You know what, I’ve never been a huge fan of eSports. But then I started watching some fighting games and was uterly amazed by their skills. I mean, seriously now, how can you not be impressed when you watch in action Daigo or Tokido with his infamous Akuma pose? And then, I gave a go to Starcraft 2 and boy was I hooked on it. IGN held its ProLeague Season 4 in Vegas this weekend and if you missed it, then… well there are no words to describe what you’ve missed. Continue reading Fnatic ‘aLive’ is the champion of IPL4’s StarCraft 2 Tournament→
Blizzard has released a new ‘spotlight’ video for the Demon Hunter class of Diablo III. The demon hunters are vengeful harbingers of righteous doom who bring swift judgment and death to the hellish creatures daring enough to trespass on the mortal lands of Sanctuary. Skilled archers, assassins, and trackers, demon hunters are perfectly honed instruments set to scour demons from the world. The fact that every last one of them has a deep and personal motivation to do so only sharpens their deadly purpose. Enjoy! Continue reading Diablo III – The Demon Hunter Spotlight Video→
WoW fans, start checking your inboxes. Blizzard has announced that the beta of WoW: Mist of Pandaria is now live. Over the course of the test, Blizzard will be inviting Annual Pass holders, press, fansites, friends and family, and opt-in beta testers to participate. This first phase of the beta focuses on the 1-10 starting experience for new Pandaren. High-level content as well as template characters will become available in future beta updates, but you can still copy over your own high level characters now if you’d like to test the new talent system. Continue reading World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Beta is Live→
Blizzard has lifted the NDA for their upcoming expansion of WoW and we are delighted to bring you its first details. World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria will feature a new continent that will be 5x the size of Twilight Highlands, a new race called Pandaren, as well as a the Monk as a new class. Continue reading World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria – Details Unveiled→
We bet that all Diablo fans are still celebrating about the game’s release date announcement. Diablo III is almost here and you will be able to enjoy it in about two months. What was that? You wondered whether or not there would be an open beta phase so you could give it a shot before release? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is not the one you’ve been hoping to. Diablo III won’t get an open beta phase. Continue reading Diablo III – No Open Beta plans, pre-release demo uncertain, trial edition available post-launch→
It’s been almost 12 years since the release of Diablo 2. During this time, a lot of things can change. New challengers had entered the ring and tried to reclaim D2’s throne. None of them succeeded. Players have been waiting patiently for the next part of this legendary series and although Diablo 3 was revealed a couple of years ago, its development had started in 2001. This means that it’s been in development for eleven whole years. And frankly, during its development we’ve seen lots of changes. From a gritty, dark and gothic hack ‘n slash fest, Diablo 3 became a cartoon-ish and easier to the eyes’ action RPG. I seriously don’t know if Blizzard was influenced by Torchlight or WoW, however, D3 looked more serious and adult back then. Continue reading Diablo 3 PC Preview→
I’m pretty sure that a lot of you were disappointed with Diablo III’s new, ‘cartoonish’ art direction. Thankfully, there is an FXAA Injector Mod for it and you can see below the difference between the modded and the vanilla version. The FXAA mod works as a direct3d post processing filter, making the game look sharper, have less saturation, add a slight bit of a (silver) sepia tone, slightly lowered exposure, slightly raised gamma. On the left of each shot we have the modded version and on the right the vanilla. Those interested can download the FXAA mod from here. Enjoy! Continue reading Diablo III – FXAA Injector Modded vs Vanilla Version→
All hell has broken loose when Blizzard’s community manager, Bashiok, tweeted that Diablo 3 would not support chat channels. We can’t see anything wrong with that – as PC gamers can use Teamspeak and other similar programs – but it seems that a lot of you got annoyed by that. And naturally, a lot of Diablo fans started complaining and thought that Blizzard have turned their back on them. Well, good news everyone as Bashiok was wrong and public chat channels WILL be available in Diablo 3. In fact, they’ll be in an upcoming beta patch so PC gamers will get to see and play around with them really soon. Continue reading Hooray. Diablo 3 WILL have public chat channels; coming soon to the beta via a patch→
