Gamer News 08.10.09: Hey, Did You Hear…
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under Hey Did You Hear..., News
The new races being added to World of Warcraft with the next expansion are reported to be the Worgen for the Alliance, and the Goblins for the Horde. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will be added sometime in the future, which according to the typical Blizzard production timetable should see a release sometime after 2018. Click here for the scoop.
Speaking of WoW, BlizzCon 2009 is coming up later this month in Anaheim. One of the WoW television commercial alumni is set to make an appearance. Unfortunately, it’s not Mr. T. or William Shatner. The Prince of Darkness himself, Ozzy Osbourne has been tapped to perform for those which have no life. Now I’m sure that there won’t be any big important announcements by Act/Blizz at this event. Nope, they are probably just having one of the most well known living rock stars perform just for the hell of it. With all the rumors flying around about Blizzard and their projects these days, who knows what it will be. But seeing as how Ozzy has done the WoW commercial in the past, my guess is it is a tie-in for the next WoW expansion. Click here for details.
Tags: Blizzard, Blizzcon, Gaikai, Halo movie, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Gamer News 08.6.09: Hey, Did You Hear…
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under Hey Did You Hear..., News
If you think you are the s**t when it comes to games, now you can back it up. BringIt.com allows players 18 and over to put up some scratch that says they can pwn you on various games across the PS2, PS3, 360, and Wii platforms. With bets going from a few bucks to a whopping $100,000 maximum, there will be some serious money (and potential tax revenue) moving back and forth for the 39 U.S. states in which it is already legal. Personally, I would love to watch the game that has a $1k bucks or more riding on it. But in any event, this is just another means by which someone could make a living playing video games. Next I want to see more competitive game playing on cable or over the net. Click here for the article on GamePolitics.com. Click here to go to the BringIt website.
Not being a PS3 owner, I completely missed this one. But it seems that up until recently players of the racing game Wipeout HD on that platform were subjected to in-game advertising gone way too f*****g far. See, the standard load time for a new race should be around 8 seconds. But while waiting to begin a race, even offline players were forced to wait as much as 19 seconds so that they could see a commercial in its entirety. Click here for the youtube video demonstrating this. Now the ads have been removed, but this just shows what they are willing to do to force you to watch their ads. Keep an eye out for more of this bullshit in the future. Click here to see the article up on Joystiq.
By now you have heard that Starcraft 2 is being delayed until 2010. Why? So Act/Bliz can build a new Battlenet. Yeah, apparently since they decided to hack a game into three pieces forcing players to dish out more money, and also removing LAN play to force people to use Battlenet, they have now decided that “Gee, we should rebuild Battlenet”. Because just having a public forum where players can meet, talk smack, spam for gold farmers, and occasionally play a game or two, yeah, that’s just not enough. Now they have to push back a major release so we can build more useless s**t that players never wanted and certainly do not require. The chief muckity-muck over at Activision, Bobby Kotick, says that they want to make Battlenet “similar to Xbox Live”. Well, isn’t that just wonderful. What this means I guess is that they will saturate players with ads disguised as game-related items and replace everbody’s game avatars with androgynous, shitty, virtual dollies so we can all play dress up online. Although they are remaining ambiguous on the subject, this will likely place the release of Diablo 3 sometime shortly after commercial fusion power plants begin to go online. Click here for the article on Kotaku.
Tags: Activision, Battlenet, Blizzard, BringIt, Hey Did You Hear..., Starcraft 2, Wipeout HD
MMO News Roundup - 3-1-09
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under MMO News Roundup, News
OK, let me lead off here by wishing a fond farewell to what could have been a great MMO, but now has officially closed its servers. As of now, Tabula Rasa is now longer operating. The heroic fighters of humanity won their way back to Earth, and reclaimed their homeland in an epic battle that took place in the ruins of New York City. Take a gander at the video, and click here to check out some players screenshots from the final night. Click here to see some more screenshots of the game in general. Mark well, and remember a game that never got the attention or respect that it deserved. Oh well, there will always be other games, and other battles. So long Tabula Rasa, and thanks for all the fish.
