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DICE: Blizzard Reveals Canceled Games
At the DICE Summit in Las Vegas, key Blizzard Entertainment staff members revealed the many games they’ve secretly canceled over the years. Wired’s Game|Life blog has the full story. Several of the games listed are old news, such as the much-hyped Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans, Shattered Nations, and Pax Imperia, a game Blizzard [...]
Continue reading...Weekly Multiplayer Releases: Week of April 16, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Only three multiplayer games are headed to store shelves this week, and while they include two re-releases and a glorified demo, there still isn’t a dud among them. Pick of the Week: Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Racing | PS3 While it may not be the full meal, Gran Turimso 5 Prologue will serve as an adequate appetizer [...]
Continue reading...Weekly Multiplayer Releases: Week of April 8, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
You know you’re in for a slow week when the best new offering is the multiplayer component of a game from October. Oh, games industry, your weekly release schedule is an up-and-down emotional roller coaster. Pick of the Week: Team Fortress 2 First-Person Shooter | PC A standalone version of three new (in October) games found in [...]
Continue reading...Weekly Multiplayer Releases: Week of April 1, 2007
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
April Fool’s Day is the single worst day in the games industry. Fake news stories plus a rapid fanbase ready and willing to accept any morsel of information as gospel, regardless of how obviously fake, makes for a painful combination. It turns out the day isn’t particularly good for video game releases either. Double [...]
Continue reading...Weekly Multiplayer Releases: Week of March 25, 2007
Thursday, March 27, 2008
This week brings only a trio a new multiplayer titles, and while we can only have one winner, one runner-up, and one “loser,” your time and money would be well invested with any one of these three games. Pick of the Week: Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath Real-Time Strategy | PC Command & Conquer 3 was a [...]
Continue reading...New Site Shows You How To Be Imbalanced, How Noob You Are
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Be Imba! is a new site that allows you to evaluate and improve your World of Warcraft characters using WoW Armory data. The site will suggest ways in which your talent points could be spent more wisely and point out specific problems with your current gear, including any improper enchantments or radically lacking stats. [...]
Continue reading...Study Says Majority of MMO Players Are Gender Benders
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
According to Gender Swapping And Socializing In Cyberspace: An Exploratory Study, 68% of female MMO players and 54% of male players played characters of the opposite gender. This isn’t exactly new information, but it’s nice to have the cold, unflinching numbers of science to backup what most of us already knew. While participants [...]
Continue reading...Weekly Multiplayer Releases: Week of March 18, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
This week is a week of pairs, with two excellent arcade sports titles, two not-so-excellent karaoke games, and a duo of shooters sequels (one 2D, one 3D) that should certainly impress fans of their respective series. Pick of the Week: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 First-Person Shooter | 360, PS3 The first Rainbow Six Vegas was a [...]
Continue reading...Blizzard to Help Bring Guitar Hero to China, Korea
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The GGL Wire is reporting that Activision plans to tap Blizzard Entertainment to bring Guitar Hero to “roughly 300,000 game rooms between China and Korea.” Clearly, Activision hopes to cash in on Blizzard’s extreme success in Asia, especially in South Korea, where StarCraft is essentially the national pastime. Readers with especially good memories will recall [...]
Continue reading...Weekly Multiplayer Releases: Week of March 11, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Looks like the rest of the video game industry has cleared out its release calender for fear of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Or as we like to call it: The Halo 3 Effect. Pick of the Week: Super Smash Bros. Brawl Mascot Fighter | Wii Five years from now you’ll still be playing Brawl with [...]
Continue reading...PROJECT GAMERZ Is A Terrific Idea!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
“Terrific” in this case meaning “poorly conceived and laughably ineffectual.” The program, which UK Resistance so aptly mocks, is the brainchild of the South London police force. PROJECT GAMERZ aims to get “anyone aged between 11 and 18, who live, or attend school, in the Riverside Ward of Rotherhithe, to get involved with their local [...]
Continue reading...Blizzard Does Unthinkable, Releases Warcraft 3 No CD Patch
Saturday, March 8, 2008
The recently released Warcraft 3 patch, 1.21b, allows players to run the game without a CD in their drive, according to N4G. In these days of DRM and strict anti-piracy measures, the most prolific developer in the world freeing its most recent RTS from CD limitations may come as a shock. However, most Warcraft 3 [...]
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