Further fueling the fire for Diablo 3 fandom, Blizzard Entertainment has posted what appears to be some serious screenshots of Leah from the game’s cinematic cutscenes. As the adopted daughter of series scribe Deckard Cain, Leah replaces the wise loremaster as narrator for Diablo 3’s opening cinematic – and will …
Read More »Scans from Skyrims manual appear online
Here’s a treat for Elder Scrolls fans eager to get straight to the gameplay on launch: an extensive set of glimpses at the Xbox 360 version of the Skyrim’s manual. With the document’s lucky owner knowing that speed is a virtue when leaking material from a game as anticipated as …
Read More »Blizzards Mike Morhaime to receive ESAs philanthropic award
Blizzard Entertainment boss Mike Morhaime has been named the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) Foundation’s 2011 Champion Honoree. The award recognizes Morhaime and Blizzard’s ongoing fundraising efforts for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a non-profit group dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for sick children. That’s good for at least few thousand …
Read More »Top 7… horrendously buggy games we loved anyway
Tsk. Bugs, eh. In games. Nothing worse. They’re not meant to be there. But sometimes they are and that’s where they stay until Mr Developer stops fiddling with his massive beard and decides to do something about it. And he always does something about it because he knows otherwise gamers …
Read More »Diablo III pushed back to early 2012, beta phase extended
Blizzard has become infamous for holding back the release of a game until it’s “done,” so this news should come as no surprise, even if it is a disappointment. Earlier today, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, Mike Morhaime, announced that the company would not be meeting its end-of-the-year goal …
Read More »Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning trailer tells you more than you ever wanted to know about Amalur
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning looks absurdly ambitious. EA and 38 Studios are creating something massive, here, the scale of which seems on par with Fable and Mass Effect. But with this new IP comes a mess of new races, locations, characters, and factions to learn, and our brain is way …
Read More »Diablo III beta is live
Break out the Red Bull and Doritos and start flexing that clicking finger. After years of development and months of teasing, Blizzard has finally begun allowing lucky gamers to participate in the Diablo III beta, opening up a small section to the loot-fest hack-and-slash to select gamers who opted in …
Read More »Final Fantasy XIII-2 PAX 2011 (Moogle, pink hair, sparkles) trailer rulez
Before opening hands-on time with Final Fantasy XIII-2 to PAX attendees, Square Enix unveiled a new trailer mixing cinematic elements, exploration, and combat. We shall call it the Final Fantasy XIII-2 PAX 2011 trailer. We watched all two minutes and change of it and aren’t any close to figuring out …
Read More »First Disgaea 3 Return trailer for PS Vita
The first trailer for the PlayStation Vita’s Disgaea 3 Return has recently surfaced on Nippon Ichi’steaser site (opens in new tab). The full site will go live on the August 18, but we already know two things: the game’s name is Disgaea 3 Return and that the trailer follows in …
Read More »How Mike Morhaime got seed money to start Blizzard Entertainment
Above: Without this parental loan, we wouldn’t have World of Warcraft, Diablo, or StarCraft! The note sits in a place of prominence in front of a wall of game awards and its glass case has a plus 10 resistance to camera flash We already shared a bunch ofphotosof the Blizzard …
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