So if you are of legal age to drink alcohol in whatever country you find yourself living at the moment, and you like to play World of Warcraft, then you are in luck. Well, sort of anyway. Now there are some new and very sweet-ass WoW steins available for you to use when you’re up to your eyeballs in Azeroth. They are decorated with beautiful WoW art created just for these lovelies, and extra-large mouths to get that beer in your head as quickly as possible. So, what’s the catch? They are as pricey as they are nice to look at. So if you are the average gamer, you will probably have to pass. But if your employer is a major bank who is tossing around taxpayer dollars as “rewards” to their executives for all the hard work involved in tanking their business in the first place, then maybe you can score a set. And in advance, you’re f*****g welcome. Click here to look at the pretty drinking steins.
Tags: Blizzard, Diablo III, Jumpgate Evolution, MMO, MMO News Roundup, MMORPG, NetDevil, Tabula Rasa, World of Warcraft
MMO News Roundup - 1-29-09
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under MMO News Roundup, News
Proving once again that being a bunch of annoying smacktards does pay, a gold farming website has been sold for a whopping $10 million. You annoying pricks, if you want to make a profit on the backs of children in a Chinese sweatshop, at least have the decency to die very young from a huge brain tumor. Click here to read the details.
With less than a month to go before the game closes down forever, Tabula Rasa is not just lying back and waiting to die. Deployment 16 is on the public test server, and though it had been planned for some time now, players can still get the last days of the game wreaking havoc in new battle mechs. With all of the awesomeness in this game, it is sick that it has to close down at all, especially considering the extremely shitty MMOs that get to go on living. But just to show how classy they can be, the TR devs have added named items into the game inventory to honor their 40 biggest fans. Really nice items can now be found that bear the names of actual players. Click here to see some of the screenies on the forums. Click here to read the patch notes for Deployment 16.
There is also a new devblog over at Star Trek Online. The latest “Ask Cryptic” divulges some more details of the gameplay of this upcoming destroyer of evenings and weekends. STO from the looks of it, is turning out to be rather promising. I hope that when the game does go live, it actually meets expectations. Because my expectations are VERY high. Hey, Star Trek still owes me for Voyager (shudder). Click here to read the latest “Ask Cryptic”.
Finally tonight I am going to share this little tidbit. Do you think that Activision/Blizzard makes any money at all from World of Warcraft? If you guessed that they turn a bit of a profit, then you are WAY off. It turns out that more than half of all profits made by the company in fiscal 2009 were from WoW, to the tune of around $400 million. Click here for the details. Know what this officially makes World of Warcraft? I’ll give you a hint: CHA-CHING MMMMMOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Tags: Blizzard, Cryptic, gold farmer, MMO, MMO News Roundup, MMORPG, Star Trek Online, Tabula Rasa, World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft Mouse - YOU Are That Which Has No Life
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under Hardware, Rants
If the special WoW keyboard just isn’t enough to make you feel superior to all other level 80 characters that are exactly like you because the players behind them also have no life whatsoever and raid incessantly for that one set of epics that is .00000001% more uber than the rest, now you have something else to waste your money on.
From SteelSeries comes the mouse officially licensed by Blizzard for World of Warcraft. Instead of just making do with a regular pointing device, soon you will be able to waste $100 on a mouse that seems to be designed to play one game and little else.
Tags: Blizzard, MMO, MMORPG, SteelSeries, World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft Stuff - Get Some Ph4t L007
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under Collectibles, The Shit to Get
So you have probably stumbled across JINX by this time in your gamer career. If you have not, then u r teh sux.
OK, now that I have your castigation out of the way, feast your eyes on JINX. They have a truly awesome collection of game-related merchandise available. And since World of Warcraft continues to be so huge with its new expansion and all, perhaps you know a fellow gamer that would like an item or two? Check out the World of Warcraft gear on JINX now by clicking this link.
Tags: Blizzard, JINX, MMO, MMORPG, World of Warcraft
Dreadsorrow’s Quickie: Wrath of the Lich King
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under Quickies, Rants
OK, so the expansion went live last Thursday, and barely 24 hours later the first loser hit the new cap at level 80. Yay, you still haven’t accomplished anything significant you dumbass.
