I just came across this little gem of a video of Obama being created as a character in NCSoft’s upcoming MMO Aion: The Tower of Eternity. It’s a fantasy based MMO where your character can partake in PvE and PvP on the ground and in the air or in the case of this video, a sword swashling politician of justice! Read the rest of this entry »

Disclaimer: This post isn’t about actual sex scenes in video games, but about the role sex has had over the years in video games and how it’s affected players and the market alike.

Even before there where enough pixels to form a proper pair of breasts or muscles on the screen, many games already used sex as a means of advertisement in the game’s packaging and manuals. Soon as there was enough resolution to discern some form of curves, games where already implementing it such as the infamous Duke Nukem, “Shake it baby!” comes to mind. Sex sells, there’s no denying it, but has it affected video game sales as well? Read the rest of this entry »

A very gutsy move by Blizzard indeed but there you have it folks, WotLK finally has an official release date! This only further confirms the belief that the game is already complete for the most part and that Blizzard has full confidence that they’ll be ready to swamp the game industry once again with record sales and nerd rage galore as stores and preorders fill up. The bad news is that playing WoW TBC right now will be exceptionally lame as the typical pre-expansion release apathy virus spreads throughout servers causing guilds to stop or not raid as much eventually destroying quite a few of them. The good news is that now I know I have 2 months to decide what race to make my Death Knight! Read the rest of this entry »

The company prepares his next top-seller game; a new MMO. Blizzard starts employing new workers to his proyect, and its official.

We will see a new Warcraft, a new saga or the online arrive of Diablo/Starcraft?