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Final Fantasy XIII out in less than 24 hours and I wish I cared…
Mar 8th
I know, I know. Almost everyone who reads this will, most likely, want to burn me at the stake but I guess I’m not all that interested in JRPGs (Japanese Role Playing Games) anymore. I try to be, I really do because, once upon a time, I really enjoyed them. Final Fantasy VII is still [...]
nVidia 196.75 Drivers: Those Things Are Bad For You!
Mar 5th
Don’t use them! This has come up in a few different places, but apparently the latest iteration of nVidia’s graphics drivers are causing video cards to overheat and die. Tom’s Hardware has a blurb about it, with nVidia and others claiming that it’s being caused by the fans. The drivers have been removed from the [...]
Activision vs. Infinity Ward and the Future of Call of Duty
Mar 3rd
Yesterday, it was reported that Infinity Ward’s CEO and CTO (Vince Zampella and Jason West, respectively) left the company under fairly unclear circumstances. All we knew was the following:
Activision’s human resources department had concluded an investigation into claims of “breaches of contract and insubordination by two senior employees at Infinity Ward” and that the result [...]
Team Fortress 2: Engineer Unlocks still up in the air
Mar 3rd
For those TF2 fans out there, thought I’d share the latest news from over at Valve regarding their last round of unlocks to be released. All classes in the game have received their new weapons and gadgets save for one class, the Engineer, and the developers over at Valve have been hard at work for [...]
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Servers Down after only 7hrs 30min… and now back up!!
Mar 2nd
Servers on East Coast were up at 1am today and, now at 9:30pm, they are down. It appears to be a authentication server issue. No update on Battlefield blog yet. Waiting for a word from them.
UPDATE: And just like that they are back up, 10 min later. A delightful hiccup. Although I’m sure EA has [...]
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Out Today
Mar 2nd
DICE’s latest foray into the Battlefield series is out today. If you have a retail copy, you’re likely enjoying it already on PC, XBox 360, or PS3. If you purchased the PC version through Direct 2 Drive, EA Downloader, or Steam it will go live at 1 PM EST/ 10 AM PST. Although it’s not a [...]
Trouble In Paradise: Activision Ousts At Least One Infinity Ward Boss, Tim Schafer Still Awesome [UPDATED]
Mar 2nd
Rumors are flying about some serious drama going down between Activision and prized developer Infinity Ward.
Beginning with a post from G4’s news outlet The Feed, it appeared as though nobody at Infinity Ward had seen or heard from studio heads Vince Zampella (CEO) and Jason West (CTO) since a meeting with Activision that took place [...]
Plants vs. Zombies shambles to the top of the App Store.
Mar 2nd
Back when I started playing Plants vs. Zombies, I remember one of my first thoughts being, “Wow, this is an incredible game!” but hot on the heels of that revelation was “Wow, I should be playing this on the iPhone!” Well, even though it took a little over 9 months to figure out, creator Pop [...]
Bad Company 2 and the Steam Pre-load controversy
Mar 2nd
Let me start off with this: for all of you who are pissed at not getting a preload, get over it. I know, I know. It’s obnoxious. We all know the Steam servers will be overloaded at release. It’ll take 20 tries to get the download started, and we’ll probably all start off with some [...]
Out with the New and in with the Old: Securing a Franchise’s Future
Mar 1st
John Carmack has finally figured out which side his bread is buttered. After years of struggling to find a foothold in today’s gaming market, the father of the FPS has gotten back to the basics and, in turn, perhaps breathed new life into his once stagnant franchises.
In the early 2000’s, like many other “old-school” developers, [...]
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