Planetside 2 Beta News. Veterans Get Access On Monday
Get ready! Here it comes!
Yep, you read that right. The Planetside 2 beta is expanding and players who are veterans of the 9 year war which was Planetside will be granted access on Monday. That’s confirmed, per the man John Smedley himself.
So if you’re a veteran of Planetside and you’ve registered for the Planetside 2 beta, get your skills sharpened up because you’re going to be killing Terran Republic and Vanu Sovereignty pigdogs in just a couple of days.
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Banned From Google & No Support in Sight
Not the screen you want to see.
Goodbye, TeamXbox: The Staff Of FleshEatingZipper Remembers You
Before there was FEZ, there was TXB.
IGN recently announced that it would be closing several of its smaller sites on Friday, amongst them being TeamXbox, one of the first tentpoles for the Xbox community. To understand our relationship to TeamXbox and its forums (which will remain open for the time being) is to understand how FleshEatingZipper came into being. Our editors chip in their thoughts on its closure after twelve years of operation and millions of wonderful memories.
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OnLive Still Up & Running, Not Shutting Down
Screen shot of OnLive.com
World Of Warcraft’s Mists Of Pandaria Introduction Is Here, Featuring Cute Fighting Pandas!
It’s cool. Y’know, I’m just a panda.
Although some would say that fleshing out a race of anthropomorphic pandas might be stretching the Warcraft universe a little thin and the tongue-in-cheek implementation might feel completely unofficial, I say: who cares? PANDAS, MAN. Today, Blizzard unveiled the cinematic trailer for the upcoming fourth expansion to their big ol’ game they have. World of something-or-another.
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Everquest Launches “Hero’s Forge” In-Game Armor System
Sort out your armor so you don’t look like everyone else!
The fine folks over at Sony Online Entertainment have announced a new addition to Everquest II which will allow players to make changes to the armor they wear in-game. This, coupled with the SOEmote features are giving an unprecedented level of personality and uniqueness to their game.
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Campaign To Build Tesla Museum Hits $450k In Under Two Days
It’s a lot of money.
Who knew crowdsourcing initiatives who could be so awesome? Yesterday, John Inman, known more commonly as web artist The Oatmeal, set out to help a non-profit purchase the grounds under Nikola Tesla’s former Wardenclyffe, New York facility.
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Planetary Annihilation Hits Kickstarter: Mega RTS Action From The Guys Who Made The Genre
Now, to take my moon base and CRASH IT RIGHT INTO THIS WORLD.
If you’ll remember, there was once a golden age of real-time strategy games. Command & Conquer, StarCraft, Total Annihilation, and my personal favorite, Rise of Nations, toward the end. But it seems that the well went dry and all that talent moved onto different stuff. Some of those minds collected at Uber Entertainment, who’ve recently given us Monday Night Combat. But now they want to go back to their roots with interplanetary action. And you can invest right now.
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Get Ready for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Beta!
Kerrigan is looking pretty hot!
Stop The Press! Train Simulator 2013 Announced
Train Simulator 2013 – Pushing simulation boundaries from dull to slightly interesting.
You thought Train Simulator 2012 had everything you wanted in a realistic train simulator, didn’t you? Think again. The sequel to the award-winning train simulation game (Train Simulator 2013, duh) will spread its seed worldwide September 20th. Ride out with me!
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