Bungie released a teaser of their current project earlier today.
They did do it rather cryptic but the signs that this video is a teaser for a Halo 3 expansion are evident if you sink into it.
Below is a video that shows us what makes it more then likely to be a Halo project.
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That’s right long time anti-Videogame crusader Jack Thompson has been disbarred and in a month he can no longer practice law in Florida and can never reapply for a bar.
He must also pay a fine of nearly $50k for his many misconducts and lying, etc.
He can fight it, but at this point it is highly doubtful he will win.
I’ll never agree with his arguments for why games are bad, and his methods are unethical, such as using tragedies like school shootings as means to push his agenda to people. But I do feel a little sorry for him, but in the end he can blame no one but himself, it’s all his fault, but I’m sure he will come up with some Conspiracy theory about how Gamepolitics, Penny arcade and ESA are plotting against him and they used their “evil” influence to get him disbarred.
Gamepolitics.com is down probably due to extensive stress it’s suffering from people all over the world visiting. I can’t even imagine what the numbers are at the moment.
Thankfully Kotaku have this article as well.
Source: http://kotaku.com/5054772/jack-thompson-disbarred
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So it seems the Fallout MMO that Interplay announced they were working on years ago isn’t vapourware at all.
heheh,
Anyway, I don’t know if it will ever actually be released, Interplay has been going bankrupt so many times now, it’s hard to see them getting this done.
I feel it will just be another vaporware.
Now as for another MMO that was apparantely in works at Ensemble Studio which Micro’stupid’ are shutting down soon (after they have finished work on Halo War) because of some….lame excuse.
From the screenshots that have been released, it seems that Ensemble were working on a Halo mmo.
I don’t really know what to say. It would have been interesting to see how it would have turned out, but now thanks to Microsoft it will never see the light of day.
One thing is for sure it would attract the worst breed of gamers there is
Yeah…that bad.
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I’ve been playing in the beta and the headstart for Warhammer Online. First impressions is that this game reminds of me WoW. However when you go deeper it is in a lot of ways different. First, the game relies heavily on PVP or as it’s called RVR so a lot of the quests you first come across in the game are quests related to killing someone on the other side.
The game also has right from the start battlegrounds not all that unlike Arathi Basin from WoW which you can enter at anytime. There are plenty of these that you can go into throughout the game.
They also have what are called Public Quests which are kind of like instances out in the open. You can join in the fight at any time just by walking into the area. It’s not necessary to be in a group to get something for taking part in the fight. The final prizes for defeating the boss are rolled. So even if you just entered right at the end and did just a few hits you still have a chance to win something though the chances are very slim.
Now as for grouping, they have made it very easy. You have the option to look for nearby open groups. So if you happen to be in a public quest, you can just check for nearby groups and join. If there are a lot of people doing a public quest you can make a warband(kind of like a raid group) and then everyone is in one big group to finish the quest.
The game is divided into chapters. Each section has it’s own chapter and you do the PQ to finish the chapter. You gain influence points which fills up a meter. At certain intervals you can go visit a Rally master and he will give you rewards. You have to accept a reward at each interval so he will give you a quest to go on to the next rally master. You don’t need to do it, but it’s just some extra XP right there.
In retrospective, this is easily the least grindy game I have ever played. You don’t need to grind if you don’t want to you can level up just by doing RvR there are also plenty of quests that don’t involve searching out some parts of an animal he has a fetish for or something like that.
Another interesting thing, I don’t know exactly how it works but it seems ganking is impossible in this game. If a high lvl character goes into a low lvl area flagged for RvR he gets morphed into a chicken, which makes him easily killable and he can’t do nothing but maybe lay eggs.
Now as far as graphics goes. They are good. They aren’t “*nerdgasm*mmmmmm Crysis*nerdgasm some more*” good but still nice.
See below for my character and how it looks.
There are only 40 lvls in this game against the orginial 60 that was in WoW, however leveling goes a little slower and also there hasn’t been a level that I haven’t gained some new ability yet so you don’t have to wait two or more levels like in WoW for something new and exciting to use on your foes.
Anyway I think that about covers it.
Oh and I am currently playing with the US version of the game on the Ostermark server as Agilaz.
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Virtual boy eat your heart out! You’ve got nothing on the Cyber FX 3D!
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Soooo I’ve been spending some time with Spore. I’m not very far along, I’ve just reached the tribal phase and so far…it’s alright.
The Creature creator is a neat tool and you can make some wacky creatures with it in a easy way.
But the gameplay is pretty lackluster in the first part of the game, it’s so repetitive and bland, all about either making friends or making enemies and finding food to eat and then “evolving” your creature into a new shape.
I’m hoping that once I reach the civilization and then beyond that the Space stage the game will start to pick up.
I entered the Warhammer Online Beta earlier tonight. Have to give it a try. Problem is I’m getting rather crappy download speed for the client though they are getting better. The client is a like 10GB so it’s going to take some time for it to download, at current download speeds it will take over a day for it to complete.
I know very little about how the actual gameplay is going to be like, but I’ve haven’t heard any bad things about it yet.
In the end I wasn’t really enjoying Age of Conan very much, maybe it was because I had no one to play it with me, which I find essential to playing a mmo game. Now by someone I mean someone I know.
In other news, on September the 18th the demo for Fracture will arrive on Xbox live Marketplace and PlayStation Network.
Now this game has always looked interesting but will be another one of those hyped failures?
I hope not.
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Due to DRM in Spore there has been huge backlash against Spore and EA. There is a Anti-DRM group going around trying to keep people from buying it.
They do this by going on amazon and giving the game a poor rating and write about the dangers of DRM in the Reviews.
Now this is bad since Amazon is the biggest retail in the world and casual gamers will often go by the ratings and don’t bother with reading the reviews.
Could DRM be the death of Spore?
Well.. I don’t know.
Considering how stubborn EA has been about the useless DRM up to this point I doubt even abdysmal sales from Spore will make them actually start to put two and two together that DRM actually means less money for them then not having it.
DRM doesn’t stop piracy in any way, but I understand that they have to try something because there really is a a lot of piracy happening on PC games and many PC exclusive developers have been forced to start developing for consoles as well just to make a profit from the development of the games.
Source: Fred Benenson’s Blog
I came across this very well written article(and looooong) about what really happened behind the scenes at Microsoft that lead to millions of 360 units turning into duds.
Far too much gets covered in it so I think it’s best that you just read the article.
Here is the link :
Now while Microsoft is really trying to make up for all this idiocy around the launch of the 360, if they had ensured better failure rates from the start they wouldn’t have had to invest a total of 1.1 billion dollars in repairs/replacements of 360s suffering from RROD.
So as stated in the article this is probably the worst fuck up in gaming history, even outweighing the crash of 1983.
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That’s right, like 10 million other souls, WoW has devoured mine.
I’ve spent quite a bit of my time the last two weeks on it and have gotten my new character past what had been the highest level I had reached. He is now at lvl 33 Paladin.
I named him Agilaz and I’m playing on Defias Brotherhood(It’s a EU server)
I plan on going all the way with this one and be ready when the Wrath of the Lich king arrives, but we’ll see if it will last. I have a tendency to drop mmo games rather easily.
But for now WoW is in total control over my life, but don’t worry, I’m not addicted…I hope. <_<
