So you have probably heard by now about all the Blizzard announcement’s, yes Diablo III is coming and now the waiting game begins. I was curious and decided to look into picking up a couple of the Battle Chests and saw that the Diablo Battle Chest is at #1 on the Amazon list.
Not only is the Diablo Battle Chest on top of the Amazon Bestsellers in Video Games chart, but of the top 15 Amazon titles there are 6 Blizzard titles! The StarCraft Battle Chest, Warcraft III Battle Chest and the WoW Battle Chest are also up there. Looks like the news of the new Diablo III and StarCraft II games are pushing the sales of the predecessors, good news for Blizzard even if it does take them ten years to actually release the new games.
I think I am going to dig up my copy of Diablo and give it a go now.
February 27, 2008 – 1:30 pm
The poor corpse of HD DVD isn’t even cold yet and we are already seeing price drops on hardware and now the movies. Looks like Amazon is having a half off sale on a good amount of their HD DVD selections. Not a bad time to pick up that copy of Transformers and a few others, unfortunately I didn’t see Heroes on sale. Be sure that even more of these types of sales will be springing up shortly so if you miss this one don’t sweat it.
January 26, 2008 – 5:32 pm
Chances are you never heard of Cooper Lawrence and chances are you will never again. Last week she went on Fox News to promote her new book, The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace With Your Inner Overachiever. She decided to call Mass Effect, the hit space RPG, video game porn. She went on and on to insult the game simply because of a 60 second “sex” scene, where you see the ass of one of the female aliens. Having never played the game herself, she passed judgment. How did the gaming nation respond? Thousands of gamers when to Amazon and gave her book the worst possible ratings and reviews catapulting it into oblivion. After realizing you don’t get into flame wars with gamers, she recanted.
I recognize that I misspoke,” she said. “I really regret saying that, and now that I’ve seen the game and seen the sex scenes it’s kind of a joke. Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it’s like pornography,” she added. “But it’s not like pornography. I’ve seen episodes of ‘Lost’ that are more sexually explicit.
So from Loot Ninja, and the rest of gamer nation, Cooper, fuck you lady. Thanks for trying out. Maybe next year, Gilmore.
[via New York Times]
October 24, 2007 – 7:31 pm
This may not be groundbreaking news, but I just realized and figured a reminder would be in order. The 5th OFFICIAL book in the Halo series, Contact Harvest will be released Tuesday, October 30th. Even though Eric Nylund is not the author here, I look forward to reading this. I have read the other four(Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx), this will certainly be a nice addition because it is a prequel. Here is a little backcover preview for you:
This is how it began…
It is the year 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space. But we have trespassed on holy ground–strayed into the path of an aggressive alien empire known as the Covenant. What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence.
But humanity is also locked in a bitter civil war known as the Insurrection. So the survival of Harvest’s citizens falls to a squad of battle-weary UNSC Marines and their inexperienced colonial militia trainees. In this unlikely group of heroes, one stands above the rest…a young Marine staff sergeant named Avery Johnson.
Don’t expect any Master Chief or Spartans. He was not born yet and they were not invented yet, but this does tell how this conflict began. Avery Johnson is a bad ass by the way. Looks a little like the Carl Weathers character from Predator doesn’t it???
October 3, 2007 – 2:59 pm
If you still want the backwards compatible version of the PS3, it is still out there. Looks like Amazon is sitting on a few 60 Gb consoles and ready to unload.
Another tip thanks to Fragloser, busy readers are our friends!
August 29, 2007 – 1:37 pm
Pricing for the upcoming PlayStation Eye camera has been somewhat revealed. The PS3 camera will only be available with the Eye of Judgement game.
Amazon is giving a release date of October 23rd with a $59.99 price tag. Seems like a good deal if you’re down with tabletop card games.
I’m still taking issue with the USB ports on the PS3 to use the camera. To leave it hooked up all the time, you have to plug the camera in via the front USB ports on the PS3 (there are none in the back). I hate seeing wires in my entertainment center, so I’m doubtful I’d use the Eye camera that often.
August 28, 2007 – 6:35 pm
What might be the deal of the century, ps3fanboy.com reports that you can get mentioned above for the low low price of under 500 bucks. Here are the directions that they offered:
- Add the 60GB PS3 to your amazon.com shopping cart.
- Choose three Blu-ray movies from this list and add them to the cart.
- Right before checkout, you’ll see the discount applied.
- Then, you’ll get a rebate form for five more Blu-ray movies. Even if you don’t want to be part of a next-gen movie format war, this is still one of the cheapest ways we’ve seen to get a PS3 — the free movies are a nice added bonus.
