Valve announced today that S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, the prequel to the famous to the survival FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, will be released exclusively as a digital download on Steam before hitting retail outlets later this year.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is set in 2011, one year prior to the events of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game.
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Take-Two Interactive announced today the acquisition of Illusion Softworks.
Illusion Softworks from main Central Europe grounded on the inhabitant, studio which plays compilation with operations in Brno and Prague, the Czech Republic. Illusion Softworks has approximately 200 employees and will join Take-Two’s 2K Games publishing label as its newest studio, 2K Czech.
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Children under seven should be kept away from videogames, a new study claimed.
Educational psychologist, Jane Healy, explained that “the rapid pace of computer games is only stimulating basic “fight or flight” sections of the brain rather than parts responsible for higher reasoning”. This, she concludes, makes their brains develop differently and can be linked to a rise in the diagnosis of attention-deficit disorder in children.
“If you watch kids on a computer, most of them are just hitting keys or moving the mouse as fast as they can. It really reminds me of rats running in a maze,” said Jane Healy.
Two weeks ago we have studied a play following Tomb Raider game, for the Tomb Raider: Underworld. This month, PLAY magazine managed to score an exclusive preview of the game.
Tomb raider: the Underworld is prepared by Crystal Dynamics speakers and will be released in 2008 for a PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
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