If you’ve been putting off pre-ordering Starcraft II, Gamestop and Amazon have sweetened the deal for you. By pre-ordering Starcraft 2, you can receive a beta code for the closed multiplayer beta. For Amazon, the code will be emailed within 5 business days of the pre-order. The promotion is limited to one per customer, and […]
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Ousted Infinity Ward co-founders Jason West and Vincent Zampella are not done with the video game industry. The two are starting a new company, Respawn Entertainment under their formal rivals at Activision, EA. The former Infinity Ward execs are currently involved in a lawsuit with Activision over their termination earlier this year. “Respawn Entertainment marks
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Blizzard announced that Starcraft II will be shipping in both standard and collector’s editions on its release sometime this year. The collector’s edition will come with an art book, a copy of the original StarCraft, a behind-the-scenes DVD, a comic book, and other items. According to Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime, “We’ve been looking forward to
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“There’s an app for that” is becoming more and more true for the Android Market as it’s seen growth by 9,300 apps in March alone. The Android Market hit the 20,000 apps milestone at the beginning of 2010, doubling its growth in three months since to its current 42,000 apps. The Android Market saw 4,458
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Borderlands is 50% off for Steam’s weekend deal! That brings it down to $24.99 from $49.99. If you need somebody to play with you can also buy the discounted fourpack for $74.98 (was $149.97). The deal goes from today until 10 a.m. PDT on Monday. Borderlands was released October 2009 and received an 82/100 MetaCritic
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To start off the month of April, Battle.net announced the launch of its first ever dating service called Matchmaking. It’s shown with the tagline “Find someone to pwn noobs with” and caters to Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft Players. The front page of the site features testimonials from users (who must have had access to
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Google is up to its normal April Fool’s Day hijinks, first of all renaming the website in honor of Google, Kansas, aka Topeka. Early last month Topeka, Kansas announced they would be changing the town’s name to Google as part of the competition to become one of the choosen cities for Google’s 1Gbit Fibre Broadband.
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A fight at a Chinese internet cafe over a suspected wall hack nearly cost one teenage Counter-Strike player his life. An argument erupted between two players when one accused a 17 year old of using a wall hack, which allows the player to see through the walls on a Counter-Strike map. The fight ended when
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Nintendo has officially announced the next model in their lineup of portable gaming systems: the Nintendo 3DS. The 3DS will allow players to play games in 3D without the use of glasses and will be backwards compatible with DS and DSi games. Rumor has it that it might feature an analog stick, and a screen
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Microsoft’s Project Natal will supposedly require 13 feet of space between Natal and yourself in order to be recognized by the sensors. This may put a damper on Xbox 360 owners who inhabit tiny spaces. The comments regarding this “13 feet rule” were made by Microsoft Xbox division’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie.
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