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1Up's Luke Smith and his facial hair are here to tell you what's what with Halo 3, so listen up! Last week we ran images from a Swedish game mag that had spilled its Halo coverage a little early. Because the mag is in Swedish and might cause mistranslations or misunderstandings, Luke, who doesn't speak Swedish but English, is ready to set the record straight. Loads of guns and whatnot were revealed, but what about the H3 weapon with the unfortunate moniker "Man Cannon"? Luke writes: More »
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What do you call a PLAYSTATION 3 controller that doesn't rumble? 1Up's Luke Smith says it could very well be "SIXAXIS" (all cap). Patent records show that Sony has reserved the name, but it could mean any number of things. However, the name has been used by Sony before. For example, when the controller's motion sensing was announced, Sony PR said: More »
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Really into MMORPGs? Want to appear on British television? (And who doesn't?) The BBC is seeking addicts gamers addicts who are really into MMOs. The film will be broadcasted in the UK early next year. Online game addiction, while very real, does seem sooo 2005. I mean, even 1Up's Luke isn't playing WoW anymore. (It would've been nice if he hadn't play it while he worked here, but whatever...) Here's the info from the BBC: More »
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Blogger Joi Ito pens a piece on World of Warcraft addiction in this month's Wired. Old hat for some, but it's Joi Ito! And he used to hang with Timothy Leary, worked on the Dreamcast online and is related to Cornelius!! The piece does a fine job of laying of Ito's WoW addiction, but wraps up nicely with this last paragraph: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=179166&view=rss&microfeed=true A fan-made music video sets out to settle if Guild Wars or World of Warcraft is better by editing in-game footage of characters in both games dancing. While the video doesn't really answer that debate, it raises a new question: Why isn't there more Hammertime in RPGs? Brian Ashcraft More »
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1Up's parent company Ziff-Davis ('sup Luke) has launched a new search engine that looks for stuff relevant to gamers. It's called Gazerk and places content into categories relevant to gamers: game reviews, cheats and screenshots. It's still in Beta, but eventually should be a worthy supplement for old standards like Google and Yahoo. More »
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South Korea's cracking down on youth gaming. Politician Kim Hee-jung plans to draw up a bill that will keep kids and teens from playing computer games for insane periods of time. The country has become infamous due to several incidents in which gamers played themselves to death. More »
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Back in 2004, a 13-year-old Chinese boy jumped from a building after playing MMORPG World of Warcraft for 36 hours straight. A suicide note said that the kid was joining his heroes in WoW. The boy's parents are now suing the game's Chinese distributor Aomeisoft for $12,500. The suit contends that the game does not include a warning, stating that the game is suitable only for players above age. More »
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Over in Florida, a father fired shot at his son's computer, missing the monitor, nearly killing his son and hitting the wall. Forty-four-year-old Joseph Langenderfer said he and his 22-year-old son were arguing. Instead of doing the laundry, his son was spending all his free time playing computer games. Officers arrested the father Monday afternoon. According to Tampa Bay's 10 News, "Langenderfer is in the Pinellas County jail charged with one count of attempted murder, (accused of trying to kill his son, not the computer.)" Zing! More »
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Luke over at 1Up chatted with California politician Leland Y. Yee about freedom of speech and video games. Yee spearheaded a bill through the State Assembly that prohibits selling ultra-violent video games throughout the Golden State. Banning the sale of these games does not contradict First Amendment rights contests Yee. More »
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According to 1Up, Konami is working on a Silent Hill PSP title. Not to be confused with the Silent Hill Experience, this will be an entirely new horror title. Besides an upcoming movie, next month will also see "The Silent Hill Collection," a Konami bundle that features Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, and Silent Hill 4: The Room. The set drops April 13, and the flick goes wide a week later. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=163904&view=rss&microfeed=true Last year, online game subscription revenue grew 43 percent to $2 billion says Yahoo News. Half of those subscriptions were from the MMORPG World of Warcraft, while a fifth came from casual games. The pundits (gawd love 'em) expect the segment to hit $6.8 billion in 2011. That's still only a fraction of the overall $29 billion in 2005 video game sales. Pretty impressive, but has MMO gaming really reached "massive"? More »
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Good people of China, rejoice! The iron-fisted government has eased up on their anti-addiction video game policy, which limited players' WoW time to three consecutive hours at a time. Needless to say, gamers went apeshit and created a petition to protest the rule. The new system will let people over the age of 18 play for up to five hours straight. Gamers need to register their real names and ID numbers to verify their ages. This system will allow the evil government parents to monitor the usage habits of their children. No word yet as to when the new system will start. Luke, good thing you live in war-torn Detroit and not Red China, huh? Shudder. More »
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Some early released Xbox 360's aren't functioning correctly with Xbox Live. That's what an email tip from a reader with the following email from Microsoft had to say. The text of the email is below: More »
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But this blurry-ass thing is probably only worth about ten words. However, you can see the important stuff, Crecente and number 2. Nintendo's Wi-Fi is up and working fine. More »
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Last night, my guild killed Nefarian, the current end boss of World of Warcraft. What does this mean? Well, we're done with the game, right? We've beaten it. The current equivalent of Bowser is dead. Sure, there's no more content for us to kill, but now the grind continues with getting ready for the next zones which will come out whenever Blizzard finishes them. That there is no true finality in MMOs is both the bane and the best part of them. Every night when I log on (and I do log on every damn night) there's something to do, even though we've killed everything in the game. Beating WoW's end game and still having stuff to do, quite the paradox, I'd say. More »
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I've got a twelve-sided die. More »
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But they said, "No." More »
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Clive Thompson over at Wired News puzzles over the reasons we become addicted to certain games. After picking up Burnout: Revenge, he was immediately hooked, ditching writing deadlines and ignoring his misses. Thompson fantasized about the game when he wasn't playing, and gorged himself in gaming binges. Then suddenly, he went cold turkey. More »
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