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 World of Warcraft may start to feel the squeeze this year with new MMORPG’s like Warhammer and Age of Conan entering the market and pushing the graphics (and hopefully game play) envelope. Full Story @ Guardian
Speaking of Blizzard games, 1UP has a weeklong preview of the hotly anticipated Starcraft II. If you like RTS games, this should definitely be on your short list. Preview @ 1UP
Some new trailers for Battlefield Heroes are starting to creep out. This one specifically shows you some of the customization options for your in-game character. I look forward to seeing one next for the weapon options available through “microtransactions”. Trailer @ Bittdaily
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Posted by BattleMaster on Tuesday, May 06 @ 13:14:49 CDT (24 reads)
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| News: News Bits and Bytes - 04/30/08 |
Cracked has a somewhat serious (no kidding) article on what changes could make for better games. Admittedly most points make good sense, but if they were actually applied I’m not sure if most game developers would have much left to call a game. Full Story @ Cracked
If you’re feeling angry today, play some Peggle. Apparently it can make you feel better. Full Story @ Gigaom
Crytek’s Mr. Cevat Yerli was recently interviewed and he stated that his company will be no longer be offering PC-based games exclusively. I unfortunately can’t blame them as, while I purchase all of my games (PC and console), I know a lot of people who don’t. Interview @ PC Play
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Posted by BattleMaster on Wednesday, April 30 @ 20:15:52 CDT (34 reads)
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| News: News Bits and Bytes - 04/28/08 |
Anyone who owns Assassins Creed for the PC will probably need to see this “tutorial” so that they can quit out of the game. Eleven steps later comes the undocumented twelfth step, a spiritual awakening to realize how much that sucked. Video @ Kotaku
Apparently being a regular in the return line at your local Best Buy to try to return video games over and over again could raise suspicion of fraud. Who knew? Apparently not this guy. Full Story @ Austin Post-Bulletin
Ten golden rules of videogame fanboyism. Need I say more? Full Story @ Destructoid
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Posted by BattleMaster on Monday, April 28 @ 15:39:29 CDT (53 reads)
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| News: BFG Gaming Team Fortress 2 Night |
 Who: Anyone with Team Fortress 2
Where: BFG Gaming Team Fortress 2 Server
When: May 4th @ 9:00 p.m. Central Time
What: Come join myself, Airwalker and other BFG folks for fun night of Team Fortress 2 action
Official BFG TF2 Night Forum Thread
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Posted by BattleMaster on Friday, April 25 @ 13:22:05 CDT (50 reads)
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| News: BFG TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES ENTHUSIAST CLASS ES-800 POWER SUPPLY |
 Lake Forest, IL – (April 24, 2008) – BFG Technologies®, Inc., the leading North American and European supplier of advanced NVIDIA-based 3D graphics cards, power supplies, and other PC enthusiast products, announced today the BFG ES-800, an enthusiast level 800 watt power supply which has won numerous awards for its high efficiency and unique Frequency Conversion technology.
Exclusive in the industry, the ES features Frequency Conversion technology which allows the ES-800 to emulate virtually any size power supply. This makes the unit at least 80% efficient, even with loads as low as 10% of the unit's maximum capability. The ES-800 has the lowest minimum load requirements and the best +5VSB efficiency on the market. This best-in-class unit also features all Japanese made capacitors for longer life, and gold-plated pins for improved conductivity.
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Posted by BattleMaster on Friday, April 25 @ 13:09:45 CDT (53 reads)
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| News: News Bits and Bytes - 04/25/08 |
Jack Thompson is at it again. This time his exploits involve “reaching out” to the mother of Take-Two Chairman Stauss Zelnick with a letter of contempt regarding the launch of GTA:IV. Full Story @ Wired
The U.S. Deference Intelligence Agency is now using custom-made PC-based games to help further train U.S. spies. *Insert joke here about Jack Thompson condemning the use of a “murder simulator” for spies* Full Story @ Wired
Extreme Tech has a little write-up on what the industry can do to “fix” PC gaming. Full Story @ Extreme Tech
In a similar vein, Bit-Tech has a write-up on what gamers can do to make gaming better. Full Story @ Bit-Tech
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Posted by BattleMaster on Friday, April 25 @ 10:32:36 CDT (52 reads)
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| News: News Bits and Bytes - 04/22/08 |
Uwe Boll, the notorious video game adaptation movie director, apparently was interested in getting the rights to make a World of Warcraft movie. Thankfully Blizzard raised the drawbridge before he could get into the kingdom. Short Story @ Strategy Informer
Bethesda's Pete Hines talks about the upcoming Fallout 3 game. For those of you not familiar with the Fallout series (it’s been a while since the last release), this latest installment will be akin to Oblivion meets post-apocalyptic future. Interview @ IGN
Move over grenades, I think C4 will be making its way into my Call of Duty 4 kits after seeing this. The Art of Throwing C4
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Posted by BattleMaster on Tuesday, April 22 @ 14:59:50 CDT (59 reads)
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| News: News Bits and Bytes - 04/21/08 |
Fear mongering is enough to get some tame, but potentially suggestive GTA:IV ads pulled from public transportation in Chicago. Full story @ CrunchGear
Cracked has a list of hotly anticipated game titles that we’ll likely never see. Take a guess at what game tops the charts… Full story @ Cracked
Oops! An Epic level designer apparently “got a lot of inspiration from” a user-created UT3 level and then Epic proceeded to ban said user from their forums when he came knocking. Toasty forum thread @ NeoGAF
Best Buy has taken the unusual step of offering customers an in-home installation service for… well I'll let you find out. Hilarity ensues @ The Consumerist
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Posted by BattleMaster on Monday, April 21 @ 18:42:22 CDT (48 reads)
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| News: Is a gaming addiction like Aspergers? |
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omegadot writes "Aspergers Syndrome is characterized by difficulty with social interaction but is separate from other forms of Autism in that those afflicted are able to function normally aside from their obvious difficulties. Speech and cognitive ability are otherwise unharmed. This British study recently concluded that those addicted to video games exhibited many of the same signs such as "neuroticism, lack of extraversion and agreeableness." This seems to follow a somewhat recent trend of attaching deeper psychological evaluations to what we’d consider far less serious behaviors."
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Posted by BattleMaster on Thursday, April 17 @ 16:28:13 CDT (53 reads)
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| News: BFG TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800 GTX OC, OC2, and OCX OVERCLOCKED |
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Lake Forest, IL – (April 8, 2008) – BFG Technologies®, Inc., the leading North American and European supplier of advanced NVIDIA-based 3D graphics cards, power supplies and other PC enthusiast products, announced today the BFG NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800 GTX OC™, OC2™, and OCX™ 512MB PCI Express® 2.0 graphics cards.
BFG GeForce 9800 GTX OC, OC2, and OCX graphics cards offer customers a choice of three different levels of factory overclocked Graphics Processing Units (GPU) which are all thoroughly tested and backed by the company’s famous lifetime warranty.
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Posted by BattleMaster on Tuesday, April 08 @ 10:24:12 CDT (203 reads)
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