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Star Wars : The Old Republic Peripherals From Razer – Pre-Order Now Available

Posted by: on December 4, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Star Wars : The Old Republic Peripherals From Razer – Pre-Order Now Available

If you’re anything like me, you love a nice, new, crisp, responsive mouse and keyboard for ultimate gaming pwnage. Well, lucky for those of us who plan on playing Star Wars : The Old Republic, Razer has announced a full suite of peripherals for the upcoming MMO and they’re now available for pre-orders.

Read on for the sexy details!

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Walmart Cancels An Unspecified Number Of Star Wars : The Old Republic Pre-Orders

Posted by: on December 4, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Walmart Cancels An Unspecified Number Of Star Wars : The Old Republic Pre-Orders

In what can only be described as a colossally boneheaded move, the zombie offspring of Sam Walton have either deleted or lost an unknown number of SWTOR preorders and have only now started to notify the victims of this foul misdeed…via an email which claims that a “temporary shipping issue” is at fault.

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EA Cans Existing Online Passes

Posted by: on December 3, 2011 at 8:34 pm
EA Cans Existing Online Passes

A couple of days ago (ok, it was yesterday) I talked about Activision, THQ and Take Two talking about charging subscription fees – as much as $50 or more per year – for access to play their games online.

This was a move that EA had made, though not to that extent, with their “online pass”.

Well…It seems EA has decided to show their collective asses to the consumers and cancel those online passes.

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WHAT?! Mine Craft + Death Star Trench Run = OH MY JEEBUS!

Posted by: on December 2, 2011 at 10:48 pm
WHAT?! Mine Craft + Death Star Trench Run = OH MY JEEBUS!

I don’t even know what to say about this. Seriously.

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Blizzard / World of Warcraft lose 1.1 million subscribers

Posted by: on December 2, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Blizzard / World of Warcraft lose 1.1 million subscribers


If you look back at our history, you’ll see that World of Warcraft has gotten a little bit of hate from us here at FleshEatingZipper, both in written articles and in our podcast. this isn’t because it is a bad game or because Blizzard’s a bad company or anything like that.

No, we aren’t so picky as all that.

It all boils down to direction…Read on for more.
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What if Skyrim, COD or Battlefield Cost $110…For The Standard Version?

Posted by: on December 2, 2011 at 9:05 am
What if Skyrim, COD or Battlefield Cost $110…For The Standard Version?

Well, you may pay close to that in the near future if the greedy bastards who run Activision, THQ and Take Two get their way.

Bobby Kotick, Strauss Zelnick and Brian Farrell all spoke at the Reuters Global Media Summit earlier this week and all 3 made references to changing the way they will charge, and you will pay, for games in the future.

Wow…

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BioWare Releases New Mass Effect 3 Combat Action Video

Posted by: on December 1, 2011 at 8:28 pm
BioWare Releases New Mass Effect 3 Combat Action Video

If you remember a couple of months ago, we released an article about combat in Mass Effect 3 and how it would be different from the combat in previous releases. We also included a nice video showing how some of it would work.

Well, now BioWare has released another video, this time through BioWare TV, showing us even more.

Check it out!

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Hackers Can Remotely Set Your Printer On Fire (Or Blow It Up) – Not According To HP!

Posted by: on November 30, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Hackers Can Remotely Set Your Printer On Fire (Or Blow It Up) – Not According To HP!

Computer peripheral mega-corp Hewlett-Packard today released a statement regarding the rumors that hackers can set your printer on fire, remotely, using a script to shut down its thermal protection.

HP says this rumor is exactly that…a rumor.

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Activision / Blizzard, EA / BioWare Trade Gunfire In The Marketplace

Posted by: on November 30, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Activision / Blizzard, EA / BioWare Trade Gunfire In The Marketplace

Years ago, when the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 were released, the console wars began. Since then, lots of things have happened in the video gaming world but the wars still rage on.

Now, however the war has changed fronts. It’s not about who has the best console anymore, it’s about who will emerge as the reigning king of the software publishers.

And it seems the top contenders are squaring off against one another, yet again.

Read on!

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Skyrim Patch (1.2) Causes More Problems Than It Fixes?

Posted by: on November 30, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Skyrim Patch (1.2) Causes More Problems Than It Fixes?


Skyrim version 1.2 was released to Playstation 3 owners on Monday of this week and was intended to fix a number of issues including, but not limited to, PS3 players experiencing significant lag as the size of their save files increased.

After the patch though, a number of new problems have arisen which are driving players crazy.

Read on for details!

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