When thinking about Marvel Heroes, I want you to remember one name: David Brevik. If you already know who David Brevik is, then my mention of his name should automatically make you think of Diablo, and that is where I would like to begin. For a while now, you may have heard of Marvel: Heroes … Continue reading “Comic Con Hands On: Marvel Heroes”
Iranian gamers may be waking up to find that access to a number of games will be going away in the coming weeks. According to the BBC, while the Iran government would like you to believe that the games are being banned as “western propaganda” used to “poison the minds of the youth population in … Continue reading “International Sanctions Shut Down World of Warcraft in Iran”
Another year, another Golden Joystick award. Every year I bring up the nominees, and since MMO Fallout is all about MMOs (and gratuitous food analogies), I tend to focus on just the one category. Last year the Best MMO category housed six titles. This year, the list has been expanded to a whopping nine. Luckily … Continue reading “And the Golden Joysticks Nominees Are…”
World of Warcraft is a paradox in and of itself: While the subscription numbers continue to drop, Blizzard has been very quick to point out that the game just continues to become more profitable. The problem, according to Blizzard, is that players are becoming bored with grinding content in between expansion packs. To stem the … Continue reading “World of Warcraft Dropping More Weight: Another Million Subscribers Lost”
It is that time of the year again. The third annual Games Developers Choice Awards Online ceremony isn’t held until October, but the list of finalists has been revealed. Zynga dominates the list of finalists this year with nine nominations, and Bioware’s The Old Republic taking six on its own. Additionally, Glitch received several nominations … Continue reading “Nominations For 2012 Games Developers Choice Awards Online”
Can someone loan me $13 billion? According to Bloomberg, executives from Vivendi SA will meet later this month to determine if the company will sell off its majority 61% share in Activision Blizzard. The report came from anonymous sources, noting that the meeting is secret and the details of what is discussed may or may … Continue reading “Activison Blizzard Up For Sale? For $13.2 Billion”
Raptr is a gaming service similar to Xfire, that tracks time played, achievements, and occasionally offers some great reward coupons including in-game items and coupons for peripherals and other game items. To obtain the rewards, players simply have to reach certain levels of play on a set list of games. Last week, I mentioned that … Continue reading “Raptr 50% Off TERA Coming Soon”
It’s Corgi time. Do you use Raptr? If you aren’t familiar with the program, Raptr runs on your desktop and tracks your game usage over the PC, PS3 and Xbox360. In essence, Ratpr is quite similar to Xfire, except it also tracks your Xbox/Playstation achievements/trophies. As you play your games more and achieve not just … Continue reading “Raptr Giving Away 10,000 Copies of Rift”
Possibly the only thing keeping me from playing Diablo III in Hardcore mode is the fact that every single one of my deaths in standard mode had to do with server latency. I refuse to play by the rules of “you die, you lose your character,” when my biggest foe is the random dice roll … Continue reading “Falling Out #5: Hardcore Lag”
I know what you’re thinking: Sure, denial is exactly what someone would do when they have something to hide. Well take a moment to remember that denial is also something a person will do when they are truly innocent of the charges, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Coming off of the release of … Continue reading “Blizzard Investigating Account Theft, Denied Authenticator Hacking”
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