IPOs for the week of May 14, 2007

May 14, Monday: Midway Games' Unreal Tournament 3 for the Xbox 360 will debut on the simExchange for 100 DKP. Like previous UT games, UT3 is primarily an online multiplayer game with a single player mode for players to practice with AI bots. The story is minimal as players are pitted against each other in a series of shooting matches as part of a Sci-Fi tournament. Epic promises the game will not be a prettier UT2004 but an entirely new game. Unreal Tournament 3 (PC) and Unreal Tournament 3 (PS3) are already listed. The game’s listing was submitted by jayen.

May 15, Tuesday: Square-Enix's Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers for the Wii will debut on the simExchange for 350 DKP. The game follows the series of Crystal Chronicles games established on the Nintendo GameCube. So far, a pre-rendered trailer has been unveiled, showing the classic chocobo and airship world of Final Fantasy. At this time, it is uncertain if the game play will be structured like the real-time fighting featured in Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (GC) or like the traditional Final Fantasy game featuring menu-based combat. The game’s listing was submitted by Renegade242.

May 16, Wednesday: Nintendo Co Ltd's Battalion Wars 2 (Wii) will debut on the simExchange for 75 DKP. The game is the Wii sequel to Battalion Wars (GC), a spin off of Advance Wars, Nintendo’s military strategy games for the GBA and DS. Battalion Wars 2 is real-time strategy game involving ground, naval, and air combat. It will feature three online multiplayer modes, including an assault mode in which one player defends a base and the other player tries to destroy the base in a certain time period, a skirmish mode that has both players attacking, and a capture the flag mode. The game’s listing was submitted by Jyscal.

May 17, Thursday: Sony Corp's God of War: Chains of Olympus (PSP) will debut on the simExchange for 80 DKP. God of War: Chains of Olympus is the first God of War game made for the PSP and is an original game. The game promises to bring the epic scale of previous God of War games to a portable console, including over-the top combat and boss fights. Chains of Olympus is an original story that will "flesh out" the God of War Trilogy told on the home console. The game was submitted by kspraydad.

May 18, Friday: Microsoft's Alan Wake for the Xbox 360 and PC will debut on the simExchange for 50 DKP and 25 DKP respectively. Alan Wake tells the story of a best selling horror author whom based his first book on strange dreams he had prior to meeting his fiancé. His book is a success but his fiancé mysteriously vanishes. Wake is devastated and suffers from insomnia. He moves out to a small town in Washington state where he gets treatment from a sleep clinic. Wake meets a woman who is the spitting image of his fiancé and his dreams return, inspiring him to write a second book. However, as he writes, the town begins to change and resemble the horror story he is writing. The listings were submitted by FriscoKid and Penguin929.