Andy Wood

I have never really cared for these types of games, as they usually end up with me yelling at the tv screen.  Then someone ends up video taping it, then it becomes a video that is shared like this or this.

However; this looks amazing and after all it does have super heroes in it.

In case you haven’t heard, the official website for Diablo 3 is now up!  You can find a lengthy game play clip in high quality on the website, as well as teaser trailer and a myriad of other juicy bits of information!

Click here for more information.

Actually - it has been like 2 weeks past my free 30 days; however I thought I would climb up on my  digital soap box here and post a very short FYI.

Age of Conan is far from perfect, the user interface isn’t the best, but it works and it is just something you have to get used to.  (like all MMO’s)

Those players that have already hit the level cap and have complained about lots of elements of the game that doesn’t work.  My hat is off to you and thanks for documenting some of the development over sights, so that the power to be can address them before I get there.

I have yet to see a perfect game released , the only one that comes to mind if Starcraft, but it took Blizzard 10 years and many patches to get it balanced and near perfect.

I am having fun in the game, it has some of the best sounds and graphics around right now, well worth my $13.99 a month.

I never saw these before, but being one of the mega-millions out there that has very much enjoyed played Starcraft over the years, watching these demos of Starcraft 2 makes the release date seem like years.

While it might sound like a twisted NPR program from a mirror world, All Things Zombie: The Boardgame takes place in our own world, with zombies once again challenging man’s dominance of the soil. Well, they are the undead, after all, so they don’t get tired of trying.

All Things Zombie: The Boardgame, designed by Ed Teizeira and Mark Walker, is a boardgame version of the miniatures rule system All Things Zombie and will be released by Walker’s Lock ‘n Load Publishing. The game retails for $50, with a preorder price of $40. “We work on a P500 basis,” says Walker, “which means we need to get a certain percentage of orders before we go to press. The game is ready and will be out by the end of summer.”

For details on the game play and a look at the artwork, head to Lock ‘n Load’s ATZ webpage.

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In case you missed this news, Robbie Bach from Microsoft more or less confirmed the Xbox3 is in the works, and it will be first on the market for the coming generation again.

Robbie says the extra year really helped Microsoft get a leg up."The last cycle for the original Xbox was a little shorter than typical (at four years). We started way late," he said. "If you take the question of whether it was the right thing to try to be first [with Xbox 360], the answer to that is definitely yes. It has given us a leg up in a number of places that are super important.

I got the above game about 2 days ago and I’d have to say that AoC (Age of Conan) is the type of game that any mature MMO player should try. You can try it free for 7 days from a friend’s buddy code, once they go active.

Funcom has taken the world’s most generic fantasy setting and created a very compelling game around it.

Wizards of the Coast announced that the new 4th edition rules for D&D will premier on June 7, 2008.

Here’s the press release:

Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition goes interactive

Core Facts

With the death earlier this year of Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the world’s most iconic games became front page news around the world.  With a following of over 25 million players worldwide since its conception in the 70s, Dungeons & Dragons has brought the magic and mystery of fantasy roleplaying to a global audience which includes celebrities such as Vin Diesel and Robin Williams.

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NCsoft reported a 43 percent year-over year drop in profits to $7.7 million, a decrease was due to a write-off expense for costs associated with The Blackstar Chronicles.

The futuristic MMO, in development by Spacetime Studios, was ultimately dropped from NCsoft’s lineup, and Spacetime will be pursuing the project on its own.

If not for the write-off, NCsoft stood to gain in profit 48 percent on the quarter and 8 percent on the year. The publisher’s sales increased 4 percent to $84.3 million on the popularity of the Lineage series in Asia and strong performance for Guild Wars and City of Heroes in North America and Europe.

In particular, NCsoft said its first quarter brought all-time record sales for Lineage II, which launched in 2003 and continues to be the company’s top-selling title with 35 percent of the publisher’s total sales.

NCsoft’s U.S. sales reached $10.4 million in North America and $8.5 million in Europe, and $9.2 million in Japan, numbers dwarfed by its $47.7 million performance in Korea, which accounts for 57 percent of the publisher’s total sales.

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CBS Corporation’s president and CEO Leslie Moonves has announced that the radio and television network has entered an agreement to acquire CNET Networks.

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