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12 years ago I got Warcraft III as a gift for Christmas. After I got it I immediately started playing it for the remainder of the holiday break. The game experience was so awesome for me that for the last few years around the holidays I have wanted to play Warcraft III again. Somehow when the Christmas tree goes up, my mind returns to Arthas epic struggle as a Paladin to Death Knight. I need to aquire Frostmorne and see his turn to a lieutenant of the Undead all the way to becoming their leader. Its just one of those odd things I associate with the holidays.

That all said, a few days ago I dusted off Warcraft III and have started playing though the campaign and have... Read All


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It may come as a surprise to some, but when I was a wee lad I loved video games. I played many amazing games on my NES and DOS Tandy computer. ZZT, Commander Keen, Zelda & Metal Gear were a few gems. When I was in the 7th grade one of my best friends Jason had a Mac. It was pretty amazing as it supported a ton of colors, had a really awesome sound card and I remember when his parents bought him a external hard-drive that was about 150 megs. He had a version of Wolfenstein 3D that graphically blew away the DOS version. He also had a space game I hadn't heard of before called Spaceward Ho!

Immediately I was drawn into Spaceward Ho! as it was one of the first turn... Read All


Our friends over at Starcrafts cooked up a fun Christmas special!

If you haven't tried Starcraft 2 yet, I recommend you get the Starter Edition:

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/3250656

Not only is it free, but Blizzard has opened up even more multiplayer maps in this version. The cool feature? You can play multiplayer with people that have the full edition! @panickedthumb and I have been talking about playing SC2 for the next game event because of this, so download the starter edition and give it a shot!


Hey everyone. After collecting all the entries for this years Game of the Year, I have them now in poll form for you to vote on. Thanks to everyone that added games to the list.

http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=50d6571ce4b091229a56c192

Please select your top 5 and the winner will be the highest voted game. I will also list out the others so we all know how it turned out.

Voting will be open today until December 31st and feel free to share this out with your friends!

*Yeah I linked the same video again, its totally awesome.


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We've done the tallying and come up with the winners!

We had a lot of amazing entries. Some funny and heroic name entries, and some great personal stories and epic tales from the world of Torchlight. It was tough, but Nayelianne was our favorite! Her entry really put us in her mind while playing Torchlight, and showed us how important and awesome her experience was, as well as the disappointment with not having multiplayer. She evoked feelings we've all had gaming at one time or another, I'd imagine.
http://cheerfulghost.com/Nayelianne/posts/790

The random number generator at random.org gave us Pavel_Krzystyniak's post. His epic tale of heroism was also high up in our... Read All


Sick an tired of those Terran Republic overlords, wearing red and telling us what to do? Think the the Vanu Sovereignty is just a bunch of guys in purple pajamas? Well then the place for you is the New Conglomerate, or, as some have dubbed it, Space 'Merica. We spend our days shootin', cussin', shootin' some more, all while drinking Space PBR and making some dough.

Come and join me on the Jaeger server. You have no excuse, its free-to-play.


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We all know there is a mega-ultra-deluxe Holiday Steam Sale going on now. I am sure a few of you already dropped some coins on it. I am sure some of your even checked out the Bethesda pack which is so epically sick at $90 if you buy it you might contract pneumonia. *ZING*

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/18743/

But we already know that, this is old news. But I needed to get that out of the way because tomorrow is supposed to be the end of the world. Since it's the end of the world and we are going to be dead tomorrow sometime, shouldn't someone buy every game in Steam? I mean, that's some kind of achievement right? I mean the world is... Read All


Atlus tends to publish some great and crazy games (a lot of imports, etc.) I just got an email about this new one that, again, looks fun and crazy. Here's their summary:

Do you like running? How about gunning? What if special abilities are thrown into the mix? Upgradable weapons? Let's say there're dozens of on-screen enemies to unleash this firepower on, and as your reward for dispatching them you get experience and gold to collect that can be used for character customization and new equipment--all the while playing alongside friends in 4-player cooperative play! If you like the sound of all this, then you'll love God Mode.

Retro shooter action and RPG elements are... Read All


I have wanted to play Dragon Age: Origins since it was released in 2009 but I haven't picked it up till recently. I only recently got a good gaming PC so when the game dropped in 2009 I would have picked it up on PS3. I heard the console versions of Dragon Age: Origins were not awesome and the PC port was much better so I waited to pick it up. During the last Steam sale I noticed it was $8.99 so I picked it up and all the DLC it was launched with.

Dragon Age: Origins is a more unique RPG in that each Class and Race has a unique starting Origin. I created an Elf Mage and my starting Origin story brought me to the Mages circle.

Visually the game reminds me of Neverwinter... Read All


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And WHAT a kerfuffle it is.

Kotaku has a great run-down of everything that's wrong, but to briefly summarize:

* It looks a lot like a Day Z ripoff. That's negotiable, but it's incredibly similar.

* They have a game you have to pay for, is still in beta, but has a multitude of microtransactions like Free-to-Play MMO's. Including one to respawn. If you don't pay a microtransaction when you die, apparently you have to wait hours before you can play again.

* They lied about the features of the game.

* They didn't mention that they were in beta still when they went on the Steam store.

* They wrongfully banned tons of people.

* They are blocking bad things being said about them in... Read All