The game promises “dominantly story driven objectives”. So, from what I’ve read, they’re promising a FPS, RTS and RPG [role-playing game] all rolled into one game? That should be a hoot-if they can pull it off. Oh, and there’s multi-player.

From the release:

• Set in the Amazon in the year 2011, players will experience lush jungle visuals, haunting ambient sounds, changes in the weather, and an enemy in their home element
• Featuring the best of both worlds, Raven Squad has core FPS and RTS gameplay combined, for a new type of experience
• A multiplayer co-operative campaign that allows players to take control of a squad and play through the entire game with a friend online
• Multiple solutions to every conflict – every battle can play out differently and be resolved in many different ways
• 8 characters with their own unique backgrounds, personalities, behaviors, weapons and skills
• Players can order their squads into vehicles and take the wheel in first-person mode

The original release had the game set to hit Fall ‘08 but since it’s almost SUMMER ‘09, I can only assume that Raven Squad developed a bit of stage fright.

SouthPeak will debut the game at E3 this year so I know that there is a workable copy out there somewhere. Looks like it’s now set for a Q3 ‘09 release for PC and Xbox 360. All this extra time had better mean and extra good game.

Images|SouthPeak

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Raven Squad Screenshots

After more than a year of release, I finally played Command & Conquer 3:Tiberium Wars with my buddy over the internet. Using Hamachi, a zero-configuration virtual private network (VPN) freeware, we are able to play via the router and through firewalls in a stimulated LAN setting.

The whole process is quick, smooth and easy. Highly recommended.

Image: EA

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Command & Conquer 3:Tiberium Wars & Hamachi Are A Perfect Match

Former World Cyber Games (WCG) StarCraft: Brood War 2003 Korean champion Lee Yong Bum (ogogo) was nabbed for breaking into an advertising company and looted more than $18k of video equipment last year. Prior to this, Lee had stolen a handphone in his high school and robbed a rental van driver.

In his account to the police, the retired Zerg pro said he has suffered enormous stress due to long training hours and mediocre results during his pro-gaming days. Has instant StarCraft fame and failure get the better of him? We really don’t know.

Image: Sina

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Former WCG StarCraft Champion Nabbed For Break-In, Even Zergs Can’t Help

In an interview with GameAxis, Korea pro-gaming CounterStrike (CS) team, Lunatic-Hai, revealed why Korea is so obsessed with PC gaming and StarCraft and don’t give a damn to video game consoles. An interesting read for inspiring pro-gamers.

Well it’s the same everywhere. When we first started off our parents naturally said things like: “Why don’t you do normal sports?” Some even go to extremes like hiding computers or throwing them out of windows, so yeah we totally understand how struggling pro-gamers must feel in Singapore. After a while though we were featured in magazines and on television, managed to earn some money and went overseas for matches. Through this, the parents eventually realized that we were passionate about what we do, and the attitude towards e-sports became a lot more respectful. Right now they are really supportive, helping us settle things like visa documents and so on.

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Why Korea Is So Into StarCraft & PC Gaming…

Actually the gaming culture among Singapore teens and kids is pretty healthy but pro-gaming is still not in the list of well-recognized professional jobs in Singapore. No mummy in Singapore will tell their kids to go pro in gaming. Instead, gaming is viewed as a total waste of time by kiasu (afraid-to-lose) parents in Singapore. Sigh, paper qualifications still call the shots.

Via The Straits Times (Singapore), Home, H5

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JJ Lin Becomes Samsung’s Youth Ambassador, Promotes Gaming Culture Among Singapore Youth

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Fresh! StarCraft II Screenshots From Korea World Wide Invitational

Itzik Ben Bassat, Vice President Business Development and International for Blizzard, recently mentioned, “I’m a StarCraft player myself and I hope it’s not a decade, and we launched StarCraft in 1998, before I’m standing here again, celebrating the next game in the series.”

Zergness via ActionTrip

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StarCraft 2008?