but they were not able to and in late 2007, the rights went back to Interplay. I'll update this more later.

Online Multiplayer in Prototype 2?

Ken Rossman recently stated that there would not be any online multiplayer in Prototype 2. I, however, found two job offers (non-valid now) that said that Radical was looking for online programmers. They could be making an online mode for their next Crash game, this would not make sense as on facebook Radical Entertainment posted that Crash is at HQ, meaning that Activision is choosing how Radical makes Crash right now, and that they are working solely on Proto2. So, is there online multiplayer like Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, or not?

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance III was in the works!

Well after asking Christopher Taylor about the story of DA3. He told me that he did not know the story and did not know who to contact. Therefore I told him to ask Herve or Eric Caen, or just look through Interplay's records. He did, however, tell me that the game was in the works at one time.

Now, in December 31st Ballerium was canned. So they likely started work on Dark Alliance 3 after that in 2005. It was probably about 25 % done when Interplay canned Dark Alliance 3 as they were not able to fund the game. Interplay themselves were likely developing the game and not Black Isle Studios as Black Isle's last game came out after the company's closure.