I know a lot of you out there are creaming your pants waiting until late November when Wrath of the Lich King gets released. Al is stuffing his face with Red Bull and Cheetos trying to get to level 70 with his Hunter, I’m sitting pretty around level 12 with my Blood Elf (haven’t had a ton of time to play lately). If some of you are out there are making your own 80’s montage and getting fat and pimply like the kids in South Park trying to level up quickly, you’ll be happy to know you don’t need an insane PC to run the upcoming expansion pack.
PC:
Windows XP SP3 or Vista SP1 (Windows 2000 no longer supported)
Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1.5 GHz (up from 800 MHz Intel/AMD). Dual-core recommended.
RAM: 512 MB/1 GB for Vista, same as before. 1 GB/2 GB recommended.
Video: GPU with hardware transform and lighting and 32 MB VRAM, same as before. Recommended 128 MB VRAM.
Mac:
Mac OS X 10.4.11 (10.3 no longer supported)
PowerPC G5 1.6 GHz or Intel Core Duo. G4s are no longer supported. Intel 1.8 GHz recommended.
You know that cool splash screen at Blizzard’s site we told you about? They announced today what the deal is: Diablo 3. Ok, go clean up your pants, I know they’re soiled. Yes, that’s right, Diablo is making a comeback and will be released simultaneously for Mac and PC. Hells yes, I’m rocking this on my Mac!
Check out the debut trailer and wait patiently until this one gets released. I’m betting late 2009 or maybe even 2010.
It seems that sometime last week Blizzard gave its website a little bit of a upgrade. They have now made some of their games available for purchase right on their site via download. When you think about it, that’s really no small thing. So far there are only a few games for purchase, but hopefully soon we’ll see others popping up for purchase (Diablo,Diablo,Diablo,Diablo,Diablo,Diablo…pardon me…hmmm). With a little bit of luck, perhaps other sites will follow suit. We’ll just have to wait and see I suppose.
So if you are in need of an expansion for your WOW game here it is – now you don’t even have to leave your basement. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or bad thing.
Just in case you have not heard, Activision merged with Vivendi to make a monster development company. The good news keeps coming. During a press conference they confirmed that there will be a Call of Duty 5, no word on format yet, and Guitar Hero 4. Not surprised to hear this due to the fact both games are basically must haves, but its good to know that the franchises are alive and well. They also confirmed that there is no plans to put World of Warcraft on any console.
This seems to be a trend with the merging of these companies. There is way too much money involved in gaming now for any company and/or companies to avoid shrewd business moves that will create bigger and better games which result in more profit. The consumer is the real winner here in the sole reason that games have a pretty standard price. Except for the music games and their expensive peripherals, 60 bucks is the industry standard. The games get better and we still pay the same price. Looks like 2008 could be the year of the consumer.
In what could be one of the greatest South Park Episodes ever, “Make Love, Not Warcraft” won the Animated Program Primetime Emmy Award (for Programming Less Than One Hour).
In “Make Love, Not Warcraft”, Cartman, Kyle, Stan, and Kenny come into contact with a gamer who doesn’t play by the rules. Even the executives of Blizzard Entertainment don’t know how to stop the renegade and are forced to put all of their hope into the hands of the kids of South Park. The boys dedicate their lives to defeating the mad gamer and saving the game for all.
If you haven’t seen this episode, go find it somewhere because it’s hilarious. I can’t believe they gave an Emmy to a show that features Cartman shitting all over his mom (literally). Too funny.
Just in case you have not heard, Activision merged with Vivendi to make a monster development company. The good news keeps coming. During a press conference they confirmed that there will be a Call of Duty 5, no word on format yet, and Guitar Hero 4. Not surprised to hear this due to the fact both games are basically must haves, but its good to know that the franchises are alive and well. They also confirmed that there is no plans to put World of Warcraft on any console.
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