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Entries from October 2008

Echos of Doom Is Alive!

October 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Although we reported the latest 3.0.2 World of Warcraft patch Live yesterday, we weren’t considering the sheer amount of gamers that would be jumping on to try all the new content. Honestly, the realms were up and down for hours – more down than up for our realm. This update is absolutely huge and game […]

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Tags: Blizzard · world of warcraft

TD Gaming Podcast 92: Apples to Raisins

October 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This weeks gaming podcast covers some fun hot news topics and a gaming flashback of ClayFighter. We also cover a bit of the history on Vicarious Visions some game news, including: 128MB Xbox 360 Fall Update [ Today’s update ] Starcraft 2 Trilogy Fallout 3’s been pirated on Xbox 360 November Spore Expansion Pack Coming. […]

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Tags: Episode · Podcast · Show Notes

Bejeweled Cookies Arrive From Popcap: Twist?

October 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I arrived at home tonight to find the most peculiar yet creative marketing message from Popcap. Not knowing what it was, I tore it open to examine the contents. It’s a secret message made of pastry. Yes, it’s a box of cookies! Holiday treats made of bejeweled pieces. How cool, now this is marketing we […]

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Tags: Casual Games · popcap

World of Warcraft 3.0.2 Update – Live!

October 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Echo’s of Doom will be live when the systems come back for maintenance. WorldofWarcraft.com was down for a bit today, probably to revamp and push the Lich King messages (which now splash the homepage prior to landing). This patch brings a crap ton of content to the game including a lot of the lich king […]

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Tags: Blizzard · world of warcraft

Storage Solutions for Fall Update

October 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Are you one of those that have a diskless (or low flash disk) based Xbox 360? We’ve been wondering, ourselves, what Microsoft was going to do to “fix” the fact that the upcoming Fall Update is going to require 128MB of disk space. It seems they’re going to hand you either a 512MB memory card […]

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Tags: Accessories · Industry News · Microsoft · Xbox 360

Call of Duty: World at War Beta – Coming Soon

October 13th, 2008 · No Comments

I don’t know anyone that can’t pass up a good beta, Call of Duty: World at War is no exception to the rule, especially for those gamers that pre-ordered the title already. It’s a great opportunity when you’re able to buy a game ahead of time because you’re a fan and get into the beta […]

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Tags: Activision · FPS · Press Release · Xbox 360

Xbox 360 Fall Update Too Big For Diskless Users

October 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments

If you’ve got an Xbox 360 arcade edition or an older console without a hard disk, you’ll want to clear up at least 128MB of your flash card before powering on your console after the fall update hits. Wait, you’re flash disk isn’t 128MB in size? Oh oh. Latest reports are stating that consumers that […]

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Tags: Accessories · Industry News · Microsoft · Xbox 360

Starcraft 2 Part Eins, Zwei and Drei

October 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Nobody is perfect. When it comes to creating an epic story arc, awesome pre-rendered movies and a fully fleshed campaign Blizzard has done well. Now, Blizzard speaks of Starcraft 2 and the world shuts their mouth and listens to each and every word. What’s the word? A Trilogy. We’re not talking about the Lord of […]

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Tags: Blizzard · Editorial · Industry News · starcraft

Xbox 360’s Fallout 3 Not Safe From Pirates

October 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Just last week in our gaming podcast we were talking about how Gears of War 2 wasn’t going to make a PC debut because it has a bit of a problem with piracy. We were afraid this movement was going to cause game developers and publishers to stick with console’s “big can of DRM” over […]

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Tags: Editorial · Industry News · piracy

New Castlevania Title For 360 and PS3: 2D or 3D?

October 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Castlevania series was born in Japan on September 26th back in 1986. That knowledge in hand, you can imagine the demographic of 30+ year old gamers who would kill to get an old school franchise title on a new graphic intensive console. We’ve had many new Castlevania releases since 1986 including releases on the […]

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Tags: Industry News · Konami · Platformer · playstation 3 · TGS · Xbox 360