YouTube Tuesday: Being a Better Gamer Edition

Posted By: Dave Bast In: PC On May 15th 2012

YouTube Tuesday: Being a Better Gamer Edition

Every Tuesday I like to take some time to focus on the hardworking and dedicated “YouTubers” within the gaming community. This week I’ll be focusing on a caster who needs little introduction. Sean Plott better known as Day[9] has been commentating on Starcraft II  games for the past few years, and before that was a successful Starcraft: Brood War player. His Day[9] Daily is now on episode #463 and focuses on making players better gamers with his in-depth, humorous, and highly analytical commentary.  You can watch his shows live on his channel or simply head over and watch old ones on YouTube.

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Diablo 3 servers crash within minutes of the game’s launch

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On May 15th 2012

Diablo 3 servers crash within minutes of the game’s launch

Fans have waited 12 years for Diablo 3, and it looks like they’re going to have to wait a little while longer before playing Blizzard’s latest action RPG. The game was supposed to launch tonight, but somehow Blizzard underestimated the popularity of their own game, as the company’s servers were immediately overwhelmed within minutes of the game going live.

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Eating my Words, Space Quest Kickstarter Launched

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC On May 14th 2012

Eating my Words, Space Quest Kickstarter Launched

Ok, so remember a few weeks ago when I wrote about the Two Guys from Andromeda, Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy, making a Space Quest reboot without the help of Kickstarter? Well now they have a one. It seems that their pre-Kickstarter buzz has done a fairly good job of getting the ball rolling without actually starting the clock, in only a little over a week the Two Guys have raised over $150,000 for another classic adventure game. That’s pretty damn good especially considering that these two haven’t made a game in over 20 years.

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Valve Allowed to use Dota Name, Blizzard Backpedals

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC On May 14th 2012

Valve Allowed to use Dota Name, Blizzard Backpedals

Back in February I reported on the legal skirmish between Blizzard and Valve over the use of the name Dota in Valve’s upcoming Dota 2. Well it appears as if the battle is over, and even though Blizzard’s press release says the agreement was mutual, it’s pretty clear Valve came out on top as they’re the ones that get to keep using the name Dota. Blizzard on the other hand has now changed the name of their game from Blizzard Dota to Blizzard All-Stars. I may not be a legal expert, but I’m pretty sure that this all backfired on Blizzard, I mean they are the ones who originally filed and yet they ended up being the ones to change their name while pretty much nothing happened to Valve. Then again, this could all be just a case of, to quote Notch, “lawyers being lawyers.”

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Rockstar giving away free downloads of Midnight Club 2 (but there’s a catch)

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On May 11th 2012

Rockstar giving away free downloads of Midnight Club 2 (but there’s a catch)

I spent a good chunk of the summer of 2003 playing Rockstar’s Midnight Club 2 on PS2. There were a lot of illegal street racing based games last-gen, but MC2 managed to remain ahead of the competition thanks to its unique, track-less style of open world racing, tight controls, and (at the time) very pretty graphics. The series has been strangely MIA ever since 2008′s Midnight Club: Los Angeles, but now Rockstar is giving fans an opportunity to relive their virtual ricer glory days by downloading Midnight Club 2 for free.

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Humpday Bump: Late Night Portal Swag Edition

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC, Tech On May 9th 2012

Humpday Bump: Late Night Portal Swag Edition

On Wednesdays I spend my time looking for a digital buffet of gaming goodies – I post them here on the Humpday Bump.

Today’s bump features a look at NECA’s next foray into bringing the Portal franchise to our reality with P-body’s Official Portal Device Replica. Apparently the original replica was so popular that NECA has decided to crank out 5,000 more units of the co-op version. This means that those looking to turn a profit over at E-bay will have to start coming up with less dimension splitting prices.

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YouTube Tuesday – Spotlight on Failure Edition

Posted By: Dave Bast In: PC On May 8th 2012

YouTube Tuesday – Spotlight on Failure Edition

Every Tuesday I like to take some time to focus on the hardworking and dedicated “YouTubers” within the gaming community. This week features another “Top 5” League of Legends series, unlike the last one however, this one is all about the fail. Every week Jumpinthepack posts their top 5 fails of the week submitted by users. As the page now boasts over 120K subscribers, there are plenty of fails to keep the series moving.

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Major Minecraft Changes Planned: Singleplayer is now a solo Multiplayer. Also, some Modding API thing.

Posted By: Rian Quenlin In: PC On May 8th 2012

Major Minecraft Changes Planned: Singleplayer is now a solo Multiplayer. Also, some Modding API thing.

Okay that sounds weird, but let me explain this a little. Notch commented in the past that the code of Minecraft would have been much cleaner and more friendly to work with if he had coded it purely as a multiplayer game, and having singleplayer be simply going solo. As any fan of MC mods will know, there is a massive difference between Singleplayer and Multiplayer, and getting a mod to work smoothly in both is like herding cats at a fish market.

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RUMOR: Ubisoft making an Avengers game

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 On May 6th 2012

RUMOR: Ubisoft making an Avengers game

It’s kind of weird that The Avengers was released this past weekend without any sort of licensed game tie-in: the movie has already set box office records and will probably go on to be the biggest film of the year, so you’d think videogame publishers would be lining up for the chance to cash-in on The Avengers craze. Well, while there wasn’t an Avengers game released in time for the premiere of the movie, apparently Ubisoft will announce a game starring Marvel’s A-team very soon.

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Play The Dirt Showdown Demo Before Its May 29th Release

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On May 4th 2012

Play The Dirt Showdown Demo Before Its May 29th Release

For all of you gritty racing fans, Dirt Showdown has a new demo available for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. The demo is of their new ‘Ultimate Hoonigan’ game mode which will be released with the game on May 29th, and offers players a chance to not just race, but battle their friends as well. Even if you aren’t a fan of previous Dirt games, or if you’re not a racing fan in general, check out the demo anyways as this time around Dirt is really pushing the competitive envelope.

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Black Ops 2 Breaks Records, Annoys Anonymous

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On May 4th 2012

Black Ops 2 Breaks Records, Annoys Anonymous

Ah it’s that time of year again; the birds are chirping, the trees are in bloom, and we’re all about to spend the rest of the year loving, hating, hyping, and debating the next Call of Duty game, Black Ops II. Some will endlessly analyze the smallest details available to the community, while others will spend their time wondering whether or not this is the year fans finally admit they’re sick of the franchise. Somehow the game already smashed the 1st day pre-order sales of its predecessor,Black Ops, by about 10 to 1. While some of this might be genuine excitement about the franchise, I think some of it has to do with the fact that this game takes place in the future, territory that is foreign to the Call of Duty series. If this is true, and this success is due largely to the new setting, then Activision will probably place the next game somewhere in the 31st century, but I digress.

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