Blizzard have announced that Diablo 3 can now be played using their starter edition. Starter editions have become more and more popular for large game companies, they get gamers involved without having to pay any money and then prove how great their games are. If all games were free to play it would require developers to make their games amazing to bring in gamers and then charge for extras on a...
Those of you who love Starcraft 2 like me will be very excited to hear that the beta is on its way to us "Soon". Hopefully we will get a good feel for all of the new units and how the game will play with all the changes. If you would like to join in then do the usual and update your settings inside battle.net. For the full article then head on over to: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog...
Bad news for any gamers that play Blizzard games, it turns out that battle.net has been hacked and that some data has been compromised. Luckily Blizzard issued as statement as quickly as possible and was extremely honest in what data had been compromised. For the full article on the issue then check out: http://battle.net/support/article/6327 or for a summary of what was taken and what...
ArenaNet has posted up their convention schedule on facebook, listing details of where they will be this year. For the full post then head on over to the guild wars 2 facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151048146394209&set=a.135044094208.103264.114036714208&type=1. For a quick summary then check out the dates and places below. Gamescom, Aug 15-19 Members of the...
For any one else who is excited about the prospect of roaming world bosses (like the good old days) then this little bit of info is just for you. The Mists of Pandaria website has been updated to reveal a little bit more about what is in store for us. One specific piece of info is the reveal of a World Boss called Salyis's Warband. This world boss has some great mechanics and looks like it...
One of the great things about gaming in 2012 is the inclusion of some great data for players online. If you are at work or unable to play games you can still check out some of friends and your own stats online. Great news for Diablo 3 players, you can now access these stats online using the hero profiles. In the hero profiles you can view some of the following information: Hero Info Hero...
Some good news for World of Warcraft fans, the WoW movie is still on and roughly scheduled for 2014, although knowing Blizzards standards we can probably expect it in 2016. Blizz CEO Bobby Kotich said "They're very excited about having a World of Warcraft film. They've been very careful and thoughtful about the development process.". Hopefully we will start to hear a little bit more about...
World of Warcraft is the most successful subscription based MMORPG's out there, but with a large player base comes a higher risk for more players to just cancel their subscription and move onto something else. Since the launch of Cataclysm (an expansion for World of Warcraft) there has been a steady stream of subscribers leaving the subscription based MMO. Since 2011 just under 3 million...
Over on the Valve blog a post appeared recently detailing the information of a port to linux, in particular the Left 4 Dead game. They had run some tests on the ported version initially and ended up with a frame rate of 6 FPS, not very exciting but Valve said this is typical of an initial port over to a new platform. The System Specs Hardware Intel Core i7 3930k NVIDIA GeForce GTX...
Over on the official Starcraft 2 blog Blizzard has posted up a detailed log of changes for the new SC2 patch 1.5.0. The patch is fairly large for a Starcraft 2 patch and makes quite a number of changes. For the full list then I recommend heading on over to: Starcraft 2 Patch. The list of changes include some nice ones, especially for the UI. The Starcraft 2 arcade has arrived as well which...
I think everyone kind of knew that SWTOR was on the decline, but how much was always kept quite secret. The time has come for Star Wars The Old Republic to try and boost it's player base and go free to play (f2p). If you want to check out all of the features of what you can get from F2P versus a premium subscription then head on over to: http://www.swtor.com/FREE/features. In my personal...
Along with Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition being available on the iPad and Mac OS X for September, it will also be available for Android at some point in the future, which is great for everyone wanting to play together on whatever device they choose. The Windows edition is already available for pre purchase so head on over to the official site if you want to get your copy purchased now: http:/...
