Last week some members of WoW’s public test servers noticed a brand new item, called the Enduring Elixir of Wisdom. What makes this item different is the fact that it seems to be geared towards a more “pay to win” type of mindset, and seemed to hint that Blizzard was planning on adding an in-game store to purchase those kinds of items. On...
Fewer games have produced as much hype with so little known about it as Kingdom Hearts 3. People have been clamoring for a real Kingdom Hearts sequel for years, not that 360/2 or Ultra Dance Mouse Revolution crap that Square-Enix has been releasing for the last several years. Well, the people are finally going to get their bona-fide sequel, and if the creator...
Last week Don Mattrick, head of Microsoft’s entertainment division, made a startling career move. He decided to give up his somewhat cushy job at Microsoft and take on the challenge of turning around Zynga’s fortunes, and became the CEO for Zynga. At the time I speculated that there may have been some internal pressure to get him to quit Microsoft,...
Many folks recognize the Razer brand. After all, they’ve designed countless mice and keyboards for the PC, as well as headphones, controllers, and fight sticks for the Xbox 360. If you’re a particularly eagle-eyed observer, however, you may have noticed that there are no Razer-brand products for the PS3.
Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan revealed why there...
Microtransactions have become a staple of MMO’s over the last few years. That much is certain when you look at games like SWTOR, which started out as a traditional subscription-based game and because of dropping subscription numbers just a few months into its life it switched to microtransactions. The big man on the block, World of Warcraft, is an...
Final Fantasy VII was re-released for the PC last year, but I’m guessing that there were a few fans who didn’t realize it. After all, the very popular RPG wasn’t released on Steam at that time, and for many folks, if it doesn’t exist on Steam, it doesn’t exist period. And who can blame them? Steam is really, really useful to keep...