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Is December 7 The World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Release Date?
A day after Amazon.com suggests a January release for World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion, MMO Champion uses a combination of patch info and official forum posts to nail down December 7 as the date. What does Blizzard say? MMO Champion came up with the December 7 date by putting 2 and 2 together. The first…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 -
UncategorizedIn This Video Game, Home Foreclosures Are A Joke
Signs of the worldwide economic downturn, known by some as the Great Recession, are nearly absent from modern video games. So it came as a surprise to me when one my assignments in a new video game was to foreclose on homes. The game is DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue, which is an unlikely candidate for…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe North Koreans Invade Homefront Multiplayer
You won’t find any opposing forces in this multiplayer trailer for THQ’s Homefront. Just North Koreans in snazzy outfits. This is one very promising trailer. It’s a bit short on action, but the lead up is certainly impressive, and those North Koreans from the future (the game takes place in 2027) certainly know how to…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Xbox 360 Dashboard For Dummies
If you’re Microsoft and you’re selling the Xbox 360 this fall to people who would be happy to avoid pressing buttons, how do you coax them into … pressing buttons? This new Xbox 360 dashboard tutorial appeared today on my Xbox 360. It was part of an update to my beta version of the revised…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Bulletstorm’s Box Art Kicks You In The Face With Color
The bright and colorful North American box art for Epic’s Bulletstorm is a boot to the head of those more serious first-person shooters. It’s these bright colors that draw me to Bulletstorm. I’ve no problem traversing the dreary grey and brown worlds of games like Resistance, Killzone, or Epic’s own Gears of War. I just…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Online Move Versus Dualshock Play in Killzone 3 Still Undecided
In this video Guerrilla Games’ Steven Ter Heide walks us through what it’s like to play Killzone 3 with the PS3’s Move controller. He also talks us through some of the design decisions for the motion-control option. Of course, if you’d rather play through the game using your Dualshock, that’s supported too. What Guerrilla Games…
By Brian Crecente Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Ugly Force Unleashed II Watches Are Collectively Attractive
These Force Unleashed II X G-Shock watches might be hideously ugly, but only 50 pairs are being made, and that makes them beautiful. The two limited edition Force Unleashed II watches from G-Shock (a Casio brand) aren’t the sort of timepieces a person wears anyway. These are watches you keep in a box and sell…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Names New President Of Everything Fun
The man with one of the most impressive houses in the gaming industry now has a title to match, as Microsoft officially makes Don Mattrick the president of its Interactive Entertainment Business. It’s not really that big of a change, moving from senior vice president to president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, at least not…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Medal of Honor Maker Defends Taliban Renaming, Addresses Free Speech Concerns
The 11th-hour renaming of the playable Taliban fighters as the “Opposing Force” in this month’s forthcoming Medal of Honor game is upsetting some gamers who say publisher Electronic Arts isn’t standing up for games or free speech. To those gamers, EA said today, try the demo version of the game and see what impact the…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Chinese Youth Dies At Boot Camp
The Chinese government has taken swift steps to deal with teenagers that are addicted to online games and the internet. One step has been the creation of boot camps. Sixteen-year-old Chen Shi was apparently beaten to death at a boot camp in the capital of Hunan province only two days after enrolling in the camp.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Massively Multiplayer Online Petz
Fresh off the launch of its first massively multiplayer online game, Might and Magic Heroes Kingdoms, Ubisoft steers its online gaming initiative in a decidedly lighter direction with Petz World. Over the years, the Petz brand has grown from a pair of rudimentary pet sims into a veritable kingdom of animal interaction sims. The original…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 -
UncategorizedMultiplayer Customization in Action in Call of Duty: Black Ops
In this latest Call of Duty: Black Ops video we get an in-depth look at the customization of multiplayer in the game, in particular we learn all about the importance of in-game currency and horses that can shoot guns. Customization and personalization are two very important design agendas for the makers of Call of Duty:…
By Brian Crecente Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to October. A new month brings a new image for Talk Amongst Yourselves. This one is by Hans Holbein, 16th century artist behind some creepy made-for-Halloween works like this one. Talk about games here. Go to #TAYpics to begin riffing on this image. I’m excited to see what you come up with. Thanks to…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Busy Week Has Come To An End
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Please Review This Yay! Looking forward to a busy weekend. Does it ever end? Does it? What you missed last night This Is Not A Mass Effect 2 Screenshot (It’s Something Better) Nintendo Explains The Nintendo 3DS’s Price Point Why Nintendo Made The 3DS So Powerful Myst May Be Coming…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Electronic Arts Buckles Under Pressure, Removes Playable Taliban from Medal of Honor
Responding to the reaction of the “friends and families of fallen soldiers,” Electronic Arts today said today they are removing the Taliban as playable characters from their upcoming military shooter Medal of Honor. The opposing force that the U.S. military take on in Afghanistan in multiplayer bouts is now called the “opposing force.” Medal of…
By Brian Crecente Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Gears of War 3 Delayed At Least Five Months
It looks like Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski was more than just three days off when he told Jimmy Fallon on national TV that Gears of War 3 was hitting on April 8. The next day Microsoft shifted the date a bit, saying the game would actually be hitting on April 5, 2011. Today the publisher is…
By Brian Crecente Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
The 3DS Will Have Firmware Updates
Nintendo’s upcoming portable, the Nintendo 3DS, will have firmware updates. According to company president Satoru Iwata, this isn’t only to stop piracy. The 3DS will update automatically, and the fact that the portable is updating automatically is an important feature to Nintendo. According to Iwata’s past experience, manual updates can keep some individuals from updating…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
If You Want, You Can Bail On Blizzard’s Real ID
Blizzard’s Real ID system, whereby users could share an account over several services using their actual name, seemed like a good idea to some, didn’t exactly go down too well with many others Now those who first thought it was a good idea, and now don’t, can get rid of it, with Blizzard revealing a…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Is Not A Mass Effect 2 Screenshot (It’s Something Better)
Nope. That’s not a high resolution screenshot of Mass Effect’s Garrus. It’s the latest instalment in “Mass Effect Cosplayers Blow Our Socks Off“. Cosplayer ammnra built this Garrus outfit that shakes the heavens with its amazingness, as almost everything is spot-on, from the chicken legs to the three-fingered gloves to battle damage to his trademark…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
She’s 43, Has Two Kids And Is Ready To Exercise
Over 8 years ago, South Korean fitness guru Jung Da-Yeon was not a fitness guru. She was out of shape. She’s now built a fitness empire that has even made waves in Japan. She’s appeared on Japanese television numerous times, and her books and videos are sold throughout Asia. Her “body ball” video is a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 1, 2010