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Blizzard removes skill trees from Diablo III
Fans of the Diablo series know that for the upcoming third installment in Blizzard 's action-RPG series the game developers have been working with a tree-style of architecture for their character skill system. Well, that seems to be officially out of the game design now, according to ...
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Could Australia ban Modern Warfare 2 after all?
While Australia's game ratings system gave an MA 15+ rating to Infinity Ward' s shooter Modern Warfare 2 , it's now possible that the game could be banned for sale in that country after all. GameSpot reports that South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson is planning to appeal the ...
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Mr. T continues to share his perfect hair-cut with the World of Warcraft
Download HD Video If you didn't hear about it with the first commercial , then Mr. T is here to tell it to you straight once again. He has the greatest hair in the world, so it's the privilege of looking as good as he does in World of Warcraft is now available through an in-game item ...
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Happy fifth birthday, World of Warcraft
Regular kids celebrate their birthday with a party that has an over-rich cake, lots of screaming toddlers and maybe a creepy clown. But how do you celebrate the fifth birthday of the biggest subscription-based MMO game in the world? Because that's exactly what's happening today to Blizzard ...
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Guild Wars co-creator making a Zombie MMO, but not for the PC?
On the surface, an announcement about a upcoming zombie-based MMO from one of the founding members of the team that made Guild Wars would make PC gamers jump for joy. But you can stop your jumping, folks, because we have some bad news. That seemingly dream PC game prospect . . . isn't ...
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Rumor: Did we miss out on getting a Civilization MMO?
A few weeks ago, Sid Meier announced plans to bring a version of his Civilization strategy game series to Facebook . But has the game's publisher 2K Games decided to shut down preliminary plans to adapt the Civilization franchise to a full-fledged MMO? It's looking like that's very ...
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Steam banning "grey market" Modern Warfare 2 CD keys
Geeze . . . The PC version of Modern Warfare 2 can't catch a break. After all the controversy over no dedicated servers, the high price tag for the first person shooter and THAT SCENE in the game comes yet another talking point. This time it centers around Steam banning CD keys for the ...
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Maxim's Hometown Hotties show their support for Blur
While Activision may have decided to delay the release of Blur from this fall to sometime in 2010, they haven't forgotten about the upcoming action-racing game from developer Bizarre Creations . Far from it, in fact, as Blur has been designated one of the official sponsors of Maxim 's 2009 ...
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Blizzard: Diablo III "is not going to be out next year"
Blizzard is currently targeting the release of StarCraft II for the first half of 2010 and their next World of Warcraft expansion pack, Cataclysm , is due out sometime in 2010 as well. But what about Diablo III ? Blizzard first announced the action-RPG sequel nearly 18 months ago but ...
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Modern Warfare 2 gets promoted at NASCAR race Saturday
Tomorrow is the last race of the season for the NASCAR Nationwide Series and in the pack trying to win at the Homestead-Miami Speedway will be driver Joey Logano. His number 20 car will be outfitted with a special Modern Warfare 2 - GameStop design that was made specifcially for this race. ...
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Modern Warfare 2's writer claims "the airport level was a risk we had to take"
It's been the talk of the internet ever since its presence was leaked online a few weeks before the game came out. But the now infamous "airport level" in Modern Warfare 2 has certainly generated a lot of debate both among gamers and the mainstream media over whether or not it is ...
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Infinity Ward: Modern Warfare 2 PC already outselling Call of Duty 4
Even though the market share for the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 is only a small percentage of the total sales for the first person shooter, the sheer number of units sold for the Infinity Ward -developed game in its first days could still be in the six figure range for the PC port. ...
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StarCraft II web site gets updated with screenshots, articles and more
It's been a few months since there's been a lot of new content uploaded to Blizzard 's StarCraft II web site. That changed today as the site added an additional 17 new screenshots for the upcoming sci-fi RTS blockbuster (we have reproduced them and put them in our ever growing StarCraft II ...
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Rumor: Activision to start third Call of Duty dev team?
The Call of Duty game franchise that began with Infinity Ward 's first game in the shooter series in 2003 has established a pattern in its later releases. Infinity Ward works on the games that are released in the odd-numbered years ( Call of Duty 2 in 2005, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare ...
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Star Trek Online dev video readies battle stations
Download HD Trailer The universe is a hostile place, and sometimes diplomacy can only go so far, as any experienced star ship captain can attest to. However, new captains don't need to be caught unaware. In this developer video, members of the Cryptic Studios team working on Star Trek ...
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Activision Blizzard to launch new Sledgehammer Games dev studio
While Activision Blizzard has experienced some downsizing in the past few months (reducing the size of Raven Software and shutting down Shaba Games) the publisher apparently feels that sometimes you need to expand as well. Today the company officially announced the launch of their new ...
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Activision: We chose to pull airport scene from PC Modern Warfare 2
. Yesterday reports hit the Internet that the infamous "airport scene" in Modern Warfare 2 's PC version had been removed from the game via a patch for Russian audiences. Today the game's publisher Activision has confirmed that is in indeed the case but said the decision was made on their ...
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Hackers claim to create dedicated servers for Modern Warfare 2
We suspected that the second that the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 was released somebody, somewhere, would try to create some kind of dedicated server hack for Infinity Ward' s first person shooter. It looks like that someone has created some kind of way to get into the dev console and ...
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Russian patch for PC Modern Warfare 2 removes airport level
The backlash against the controversial airport massacre level in Modern Warfare 2 continues. GameRiot reports via a Russian language web site that the PC and Steam versions of Infinity Ward 's recent shooter have removed the scene from the game for Russians players via a patch Just in case ...
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Will Modern Warfare series get a spin-off title?
Activision love to drag game franchises down into the ground if they are successful. Witness the three different "Hero" music game titles they have released this year. So it's not surprising to hear that Infinity Ward' s Modern Warfare shooter series might be getting a spin-off of its own. ...
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