Four years ago on November 23rd, Blizzard opened its doors to Azeroth and then quickly shut them, opening and closing them several times until they were sure they had enough servers to handle the massive rush of players eager to enter the World of Warcraft.
To celebrate 1,460 days of lost time, broken relationships, and weight gain, folks who log into the game today are gifted with the achievement "WoW's 4th Anniversary" and an adorable little baby polar bear to follow them around everywhere they go.
For those of you online right now, you actually have to log off, then log-in again to receive the award.
Consult your instruction manual for directions on how to actually log off.
So we know there's going to be a video editor for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV (PC), but what can you do with it, and how do you do it?
Rockstar has dropped details on the versatile little app that will allow just about anyone to easy create and share game clips with the Social Club TV website. To start, all you have to do is hit F2 and the previous 30-40 seconds of gamezplay are dumped into a clip.
Open up the video editor from your in-game cell phone, and from there you can view the clips, use the editor to string them together, adding music, special effects, titles, and transitions, and then head to the upload section to post them directly on the Rockstar Games Social Club TV site for everyone's viewing enjoyment.
Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad lets players take on the role of Aya or Saki, sexy samurai sisters who are earth’s last hope against a killer zombie legion. Armed with only their swords and their hotness, this deadly pair will stop at nothing to solve the mystery of the horde’s origin. Everyone they meet – who doesn’t get killed in the crossfire – brings them closer to understanding who or what is behind the catastrophic monster outbreak.
Aya puts her legendary samurai skills to the test, battling legions of zombies terrorizing the city in order to unearth the meaning of her mysterious IMICHI ancestors. With her sexy younger sister Saki and armed with only their swords and their ball-busting beauty, these two face bondage, blood and nonstop battle, to rid their home of the zombie threat. Every person they meet and enemy they defeat brings the sisters closer to putting an end to who, or what is behind this zombie outbreak.
Unique Dress-Up mode unlocks costumes, accessories, and more Deep combat system on the ground and in the air with combos, upgrades and an adrenaline-filled rage mode Exploration across a vast city complete with cinematic storytelling and killer boss battles Multiple playable characters, including 2-player split-screen multiplayer.
A 15-year-old collapses after playing online combat game World of Warcraft's new Wrath of the Lich King extension for 24 hours...
The boy, from Laholm Sweden, had been playing with friends when after the marathon session he took what is believed to be an epileptic fit.
A local newspaper reported that the teenagers had played all day and night only stopping to eat. World of Warcraft takes place in a virtual online world full of mythical creatures controlled by players from around the world.
In the past some players have become 'addicted' to the game and immerse themselves in this virtual world and leave the 'real' world behind.
Players can achieve higher rankings with this addition and on French player managed to get to the top ranking after a reported 27 hour session playing the game.
Blizzard, the game makers, expected this feat to take the average player weeks or even months to achive.
The French player known as Nymh used his friends playing along side him to gain the top ranking.
If you asked most games what they think the best selling game in the World over the last three months was bet the answer would be Madden 08. More likely Grand Theft Auto or FIFA 09 but no EA's football sim out sold them all selling almost 3 million copies beating Wii Fit into second place ( maybe if you could get Wii Fit it would have won!).
Wii Fit sold just over 2 million copies while Madden sold well in the US only 36,000 copies were sold outside the homeland.
What was third? Star Wars The Force Unleashed sold 1.7 million copies to grad that place with Pokemon Platinum (with 1.5 million) in fourth fifth was Mario Kart with 1.48 million sales).
Through its for-profit unit National Geographic Ventures, the non-profit National Geographic Society is set to announce Tuesday that it has created National Geographic Games.
The division's first game, "Herod's Lost Tomb," was developed in-house and is a free download for PC, Mac and the iPhone. After that, NGG is coming out with games for Nintendo's Wii, Sony's PlayStation 3 and handheld devices.
Some will be developed in-house while others will rely on partnerships, like "National Geographic Panda" from Namco Bandai and "National Geographic: Africa" from Sony.
Chris Mate, previously an executive with Take-Two Interactive Software and Bethesda Softworks, was named GM of NGG.
NGG is expected to focus on building games that further its theme of spreading geographic knowledge.