July 2009
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By Frank on July 31, 2009
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A while back, my friend Kelly from educational blog Unenlightened English linked me the very interesting story of EA’s Dante’s Inferno game being protested against at E3 by a Christian group that actually turned out to be a guerrilla marketing team that EA brought in to hype the game. While there was much [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged dante's inferno, EA, Electronic Arts, games
By Frank on July 31, 2009
Syp over at Bio Break had something to say about the possibility of playable Droids in Star Wars: The Old Republic, hoping against hope that everyone’s favorite robots would, ironcally, be actually playable by humans.
There are a couple of arguments against droids being an actual race, but perhaps the largest one would be the actual [...]
Posted in Gaming, Star Wars: The Old Republic | Tagged BioWare, games, mmo, Star Wars: The Old Republic, TOR
By Frank on July 30, 2009
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So, my good friend and fellow Warhammer Alliance worker Kristen pointed me out to something I just had to read to give the Overly Positive touch. The ever prolific Jim Sterling of Destructoid wrote about an interesting development in WoW that pretty much puts more cement on the foundation of WoW [...]
Posted in Gaming, Overly Positive Thoughts, Social Geekery | Tagged games, Massive Multiplayer Online, world of warcraft
By Frank on July 30, 2009
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SWTORBlog.net posted their usual updates regarding dev quotes, and apparently, according to TOR Community Rep Sean Dahlberg, there isn’t going to be much coming out of the Bioware front for a few weeks. This means that Bioware’s relative silence about the game is going to get that much more apparent. [...]
Posted in Gaming, Star Wars: The Old Republic | Tagged BioWare, games, Star Wars: The Old Republic
By Frank on July 29, 2009
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Well, Yahoo has a lot to be all smiles about today.
In a bold move aimed at taking on Google, the clear leader in search right now, Yahoo has decided to abandon its own search efforts and instead form an alliance with who else but Microsoft and their new engine, Bing.
The end of Yahoo [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged Bing, google, Microsoft, Yahoo
By Frank on July 28, 2009
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Out of all the info that has surfaced about TOR so far (and you can get to Moon Over Endor if you want the full overview from Ayane as usual) the actual TOR Exhaustive Q&A from IGN is probably the best and most comprehensive of the limited information that Bioware [...]
Posted in Gaming, Star Wars: The Old Republic | Tagged BioWare, games, Star Wars: The Old Republic, TOR
By Frank on July 27, 2009
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Today as I was browsing along in the Star Wars: The Old republic official forums I came upon a post by SpockO in page 9 of a TOR interview questions thread that talked about Bioware’s communication with its potential players:
“Too many games have been ruined before they were even completed by early open [...]
Posted in Gaming, Star Wars: The Old Republic | Tagged BioWare, Massively multiplayer online game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Video game
By Frank on July 27, 2009
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Dog days of summer getting you down? Feeling like this is the start to another brutal week of the work grind? Not to worry, folks, because we’re here to give you a pick-me-up with some neato geekery news articles:
DJ Jazzy Jeff Joins Up With DJ Hero Cast (via Destructoid): With Guitar [...]
Posted in Case Of The Mondays Cure | Tagged Entertainment Consumers Association, games, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Video game
By Frank on July 26, 2009
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This weekend, for my work at Curse and Warhammer Alliance, I headed out to Games Day Chicago, which was obviously easy to travel to since I live in the city. During this affair, I was able to hook up with Mythic Entertainment, and became for all intents and purposes their [...]
Posted in Gaming, Warhammer Online | Tagged games, Mythic Entertainment
By Frank on July 25, 2009
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When you’re willing to fill sand and create a beach in the middle of a major city landmark (thanks Destructoid).
I mean, sure, this is the Wii, so I know that it might not actually count, but regardless of the company, who’s willing to do that these days?
Posted in Gaming | Tagged wii, Wii Sports Resort
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