You’d think I’d be thrilled to pieces to see that a gaming-related word got the nod as Word of the Year 2007 from dictionary royalty like Merriam-Webster. Well, that’s not precisely true, it wasn’t the Merriam-Webster editors that made the selection at all (in fact they’re probably gnashing their teeth in consternation), but visitors to […]
For all of you casual WoW players who are rising the day after Christmas in an eggnong-enduced mind-fog, wearing nothing but a wrapping paper skirt, and not quite knowing where you are … (not that that’s happened to me… no…), don’t forget to visit the lands of Azeroth for your virtual gifts!
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We love the celeb advertising, we really do. Nowhere else is there such a beautiful combination of brilliant marketing, video games, and celeb-gazing as there is in the new line of television commercials from Activision Blizzard depicting famous folks describing their very own adventures in Azeroth. Now, I don’t think anyone is naive enough to […]
Just how expensive is game development these days? I’m not talking Cooking Mama; I mean AAA, prime-cut, look-how-pretty-I-am games. Like Metal Gear Solid 4 for example, the highly anticipated title from Hideo Kojima. People have been salivating over this game for years now, grasping at every offered screenshot, drooling over every new video…let’s hope the […]
In absentia anyway. Nintendo seems to finally be struck with the inventory bug that afflicted both the 360 and the PS3 before it. Word on the street is that demand is so strong for the little console that could, that Nintendo is struggling to provide enough systems to keep consumers handy. Even producing almost two […]
Just to help fuel the current poll we’re running (check out the right hand menu and cast your vote if you haven’t yet), I thought I’d let you know what sales numbers would pick as the top 10 games for November 2007. Looks like we’ve covered most of the things on our list already…is that […]
I love differing perspectives. they make the world go ’round and keep life from being dull and, well, lifeless.
Take, for example, the WoW laptop (Alliance edition) from Dell….
Price? $4,500 — STARTER. Are you kidding me? Would you pay that much for that hunk of Khorium?? I sure an heck wouldn’t. It better be the best […]
So the big news in the gaming world recently was the mammoth merger of Activision and Vivendi (the second and third largest independent publishers) to the tune of an absolutely absurd $18.9B. Out of the smoke rises a veritable behemoth, giving good old EA (alone a top the publishing list for eons) some food […]
I missed this last month, but there’s another Canadian game writer named Erin, and she’s mighty peeved by a number of consumer technology trends plaguing not just gaming, but digital entertainment in general. She lays out her “10 Worst Consumer Tech Trends” in PC World Canada, a list comprising of an interesting cross-section of consumer […]
University of Michigan Professor Brad Bushman recently took a snipe at the U.S. Army’s use of America’s Army as a recruitment tool. He apparently has issue with the idea that war is a game, and thinks that giving impressionable young (potential) recruits the idea that active combat is anything like the pixellated version is misleading […]
Play Girlz: Because guys aren't the only players.
Written by Ingrid Diaz [email], and Erin Harvey [email] for b5media.
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