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Electronic Arts takes home gold in "Best Video Game Trailer" award at the 9th Annual Golden Trailer Awards. Medal of Homer, a spoof of the Medal of Honor franchise was created by Hammer Creative. Watch the video.
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 I think we see about 10 of these articles every year. The writers have run out of stuff to write and us geeks need something else to drool over. This time, its an Australian newspaper reporting that 41% of their countries gamers are kangaroos female and that figure is on the rise too. That means about half of the girls you meet in Ausi land is a hardcore gamer play some form of bubble-block-breaker thingy. Also worth checking out is the 10 hottest women in technology.
Which also brings us to our next poll. Are you married, hitched up or single? |
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 I'm sure Electronic Arts isn't to excited to learn that their arch nemesis is actually more large and in charge than they are now. I give major props to Activision for doing it without the help of The Sims or countless Madden games too. FiringSquad reports that Activision is possibly the largest player in the industry with over $2.9 billion of revenue in the 2007 fiscal year.
And expect 2009 to be an even bigger year for Activision, with CEO Bobby Kotick claiming that the $18.9 billion merger with Vivendi Universal to form Activision-Blizzard was moving ahead full steam. Revenue for Activision alone over the next fiscal year is being pegged at $3.2 billion already, too, which is pretty spectacular growth in a bummed-out economy.
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 Forgotten Hope fans will be thrilled to learn that version 2.1 is set to launch May 16th. If you've got the uber-mod already installed, the patch weighs in at 380 MB. N00b? Have fun downloading the 1462 MB stand alone. Interested in whats new in 2.1? Its pretty awesome what a good group of modders can put together. Check out the official Forgotten Hope 2 site. |
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 Lets face it. Trying to balance real life and playing video games can be quite difficult. Eight hours at work everyday seems like a lifetime, but four hours gaming seems like 30 minutes. Sometimes its difficult to balance real life with leisure time, and trust me, its gets worse and worse as you get older. Fortunately, I have yet to experience changing horribly-smelling-nasty-green baby diapers or putting a kid through college, but even now it seems as if sitting down for a solid hour or two on the PC is a burden. GameSetWatch has a great article about the issue, "All Grown Up: A Gamer Comes to Grips With Adulthood."
Gamers worry about not being able to play video games, just like golfers might worry about not having time for golf or authors might worry about not having time to write. No matter your pleasure or passion, I think everyone goes through a phase where they worry that the baby on the horizon will throw a wrench in their plans. Any first-time expectant parent knows their lives will be different once the baby arrives, but nobody can be prepared for what life as a new parent is like until they are in the thick of it.
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Electronic Arts announced that the Battlefield Bad Company demo is set for a June 5th release date for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. With the announcement comes a short teaser video "Welcome to B-Company." Pretty boring video if you ask me, but consolers can at least be excited about the soon-to-come demo which features singleplayer and multiplayer.
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 Kotaku reports that their sources say Call of Duty 5 is already playable. If the game is already playable, that means one of two things. Its been under developed for quite some time now, or its just COD4 with some fresh WWII textures. We haven't seen a decent WWII game in a while now. Don't fug it up Treyarch.
Sources tell us that the upcoming Call of Duty 5 game in development is already playable, and currently going through quality assurance.
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 Electronic Arts wants Take-Two. Like really wants them. Wants them enough to take out a $1 billion loan in preparation for the acquisition. Earlier, Electronic Arts stated that they didn't want Take-Two for Grand Theft Auto alone, but for their entire lineup. I'm sure the execs at EA about crapped their pants when GTA IV did $500 million of sales in the first week.
SEC filings have revealed that Electronic Arts borrowed $1 billion from Morgan Stanley and other lenders to help finance a possible acquisition of Take-Two. "There's no news here," said EA VP of communications Jeff Brown. "This is just a process point on something we announced in February."
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 A story we ran earlier said that Call of Duty 5 would be for PS2 and 3, Nintendo Wii and DS, and Xbox 360 only. You can add the personal computer to that list as well as it will in fact be available for Windows. Sorry about the confusion. GameSpot did not include PC in their list of supported platforms after Activisions announcement yesterday. |
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 Looks as if you've got an AMD machine, Service Pack 3 might not be the smartest install just yet.
The long-awaited and much-delayed update to Windows XP, Service Pack 3, is giving owners of machines with AMD hardware headaches aplenty it seems. The problems, which first arose just one day after the push, have been causing lots of noise on Microsoft support sites and angry user bogs.
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 Roy Taylor, vice president of content relations for Nvidia, was recently quoted saying "I think that we've arrived at a point now where I don't know how anyone could ever possibly justify pirating a game." In an article on Eurogamer, Taylor explains why he thinks piracy destroying the PC game market and does not understand how anyone can just "pirate a game." Your right Taylor. Its retarded how large piracy has become. Its starting to affect PC game production, which eventually shafts us, the gamers. But, piracy alone isn't the only reason for decreased PC sales and increased console. Theres some games out there that looks interesting, but play like crap. Yes, even on your $500 video cards. |
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 Hello, its 2008 and not 1999. The days of bandwidth caps are long gone, or are they? Comcast is currently evaluating a bandwidth cap for subscribers of Internet service. How does 250GB of bandwidth sound with every 10GB after that costing $15? I for one don't use 250GB a month, but if Comcast goes through with the bandwidth cap, how long before other ISPs follow suit?
"Comcast is currently evaluating this service and pricing model to ensure we deliver a great online experience to our customers," said Comcast spokesman Charlie Dougla. "We have not made any changes to our current service offerings and have no new announcement to make at this time."
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 Ben Cousins, Ben Cousins, Ben Cousins. Yah, I know. Enough already. In yet another interview with Ben Cousins, he states that the web is the future of gaming. Pretty bold statement there Cousins, being that Battlefield Heroes has yet to play out. I can see a more Internet integration in future game titles, but I don't think the localization of games is ready for "web only" yet. That time will come. Is Heroes the first of many web based game interfaces?
"People talk about which of the two, PlayStation or Xbox, is going to be the big platform of the future," Cousins said. "I think the web is going to be the big platform of the future, whether it's running on an iPhone or a Mac or on the PC." In a response to a question about the possibility of a 'one console future' Cousins answered, "Yes and it's going to be the web, and it doesn't care if it runs on a phone or runs on a Mac or the PC."
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 Today, Activision announced that Call of Duty 5 is on schedule for a release date sometime in 2009. After reporting much ($2.9 billion) success, the company is eager to continue the popular first person shooter. In a previous story, we reported that Call of Duty 5 is rumored to take place in the pacific theater. Whether it comes in the form of a World War II or modern day shooter is yet to be known. What we do know is that the game will be developed for five platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and 3, Nintendo DS and Wii. What!!! No PC? Is Activision and the developers, Treyarch, shafting PC gamers? I don't live to play Call of Duty, but it stinks when a game that started out on the PC platform moves to console only. All we can do is hope for another announcement about the PC platform. |
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