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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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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Mass Effect 3 – The Citadel is BACK!

Posted by: on November 29, 2011 at 9:19 pm
Mass Effect 3 – The Citadel is BACK!

That’s right…in Mass Effect 3, The Citadel – the center of galactic commerce and politics – will be making a return to the game.

Read on for more

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Game Review – Fragment For Android – The FULL version!

Posted by: on November 29, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Game Review – Fragment For Android – The FULL version!

If you’ll remember, I did a preview of a nifty little game called “fragment” several weeks ago.

The version I’d gotten was just a little taste of things to come and the developer – A 2 man company called Sapling Creations, from the UK – asked me to play the full version and drop a review on it.

So here goes!

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Star Wars : The Old Republic – HD Video Preview – No Plot Spoilers

Posted by: on November 29, 2011 at 9:14 am
Star Wars : The Old Republic – HD Video Preview – No Plot Spoilers


Star Wars : The Old Republic (SWTOR) gets a preview, FEZ Style?

Damned right it does! SWTOR is releasing on Dec. 20th and we’ve had a chance to play it, learn it, love it and preview it for all of the fans out there who are chomping at the bit for the 20th to hurry up and get here so they can get out there and kick some galactic ass!

Read on for a few words and the video part of the preview.
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Zynga Releases CastleVille. Millions Slip Into Coma.

Posted by: on November 24, 2011 at 7:56 pm
Zynga Releases CastleVille.  Millions Slip Into Coma.

Yep…Zynga has released yet another in their long line of “ville” games, with the beta of Castleville.

I guess I shouldn’t say they’ve released another game, though…I should just say that they’ve pumped out yet another iteration of the same old crap.

Read on for some details.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Review

Posted by: on November 23, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Review

All I’ve heard from people is that MW3 is the most expensive map pack ever, lol, this is in-game while I’m getting my ass handed to me in multiplayer. My argument against this is what about the NBA and NFL games that come out every year that people buy like crazy? First person shooter series are the same thing as that whether it’s Call of Duty or Battlefield. I was hoping to wrap an ELITE review into this as well but with the issues ELITE has been having I will just do a separate review when it’s operating normally. Read the rest of this article…