On boards.ie they are discussing a remake of Golden Axe for the PS3 and Xbox 360. Cue flashback to the snooker hall in Schull and all the money I wasted on that game. That is until I discovered “the headbutt” and then everything became so easy. Theres also a mention of the return of Duck [...]
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No, not this one, a real WoW movie. From Reuters: LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – The hugely popular “Warcraft” video games have inspired plans for a live-action feature film set in the epic fantasy universe of orcs, trolls, elves and the undead. The project is being developed by the creator of the games, Blizzard Entertainment [...]
Slashdot’s coverage of the Oblivion saga continues. Some lawyer named Jack reckons that “the game content will spawn ‘an even worse disaster’ than occurred during Hot Coffee”. Just to recap on Grand Theft Auto’s mod, Hot Coffee – from Wikipedia: When installed, it unlocks a hidden part of the game which involves having sex (featuring [...]
Last night I spent some time laughing at the Yahoo article exposing the latest wave of terrorist activities: converting popular computer games as a tool for propaganda and training of recruits. As bad as it was, it gets worse. Dvorak got the story this morning, where julieb pointed out that the source which was the [...]
I’m getting tired of all this talk of tech-savvy militants leading al Qaeda’s cyber-terrorism department. Perhaps there is a room full of Islamic extremist hacker nerds somewhere preparing their weekly status report for Osama, but if that is the case, then I seriously doubt that they are focusing their activities on modifying computer games, as [...]
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 While you’re getting ready to play QuakeWorld, here is something to whet your appetite. x0n has posted on quake.ie about the latest port of id Software’s Quake 1 engine: IF Quake, created by one of the developers of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Jason Bergman. A few years ago, Text Mode Quake was summonning Satan [...]
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 Any of you who have played a bit of QuakeWorld in the past but found that the standard online was too difficult to compete against – now is a good time to give it another shot. There have been a few mini-revivals over the last few years, but this year in particular a small but [...]
ClanBase link to this gem from the study group for gaming culture in Korea: many Korean mothers are power-levelling their children’s characters so that “their daughters and sons can enjoy respectable status in the virtual world without sacrificing their schooling advancement”. As you well know, many online games require intensive time-consuming for advancing the level. [...]
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 I never know how to give condolences when somebody who is known on the internet dies. A frowny face on a bulletin board usually seems a little bit disrespectful to me. In the case of the late iTG`Lun, the commentator for radio iTG whose two great passions were motorcycles and Quake 3 Capture the Flag, [...]
Following the unprecedented success of World of Warcraft (6 million players forking out $14 per month?), we will be hearing a lot this year from the mmorpg industry by way of new releases, etc. Foremost among these must surely be Warhammer Online, by the makers of Dark Age of Camelot. Its not due for release [...]
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