Cyborg RAT7 Gaming Mouse Review

Over the weekend I got to take home what some have called it, a cyborgs foot. OK ok… I don’t have a robot i’m building nor do I plan on replacing body parts for mechanical counter parts but I do have this crazy mouse called the Cyborg – R.A.T. 7 Gaming Mouse for P.C. This is by far the most customizable mouse I’ve ever seen. The overall design asthetic is very futuristic with sleek hard lines and smooth as a whistle movement you can tell that the designers spent a lot of time making sure you were getting pure quality. (more…)

Red vs Blue Season 9

Red vs blue – The original Machima show featuring a cast of characters that use the Halo models has just launched their season 9 trailer and it seems that this is going to be one epic season to watch. Check out the trailer:

April Fools Gaming Roundup

The video game industry loves April Fools so let me show you a roundup of all the fun videos that were made for this prankster day!

The truth is out there…

Halo Dance Central TrailerStarCraft Coming to Kinect

(Blizzard) A World of Warcraft Dungeon Helper

(Blizzard)World of Warcraft’s New Pitch-Black Dungeon

(Blizzard)Diablo’s Horadric Cube iPhone App (Blizzard)

3D Glasses for 3DS (Nyko)

Harmonix Trades CEO in at GameStop (Harmonix)

Portal 2 Single-Player Demo (FilePlanet)

Star Wars: The Old Republic Translated for Wookiees (BioWare)

King Arthur Headed to Vietnam (Paradox Interactive)

An Unusual New Guild Wars 2 Profession (NCSoft)

Copernicus Qwark’s Very Own Game (Insomniac Games)

Duke Nukem Forever Lets You Fling Feces (Gearbox Software)

The New Social Network, My.Face (Splash Damage)

The Killzone 3 Cloaked Edition (Guerrilla Games)

Super Monkey Ball Now a Cube (Sega)

Monday Night Combat as an Overhead Shooter (Uber Entertainment)

The Witcher 2′s Follow-Up, Two-Hour RPG (CD Projekt Red)

Angry Birds Pork Rinds (ThinkGeek)

“The Gold Edition” Line of Accessories (Astro Gaming)

Resident Evil Creator Action Figure (Tango Gameworks)

Minecraft Gets Microtransactions (Mojang)

The First Gaming Bio-Exoskeleton (Razer)

Forsaken World’s Twilight Crossover (Perfect World)

City of Heroes is Running Out of XP (NCSoft)

Bungie’s New Facebook Game (Bungie)

The Million Dollar Controller (Evil Controllers)

A New Total War Game Set 65 Million Years Ago (The Creative Assembly)

Envelotech, the Truly Immersive Gaming Experience (Telltale Games)

Gus Johnson the Permanent Voice of EA Sports, and More (4th String)

The Handwritten Game Site (Destructoid)

Chess Gets Patches (Rock, Paper, Shotgun)

No Post-Game “GG” Earns StarCraft Players a Loss (Blizzard)

Tilt to Live Easter (One Man Left)

GameStop’s Exclusive $9,000 Game (GameStop)

The PlayWrite Gaming Tablet (Big Fish Games)

#PotatoFoolsDay (Valve, et al)

Control Your Pets with Pet Pal (Gameloft)

 

Duke Nukem Forever Launch Date!

Holy Crap!! Its out!! Thats right Duke Nukem is back and boy is it coming full force. The last time we heard from them was 1998 and I think that the only way you can play the game is to load Win95 on an old computer and enjoy the super low bit rate. Game informer was lucky enough to get the first scoop of this epic release and their interview with Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software fully details the release. Here’s a short quote from their interview:

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Gearing Up for E3

Holy crap… E3 is next week!!! I thought that it was weeks away and I had all the time in the world to really get ready for it but it sure snuck up fast! I have finished all of the work that I was faced with in terms of trailers and company videos ahead of schedule so thats a bonus. We also got all of our camera gear so that we can shoot peoples reactions to our games and find out what people want to see in the development of future games. Ill break down our gear in a sec here, first off just an overview of the games we are bringing with us.

The first game we are going to show is Battle of the Immortals. The game is already in open beta and is really picking up a lot of traction. We’ve expanded to new servers and just really spent a lot of time listening to the user. The development teams are in-game, on the live servers listening.

The game is a lot of fun to play and visually stunning too. You start off and before you really know it you are at level 20 doing your first instance. This is definitely my favorite game we have! Its a fast pace Action MMO RPG that really hooks you off the top! A big focus is also the ‘Soul Gear’. The creative team really sat down and thought through each piece and how it looks, Animates and skills your character. Here’s a the Open beta trailer and a ‘BOI Blueprint’ of the Magus character Soul Gear.

Battle of the Immortals – Open Beta Gameplay Trailer from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

Battle of the Immortals Blueprint – Magus from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

The next game is Heroes of Three Kingdoms. This game is really based more on PVP with its campaigns. You do a campaign that has a player limit of 60 people!! Madness… Inside HoTK you get to choose to be part of the Wei, Shu or Wu and lead your character through defending you kingdom. Its unique in the way that the economy is really based on which kingdom is ruling the lands. So its very interactive with the community! Here is the teaser for HoTK:

Heroes of Three Kingdoms Teaser from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

Lastly we are going to reveal our game play trailer for Forsaken World. Its already in closed beta in China but we finally got our hands on the client and the game is really polished! I ill update and post it once we get back from E3!

As for the gear thats going with me to E3, its a pretty small but awesome kit! We just purchased the Canon 7D with a kit lens, the 24-135. We have the beachtek DXA-5Da for sound recording and the Sennhesier Evolution Wireless Mic Packs. All of this fits nice and snug into a little Pelican 1400 case. I really wish that this kit was my own. Its such a great run and gun setup. Once thing we might be missing is a shotgun microphone but I think I might have a solution for that… Here are a few shots of the toys I get to play with!!!

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