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So the buddy I play with has managed to get some very nice Wizard pieces and now has a paperdoll damage >1M and is dropping meteors all over the place. As a result we've been running on Torment 3 and doing fairly well, but mostly because he's carrying me as I still run around with absolutely...

Bette Kane is an interesting choice. I suppose they could use her to pull in a vigilante 'hero' while Bruce is still a kid if they want to go in that direction. They probably should have used Kate Kane, but then they'd have to go all-in since she's now very established as a lesbian. I would...

It makes perfect sense given the numbers they are posting for the 1st quarter. History has shown that WoW players are sheeple and won't cancel their accounts even if they have ZERO new content for a year. In fact they lost as many subscribers during quarters that they introduced content as...

Activision's $500 Million Bet On 'Destiny' Is Far From A Sure Thing - Forbes People are guessing that it includes the budget for 10 years of sequels, but there is no proof either way.

That was the entire theme of the interview they did... that it is a truly insane budget for any game and a BIG gamble on a new ip. They intend nothing less than for it to be their next major franchise and pull in Skylanders/WoW type of annual business.

They made no indication that was for 10 years, in fact their own PR people seem to indicate that is the marketing and development budget for the singular Destiny title to be released later this year.

The problem is that WoW started Cataclysm with 12 million subscribers and dropped to 9 million by the end, then MoP came along with 10million subscribers and now is down to 7.6 million so will likely hit ~7 million by the time 6.0 comes out. So all the really cool things they did in MoP...

So Kotick revealed last week and since confirmed with Reuters that the total development and marketing budget for Destiny is ~$500 million. This really does seem like a ludicrous budget for a new ip especially given the rather lukewarm reception their media day received. Have we entered...

Their "everyone gets an Heirloom Weapon!" note from the 6.0 patch news is a blatant cash grab to pull in subscribers to re-up at 6.0 rather than wait for WoD. It will also be a good test if people are willing or able to make the jump from LFR to Group Finder normal since it's about as big a...

So Bruce is ~10-15 years younger than all the classic villains? The other GCPD comic series was an interesting take on a crime procedural set in Gotham City... I think this is more interesting to the overall public than such a show would be, but I'm not sure how well 'lite' versions of the...

The social dynamic on the single server so far is very interesting. I get the feeling there are more Eastern players than Western, but more importantly the East has a lot more cohesion to its Alliance whereas the West treats the game as open world PVP exclusively against their own faction...

Combos are really one of the major factors that lend to viable builds, without the synergistic interactions of abilities you would just end up with some blah flavor-of-the-month tank mage. That having been said I really feel they drop the ball somewhat in terms of cross-tree synergies. I was...

Their stated rationale is very sound from the perspective of raiders feeling like they need to do LFR. It is complete insanity from a business standpoint of trying to engage the maximum number of paying customers. That statement indicates that they KNOW what role LFR has in the lives of their...

Electro was a dipshit in a yellow and green costume with a lightning bolt peacock on his forehead... They did a lot of work to make him into something really threatening.

I'm Exxe a cat healer on the East and Qhue a human sorc in the West

One of the most interesting things I saw at PAXEast this year was Grey Goo. I was holding off posting anything about it that day because there was pretty much ZERO useful media or information on their website :Grey Goo - Welcome to Grey Gooand there STILL isnt a hell of a lot. They had looping...

Oh Francis, what have you done?!?

Die Ward DIE! They should do a cross-promotion with 7-11 offering Shield and Hydra cups. If more Shield get sold then Ward dies, if more Hydra then Ward lives and stays for season 2.

The thing is that people for whom LFR was endgame do not go to the Blizzard forums, they don't go to Blizzcon or even PAX. They don't go to MMOchampion, hell they probably don't even read Kotaku or Polygon. I had a few buddies who tried and enjoyed WoW before and during the Cataclysm era who...

People who play LFR as their endgame do so because they don't have the time or remaining connections to do Normal raiding. Massively increasing the drop rate while also making the items less desired actively encourages customers in that category to cancel their subscription. Cool effects from...

I kinda wondered if that was the case. In that event many of those 'tried and true' builds may be less than satisfactory because they hinge on interdependent abilities that no longer function in the same way. In other news I seem to spend far too much time playing with my garden as opposed...

It will be interesting to see how dynamics change in the game once every calling can take on each of the basic roles (tank, heal, dps, support). I find the concept of the physician to be the most amusing with shooting people with drug filled healing arrows.

I cant tell if the NA Alpha version is different or if the translations are just terrible. Many of the abilities in game don't have the same combos / descriptions as listed on those 'build' sites.

This is a bad idea. LFR with decent but lower powered rewards was fun and entertaining and kept me subscribed to the game for a year even though I had no active guild. A few buddies of mine did the same and one even started playing for the first time and went all the way up to doing SoO in...

Syfy Picks Up Scripted Series KILLJOYS from Canada's Space Network

Just participated in my first Jury, was about to log out but noticed I was pretty low on the jury number and sure enough a few seconds later I got called for jury duty. Very interesting system and quite cool, no way in hell would it ever work in a Blizzard type MMO, but for this open world...

Given that the one new chick in the pic is sitting between Han and Leia I'm gonna go with "Daughter Solo" for her. Now will that be Jaina or a version of same? Who knows. There is still supposedly the Obi-Wan secret daughter character to be cast.

That is a pretty cool picture. While I know everyone, including me, wants to see Max Von Sydow as the villain...what if he isn't?

<-- born and raised in Illinois and that pic made my salivary glands go into overdrive. I cannot have a hotdog without yellow mustard, it just wont happen

Oh for the love of Pete... LFR drops non-set awful graphic low ilevel items, then you create a series of quasi-daily progression quests similar to the legenedary cloak from MoP and which makes heavy use of the Garrison to upgrade both the quality and appearance of the LFR items. This gives...

Glad to see another company entering the side-numpad market. After getting the first Naga years ago I've found I cannot play a MMO or even something like diablo without that side-numpad

Holy cow that's a detailed character creator. How is it that Asian MMOs have such amazingly attractive character art and animations yet seem to fail completely at content? I'm imagining what Rift would be like with the existing game system combined with the art and animation from Archeage.

I enjoyed the Expanded Universe for a time, but it quickly went from one book a year to dozens and the plotlines veered pretty far from the original source. By the time we had the organic zentraedi-like space invaders and teenage Darth Angst it was clear it was never going to survive long-term...

Saw an interview where they said the "close your eyes" line was an ad lib, but it really fit the moment and accentuated the brutality of the scene. Advance episode listings for the season finale seems to indicate that there will be a whole host of guest stars appearing as shit gets real. I...

I really have no idea where they are going to end this season at this point. They seem to have a solid plan but damn if this isn't practically torture for the viewers at this point.

If someone wanted to read the Wheel of Time Sanderson stuff but had given up on WoT after far too much braid tugging and lack of plot forward motion would it be acceptable to Wiki-Cliff notes ones way to the first of the Sanderson Wheel novels?

Does anyone not use a crit dam green gem in a weapon? If the system has become an IQ check where is is certain that you want a socket above all else and furthermore that you want a green gem in that socket then there is a big problem.

The actor seemed shocked when they told him he was Hydra, so I don't think he wanted out. That having been said Triplett is a much better character and so makes for a ready Ward replacement.

I do like the theory I just read that there will be multiple safehouses each with a Patton Oswalt waiting for them. Would be kinda kooky and a way to introduce the Life Model Decoy

It has been years since I was at a Chik-fil-A so perhaps things have changed, but I do recall the nuggets being overwhelmingly bad when compared to the sandwich. To the point where I wondered how it could be from the same company.