Star Wars : The Old Republic To Open 2 Days Earlier Than Announced. OH MAH GIZZLES!!!
Star Wars : The Old Republic, earlier than annouced?! When I read it, I thought it was too good to be true but I got a wizz test done to make sure nobody slipped me any PCP and when it came back clean I read the announcement again
Yep, it’s TRUE!
Do Gamers REALLY Prefer Free To Play MMO’s?
In the recent past, there’s been a lot of talk about all of the players who are converting to “free to play” MMORPG games as opposed to their subscription based counterparts and now some sources are claiming that the majority of players prefer the F2P model over the subscription model.
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Electronic Arts’ Stock Takes A Dip
In trading today, the technology sector did pretty well, closing on the up side by about 1.4%
Electronic Arts, however, took a bit of a bath in the market, closing on the down side by 1.1%, bringing the tech sector down, as a whole.
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Half-Life 3 Is Impossible
It seems hard to believe, but it’s been eight years since Half-Life 2 descended upon the Earth, like the Combine of goodwill, and easily destroyed every shooter genre convention and made a fan of me. Let me explain: I wasn’t a huge a fan of the original Half-Life. In fact, I hated it. Where Valve excelled in their initial iteration was in bringing a non-stop sequence of scripted cutscenes into a shooter, but in real-time as you played it, rather than pre-rendered narrative ‘vestibules’ that separated you from the action at hand. We see their influence very easily in games like Modern Warfare 3 where you’re merely the needle bobbing to a vinyl’s groove, watching as an epic story unfolds before you like a parade march just for your senses. Then Half-Life 2 came out.
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
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!
I don’t even know what to say about this. Seriously.
I Hope The Spike Video Game Awards Aren’t Completely Awful. Again.
Do you know what the best part of last year’s VGA Awards show was? No, it wasn’t the exclusive trailers (even the initial unveiling of our beloved Skyrim), or Neil Patrick Harris, or the train wreck that was the entire rest of the show. No, it was Jeff Green’s vitriolic teardown of the show on his blog. Rockets ablaze and hell’s fire abound, he ripped the show to shreds for being a pandering piece of garbage constructed by people who have no idea what video games are or who actually played them. Instead, Spike produced an embarrassing show that no decent gamer would be proud of. So are they changing it up even slightly this year?
Uh, no. Apparently not.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Now Available For Digital Purchase, For Twice The Retail Price!
While we’re talking about how expensive stuff is today, PlayStation 3 owners in Europe-land are now available to purchase the favored Deus Ex: Human Revolution for the price of €49.99 directly from PSN. As in, you can just turn on your console, press a few buttons, maybe whip out a credit card to remember a few crucial numbers, and Eidos Montreal’s cyberpunk adventure will download directly into your house with the only middle man being the PlayStation Network. It sounds like a near miracle to get even a recent blockbuster release via legitimate download (much like Steam on PC), but it comes at a (financial) price: you can find the game for much cheaper at retail, who still seeks to ruin everything when it comes to the future of gaming.
Notch Steps Down As Minecraft King
On his blog today, Minecraft developer Notch (real name: Markus Persson) is stepping down as project lead for the game, two weeks after the game went “1.0”. It’s not hard to blame him, if I’d been working on the same game for years and my reputation was primarily banked on its runaway success, I’d be looking forward to moving on and exploring the galaxy of game ideas I’ve built up in my brain. Of course, now that he’s infused with millions of those Minecraft dollars, he can basically do anything he wants.
