For the first 20 levels or so, Diablo III is like skiing down a gently sloping hill, one you’d label whatever comes before “green” at an actual resort. You can pretty well wade into any combat situation and wander back out by …
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Lord of Record Sales: Blizzard Says Diablo III Is Fastest Selling PC Game in History
Surprise, Diablo III sold to the moon and back since its release last week on Tuesday, May 15, says developer/publisher Blizzard in so many words. In fact the company says more than 3.5 million people picked up a copy of its …
Apple’s Metal MacBook Gaming Problem: They’re Still Hot as You-Know-What
The other night I sat down to play Diablo III on my 11-inch MacBook Air, after installing Windows 7 in Bootcamp mode to eke a few extra frames per second from the Windows side’s arguably superior gaming performance. But…Diablo …
Leaked Wii U Controller Image Reveals Redesigned Thumbsticks
The worst you could say about Nintendo’s Wii U controller before was twofold: It’s really big (for a console game controller), and the thumb-sticks are actually thumb-nubs, set flush against the controller’s surface, 3DS-style. A …
Diablo III and Always-Online Gaming: Bad for Us and Here to Stay?
I’d rather talk about playing Diablo III, but since I’m working on a poky-band smartphone connection that makes playing much of anything online a lurching debacle, let’s talk about Diablo III‘s always-on requirement, or digital …
Diablo III Battles Battle.net Blues as Players Slam the Game in Reviews
“Has anyone heard whether Diablo III‘s out yet?” I had to double-check myself, spying that on a message board earlier this week. Blizzard’s chthonic action roleplaying game actually arrived on Tuesday, May 15, as expected, but …
BioShock Infinite Delayed Until February 2013 to Make the Game ‘Even Better’
You’ll have to wait a little longer to visit BioShock Infinite‘s theocratic dystopia-in-the-sky: Creative lead Ken Levine says the company has decided to push back the release to February 26, 2013 in order to “give our talented …
The 10 Best Minecraft Mods
One thing Minecraft for Xbox 360 won’t have at launch is mod support, so here are the 10 best reasons — including werewolves, backpacks and lasers — to keep playing Minecraft on your trusty PC
Watch: The Elder Scrolls Online Trailer Launches with Official Site
As expected, Bethesda just released a teaser trailer for The Elder Scrolls Online, dropping it dead center of the official website for the forthcoming online roleplaying game.
This Is What The Elder Scrolls Online Looks Like: 17 Leaked Screens
The Elder Scrolls Online will combine the series’ already massive exploration dynamic with the social angle of an MMO. The game will take place a millennium prior to events in Skyrim and strike an apocalyptic Oblivion-esque …
Move Over Skyrim, Here Comes The Elder Scrolls Online
No, that’s not a guess or a rumor — Bethesda’s finally rolling its titanic The Elder Scrolls fantasy roleplaying series into an online version, coming next year for both PC and Mac. The news is breaking now, courtesy Game …
NVIDIA’s Dual-Core GTX 690 Will Set You Back $999
Surprise, NVIDIA has a new insanely expensive dual-GPU graphics card in the offing, and you can have it already this Thursday, May 3…that is, if you’re willing to pay twice what the company’s charging for its flagship …