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Induced Rage: Rogue Warrior

It’s been a bit slow for us on the rage front.  Due to a combination of school work (for me), regular work (for Squid), and the flood of business for his gay escort business (Mack), as well as few games or scandals to get excited about, we haven’t had a great deal to provide you, [...]

Kotaku confirms that Valve loves the PC

There is a post up on Kotaku that discusses the new “Mutations” mode in the Left 4 Dead 2 DLC that is due out this Thursday.  The new game mode sounds interesting and all, but the last paragraph was what caught my eye: Purchased being a relative term, of course. Xbox 360 players can expect [...]

MW2 Map Pack: It’s just like the REAL Stimulus Package!

This goes along with my article from last week.  In that article, I discussed Modern Warfare 2′s apparent failure to keep the player base occupied and coming back for more as time goes on.  Well, Infinity Ward was concerned that such a thing was either going to happen or happening already, because they will soon [...]

Modern Warfare 2: How many players?

Tom’s Hardware has a post in which one Ryan Bowling (Edit: His name is Robert.  Tom’s reported his name incorrectly) at IW claims that MW2 has 25 million unique users.  Yes folks, 25 million.  The subtitle for this little gem of a mini-article is “Modern Warfare 2 is the major game for online gamers.”  First off, don’t [...]

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Out Today

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 [...]

Bad Company 2 and the Steam Pre-load controversy

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 [...]

Modern Warfare MMO?

Over on Tom’s Hardware I came across this article that Infinity Ward might (and I stress the “might” heavily) be making some sort of Modern Warfare MMO instead of Modern Warfare 3.  Though the author, Marcus Yam, discounts the rumor mostly because he doesn’t think they won’t drop a potentially lucrative MW3, I have to disagree.  We [...]

Reviews In Review — MW2 Edition

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Every now and again I’m going to pick apart some game reviews to show how reviewers today, more often than not, are hurting gaming. For this inaugural edition, I’ll examine that elephant in the room crapped out by Bobby Kotick and Co. known as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Rageometer: (5/5) The PS3 and [...]

My Very Own MW2 Rant

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Rageometer: (4/5) I would challenge you to find an article online about Modern Warfare 2, positive or otherwise, after which at least portions of the following points have not appeared in the comments section. But I feel that, for the sake of my own personal catharsis if nothing else, I need to elaborate on the [...]

I am an Angry Gamer

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Rageometer: (4/5) “The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games.” -Bobby Kotick, Activision Blizzard, Inc. – President and CEO Let’s get this out of the way right now: Modern Warfare 2, Infinity [...]