For better or for worse, gold farmers have become a part of life in MMORPGs.  No matter how hard the developers try, there is no way to stop the flood of accounts gold farming accounts.  It's going to take a far bigger entity then Activision-Blizzard to make a dent in the gold farming industry.  Something like say, the People's Republic of China, ( Read more... )

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One of the most annoying things about the Internet is that you will occasionally find out about a really cool fan project, by way of its official cancellation.  Such is the case with Crimson Echoes, a fan-sequel to Chrono Trigger created by hacking the original ROM file ( Read more... )

Recently, Wired's Game|Life had an interview with Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime about a whole bunch of topics.  There was, expectedly, a lot of cooperate double-speak coming from Reggie, but there was one question that caught my eye.  The question had do with whether there would eventually be some form of a Virtual Console on the Nintendo DSi.  The ( Read more... )

Turns out I jumped to conclusions just a bit on the SD card update for the Wii. When I heard that games from the SD card were loaded into the Wii's flash memory, I thought it was a system similar to single cart play on the GBA and the DS, where the game is basically loaded into RAM and played from there ( Read more... )

You know, I remember when the Guitar Hero franchise was wide-eyed, fresh and innovative (so long as you didn't talk to those Guitar Freaks people). Now though, I think it's drugged up, cybernetic corpse desperately needs to be put out of it's misery.

It appears that some of the news I talked about yesterday may not be quite as awesome as initially advertised ( Read more... )