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Jul 04 2008

Friday Night Fights: 4th of July edition

Posted by: admin in PC Game News

4th of July edition screenshot

Independence Day the videogame: awful, just awful. Independence day … the day: full of blinding fireworks, painfully loud noises, and possibly some tasty grilled food.

Since you most likely wouldn’t be reading this if you were celebrating Independence day with your family, I’m going to go ahead and assume you’re up for spending your 4th of July playing games with the rest of us.

Hit the jump for the hosts and game start times as always, or feel free to ping us if you would like to be a host.

[Thanks, bunnyrabbit2, CaffeinePowered, Mushman, and RedRabbit]

Jul 04 2008

N+ Episode 38 Part 2

Posted by: admin in Videos

This is goona be a talkthrough on N+.I will go through the game, so its like a walkthrough but i speak in it, so it’s a talkthrough. Gamertag: Mr Game King

Jul 04 2008

Nicholas At Going Bonkers - 5th Birthday

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Nicholas having a great time on the Motorcycle game. Isn’t he just so freaking CUTE?! I love my son!!! What a doll!

Jul 04 2008

No ‘griefing’ allowed in the Diablo III room

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No 'griefing' allowed in the Diablo III room screenshot

According to a post by Blizzard employee “Bashiok” on the official World of Warcraft forums, the art of PK’ing will be highly discouraged by Diablo III’s game mechanics. A poster brought up the issue because of his concern with Diablo II’s interface, to which Bashiok replied:

We’ve a large focus on cooperative play for Diablo III, and the mechanics and design decisions related to multiplayer are likely going to be based on supporting and encouraging it as much as possible, and not breaking it down.

That doesn’t mean that PvP won’t have its own focus, but those are details and features we aren’t yet discussing.

To me, that sounds like Blizzard isn’t going to change anything about the old system. Having to run back to a town just to toggle capabilities is a bit bothersome, but I don’t think rampant PK’ing is what Blizzard wants with their new title. I’ve read about how out of control “griefing” is in Age of Conan, and while hilarious, it seems like a pretty nasty problem for new players. Perhaps Blizzard just wants its potential players to purely focus on looting and gathering items like the gnomes they want us to be.

No word has yet been received on how much players can spam chat boxes, offer a dual, or make characters grunt.

[Via videogaming247]

Jul 04 2008

No ‘griefing’ granted in the Diablo III room

Posted by: admin in PC Game News

No 'griefing' allowed in the Diablo III room screenshot

According to a post by Blizzard employee “Bashiok” on the official World of Warcraft forums, the art of PK’ing will be highly discouraged by Diablo III’s game mechanics. A poster brought up the issue because of his concern with Diablo II’s interface, to which Bashiok replied:

We’ve a large focus on cooperative play for Diablo III, and the mechanics and design decisions related to multiplayer are likely going to be based on supporting and encouraging it as much as possible, and not breaking it down.

That doesn’t mean that PvP won’t have its own focus, but those are details and features we aren’t yet discussing.

To me, that sounds like Blizzard isn’t going to change anything about the old system. Having to run back to a town just to toggle abilities is a bit bothersome, but I don’t think rampant PK’ing is what Blizzard wants with their new title. I’ve read about how out of control “griefing” is in Age of Conan, and while hilarious, it seems like a pretty nasty problem for new players. Perhaps Blizzard just wants its potential players to purely focus on looting and gathering items like the gnomes they want us to be.

No word has yet been received on how much players can spam chat boxes, offer a dual, or make characters grunt.

[Via videogaming247]

Jul 04 2008

Diablo 3 to emphasize cooperation, PvP to be included

Posted by: admin in Online Gaming

Filed under: Computer, Action, On the internet

Whether calling it out for being too colorful or even too conservative, Diablo 3 naysayers have certainly not lacked for ammunition to sling at the action RPG since it was made all official like late last month. Now pessimists can add another rock to the pile, with Blizzard poster Bashiok writing on the official World of Warcraft forums that the Diablo 3 devs are working to discourage online skullduggery, and that multiplayer will focus primarily on cooperative play.

Explained Bashiok, “We have a large focus on cooperative play for Diablo III, and the mechanics and design decisions related to multiplayer are likely going to be based on supporting and encouraging it as much as possible, and not breaking it down.” However, PvP will apparently have its place in the game, as Bashiok baited forumers by adding, “That doesn’t mean that PvP won’t have its own focus, but those are details and features we aren’t yet discussing.” So for now it looks like PKers will need to find another outlet for their griefing ways, perhaps by venturing outside into the sunlight for a rousing game of Freeze Tag.

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Jul 04 2008

Wrath of the Lich King beta registration now open in US

Posted by: admin in Online Gaming

Filed under: Mac, Personal computer, On the web, MMO

Blizzard has opened US registration for the Wrath of the Lich King beta. American World of Warcraft players should probably head over to this page now and register for a opportunity to opt in. Two helpful reminders:

Registering for the beta does not guarantee you a chance to play. It just adds your name to a pool of potential players that Blizzard will choose from.
Beware of e-mail scams. This is the official URL: https://www.worldofwarcraft.com/account/beta-opt-in.html

Whether or not you get into the beta, be sure to check out WoW Insider for up-to-date coverage.
[Via WoW Insider]

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Jul 04 2008

Diablo III console port is ‘theoretically possible’

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Diablo III console port is 'theoretically possible' screenshot

When Diablo III was officially announced at Blizzard’s 2008 Worldwide Invitational last week it was stated that the long-awaited sequel was only in development exclusively for the Computer — to the surprise of totally no one. Well, maybe some people were, as Blizzard COO Paul Sams was immediately questioned if we could anticipate to see a console port at some point down the line. Sams was quick to shoot the idea down, stating that Blizzard has no intention to “compromise … the game experience.”

While Blizzard might not have any plans to bring the hell spawn-slaying action RPG to consoles, that hasn’t stopped vice president of game design Rob Pardo from dangling a little slimmer of hope in front of console gamers.

“I think it’s theoretically possible. It would have some control changes that I think you’d have to make… But it’s probably, of our major franchises, the one that’s most console friendly, for sure.”

“You’d need to consider a lot of the point-and-click spells, like point to area-of-effect, or things like line-damage in this direction,” Pardo stated. “Target selection is something you’re going to lose on console, you’re really going to be able to do targeting direction, but not specific targeting. Out of StarCraft, Warcraft or WOW, Diablo would be the easiest game to translate. But it would still take a bit of work.”

So Blizzard could bring Diablo III to consoles, they just don’t want to. Seeing as how they’ve only been developing PC games for the past thirteen years I can certainly understand the urge to stick with what’s familiar, but then, I have a Computer that can play Diablo III. Are those of you that lack stated gaming Computer disappointed by this news?

[Via Eurogamer]