The Week In Games: Assassinate Everything

Oh, it’s this week, isn’t it? Time for two more Assassin’s Creed games to come out. Along with LEGO Batman 3 and the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for the 3DS, that’s more running across rooftops in one week than most of perform in our entire lives. Okay, any one of those games would…

Watch The Finals Of The Netrunner World Champs

Fantasy Flight’s World Championship Weekend is still going on, closing with the finals of the Netrunner tournament. You can catch it right here.

Happy Tenth Anniversary, EverQuest II

Ten years ago today, Sony Online Entertainment released the follow-up to the game that put massively-multiplayer online role-playing games on the map. Two week’s later Blizzard came along and set the map on fire, but some of us will never forget EverQuest II November 2004 was a magical month for MMO fans. Up until that…

The Origin Of Battle Network And Other Fascinating Mega Man Trivia

Did you know that every time I hear the opening theme to Mega Man 2 I start singling the lyrics version created by Brentalfloss in 2008? That’s not a fact presented inDid You Know Gaming‘s second look at the Mega Man franchise, which mainly deals with fan-created bots and the excellent Mega Man Battle Network…

Diablo‘s Future? Definitely Not An MMO

Not so long ago, Blizzard voiced interest in taking Diablo to other genres post-Diablo III—up to and including an MMO. That was the goal, said then-game-director Jay Wilson: to evolve the universe to be able to “support” an MMO. Now, however, times have changed, and so has Blizzard. Speaking during an interview at BlizzCon, lead…

The StarCraft II World Championship Series Ends Tonight. Let’s Watch.

The biggest crowd draw at BlizzCon every year is the global finals of the StarCraft II World Championship Series. With $100,00 on the line and a returning champion in the final bracket, this year the crowd should be bigger than ever. Thank goodness we don’t have to bother with them. The grand final was supposed…

With Overwatch, Blizzard Is Trying To Do Women Characters Better

Blizzard lore/story/sunglasses guy Chris Metzen and his daughter were watching a cinematic scene from World of Warcraft. There were swords, spells, dragons—the usual. His daughter, however, couldn’t help but ask of the women characters, “Why are they all in swimsuits?” Metzen relayed the tale during an Overwatch press conference at BlizzCon. He also said that…

Watch The Hearthstone World Championship Finals Live, Right Here

When I win a Hearthstone match I gain a lovely sense of accomplishment. When Tiddler Celestial or Firebat win the Hearthstone World Championship, they’ll get that plus $100,000. I feel like I’m doing something wrong. With the second place winner scoring $50,000, this final best-of-five round is technically one player’s chance to split the other…

We’re Dangerously Close To Getting An Official Doctor Who LEGO Set

The results of the latest LEGO Ideas review are in and at least two fan-built projects will soon be official LEGO sets. The ornithology-focused LEGO Birds Project and a set based on The Big Bang Theory are coming, but the real exciting news is that the board is still considering two different Doctor Who sets…

This Week In The Business: Making Money Making Games

QUOTE | “I feel people just don’t want to associate making games with making money. It sort of breaks the taboo of making art for art’s sake, which I think is kind of stupid.” – Game Theory president Marguerite Dibble, talking about how many indie developers seem to “romanticize poverty.” Elsewhere in the business of…

Blizzard has shared some new info on Diablo III‘s upcoming Season 2. New conquests, new legendaries, and more.