MLG: What is competitive gaming?
I realized today that many people do not know or have never heard of MLG (short for Major League Gaming), or what even what competitive gaming leagues are. In short, these leagues are comparable to sports leagues: high competition, “confidence is key,” clutch plays, and even the use of drugs for that extra edge.
New Xbox 360 in 2010 features Project Natal?
What Project Natal may look like
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced the planned release of a new and extended version of the Xbox 360 for 2010. The new 360 will feature a more “natural interface” and a built in camera that can recognize voice and movement. (SOURCE – TG Daily)
There is no doubt in my mind that Project Natal, a huge project where one can play games and interact with the Xbox 360 without a controller and by use of a camera that can detect movement and voice, is the device that will be featured on this new Xbox 360.
Facebook… the WoW-killer?
It's now been over 10 years since the release of the original Everquest.
There have been countless MMO’s since WoW’s debut that have hoped, but haven’t gotten nearly as far, in achieving what WoW has. Granted, games like Everquest and DAoC were extremely popular predecessors to WoW, but to date no game has reached the amount of subscribers Blizzard has. WoW is quite simply the most popular MMO (and probably game) in history.
Despite the fact that no game to date has been able to topple the giant, that doesn’t mean Blizzard isn’t listening. Looking back at the release of The Burning Crusade, there were several MMO’s released that year (2007) that had built a lot of hype. Many WoW users themselves were looking forward to these games, but obviously ended up disappointed. These games included Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, which is infamous for it’s pre-mature release (due to budget problems); Age of Conan, which is still an incomplete game to this day; The Chronicles of Spellborn, which had a release that almost went completely under the radar (no one even knew about the game!); and Lord of the Rings Online, which turned out to be a well-polished game, but in the end could not compete with WoW as intended.
Whether you're exploring the underwater depths or the open world environment, you're going to have fun.
Everyone mark their desktop calendars, because it will truely be a Christmas in July. Today game publisher 2k Games (makers of Bioshock) announced a Bioshock-Oblivion bundle pack which will start hitting stores July 7th. The PC version will sell for $29.99 and the Xbox 360 version for $39.99.
Xbox Live is down June 16th, so what’s there to do?!
Down all of June 16th
About a week ago Microsoft made the announcement that Live would be offline for a full day. Apparently, the scheduled maintenance won’t actually implement anything new into Live, rather just get the service ready for future updates. Here are a few suggestions in case you’re completely lost and bored.
