Archive for the 'Gaming' Category
November 8th, 2009, 9:28 am by Jayson Peters
 Stargate Worlds, the planned online roleplaying game based on the sci-fi movie and TV series, is now officially on hold until further funding can be found.
Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment CEO Timothy Jensen told Massively that the company’s recent website outage was due to a change in server providers. Around that same time, footage from the stalled game appeared in the Oct. 2 series premiere of Stargage Universe on Syfy, raising many fans’ hope that Stargate Worlds was finally going to shake its vaporware reputation.
But Jensen also said no new updates on the game’s status will come until more money can be secured.
The company and its founder and principal owner, Gary Whiting, were recently sued by investors who claim misuse of company funds. The Mesa company was granted a license by MGM in 2006 to develop an online roleplaying game based on the Stargate film and TV series, but those efforts have repeatedly stalled as the game’s financial backing came into question.
Meanwhile, Atari’s MMORPG Star Trek Online is forging ahead at warp speed. The company recently announced a Feb. 2 launch date for North America.
Via IncGamers
Posted in: Gaming • Mesa • RPGs • Business • Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment • FireSky • Mesa • PC • SGU • Stargate • Stargate Worlds • Syfy • vaporware | Post a Comment »
November 7th, 2009, 12:09 am by Jayson Peters
 According to ICv2, Wizards of the Coast has conjured up a holiday bargain.
The 4th Edition Player’s Handbook Collection includes both the essential Player’s Handbook and Player’s Handbook 2, which contains additional character races, classes and powers.
The bundle’s $34.95 price includes both manuals in a handsome slipcase, plus a $12 discount off a year’s subscription to the online D&D Insider service.
Not included: dice, Dungeon Master’s Guides, Monster Manuals or imagination.
See also: D&D parent co. pulls legal PDFs off market, starts flame war
Posted in: Gaming • Collecting • D&D • Deals • Dungeons & Dragons • Holidays | Post a Comment »
November 6th, 2009, 7:24 am by Jayson Peters
 In the popular Legend of Zelda video game series from Nintendo, Princess Zelda has always been some variation of the typical damsel in distress, and young hero Link has always been her savior.
That’s all about to change in the new entry for the DS and DSi handheld systems. Zelda is coming out of the dungeon and joining the adventure for the first time.
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Posted in: Gaming • Nintendo • DS • DSi • Zelda | 2 Comments »
November 5th, 2009, 2:47 pm by Jayson Peters
 Cryptic Studios and its parent company, Atari, have confirmed that their MMO Star Trek Online will be released Feb. 2, 2010, in North America. The European launch will follow on Feb. 5, the companies told Eurogamer. This will put the game’s release safely ahead of the end of Atari’s fiscal year.
Closed beta testing of the game, which is set in the generation after Star Trek: The Next Generation, began earlier this year.
Via Cinema Blend
Posted in: Gaming • RPGs • Atari • Cryptic • PC • Star Trek • Star Trek Online | Post a Comment »
November 5th, 2009, 1:27 pm by Jayson Peters
The band No Doubt doesn’t like a feature in the new Band Hero video game that lets players control digital versions of real band members and change things up by making them sing other artists’ songs.
It’s called “character manipulation, and a lawsuit filed Wednesday against Activision claims this lets players have all sorts of bawdy fun by making lead singer Gwen Stefani perform suggestive lyrics from the Rolling Stones hit Honky Tonk Women, for example. It claims the band raised objections but they were not heeded, and the result is a “virtual karaoke circus act.”
No Doubt is seeking unspecified damages and an order barring Activision from using any band members’ likenesses with non-No Doubt songs.
Just a few months ago, the widow and former bandmates of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain railed against Activision for using the late grunge rocker’s likeness to play other artists’ songs in Guitar Hero 5. Before that, the company settled a lawsuit over Brutal Legend, a rock ’n’ roll adventure game starring Jack Black that the company tried to kill after it acquired a smaller developer. The game was published last month by Activision’s rival, Electronic Arts.
Via The Associated Press
Posted in: Gaming • Music • Activision • Business • lawsuit | Post a Comment »
October 31st, 2009, 8:21 pm by Jayson Peters
 Here’s my first attempt at a video game-related jack-o’-lantern.
I’m no pumpkin artist, so in case it’s just so bad that you couldn’t tell, it’s supposed to be a Boo ghost from the Super Mario Bros. games.
Happy Halloween!
Posted in: Gaming • Nintendo • Halloween • Holidays | Post a Comment »
October 29th, 2009, 1:03 pm by Chris "KeL" Adams
If you’ve somehow made it this far without purchasing the Valve classic “Team Fortress 2″, now’s your chance. And I mean RIGHT NOW! For the next hour, until 2 p.m. PST, the epic first-person shooter is on sale for only $2.49. Valve is known for awesome deals, but this is a steal, even for them! Quit reading this and go buy it already!
