Posts tagged RavenSoftware 
New Soldier of Fortune, with new dev, coming via Activision Value
Rumors of a new Soldier of Fortune game have been confirmed by Activision. Speaking to GameSpot, the publisher said that the shooter is "being developed in Minnesota" and would be released on their Activision Value label. You know who's not in Minnesota? Madison, Wisconsin-based Raven Software, who...
Wolfenstein set for 2008 release
Wolfenstein fans can again rejoice, because the franchise hasn't died just yet. Actually, you'll be happy to know that the next game in the series will be hitting the 360 later next year. In an interview with a Wisconsin new station, who were doing a story on video game development, Raven Software t...
New Marvel: UA content still MIA
After waiting around all day staring at the Xbox Live Marketplace (what a living), the new content for Marvel: Ultimate Alliance still hasn't arrived. Naturally, we're a little confused, as a trailer was released on Marketplace just to let us know that the content would arrive April 10th (i.e. yest...
Interview indulges Marvel: Ultimate Hype
We're regular readers of Superhero Hype!, a fact rendered unsurprising given our unhealthy obsession with gravity-defying men and women in brightly colored garb. The site recently posted a drab interview with Matthew Paul, producer of the upcoming altruistic all-stars adventure, Marvel: Ulltimate Al...
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance to feature unexciting controls
Though the many Marvel characters duking it out in Ultimate Alliance frequently find themselves doing somersaults, hurling punches and generally super-spazzing out, it's not an accurate expectation for the players of the game to perform similar feats. Speaking at the recently concluded Comic-Con, Ac...
Ultimate Alliance, not so ultimate screens
It's nice that Activision is even bothering with Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, but come on. Look at it. Sure, if it's anything like X-Men Legends it will be a blast, but these screens are far from impressive. It wouldn't matter if the 360 version had the same pri...
X-Men Legends II PC demo
Oh my stars and garters! Activision's X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse has been out for over a month, but PC gamers unsure about unleashing their latent mutant powers can give it a test drive with Raven's new downloadable demo. The 336 MB freebie includes the introduction movie, a tutorial, a...
X-Men Legends II review round-up
The second entry in Activision's mutant-themed RPG series, X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, has been out for a few weeks now and here's a look at what the industry pundits are saying. So who do you prefer to play as: X-Men or Brotherhood? Gamespy (90) TeamXbox (89) Next Level Gaming (88) C...
New X-Men Legends 2 screenies
The first X-Men Legends game can, for the most part, be summed up like this. Run around punching things. Find other X-Men. Run around punching more things. Find more X-Men. It wasn't an unpleasant experience. In fact, horrible camera view aside, it was quite fun. if you're a fan of the latex clad ...
X-Men Legends continues...
Just a month after the release of X-Men Legends, Activision has confirmed a sequel is underway. There aren't many details yet, including a title or release date, but we do know that Raven Software will be in charge of development again. We'll keep you posted with future updates....
