Seventeen Expansions Later, EverQuest Gets Player Housing

Eleven-year-old MMO EverQuest is getting its 17th expansion pack in October, raising the level cap, adding more than 450 new spells, 18 raids, 13 zones, more than 120 quests, and finally giving players somewhere to live. Just because Sony Online Entertainment is already teasing the fourth game in the EverQuest series doesn’t mean it’s forgotten…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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How Fast Should We Play Games?

My obsessive-compulsive tics suggest less of a “personality” disorder and more of a “She’s probably just crazy” disorder. I systematically eat fries and small candies two at a time as if programmed from birth, regularly disinfect my DS despite being the only who uses it, and, about every two minutes, check to make sure no…

Holy Crap The U.S. Dollar Is Weak!

To: Totilo From: Bashcraft The U.S. dollar is at a 15 year low against the Japanese yen. (T_T) What you missed last night Video Games, Strippers & Goldman Sachs Blacklisted Druggie Pervert Returns In A Skirt For PC Shooting Game 250GB Kinect Bundle Spotted So Gran Turismo 5 Isn’t Done Yet

Is Dead Or Alive’s Creator Interested In Entering Politics? Yes.

Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of jiggly fighting franchise Dead or Alive and the upcoming Devil’s Third, is keen on getting into Japanese politics. Oh, he also thinks the country’s game industry is dying and that Japan failed to import Western capitalism. After agreeing that the Japanese game industry is dying, Itagaki tells Edge Magazine, “Japan failed…

Stay Up Past Your Curfew

An authoritarian state. The future. Whom can you trust? Britain’s Channel 4 has launched browser game The Curfew. In it, players are given data that could bring down the regime and find refuge in a safe house, which is being occupied by four individuals: the immigrant, the dissident, the ex-cop, and the youth. The Curfew…

Bloody Warfare In Bloody Desert, The Indie RTS

Santiago Gonzalez has been working on the kind of indie game we don’t normally expect from an indie developer: a real-time strategy game set in the present day. Called Bloody Desert, things are looking a little rough in the demo video above, but hey, it’s an indie game, so you shouldn’t be expecting World In…

Report: Dragon Age II On PC Loses Mod Tools, Strategy Camera [Update]

Dragon Age II on PC may be retaining its strategic combat mode, but there are other PC-specific features that won’t be included in the game’s sequel. In an interview with French magazine Joystick, BioWare’s Mike Laidlaw has revealed that the “Baldur’s Gate” camera perspective available to PC owners in the first game won’t be returning…

I Am Totally A Phony Copy

You’ve probably seen this before. The painting (above) isn’t a copy. This is the real deal. This is “The M.K.” that appeared at the very first I Am 8-Bit art show in 2005. It was painted by Jose Emroca Flores. This painting (below) recently popped up on eBay with a starting bid of US$1,500. It…

Kinect Patent Says It Can Read Sign Language

The patent for Microsoft’s motion-sensing camera Kinect was released to the public last week, and while we knew most of the stuff contained within, I’d be lying if I said I knew the device could recognise sign language. But it does. At least, according to the patent it does (things may have changed since, we’re…

Foxconn’s Latest In Suicide Prevention? Hiring “Mature” Workers

To combat its recent rash of suicides, Foxconn has installed safety nets, nixed suicide compensation, raised wages and even considered moving factories to China’s interior and increasing automation on the assembly line. The company’s latest brainstorm? Foxconn is looking at hiring more mature workers. This comes as last week a 22-year-old female worker fell to…

We’re No Strangers To Crysis (Or Love)

Rickroll? So 2009. 2010 is all about the Crysisroll. Garry’s Mod may be the most common source of these kind of custom user-made videos, but Crytek’s Crysis editor, Sandbox, can certainly hold its own. [thanks Leon!]

250GB Kinect Bundle Spotted

Microsoft’s controller-free Kinect platform is getting a 4GB bundle that comes with an Xbox 360, 4GB of memory, a Kinect sensor, a game and a controller. That doesn’t look like the only bundle. The Australian packaging for the 4GB bundle shows what appears to be a 250GB bundle that comes with a 250GB hard drive…

Rumor: Splinter Cell, Prince Of Persia PS2 Games Coming To PS3?

First there was God of War, then Sly, now it appears two more franchises are taking their PlayStation 2 entries and tarting them up for a release on the PlayStation 3. Amazon France has listings for trilogy boxsets for both Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia, saying that both are set to appear on Sony’s…

So Gran Turismo 5 Isn’t Done Yet

Gran Turismo, which was first revealed in 2006, was supposed to be out in March 2010. Then it was delayed to “TBA”. It is now supposed to be out on November 2. Today is August 9. The game is not done. “GT5 is getting to where it will be finished shortly,” Gran Turismo designer Kazunori…

Tron Disney Stage Show Seems Likely

Disney is making Tron: Legacy. Disney owns Disneyland. Know what that means? According to website Stitch Kingdom, Disneyland’s California Adventure is hosting auditions for a new nighttime show in honor of the upcoming Tron flick. Tentatively titled “ElecTRONica”, the auditions is calling for male and female hip-hop dancers to perform on outside stages in the…

Blacklisted Druggie Pervert Returns In A Skirt For PC Shooting Game

After multiple drug arrests and numerous peeping incidents, Masashi Tashiro has been banned from Japanese television for years. He’s now popping up in a music video for doujin shooting game Touhou Project. Tashiro was a popular comedian during the 1980s and 1990s. He was a regular on variety programs and comedy shows. Even the country’s…

Video Games, Strippers & Goldman Sachs

Carrianne Howard wanted to design video games, so she enrolled in a course at a for-profit college. She’s ended up as a stripper. Why? Becuse despite lofty promises made by the college, the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale (which is part-owned by disgraced financial giants Goldman Sachs), she never found work as a games designer.…

Kinect Is A Victorian Gentleman At Heart

You can keep your raft-paddling and dance dancing. I’m hanging out for Kinect’s moustache-twiddling minigame compilation. As seen on the USPTO