[2 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
The best of WoW.com: November 24 - December 1, 2009

Filed under: Online, RPGs, Meta (about Joystiq), MMO

Patch 3.3 is just around the corner in the World of Warcraft, and WoW.com is there as usual: we’ve got lots of information about what’s coming in the new patch, including the new Icecrown raid instance, the cross-realm Dungeon Finder system, new loot and gear, lots of class updates and changes, and of course lots of new achievements and quests. Hit the break below to read ten of our most popular posts from the last week — whether you’re a new player …

Read the full story »

Featured »

[18 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
A First Look at the Gameplay in NCAA Basketball 10 [Ncaa Basketball 10]

Just in time for Midnight Madness – when NCAA men’s basketball teams can begin practice – comes the first gameplay video featuring the two announcing teams in this year’s NCAA Basketball 10.
Unfortunately, CBS’s Gus Johnson and Bill Raftery are a bit thin and generic in their commentary – but in their first year, it’s to be expected, as they don’t benefit from the kind of dialogue library built up that Brad Nessler and Dick Vitale have. This is too bad because Gus in real life is constantly …

Featured »

[18 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
A First Look at the Gameplay in NCAA Basketball 10 [Ncaa Basketball 10]

Just in time for Midnight Madness – when NCAA men’s basketball teams can begin practice – comes the first gameplay video featuring the two announcing teams in this year’s NCAA Basketball 10.
Unfortunately, CBS’s Gus Johnson and Bill Raftery are a bit thin and generic in their commentary – but in their first year, it’s to be expected, as they don’t benefit from the kind of dialogue library built up that Brad Nessler and Dick Vitale have. This is too bad because Gus in real life is constantly …

Featured »

[17 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Re-Creating a Stadium Before Its First Pitch is Thrown [Stick Jockey]

Brendan Harris’ groundout to end Minnesota’s American League Divisional Series with New York started a 171-day clock until the christening of the Twins’ new ballpark, Target Field. Sony’s MLB The Show will have to have the grounds ready much sooner.
New stadium construction is not just a problem knotting up state legislatures and city councils. Any sports title developer – any that presents its game as a true-to-life simulation, anyway – must also cope with changes of venue. In the current console generation, baseball has seen this more often than its …

Featured »

[17 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Weekend Coupons: The Known and Unknown [Dealtaku]

Today’s coupons roundup contains a bunch of reminders of ongoing sales you may have heard about. They might not be breaking news, but they’re definitely where you should be looking first if you’re looking for new games.
Hardware • Technically not a sale, although the $349.99, 250 GB PS3 Slim could be construed as getting another 130 GB of hard drive space for just $50. Amazon has it listed, release date is Nov. 3 but you probably already knew that. [Dealzon]
• If you need hardware other than a hard drive, there …

Featured »

[17 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Ten Ways To Spot Otaku (There You Are!!) [Otaku]

In case you didn’t know, the name of this site is Kotaku. Did you know that? Some people don’t, they just click wildly around the internet like a pyromaniac in a straw factory.
Kotaku isn’t a real Japanese word, it’s a word somebody (not me!) made up many years ago. “Ko” in Japanese (小) means “small”. “Otaku” has a couple meanings, but here it refers to someone who is obsessively interested in something. But shouldn’t the site’s name then be “Kootaku”? Shuddup.
There are many types of otaku: train otaku, anime …

Featured »

[17 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
3D Dot Game Heroes... For Real [Screengrab]

From Software producer Masanori Takeuchi with characters from 3D Dot Game Heroes as seen on 4Gamer.

Featured »

[17 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
A Few Words from Some Sentimental and Semicöherent Legends ... [Brutal Legend]

‘You’ve got a lot of people who’ve proposed a lot of side projects,” says Mötorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, “and this is one I thought was a good idea.” With that endörsement, plus Ozzy’s, how the fü— could this be wrong?