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If it was anyone else in the gaming industry I would have said we have been blessed listening to but when Bobby Kotick opens his mouth I can think of a variety of things I’d rather do or have… Diarrhea, gastric ulcer, ague, fever, … the list may be extended.

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JESUS, MOTHER OF CHRIST… or so was my first thought when I watched exclusive material from the upcoming fantasy spectacle AVATAR.

This movie is going to blow your mind! You should definately, and I command you to do so, go and see that movie. Preferably in 3D in a big IMAX theather near you. The story may appear simple and told in a few words compared to the visual effects you’re getting. It is downright amazing and very intense… the glowing environment and the animation of the various characters which can be encountered throughout the film.

The story is that of a disabled Marine who is travelling to a distant world to get a new body and from there the whole story takes off into this magnificent computer generated landscape of AVATAR. Ridicilously detailed fauna and flora and my god the beasts romaing through the jungle-like area are animated in a way we want CGI characters to be animated.

This is without a doubt the highlight of the movie year 2009. Go see it, December 18th, worldwide release of James Cameron’s AVATAR

PS: Even better yet, they’re making a videogame out of that! Go Ubisoft!

Beloved and appreciated female population - the time of the leggings is certainly over… Oh and different colored stockings is not “in” either. It looks pretty ridicilous and awakens the impression that you can’t even handle to pick the right stuff from your closet in the morning.

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As if the price increase for european markets wasn’t enough Activision won’t bring the ‘Prestige’-Edition for Modern Warefare 2 to the PC. Once again the PC gamer gets the giant middle finger from yet another publisher.
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How deep do we have to sink? Evolution has been all about survival of the fittest, for years and decades but lately it seems humanity becomes dumber by the hour.
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Seems the anchor on the mighty dragonboat is stuck in some rocks. Rumor has it that a company called Global Gaming Factory bought the swedish Pirate Bay for the amount of $7.8 million. Is the Pirate Bay following the footsteps of Napster? Will we soon buy content and download it via TPB? Is it another classic prank? Is the name ‘Pirate Bay’ really worth 7.8 millions? Well, if you are the RIAA that amount is a droplet on the boiling stone if you consider how much cash they lose due to pirated media.
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Seems Kojima Production is coming up with another MGS, but the question is what is it going to be? XBOX Version, PC Version, PSP adaption, or even a totally new sequel - or rather prequel?

All we can see is numbers and letters and 2 faces - Big Boss & Cyborg Raiden

http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/index.html

/speculatiON

inFamous is up for grabs on the PS3 and whoever hasn’t picked up a copy yet or preordered the game should hurry to the next store and get one - this game is going to blow your mind - supercharged!

Something to dig and spend time until the E3 hits us with more info on the highly anticipated games.

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Back in Feb there was a little special about the waiting game of Duke Nukem Forever - Recently there was an interesting twist of events. Rumors said that 3D Realms was short of funds and had to shutdown operations as a whole. There was a big ‘Goodbye’ picture to be found on 3DRealms.com (most likely it is still there) - that only stirred up the discussions in the forums.

After a couple days of speculations and whatnot the head of 3DRealms finally answered the call of the community to comment on what was going on. But this only happened after court documents were spread all over the net which made clear that Take2 was npw sueing 3D Realms for not delivering a new Duke game.

The official hearing is on June 4th - and it seems that the papers were issued before 3D Realms had to let its dedevelopers go - however the statement was clearly that 3D Realms will keep operating as a company even though all developers were laid off. So far 20 millions were pumped into the development of Duke Nukem Forever and it is to be expected that somehow the work around DNF will continue. The restraint order was denied which Take 2 was requesting to prevent any potential data loss and have a current copy of the game and its status handed over. Thus 3DR would be free to work on the title if they can somehow get their hands on money to continue funding of the game.

In the official statement from 3D Realms, Take2 was accused of using ‘bully-tactics’ to aquire the IP (Intellectual Property) of Duke Nukem.

We’ll hear more once the hearing is over and something conclusive can be said - everything else is up for speculation.

So apparently in North America they have freaking C3PO reading the weather forecast. As if driving down a deserted avenue wouldn’t be creepy enough you have a metallic and artificial voice talking to you about weather. I can hardly find anything appealing on a lovely girl voice yapping about sun, clouds and whatnot as it is but having Robocop instead is just a tick too much.

At least it’s more reliable than the weather feature in the windows vista sidebar, I think that one is just randomly selected images and figures. Half the time this gimmick tells me how cold and bad it is outside and there I am standing ouside my frontdoor in jacket while my neighbour violates his lawnmower in short shorts and tank shirt… another reason not to leave the house anyway.