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World of Warcraft / Bejeweled and a WotLK Interactive Map

September 21st, 2008 · No Comments

In World of Warcraft news, you will shortly be able to play Bejeweled in WoW.  And Blizzard has released a nice interactive map of the new lands in the expansion. Bejeweled in WoW. Well, looks like flight time no longer means I can hit the restroom. I’m going to need a bucket….

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Video Game Players Are Brilliant Scientists

September 14th, 2008 · No Comments

When I first started playing video games, back when joysticks were made of the femurs of certain small dinosaurs, you just sort of played the game. Things came down the screen, you shot them, they blew up, you got points. Lather, rinse, and yes, repeat. Sometime during my history of gaming, games got more complicated. [...]

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World of Warcraft News: Death Knights and Achievements

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Detailed info on the Death Knight class has gone live on the World of Warcraft site. Interesting to me is that in the lore section (I’m a story nerd…so I actually skip the stats and go straight to the story), they actually mention the Death Knights from the newest WoW novels, which are orc spirits [...]

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Wii Music – Yet Again Something New From Nintendo

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

So, via Rock Band I’ve gotten a much better understanding of how to play the drums, but I always sort of want a practice mode where I could just use my drum set as a midi drum set, and get the feel for playing drums without following along with the game. Nintendo’s new Wii Music [...]

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Wii Advanced Motion Control and New Wii Sports Game

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

This is sweet. They’re adding more advanced motion control to the Wii-mote via an add-on that will come packed with the Wii Sports Resort game. And the Wii Sports Resort game includes sword fighting.

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XBox 360 and Netflix

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Well, I’ve been awaiting this announcement for a while, about Netflix on-demand movies being available via the XBox 360. Thing is, you have to be an XBox Live Gold subscriber to do it. What a rip-off! I have to pay Microsoft money to watch movies from Netflix on their console? You would think they’d want [...]

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Diablo 3?

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

So with BlizzCon fast approaching, I recommend anyone fascinated with the games made by Blizzard Entertainment check out the Blizzard jobs section right now. They have quite a few “top secret” jobs listed starting with: Blizzard Entertainment, the developer of Diablo and Diablo II, is looking for a senior 3D environment artist So does this [...]

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Why I Like Warren Spector

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Well, for one thing, he designed Deus Ex, which was one of the first really immersive 3D shooters that wasn’t really a shooter and was really more of an experience inside a truly interactive world. But I really liked what he had to say about the future of gaming in a recent speech: “I love [...]

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Wii Recommendation Service

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Kind of kewl, according to Gamasutra, Nintendo is adding a recommendation service to it’s channel on the Wii, allowing users to rate and recommend games. This is why Nintendo is rocking.

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Why Buy A Wii Fit?

June 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s two reason to buy a Wii Fit. And this is probably NSFW (not safe for work). Why every guy should buy his girlfriend a Wii Fit Why every girl should buy her boyfriend a Wii Fit Yep. It’s really all about sitting on the couch and watching, isn’t it?

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