1Up has had a chance to look at Call of Duty 3, a highly anticipated first person shooter wargame. It’s door-to-door urban combat, WWII-style. You must proceed with caution and careful aim, because the opposing force is many in number and stubborn as hell in defending its encampments. Using your fellow soldiers to draw fire [...]
I hate microtransactions, I think most game makers are doing it to maximize their profit, and get us for as much as possible. They realized that this format would work thanks to MMORPG’s which charge people a monthly fee for being able to play the game. It looks like Gran Turismo HD for the PlayStation [...]
You see a game you want, but it is not worth buying it at its current $60 price tag. You consider renting it, but you know it will cost you nearly $30 to rent it long enough to beat it and really enjoy it. So what do you do? Well, Microsoft has announced that their [...]
LucasArts have been watching the sales numbers for their popular game Lego Star Wars II for less than a month, and already they have sold 1.1 million copies. The game was released September 12th to run on the eight different platforms currently out. The sales numbers must be created big smiles for the LucasArts folks [...]
Popular online clothing sales site, Jinx, is under contract from Blizzard to make a full line of “WoW” apparel and accessories. You can expect World of Warcraft themed hats, stickers, pins, buttons, patches, shirts, and sweaters. This allows the nearly seven million players to show off their obsession with the game. And label themselves as [...]
Over at Aeropause, they have a post up explaining the top ten most annoying things about online gaming. The list is both funny, and true. Here is the list of the annoying things. For the details you will have to head to their site. 10. Typing9. Kids8. Weapon Whores7. Spawn Campers6. Noobs5. Corpse Humping4. Racism [...]
Over at the fan site Startrek-online.net, there is a development update on the Star Trek Online MMORPG from Perpetual Entertainment’s Daron Stinnett. In a few weeks, we’ll have the space combat refined to the point where we’ll have a basic set of skills, effects, damage model, AI, and cameras to the point where we can [...]
Over on SpikeTV’s Game Head show on Saturday night, they talked about various bands and their relationships to video games. In a short chat with the band 30 Seconds to Mars, they revealed that they are involved with an upcoming video game, based on the band. How weird? I rarely see the musical group anywhere [...]
It looks like August was a good month for game sales according to data provided by the NPD Group, and reported by Gamasutra, video game sales were 17.5 percent higher in August compared to a year ago. With total hardware and software sales reaching $397 million USD, Electronic Arts was able to sell over 1.8 [...]
With many Star Trek titles coming out to every console and PC this fall, developer Perpetual Studios is deep in development of a MMORPG Star Trek title, named Star Trek Online. While Perpetual Studio is keeping many details a secret, Firing Squad was able to score an interview with design director Glen Dahlgren to talk [...]
