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Warhammer Online: 40K... of screenies

Were you assured us to allocution about the affected aftereffect of Warhammer? Nope, the 40K actuality is the weight of the screens from GOA's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning that landed on our desks (our HDDs, to be exact) this morning. We alike accept a bit of the backstory abaft Thunder Mountain, that big bad Mt. Doom look-a-like that is our banderole angel for this article. Now, why do we accept the abrupt appetite for chrism strawberries and arduous the Dark Lord of this acreage to appear out and face amends - oops, amiss fantasy story!

Thunder Mountain (a.k.a. Karag Dron to Dwarven tongues) holds a axial abode amid the Dwarven basic of Karaz-a-Karak and the greenskin bastion of Eight Peaks, which agency it's hotly contested amid these two forces. Whoever can ascendancy the arise additionally controls the prime aggression avenue to the enemy's capital.

Australian "Game Of The Year" Announced

The Australian developer association isn't absolutely the world's biggest, but it's consistently been a quality-over-quantity affectionate of affair. Tribes: Vengeance, Freedom Force, Transformers Armada, Destroy All Humans and Rome: Total War actuality the best noteworthy amateur Aussie devs accept crafted/played a cogent role in over the accomplished few years.

It's been a bit of a dry-spell this year, though, with alone two above all-embracing amateur seeing release: Destroy All Humans 2 and Medieval II: Total War. The Game Developers' Association of Australia "Game of the Year" accolade winners were appear yesterday, so the big honours were artlessly activity to go to one of those two. More source.

Xbox sales trail forecasts

Bloomberg.co.uk is reporting this morning that sales of the Xbox in the USA trailed Analysts expectations by 33%, for the month of November. Microsoft apparently shifted 468,000 units, whilst Industry business boffin Bob Austrian (Banc of America Securities) had predicted sales of 700,000.

"Industry growth rates, for both consoles and video games, may be slowing, or at least, seasonally weaker than expected," Austrian commented.

Microsoft spokesperson Molly O'Donnell reacted by suggesting that the latest NPD data was inaccurate, as it excludes sales from Wal-Mart stores, the USA's largest games retailer. Xbox sales through Wal-Mart had apparently doubled in November, according to O'Donnell.

Shares in Microsoft fell slightly at the news, whilst the likes of EA and Activision also saw a decline.