Apr
2
Column: ‘World of Warcraft Exposed’: Before You Make Your First Character…
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[’World of Warcraft Exposed’ is a weekly column by Michael Zenke about the culture and experience of the globe’s biggest online game phenomenon, the ten million subscriber-strong World of Warcraft. This second column looks at how character classes are actually differentiated in the game.]
There are so many people playing World of Warcraft today, it’s […]
Apr
2
Introducing Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.: Air combat has never sounded this good
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We were all wondering what H.A.W.X. was going to be about after finding out that Ubisoft trademarked the title. IGN got the exclusive and now we know. Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. is a jet fighting game and I’m sure Ace Combat fans are tenting their pants over this announcement. The game will come out for the […]
Apr
2
[Editor’s note: free touch posted this blog a couple of days ago and I don’t know how I missed this until just now. Once again, free touch shows off his artistic talents by making this custom Halo 3 skull, which happens to be my favorite skull from the game. YAY!!!! — CTZ]
Sup all. I present […]
Apr
2
BBFC listing indicates that GTA IV may have 7 hours and 43 minutes of cut-scenes
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According to the British Board of Film Classification’s entry for Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV, the upcoming Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 title may have close to eight hours worth of cut-scenes. To be precise: "When submitted to the BBFC the work had a running time of 463m 0s." That’s 7 hours and 43 minutes, […]
Apr
2
Rumortoid: Skate coming to Nintendo DS and Wii
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Earlier today, IGN dropped the news that Electronic Arts will be bringing the Skate franchise to the Nintendo DS and Wii. Called Skate It!, the game will … oh, wait! IGN weren’t supoosed to tell the world about it just yet. Oops!
The article has since been yanked from the Web site, which can quite possibly […]
Apr
2
Rhythm method: An interview with electro-pop band Freezepop
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[Editor’s note: Japanator superstar Zac Bentz got a chance to interview Freezpop at a recent concert of theirs this past week. You can read the interview below or if you suffer from the TL;DR syndrome because of how dumb your brain is, you can listen to the interview mp3 style. — CTZ]
In a gaming scene […]
Apr
2
Unfortunately, it’s that time again — time for more dirty, disgusting Podcastle. Tonight we talk about The Byron Report, in between arguments about Call of Duty 4 and Wardrox and I singing excerpts from Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds concept album (a magnificent LP, do check it out).
I believe we’re slowly getting closer to […]
Apr
2
If this was Peter Moore’s idea of an April Fool’s joke, I don’t think many PC gamers found it very funny. In a post on his official blog yesterday, the EA Sports head honcho confirmed that EA will not be releasing Madden NFL 09 on the PC:
We knew that our decision to not develop this […]
Apr
2
In wake of DualShock 3 release, Sony discontinues Sixaxis
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Despite the fact that Sony at one point downplayed the importance of rumble as a function in controllers, the DualShock 3 has entered the market in North America this week. Combining motion-sensitive controls with the fancy shaking and moving most gamers have come to expect from controllers, the DualShock 3 essentially makes the Sixaxis obsolete.
So […]
Apr
2
Get Sierra Online’s Battlestar Galactica XBLA game half-price this Friday only
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Sierra Online has announced that the Battlestar Galactica game for XBLA will be half price — 400 Microsoft Points — this Friday, April 4.
Admittedly, I’ve never seen more than three episodes of Battlestar Galactica, but I hear it’s totally killer. It’s got something to do with Cylons and stars that battle each other in the […]