So Starcraft II (and with it, I assume, all Battle.net 2.0 games) is getting Facebook integration. That’s right, Blizzard doesn’t have the development resources to give us public chat channels or cross-region play but the game will integrate neatly with Facebook. What’s the point and where does this lead us?

I’m a sucker for digital distribution deals, indie games, and innovative sales models. I’m pleased to introduce to you a package that includes all these for an absolutely unbeatable price: Whatever you want. That’s right, over at http://www.wolfire.com/humble there’s a week long deal on a five game bundle that you can get for a price [...]

I’m still on my way home, so I apologize for literally phoning this post in. You just have to love technology. Anyway, sitting here in the car and browsing Kotaku I stubled upon an interesting tidbit of news: the creators of Penny Arcade have been voted into Time Magazine’s top 100 most influential people of [...]

I have to spontaneously leave for a few days and, professional as I am I don’t have a post prepared for Wednesday yet. Luckily, Blizzard comes to my rescue with a pretty nice announcement about raiding in World of Warcraft’s next expansion Cataclysm. Now, I’m still not convinced I’ll come back to WoW for Cataclysm, [...]

GameTrailers.com has a new developer diary type video on the combat in Bioware’s upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic. I said the other day that developers should only fear bad publicity from giving customers access to early versions of their games when those games are actually bad but I feel that publishing this video [...]

I’ll admit it, I own all three  Collector’s Editions for World of Warcraft and the one for Lord of the Rings Online; I even have the digital ones for Aion and Star Trek Online. I can’t honestly say that I got my money’s worth out of any of those. STO and Aion I just didn’t [...]

Surely you’ve heard about That Retarded Horse, the new mount sold in Blizzard’s cash shop for World of Warcraft. For $25 (or €20) you get a purely cosmetic in-game pegasus mount – if you manage to make it through the queues that have reportedly been building in the online shop. Like Ixobelle (and many others) [...]

A friend of mine pointed me to an article on IGN yesterday as fodder for a blog post. The article is about a new website called GameCrush that allows (most likely male) gamers to pay money in order to play video games against girls. Apparently, $8.25 buys you ten minutes of gaming time or six [...]

You may or may not know that Scott “Lum the Mad” Jennings currently fights spammers and gold farmers in Aion for NCsoft. Either way, he posted a link to an ad against real money trading (RMT, essentially gold buying) the other day which is hilarious because it’s so bad. Seriously, this ad is even worse [...]

In case you haven’t heard, the heads of Infinity Ward, makers of recent smash hit Modern Warfare 2, were fired by publisher Activision on March 1st. Clearly there are conflicting stories available. Activision claims that West and Zampella (the aforementioned heads of Infinity Ward) have been courting other publishers and generally performed insubordination. The two [...]