We were quite impressed with both games in the Witcher series, but were even happier when the first game received its Enhanced Edition that significantly upgraded the game. Next week, The Witcher 2will receive an equally ambitious upgrade, called the 2.0 patch.
The good news is that Diablo III has a closed beta. The bad news is that if you’re reading about it here instead of in an invitation in your e-mail, well… you aren’t part of the beta.
You and your clan can win up to eight thousand dollars in an upcoming Red Orchestra 2 tournament being hosted by the game’s developer Tripwire Interactive, along with gaming clans Forgotten Honor and The Wild Bunch. This will be the very first official competitive event for Tripwire’s new ultra-realistic World War II shooter, which just came out last week.
More and more games are going free-to-play (FTP) these days, and following on the heels of Champions Online (which went FTP) earlier this year) and City of Heroes (which recently announced that it too was going FTP), Sony have announced that their superhero MMORPG, DC Universe Online is switching to a FTP business model.
It’s been a few years since EVE Online developer CCP merged
with pen and paper RPG gaming company White Wolf, and at this years
Grand Masquerade (an event for White Wolf’s World of Darkness property)
more details have been given about the upcoming World of Darkness MMO.
About a month ago, one of the original creators of the PC at IBM declared
the PC is doomed. Yesterday, Microsoft showed off its latest child,
which is still in development: Windows 8.
Windows 8 is the new tablet OS that is taking dead aim at the Apple
iPad 2, which is pretty much slaying all of the Android competition.
Where Apple’s success has been based mainly on the very large collection
of apps, Windows 8 looks to incorporate the best things of iOS and make
it better.
So you’re all farmed out on Famville. Your digital coveralls are faded
and worn and you’ve tilled enough cyber-soil to last you a lifetime.
Now you’re left wanting a new experience. Come to think of it, you’ve
been waiting for a new adventure game. Did you know Zynga already has
you covered?
If you’re the person who hasn’t played Portal yet, you no longer have any excuse to not understand references to “The Cake Is A Lie” because Valve is putting the game up for grabs. Thanks to a generous grant from the fine philanthropists at Aperture Science (America’s leading manufacturer of military shower curtains/ Quantum Tunneling Devices) Valve will let anyone download a copy of the game for free for a limited time.
A report from DFC Intelligence suggests that online game sales will surpass retail sales in 2013. Global Sales from online games including PC, console, mobile and tablet games are expected to rise from 19.3 billion in 2010 to $37.9 billion by 2016.
