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  • Square Enix considering adding Move support to Final Fantasy XIV

    Square Enix considering adding Move support to Final Fantasy XIV

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    When the Move comes out this September, it'll be the games that drive rather people actually buy the peripheral or not. Square Enix is already looking toward that future, and plans to add support for titles like Heavy Rain, SOCOM IV and Final Fantasy XIV.

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  • Lord of the Rings Online will be free to play this fall

    Lord of the Rings Online will be free to play this fall

    Posted on June 4, 2010 | No Comments
    My inbox in the morning is usually filled with a good degree of nonsense. "Look, it's an iPod dock in the shape of a protozoa!" No thanks, not interested. But this! This is big. Beginning with this fall's expansion, Lord of the Rings Online, the MMO developed by Turbine, will be totally free to play! Meaning, you download the game for free and can play online for free. Free as in beer, folks.

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  • Video: Yup, that’s Everquest running on a Motorola Droid

    Video: Yup, that’s Everquest running on a Motorola Droid

    Posted on May 21, 2010 | No Comments
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  • Is 3 Call of Duty games in less than 2 years overkill? If not, it’s awfully close.

    Is 3 Call of Duty games in less than 2 years overkill? If not, it’s awfully close.

    Posted on April 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Simply amazing. Just totally, out-of-this-world amazing. Activision is said to be working on no less than three new Call of Duty games, to be released before 2012. That's three games in less than two years. You'd think that Activision learned its lesson with Guitar Hero. Remember when Guitar Hero was white-hot in 2007? The game was everywhere! Now? Is there anybody left on the planet who has any interest in the game, or the genre as a whole?

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  • EA drops fat cash on The Old Republic

    EA drops fat cash on The Old Republic

    Posted on March 11, 2010 | No Comments
    What's it going to take to dethrone World of Warcraft? One of two things, I'd say: one, an asteroid smashing directly into the planet, with Blizzard at the exact location of impact, or two, Blizzard releasing World of Warcraft 2. The asteroid is more likely at this point. So you can imagine the time and money EA is putting into The Old Republic, the only MMO with a chance in hell of taking away even a fraction of WoW's subscribers.

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  • Infinity Ward vs. Activision: Whose side are you on?

    Infinity Ward vs. Activision: Whose side are you on?

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    I’m sorry, but I’m absolutely loving this Infinity Ward-Activision brouhaha. Here you have one of the most respected developers out there at odds with a publisher that must seriously have no idea what it’s doing. If Activision thinks it can slap the Call of Duty name on any ol’ game, made by any ol’ developer, [...]

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  • Call of Duty cash cow will be milked completely dry

    Call of Duty cash cow will be milked completely dry

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Let's go back to the year 2005. That autumn, RedOctane released a game called Guitar Hero. It was pretty successful, so it spawned a sequel, Guitar Hero II. That came out on the fall of 2006. One year later, Rock Band first popped up. Then, in the span of around two years, video game publishers lost their minds, and published approximaely 800 music rhythm games. Now you have a situation where not even The Beatles can make Rock Band big again. The lesson: don't saturate the market with same-y games too suddenly. With that in mind, laugh: Activision has created a “dedicated [Call of Duty] business unit that will bring together its various new brand initiatives with focused, dedicated resources around the world.” “Brand initiatives,” folks. Get ready for, like, 900 new Call of Duty games in the next few years!

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  • No, Blizzard doesn’t hate your console, leaves open the possibility of developing console games

    No, Blizzard doesn’t hate your console, leaves open the possibility of developing console games

    Posted on December 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh, look, I'm taking a single remark from a lengthy interview and making an entire post about it. It concerns Blizzard, the famed developer of World of Warcraft and Diablo. You may think of Blizzard as a PC developer, but that ignores games like The Lost Vikings. Anyhow, Blizzard has said in an interview with Gamasutra, which always does good stuff, that it is not averse to making a console game in the future, just that it needs to be the right game.

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  • Square Enix boss claims console gaming on its last legs (and he’s right)

    Square Enix boss claims console gaming on its last legs (and he’s right)

    Posted on November 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Yoichi Wada is the president and CEO of Square Enix. Square Enix is a very big video game developer and publisher, responsible for games like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Kingdom Hearts. Hence, his words mean an awful lot. His latest words: console gaming, as we know it today, has only a few years left in it. The future? It's all about the network, baby!~

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  • Blizzard starts selling in-game pets for real world money

    Blizzard starts selling in-game pets for real world money

    Posted on November 4, 2009 | No Comments
    Really big World of Warcraft news today, friends. (Why do I write so much about WoW? Oh, you know, it's just the biggest, most successful MMO in history. Not writing about it would be like covering tech with mentioning Microsoft or Apple.) Blizzard is now selling in-game pets that you can buy with real money, $10. We're talking cash money. Dollar dollar bill, y'all.

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  • Direct2Drive: It’s $5 RPG and MMO week

    Direct2Drive: It’s $5 RPG and MMO week

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Last week we brought you news of Direct2Drive’s 5th birthday sale-stravaganza wherein various direct-download action-themed games were going for $5 each. The five-week sale is in its third week, and today kicks off a bunch of RPG and MMO titles for just five buckaroos apiece.

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  • Why Cataclysm is the only direction left for World of Warcraft to grow

    Why Cataclysm is the only direction left for World of Warcraft to grow

    Posted on September 14, 2009 | No Comments
    In case you missed it, Blizzard made some big announcements the other day. Yep, an MMO is releasing another expansion set. However, this one is going to completely reshape the entire World (of Warcraft), and that's really the best possible thing that they can do.

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  • There’s a SteelSeries keyboard for Aion, you know

    There’s a SteelSeries keyboard for Aion, you know

    Posted on September 8, 2009 | No Comments
    The big Korean MMO, Aion, is due for release here in North America on September 22. It's true. What else is true is that SteelSeires has a fancy, new keyboard lined up for the game's release. Behold!

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  • Sam Raimi, who directed Spider-Man, will direct Warcraft movie

    Sam Raimi, who directed Spider-Man, will direct Warcraft movie

    Posted on July 22, 2009 | No Comments
    The director of the Spider-Man movies, Sam Raimi, is all set to direct the upcoming Warcraft movie. It'll be live action, and it's not expected until 2011, so there's plenty of time to complain till it comes out.

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