Blizzard announces World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
Posted by inpheaux on August 3rd, 2007 at 4:29 pmAs expected, at this year's BlizzCon, the big story is the announcement of the second WOW expansion: Wrath of the Lich King. Also as completely expected, Wrath opens up the region of Northrend, and pits players up against the Lich King Arthas.
There is, of course, more than just that. Here's the rundown of what new [...]
EA drops online support for tons of games
Posted by inpheaux on August 3rd, 2007 at 4:04 pmEA, in their infinite wisdom, has decided that if you haven't upgraded your yearly sports games in the past two years, that you must not care about playing games online. So they don't need to support you anymore.
In one month, on 1 SEP 2007, EA will drop online support for the following games on the [...]
GTA4 slips to 2008
Posted by inpheaux on August 2nd, 2007 at 9:49 pmThis is why as a developer you NEVER set a release date for a product that's more than a year in the future. Similarly, this is why as a consumer you NEVER believe a product release date set more than a year in the future.
October 17th was just too good to be true. We should [...]
Toribash 3.0 Tantalizes with Trailer
Posted by Akaishi on July 17th, 2007 at 8:26 pmFans of Toribash, the ragdoll physics powered turn based fighting game, recently got a video vision of things to come with a youtube trailer for the upcoming version of the game. Toribash version 3 is reportedly coming in October, with an all new graphic engine that uses Shaders 2.0 for much more realistic abstract 3D [...]
E3 2007 - Unreal Tournament 3 in-game trailer & screenshots
Posted by inpheaux on July 12th, 2007 at 9:35 amEpic & Midway released a ton of new UT3 content yesterday, including an awesome new trailer full of almost all in-game content and a bunch of new screenshots (which had been leaked last week).
You NEED this.
HD Trailer: BeyondUnreal, 3D Downloads, FileFront
SD Trailer: YouTube
BeyondUnreal has the box art & screenshots.
The guys from Epic also further re-re-re-confirmed [...]
Sony @ E3 2007 - Desperately Seeking Relevancy
Posted by inpheaux on July 11th, 2007 at 7:24 pmSony Press Conferences are even better to summarize because there's rarely anything of substance, and what does have substance is probably multi-platform.
So lets dive right in:
PS2: Sony reminded us that the PS2 does exist, and they are still totally supporting it! And then they promptly said "Oh but we aren't talking about PS2 stuff today." [...]
Nintendo @ E3 2007 - Numbers, Dates, the Zapper and … a Scale?
Posted by inpheaux on July 11th, 2007 at 12:59 pmI like Nintendo Press Conferences because you can generally summarize them pretty easily.
Numbers: Shocking news - Reggie loves his charts & graphs and Nintendo is totally dominating everything when it comes to numbers. The DS now makes up a quarter of the console market, and somehow the GBA is refusing to give up its marketshare. [...]
Microsoft @ E3 2007 - Games, Games, Games and an Olive 360
Posted by inpheaux on July 11th, 2007 at 2:06 amMicrosoft's E3 2007 Press Conference has come and gone, and there was a rather massive dearth of really earth-shattering stuff. Much like last year, really. Hell, last year I didn't even do a recap.
Tonight's press event was all about games. Microsoft is past fiddling with hardware (maybe), and is seriously focusing on content. And it's [...]
PS3 $100 Price Drop Confirmed, Desperate
Posted by inpheaux on July 9th, 2007 at 7:43 amThis price drop story has been kicking around forever. It started ages ago as speculation, possibly hoping:
"Gee, I sure wish Sony would stop being ridiculous and drop the price of the PS3. You know, so normal people could actually afford the damn thing."
Then it turned to something we flat out expected:
"Aahaaahaaha Sony is getting crushed. [...]
Put your party hats on, it’s DirectionalPad’s 2nd birthday
Posted by inpheaux on July 6th, 2007 at 1:06 pmLooks like we've managed to survive another year.
I don't really have a big well-thought-out post to celebrate the occasion, or even have promises of a ton of upcoming content, since we don't have any reviews in the pipeline at the moment.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like we'll be going to E3 this year, as we weren't [...]