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Archive for June 2007

June 8th, 2007

World of Warcraft Armory Gets An Update

For those of you WoW players out there, be sure to check out the new goodies added to the Armory recently. Now, when looking at a piece of armor, you not only get to see the normal in-game stats for it, but also useful information like where it drops (vendor, quest, etc).
Hovering over a particular […]

By Ingrid -- 0 comments

June 8th, 2007

Next-Gen Pac Man Comes to Xbox 360

For the first time in 26 years, new and official mazes have been added to the classic Pac-man game, and are now available to Xbox Live users. The cost of downloading the game is 800 Microsoft Points.
It looks pretty spiffy, and from word on the Internets it seems like they’ve done a sweet job revamping […]

By Ingrid -- 0 comments

June 7th, 2007

No Longer Babies: The Consoles At Six Months

Six months is a long enough time to allow the mad rush of buying at the launch of a new console to settle down, to tally the number of units that have crossed the counter, and reflect on the historical trends of systems gone by. Infendo, using the April retail report from the NPD […]

By Erin -- 1 comment

June 7th, 2007

Mario: The Post Mushroom Kingdom Years

Oh how the virtuous have fallen. Like a war vet returning to a world that he doesn’t recognize and people who show no respect for his efforts, poor Mario has hit rock bottom, resorting to mushrooms, stars, and reliving past adventures just to get by. Princess Peach is frantic with worry; will his […]

By Erin -- 1 comment

June 7th, 2007

Sports MMORPG: Empire of Sports

Infront Sports and Media has launched the very first massively multi-player online role playing game developed strictly around sports. Empire of Sports hopes to unite millions of sports fans and video game players under one platform to provide a unique gaming experience.

“This is the first-ever virtual online multi-sports world with role-playing elements. There are single […]

By Ingrid -- 4 comments

June 6th, 2007

MMOs — “Hated-filled Miasmas”?

I spent a few hours in MMOs over the weekend, re-attaching myself to my poor neglected avatars and completing a few quests that I had been avoiding like the plague. I came out of my game stupor with more mixed feelings than anything else, having been exposed to comments and messages with more […]

By Erin -- 0 comments

June 6th, 2007

Civ III Mod Teaches Canadian History

I admit that I loved History class all through school. I’m a nerd like that and I’m comfortable in my nerdiness. Some folks though, just don’t care to learn history, and with the sometimes dry, dull and frankly lifeless details we’re expected to learn and rejoice at remembering, it’s not surprising. Why […]

By Erin -- 0 comments

June 5th, 2007

Bill Gates and the Next Step in Motion Sensing Gaming

Speaking at the D5 conference, Microsoft Guru, Bill Gates, moved into the subject of motion sensing technology for video games.

“Software is doing vision and so, you know, imagine a game machine where you’re just going to pick up the bat and swing it or the tennis racket and swing it,” explained Gates.
The moderator at the […]

By Ingrid -- 0 comments

June 5th, 2007

Xbox 360 Games Releases for June 2007

If you’re not sure what to put on your to-buy list this month, here’s a list of games coming out for the Xbox 360:

Call of Juarez - 06/05/2007
Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia - 06/12/07
Tenchu Z - 06/12/07
Hour of Victory - 06/18/07
Dirt - 06/19/07
The Bigs - 06/25/07
The Darkness - 06/25/07
Harry Potter and the Order of the […]

By Ingrid -- 1 comment

June 5th, 2007

Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix Site Live

That’s right all you wand waving maniacs! EA has launched the official site of their upcoming game, chronicling the adventures of everyone’s favourite boy wizard from the fifth book: Order of the Phoenix.
EA claims that the site is “highly interactive” and that visitors will have the ability to “explore various rooms in Hogwarts (Herbology, […]

By Erin -- 0 comments

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