Star Wars: Galaxies, Shuts Down, 2011 - The Old Republic takes over

Star Wars: Galaxies, an MMORPG set in the Star Wars universe, has been set to be shut down on December 15, 2011. This is an obvious decision seeing as how there is a newer and far better looking MMO game coming very soon from the awesome game designers at Bioware: Star Wars: The Old Republic.

The Old Republic is an MMO set a few thousand years before the Star Wars movies; it is technically a sequel to the games Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KotoR) and KotoR2. These two games were well received, but the second one had quite a few more flaws than the first and it was rushed out the door by its publisher, so the multiple endings that the game was supposed to have were never created.

Anyway, I can't wait until this awesome looking game is released, but it's still sad that Star Wars: Galaxies is going to be shut down because of it; not that I've played it or know anything about it, but it's sad for the people who play it and love it.





Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6321075/star-wars-galaxies-signing-off-dec-15

Call of Duty: Elite, next game name revealed

It seems that Activision's next big shooter game in their Call of Duty series has been revealed; Modern Warfare 3 is supposedly going to be called Call of Duty: Elite. This may mean they intend to star another branch of the Call of Duty franchise (Modern Warfare, Black Ops, Elite).

In the end, who knows what's going to happen? I haven't really been too interested in Call of Duty games in the past, even though they do look fun. I just haven't ever had that much interest in playing multiplayer games, except for maybe a couple of rounds, or so.

Anyway, I'll update this blog on the latest news surrounding Call of Duty: Elite, or whatever it is going to be.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6313145/call-of-duty-elite-outed

Star Wars: The Old Republic, Cost $80,000,000 for EA!

Electronic Arts' company, Bioware, is responsible for making Dragon Age, Mass Effect and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic series'. Now, Bioware is working on an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) that has already cost EA $80 million dollars to make!

Electronic Arts has also said that it will only take 350,000 subscribers to the game to make it profitable - however, with how amazing this game looks, I would expect it to garner far more subscribers than that. I really hope this game does well, someone needs to finally beat WoW!

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6312400/star-wars-the-old-republic-has-cost-ea-80-million-analyst

WoW Cataclysm, Cinematic Trailer and Parody

I know that this expansion came out months ago, but this trailer is still freaking awesome! Plus... there is a parody song below the real trailer that is hilarious and awesome at the same time!

Marvel Universe Online, Trailer

Here is an awesome trailer for the new MMO, Marvel Universe Online. It has superheroes from a lot of the Marvel comics, movies, cartoons, video games, etc. It's awesome! Here is is:

Marvel Universe, Free to Play

Marvel Universe, an upcoming Massively Multiplayer Online game, is going to be free to play. That means that there will be no monthly fee whatsoever; however, games like these suffer from the fact that they will need to continue to sell in game items and merchandise just to stay afloat.

So, is this a good idea? I think it is for the consumers, but will the game be good at all? We'll see...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6310782.html

Guild Wars 2, Screenshots and art

Here are some screenshots and art of Guild Wars 2:

http://pc.gamespy.com

http://ign.com

Guild Wars 2, Trailer

Here is a trailer of Guild Wars 2 - it is a free to play MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game), as long as you've bought the game. Basically, there's no monthly fee, unlike World of Warcraft (WoW). Here is the trailer:

Star Wars: The Old Republic, will get '1,000,000' Subscribers

Electronic Arts (EA) has announced that Bioware's new game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, will be profitable with only 500,000 subscribers; however, they actually think they will reach about double that number - 1,000,000!

One-million is a lot of people, Evil Arts... I mean EA. I really hope it does well, but still - it is EA, which I don't like (they ruin games...). Anyway, I still hope for the best in Bioware's efforts to make an awesome MMO.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6310176.html

Diablo 3, Classes

I'm looking forward to Blizzard's cool new game, Diablo 3. It's a sequel to some far older games simply called Diablo and Diablo II (they also had expansions...). There are new classes and old classes returning in Diablo 3, but the action was never this awesome in the old games (even though Diablo II was still awesome).

So, here are the different classes in Diablo 3 and some screenshots and trailers of them!

Monk:







Witch Doctor:

 

Demon Hunter:

Barbarian:

Wizard:

http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/

The Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim - PREVIEW

The Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim is coming soon - November 11, 2011! This is one of the games I'm most excited for this year, and I can't wait until it releases! I'll be playing it for the next 300,000,000,000,000 hours after it comes out! XD

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