Really. This is Jason Paige, the guy who sang the original theme song back in 1998. He’s a big Ron Paul fan, I guess. I don’t even know anymore. (Thanks, Zack!)
Star Wars: The Old Republic has dropped from 1.7 million active subscribers to 1.3 million, publisher Electronic Arts said today in an earnings statement. That’s a loss of nearly 25% for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or 400,000 subscribers. In its Q3 earnings statement earlier this year, EA reported 1.7 million The Old Republic…
How… how could this be? I had it. I really thought I had it. But no. It’s over. I lost the match. There are no repeats. It’s never coming back. It’s over. Just like everything else in my life. Five years ago, I never thought it would be this way. I never thought I’d be…
Say your StarCraft II match ends prematurely, either by crash or lightning strike or murder or whatever. Right now, your only option is to suck it up and start a new game. But when Blizzard releases the expansion pack Heart of the Swarm, you’ll be able to recover a crashed match by loading up the…
The rumored $99 Xbox 360 bundle is now no longer a rumor. It’s live. You dish out $99 up front and commit to two years of Xbox Live Gold at $15/month, you get a 4GB Xbox 360 and a Kinect. (Oh and also you have to buy it at a Microsoft Store. Yes, there is…
Minecraft griefers are scary. Real life Minecraft griefers are even scarier. So watch out for flying pickaxes. And creepers. [YouTube — thanks, Miles!]
Publisher XSEED Games will bring Ragnarok Odyssey to the PlayStation Vita this year, it said today. Ragnarok Odyssey was developed by Game Arts, the company behind the critically-acclaimed (and truly lovely) Lunar and Grandia series. Which makes this delightful news for any and all JRPG fans. Here’s how XSEED describes the game in its press…
When I was a kid, I used to spend almost every summer at day camp. I’d ride the bus up across the Tappan Zee Bridge to upper-lowstate New York, where I was unceremoniously dumped on the grounds and told to go hang out with the other kids in my age group. We’d run around fields…
Sometimes video game Kickstarters just don’t take off. In fact, that’s most of the time. For every monumental success like Double Fine or Wasteland 2, there are ten projects that remain undiscovered and unfunded. One of those failures was Class of Heroes 2, a Japanese RPG for the PSP and sequel to a game that…
I say no. May the fourth be with you. Jedi Turtles Return [YouTube]
There’s no gameplay in this new teaser for Bethesda’s upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game, but at least it sounds cool. The Elder Scrolls Online will be out next year for PC and Mac. Hopefully it’s not as generic as leaked details make it seem
The army wants to install Microsoft’s controller-free Kinect sensor in military helicopters so pilots can use them both for body recognition and flying assistance, Innovation News Daily reports “New technology from the gaming world has the potential to substantially reduce the cost of adding head tracking to conventional helicopters, as well as the ability to…
Gaming connoisseur and poisonous celebrity Kim Kardashian is super psyched for the next Call of Duty, she said on Twitter today. Because the graphics look crazy. “But wait,” you might be thinking. “Doesn’t Kim Kardashian sell her tweets? Nope, Kardashian says. It wasn’t a paid tweet. She and her brother play Call of Duty “all…
Bethesda will release a massively multiplayer online version of its popular The Elder Scrolls series next year for PC and Mac, Game Informer reports today. Set a millennium before the events of Bethesda’s last The Elder Scrolls game, Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls Online will take place across all of Tamriel during a time when daedric…
This episode of Lore In A Minute brought to you by Husky, StarCraft commenter extraordinaire and apparent Star Fox expert. Starfox Lore In A Minute! [YouTube]
Publisher Electronic Arts seems to have backtracked on its plans to shut down the mobile version of Rock Band following a massive outcry from fans and press yesterday. Yesterday, customers with the iOS version of Rock Band received a message saying the game would shut down on May 31. Now, EA says that was an…
Sometimes console makers like to promise the world for their new gaming systems, making lofty claims about how awesome their launch lineups will be. Those claims are never true. So it’s nice to see Nintendo president Satoru Iwata spitting some truth at a recent Nintendo investor Q&A, saying that while the company has certainly learned…
No new Portal or Left 4 Dead announcements either. Valve is attending the annual games conference, but won’t be showing any new games, the company confirmed today. [Valvetime, via Joystiq] Click here to visit our Half-Life 2: Episode Three timeline!
“Skyrim Steam Workshop downloads are over 13.6 million,” Bethesda said on Twitter today. “PC mods FTW.” Wondering which are the best to download? We’ve got you covered. [Bethesda]
Brandon Keener, also known as the voice of Garrus Vakarian, made an appearance on ABC’s Castle this week. You can even hear tinges of the rogueish turian when Keener’s voice gets real low. And he didn’t even have to calibrate anything. Now I’ll leave you to your Garrus Vakarian/Malcom Reynolds fanfiction. Garrus Vakarian on ABC’s…
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