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Two Big Announces
June 29th, 2008Diablo 3 and Quake Live!
Blizzard announced Diablo 3, the third installment of their action RPG, at their World Inivtational held in Paris, France. Fans of the series have been looking forward to this for a long time now. The announcement comes as a surprise, as Blizzard is currently working on Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion pack to World of Warcraft. Seeing as their two different types of games, I don’t see Diablo 3 taking any momentum away from WoW for an extended period of time.
Quake Live - A web based version of Quake 3, and completely free. Ads will be displayed in game, but will not be installed onto the user’s machine. It comes fully packed with a rating system, allowing you to play people in your skill bracket. It is still in development, but you can sign up for the Beta at www.quakelive.com
After a Long Day at Work…
May 15th, 2008- grab some beers
- I pickup my golf clubs
- grab my golfing buddies
- head off to the golf course
- clear my mind
- swing my club
- hit the ball into the wind
- enjoy a 9 hole round
- go home
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- I grab a beer out of the fridge
- pickup the wii remote
- call my neighbors
put in the wii sports disk- clear my mind
- swing my wii remote
- remember to take in account the wind factor
- play a 9 hole game
- tell my friends to go home
Wow, My Brother in Law Plays WoW?
May 12th, 2008I just moved into my new house with my girlfriend a week ago and I invited my sister and her husband to visit. I really haven’t had much of a relationship with them for the past few years so this seemed like a good time to catch up. They have three Kids two boys and the oldest is a girl who is 5, that makes me an uncle three times over. Makes me feel old sometimes but I will be 25 in less than a month. Hard to believe I started gaming so so so long ago. Anyway during our dinner I found out that my brother in law had been bitten by the WoW bug. He went on and on about how much he loves to play WoW and how his co-workers at Home Depot got him into it (ages 30-55). I was blow away at how even today, years after World of Warcrafts release it can still pull in new players and get them so addicted. I have no interest in playing WoW but you have to respect a game that has such a large player base and is still growing years after it’s initial release. My brother in-law even went on to tell me about how my 5 year old neice will ask him to go play his game so she can watch. I guess even 5 year old little girls can love WoW…
All I have to say is wow WoW, way to go! GG!
I Got a Nintendo Wii
May 1st, 2008
So I decided to spend some money on myself last weekend and got myself a nintendo wii. Of course wii sports is a blast, you can’t deny that. But I had to get something that didn’t come in the box… so I jumped online and did some research of the games available. I saw “game party” and it had ski ball, hoops and even a beer pong game so that sounded like a blast… I went to my local gamespot and picked up a copy… played it for 20mins and it was 20mins of the worst gaming experience of my life. I then decided I had to get something else… I saw some things about a game called “No More Heroes” and it had an average score of 9 on gamerankings.com so it had to be good…
I went back to the gamespot and tried to return “game party” and they would only give me $10 store credit for it… I paid $35 errrrrrrrr.
So I got my copy of “No More Heroes” and went home. At first I was kind of disappointed with the gameplay since it didn’t really let me swing the sword freely, as if my wii remote was the sword. Instead you press A to swing the sword and only swing the remote to do kill moves.
After getting over the fact that I was not swinging the sword as much as I originally thought I really began to enjoy the game. I see now why they held back on the sword swinging. After 10mins of playing the game you’d be sweating balls because there is so much action… I mean A LOT OF ACTION. So swinging the sword to do a kill move is very gratifying and the story so far is really good for the casual gamer like myself. It’s not a long winded story they are very good at moving the story along quickly… well I’m getting tired of talking about this game and I need to go play it… I’ll continue this post another time!
InstantAction - The Future of Online Gaming?
March 6th, 2008I recently came across a website called InstantAction.com. What is Instant Action? It is a web based platform that brings together online gaming, social elements such as; chat and online profiles and it does all this with ease and for web based graphics they are top notch. It has been proven that the casual online gaming market is much larger than the hardcore PC gaming market and I think we will see a lot more services like this in the future. Recently we have also seen announcements from Dice and ID software about free to play online games like Quake Live and Battlefield Heroes.
Publishers are seeing a market in Free to Play, ad supported games. It has come to the attention of game developers and gamers themselves that to compete in the PC Gaming market you need games that are playable across PCs of all types, from low end to high end. I expect we will see more services like this popping up in the near future.
Interview with the Famous arQon
March 5th, 2008For any of you who know much about operation Survive, you’d know that we spent a large amount of our time playing the ever popular Quake 3 Mod; CPMA. The creator of that mod, arQon, was interviewed on eGames.de. Here is a preview…
“The featureset mods like OSP, Q4MAX, PK++, HL2DMPro, and so on, are simply doing a job that should have been done by the company that sold you the game. Instead, extremely bright, talented, and dedicated people give up literally hundreds or even thousands of hours of their free time, and put up with incredible amounts of abuse from the community, for absolutely nothing in return except personal satisfaction and the chance to play a game that sucks less than it did out of the box. ” - arQon
Battlefield Heroes… Play at work?
February 29th, 2008Today a video was released for Battlefield Heroes, a new title from dice. Heroes is separating itself from the other Battlefield games by taking a much cartoonier(i like to make up words) fun approach, looking to appeal to a more casual gaming crowed… OH AND DID I MENTION IT’S FREE!? I am always happy to try out a free game and this one looks to be very promising. This title is going on my “can’t wait to play” list. This game will be great for that downtime at work.
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