The people at LucasArts and Telltale probably think I’m a retard. On my way to the Star Wars: The Old Republic demonstration at E3 2009, I stumbled and then stood with my mouth agape in front of two kiosks in the corner of the conference room hallway. The presenters of those two kiosks were showing Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition and Tales of Monkey Island.
E3 is a bubble — we only see and experience the news, but we don’t necessarily hear it. I didn’t know these games existed …

Some of it’s new, some of it’s not so new, but it’s all modern and paying to get it from the Museum of Modern Art means art and design won’t be crushed into oblivion forever, or something like that.
Here’s some of the more interesting stuff MoMa is hawking this fall on their website and in their stores starting next in late August to keep modern art funded and whatnot. Let’s go on a tour.
Magno Wooden Radio by Singgih Kartono, 2005, $250: It’s a wooden radio in the shape of …

Pachter’s huge games industry report continues to be full of fun predictions. In our latest installment of “Pachter states a load of stuff that people inevitably hate him for,” the prominent Wedbush Morgan analyst continues to give Sony a good outlook, stating that PlayStation games will account for 31% of the market.
The professional guesser says that the PS2 brand will become far less relevant this year, but that the PS3 will rise in prominence and pick up its slack, leading to a very strong PlayStation brand overall and allowing …

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See that shocked look on Thrall’s face above? That guy’s the leader of the Horde, and he just read (on WoW.com, of course) that for the first time, players of World of Warcraft will be able to switch their factions — players will be able to leave his Horde, and those dirty Alliance might come to his side. No wonder he’s so shocked. That story and more in this week’s most popular posts from Joystiq’s Azeroth-obsessed sister site.

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Faction changes coming …

In addition to the satisfaction of dragging that last bite of delicious popsicle off of its stick and the pride that fills your body after spelling your name with the trail of a sparkler, the summer months also bring about one other inevitable feeling: the emptiness of not having many videogames to play.
For some odd reason, publishers like to release all their major games at the beginning and end of the year, leaving the middle, extra sunny months a veritable gaming release ghost town: one filled with movie-licensed tumbleweed and …

We suspected this before, but now we’ve got a confirmation in the form of a pre-order page: Verizon is getting the BlackBerry Tour on July 12th, at a $200 price point. Now, Verizon users, go forth and pre-order. [Verizon]

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The PlayStation 3 may will be chugging away in third place, but that hasn’t stopped industry analyst Michael Pachter from declaring that Sony’s black box o’ Blu-ray will overtake Microsoft’s beige box o’ breaking-all-the-time.
“We think that the PS3 will capture significant