If you’ve had my experience playing Guild Wars 2, you’ve seen few if any in-game hiccups, no random disconnects and no just-trying-to-get-in-the-game server stonewalling. But if you follow online discussion groups, you’ve …
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Guild Wars 2 Sales: One Million Pre-Served, Record 400,000 Playing at Once
Guild Wars 2 is finally here! Or wait, wasn’t it already here three days ago? And…okay, hold on a second, didn’t it somehow launch just yesterday, too?
Guild Wars 2: It’s the Pinball Machine of MMOs
Guild Wars 2 is one of those rare games that knocks your life off-kilter like a meteoroid banging into a satellite. That’s how it’s been for me, anyway. I knew it was coming, but, fool that I am, wasn’t paying attention. I’d …
Dark Souls for PC Is Here: ‘Prepare to Die’ like a Pro
Finally. That’s what those of you with tricked-out PC rigs — who perhaps don’t have game consoles and have had to listen to console gamers brag about just how phenomenal this game is — may be saying this morning, now that Dark …
In Memory of Nintendo Power
At the end of this year, the lights will turn off at Nintendo Power. Future US, which has produced the long-running magazine for the last five years, is pulling out, and Nintendo says it won’t seek a new publisher according to …
Microsoft Swaps Its Logo for the First Time in a Quarter of a Century
Microsoft just rolled out the most significant change to its iconic corporate logo since 1987, trading curves for straight lines and black-and-white for vivid colors.
It’s not just the four-color Windows icon that’s morphed, …
Is the Handheld Video Games Market Shrinking? Or Just Changing?
You’ve probably heard someone, somewhere, claim smartphones are encroaching on handheld gaming’s turf. It’s what you’re seeing anywhere you go, after all: in planes, trains and automobiles, or maybe at family get-togethers, …
Microsoft’s Surprise $40 Kinect Price Drop: Time to Buy One?
Microsoft Kinect price, come on down — the company just knocked roughly one-third off the retail price of its motion-control sensor for the Xbox 360, permanently. That’s the official word, courtesy Microsoft PR poobah Larry …
How Long Does It Take to Hit Level 160 in Diablo III?
You’ve swept through Diablo III like a scythe through styrofoam pellets. You have every character class maxed, every item slot perfected. You’ve soloed through “Inferno,” which is even harder than reading that musty 14th-century …
Epic Mickey Creator Wants to ‘Shame’ Doom and Unreal Makers: Why He’s Not Wrong
I never got around to playing Epic Mickey, and that’s a shame, because I’ve played nearly everything else by game design luminary Warren Spector. I don’t think luminary’s too strong a label, though his output’s dwindled in recent …
Did Cloud Gaming Service OnLive Really Just Fire Its Entire Staff? [Updated]
It’s definitely not the sort of news you want to run across on an otherwise lovely Friday afternoon: Brian Fargo, a game developer with inXile Entertainment, posted something he claims is an email received from an OnLive employee …
Watch: Here’s What World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria‘s Opening Looks Like
I keep wanting to spell Pandaria “Panderia,” I have no idea why. It’s not like Blizzard’s forthcoming World of Warcraft is pandering to anyone. After all, it has pandas, with two A’s. Kung-fu pandas. They wear the same Kung-Fu …