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World of Warcraft - Wrath of the Lich King Officially Announced
Wrath of the Lich King is official! BlizzCon is in full swing, and celebrants there are already enjoying the Northrend-themed imagery. For a look at what’s going on, Joystiq has a liveblog of the opening ceremony up. Games For Windows magazine, meanwhile, will feature WLK its next cover. The post on the 1up site has […]
She was a 31 mage, he was a 17 warrior.
An Australian woman is facing child abduction charges in the US after trying to bring her 17-year-old World of Warcraft boyfriend back to Oz.
Tamara Broome, a 31-year-old university student, was arrested on June 26 after she flew from Adelaide to the boy’s home in Greenville, North Carolina to pick up her internet beau.
Broome allegedly had […]
WoW Database Site Sells For $1 Million
Wowhead (a WoW information database) has been sold to ZAM (Affinity Media) for the price of $1 million. ZAM is the owner of several other WoW databases, including Thottbot and Allakhazam. Until recently Affinity was also the owner of IGE, a highly controversial company that sold in-game wealth for real life money. Affinity recently sold […]
How Wii Is Creaming the Competition
CNN has a report on the Wii’s success in the games marketplace right now, referring to their sales dominance as ‘creaming the competition’. The article tries to break down exactly why Nintendo’s console has sold so successfully, discussing the system’s marketing, engineering, and philosophy. "Next, engineers settled on a new approach for the Wii’s looks. […]
Still A Rough Road Ahead for the PlayStation 3
"Despite the good news out of GDC last week, it still seems like Sony’s new console has some image management to do. CNET says that the PlayStation 3 is ‘the most unwanted console in recent memory’ and asks ‘why is the PS3 so undesirable?’ They specifically question the company’s wisdom in emphasizing the power of […]
The OLPC Project And Games
Gamasutra continued their extensive coverage of GDC Tuesday, with information on the second day of serious and indie gaming tracks. For those who have been following the One Laptop Per Child Project, one of that project’s developers put out a call for serious games to support the device. With plans already in the works to […]
The Evolution of Gears of War
A number of outlets are reporting on the discussion held this morning by CliffyB on the development process for Gears of War. He discusses some of the early iterations on several elements of the game, such as cover, the Locusts, and the possibility of ‘cash’ in multiplayer gaming. "The first type of control level is […]
Brain/Computer Gaming Interface Coming in 2008
"Emotiv Systems today unveiled a brain/computer interface system with a helmet and software applications at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The Project Epoc system can move objects based on a gamer’s thoughts, reflect facial expressions, and respond to the excitement or calm the gamer mentally exerts, the company said….While Emotiv […]
More Advertising in Your Next Xbox Game
"TheGameFeed is reporting on Microsoft’s plans to offset Xbox360 game costs with more in game advertising under its subsidiary, Massive. In-game ads are gaining popularity and the wave isn’t going to stop. Publishers see this as a huge potential for increased game revenues to help offset the rising development costs for the Xbox 360, PS3 […]