Now I am engaged in the horrid task of using up the last of my vacation days from work, so I am suffering through several days of relaxing and playing video games all fraking day. I enjoy MMOs, and spent much of both Friday and Saturday playing WoW. But I have to tell you after almost 20 hours of playing over two days, I was burned out. Too much of anything is bad I guess.
During my playing on Saturday, I saw three different notices pop up on screen, signifying the first level 80s on the server for their specific characters’ race. Yeah, apparently Blizzard has decided to include such things on its list of achievements you can win playing WoW. Knowing full well that people would put themselves through marathon gaming sessions to be the first ones on one of the many, many servers to reach level 80.
Tags: Blizzard, MMORPG, quickies, World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King
WoW Event Causes Uproar - Blizzard Suppresses Players That Dissent.
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under Editorials, Rants
World of Warcraft frequently sees events unfold within the lands of Azeroth that are linked to some equivalent of real world holidays. The events are normally nice little diversions from the usually day-to-day routine that players experience. Normally is the operative word here.
The difference with this event, is that Blizzard has a big expansion coming out for WoW within the next couple weeks, so they also have another event going that is not quite so normal. As a matter of fact, it f*****g sucks.
See, what the deal is, there are denizens of the undead plague called simply the Scourge, that are spawning around the world, and infecting players with a disease that turns them into zombies within a minute or so unless they find a healer, and there is NEVER a healer around.
Why? Because one of the things that players do once they turn into full-blown Scourge, is to start killing any and all NPCs in the area in order to grief other players. The very next thing they do is to start infecting other players with zombie germs. You see, what happens when you become a Scourge, is that you are now flagged as a PVP player, and are vulnerable to open attack by both Alliance as well as Horde. The Scourge, it turns out, are their own third faction that everyone hates.
Tags: Blizzard, MMORPG, World of Warcraft, WoW
Diablo III - Wizard Unveiled
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under News, Previews, Trailers
Introducing, the wizard…schwing!
A couple days ago at Blizzcon, The third character class for the upcoming Diablo 3 was revealed. Not surprisingly, after the barbarian and the witch doctor, One of the three remaining turned out to be the wizard. Filling the nuker archetype, the wizard will have a host of heavy damage elemental attacks, along with some handy strategic spells as well.
Tags: Blizzard, Blizzcon, Diablo III, News, Previews, Trailers
Blizzard Music Available On iTunes
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under News, The Shit to Get
Under the unofficial category of “because they just aren’t rich enough yet”, Blizzard has released some of their game soundtracks for sale on iTunes. Here is a rundown of what you can get:
Tags: Blizzard, Burning Crusade, Diablo II, Diablo III, News, soundtrack, Starcraft, The Shit to Get, World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft PVE to PVP server transfers - Come on and get your ass kicked
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under News
Blizzard has just announced that they will now allow character transfers between PVE (player versus environment) servers and PVP (player versus player) servers. If you’re jonesing to get your virtual ass pwnd and be looked down upon by players like this…
Tags: Blizzard, character transfer, News, PVP, World of Warcraft, WoW
Blizzard Announces Diablo 3!
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under News
OH SWEET FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER YES YES YES YES A MILLION TIMES f*****g YES!!!!
Two Character Classes have already been revealed, The Barbarian, and The Witch Doctor. And judging by the gameplay video, there will be both male and female versions of both. There are three more classes, to be announced later.
If you go to this link here and watch the gameplay video, you will be smashed in your face by the most awesome RPG action ever on a computer screen. The monsters are climbing up the goddamn walls! There are destructible environments, which can be used in battle. Watch the barbarian bring down a f*****g wall on top of a mass of enemies. The traps are wicked and cool, and there is awesome parallax scrolling of the environment that looks like a genuine bird’s eye change in perspective rather than layers scrolling at different speeds. The spell effects and combat animations are mindblowing. You of course remember spells like Wall of Fire, and Wall of Bone? p***y spells compared to the Witch Doctor’s WALL OF ZOMBIES !!!!!
Tags: Blizzard, Diablo III, News, PC