Posted in: Gaming • TF2 | Post a Comment »
October 29th, 2009, 8:30 am by Jayson Peters
 Is the new Nintendo DSi already about to get a makeover? (UPDATE: Yes it is.)
If rumors in the Japanese press are true (UPDATE: And they are), a version with a 4-inch display will debut in that market this year, in response to demand from older users who find the portable gaming system’s 3.25-inch screen too small. (It’s actually going to be 4.2 inches, according to Kotaku. Plus, Nintendo tells the Gawker network gaming site that the device, known as DSi LL in Japan, will come to the West as the DSi XL early next year.)
And the kids who use them play their music too loud and don’t respect their elders these days — but I’m sure Nintendo is working on that, too.
Original post: Oct. 27; updated Oct. 29
Posted in: Gaming • Nintendo • Technology • DSi • old people • rumor | Post a Comment »
October 29th, 2009, 8:27 am by Jayson Peters
 Capcom announced today that the Wii-exclusive Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil Zero will ship on Dec. 1.
Priced at $29.99, the game is described as a prequel that exposes the back story and internal tyranny of the Umbrella Corporation. Players will explore the origins of the T-Virus in an epic storyline that tells the horrors leading up to the infamous mansion incident.
Resident Evil Zero was originally released for the Nintendo GameCube in 2002. The Wii version adds support for the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers.
Posted in: Gaming • Horror • Nintendo • Capcom • Resident Evil • Wii • wiimote • Zombies | Post a Comment »
October 26th, 2009, 8:28 am by Jayson Peters
 Starting next month, PlayStation 3 owners with Netflix subscriptions will be able to stream movies right to their consoles, according to Sony.
To make it work, you’ll need a free, Netflix-issued Blu-ray disc that you can order here.
Via The Associated Press and Kotaku
Posted in: Gaming • Movies • PlayStation 3 • Technology • Netflix • Sony | Post a Comment »
October 23rd, 2009, 3:48 pm by Jayson Peters
 (Paul Connors, AP) Yesterday’s grand opening of Microsoft’s first retail store at Scottsdale Fashion Square, and the accompanying release of the new operating system Windows 7 — generated a lot of media buzz. And, I’m afraid, some media bias.
I considered joining the hundreds of people who waited in line, some as long as 12 hours, to get their first look at the software giant’s first retail operation.
Then I realized that would mean standing in line with hundreds of people. Or at least dealing with corporate PR types on their Big Day.
But lo and behold, I found a way to blog about it anyway.
On the drive home Thursday, listening to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered like the loyal liberal media elite-type that I am, I was surprised at just how harshly host Melissa Block was grilling Microsoft representative Mika Krammer. Today I was wondering whether I imagined it, so I asked some colleagues. One of them had heard the same report and was also left with the impression that it went too far. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in: Technology • Xbox 360 • Apple • Business • Media • Microsoft • Scottsdale | Post a Comment »
October 22nd, 2009, 10:08 pm by Jayson Peters
 If you were one of the unlucky masses who paid 500 Wii Points, or $5, for the Wii Internet Channel only to later regret that choice when the application was made free for all – rejoice! If you haven’t already deduced from the pulsating blue light that signals a message in your inbox, there should be a nice little 500 point credit waiting for you in the Wii Shop Channel today.
Whatever will you do with those 500 points? Joystiq has some suggestions.
The Internet Channel uses a version of the Opera 9 browser to let Wii owners surf the World Wide Web. It was recently upgraded with Flash support.
Posted in: Gaming • Nintendo • Free stuff • Wii | Post a Comment »
October 19th, 2009, 9:45 pm by Jayson Peters
 Publisher Crucible 7 has released a seven-page preview and sample character sheet from its upcoming Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space roleplaying game.
Priced at $59.95, the release is described as a deluxe box set that contains a 144-page Gamemaster’s Guide, an 86-page Player’s Guide, a 30-page Adventures Book, a four-page Quick Start Guide, pregenerated character sheets, blank character sheets, gadget sheets, tokens and dice. The game, originally set for release this month, will be out in November.
This is the third official tabletop RPG based on Doctor Who: FASA published one in the ’80s and Virgin in the ’90s. The new game naturally focuses on the 2005 relaunch of the classic series that ran from 1963-89. But with 45 years of accumulated lore from TV episodes, original novels and plays and two spinoffs to date, there is plenty of material to support a full range of gaming supplements — if the market is there for them.
See also: ‘Doctor Who’ RPG set for fall release
Posted in: Books • Doctor Who • Gaming • RPGs • Sci-Fi & Fantasy • PDF | Post a Comment »
October 14th, 2009, 12:01 am by Jayson Peters
 The widow of Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax is working to have a memorial erected to the game designer in his adopted hometown of Lake Geneva, Wis.
The monument, which Gail Gygax is hoping will be placed in the city’s Library Park, first must go through parks board approval before going to the City Council.
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Posted in: Gaming • RPGs • Sci-Fi & Fantasy • Collecting • Conventions • D&D • Deaths • Dungeons & Dragons • Gary Gygax | 6 Comments »
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