Blizzard Not Attending E3 2009

"Blizzard Entertainment will not be attending or participtating in this year's E3 Expo" Blizzard PR manager Bob Colayco told the website Edge in an e-mail.

The details are as follows:

For the past two E3s, organizers had toned down the event, allowing only around 5,000 media and business attendees, as opposed to the tens of thousands that would flock to the L.A. Convention Center in years past. Activision had opted out of E3 2008, electing to hold its own event, but recently confirmed it would be returning this year, when the large, flashy format makes a comeback.

The last time Blizzard attended E3 was in 2007 when the low-key media and business summit was held in Santa Monica.

Blizzard has held its own BlizzCon event since 2005, a decidedly different kind of show that caters to fans as opposed to gaming professionals.

Also, the full list of current exhibitors follows:

- Activision - Atari, Inc. - Atlus U.S.A. - Azuradisc, Inc. - Basco Distribution - BDA - Bethesda Softworks - Brady Games - Capcom USA - CH Products - Conny - Creative Mind Interactive Inc. - CTA Digital, Inc. - DDR Game - Digiwinner Limited - Disney Interactive Studios - dreamGEAR - egameforless - Eidos Interactive - Electronic Arts - Epic Games - EZ Games Distribution, Inc. - Game Center Distribution Inc. - Game Outlet Europe - Game Source, Inc. - GAMETech - GelaSkins - Graffiti Entertainment, Inc. - iBeta Quality Assurance - IGN.com - Innex, Inc. - Iron Will Creations Inc. - J.F.J. Disc Repair - K2 Network

- Kaltman Creations - KOEI Corporation - Konami Digital Entertainment - Leashtec - Majesco Entertainment - Matcom Distribution - Mayflash Limited - Microsoft Corporation - Midway - MTV Games - Namco Bandai Games America - Nintendo of America - Penguin United - Performance Designed Products - Prima Games/Random House, Inc - Rampid Interactive - Rebellion - RTI Disc Repair - Scanavo North America LTD - SEGA of America, Inc. - Sony Computer Entertainment - Sony DADC - Sony Online Entertainment - Square Enix, Inc - Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. - THQ - Turtle Beach - U.S. Games Distribution, Inc. - Ubisoft Entertainment - USERJOY Technology Co., Ltd - Video Game Advantage - Warner Bros. Interactive - Z-Best Audio & Video Inc. - ZeroPlus Technology Co., Ltd

Source: MMOsite News Center
(http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-02-05/20090205193050433.shtml)

Blizzcon 2009 Announced! and Windows Mobile 6.5 and

Activision Blizzard yesterday announced Blizzcon 2009. It will be held at the "Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on Friday, August 21 and Saturday, August 22." This will be Blizzards 4th event but their first since merging with Activision. Hopefully we will see more on Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2.

Windows mobile 6.5 has been announced and i will post more on it in the next few days.

NEW QUIZ

Well here it is. I was not sure if it was to hard or to easy so i hope it is good.:)



Good Luck

AndrewCow

Update

OK maybe i started out a little hard with DRUM ROLE PLEASE 99 Luftballons(the German not 99 red balloons the English version). Well at leased that's what i have been told and since i have just created one that is so ridiculously hard that i cant do it for i while i will keep going with the competition. The new vid will be up soon.
Bye
AndrewCow

Activision Blizzard Q4 Earning Report

Activision Blizzard released their Q4 2008 Earnings report with a loss of $72 million. Blizzard made the most money out of the two conjoined companies and the Wii topped their console game sales. The loss is the interesting point as they have publishing rights over many popuklar franchises such as Guitar Hero and Call of Duty franchises. Overall it was quite disapointing and better luck to them in Q1 2009.

Splatterhouse Trailer!

Here is the trilaer for the upcoming game Splatterhouse for the PS3 and XBox 360.

Splatterhouse Trailer

Quake Live Preview

Lately i've been BETA testing Quake Live which is id Softwares newest Quake Game. It is browser based and includes selected maps from all Quake Games. The game is completely multiplayer with serverds around the world.It features an advanced matchmaking system which tells you wether a server is at your skill level or more or less chalenging. The graphics are crisp with very few graphical errors. There is little to no lag so the action will always be fast moving.

There s a vast array of weapons from all Quake games as well as a capture the flag mode reminiscent of Quake 3 Team Arena.

All in all Quake Live is a solid browser based FPS which will be ready when it is ready. To sign up for the beta program go to http://www.quakelive.com/.

NEW COMP(mabey)

Well you see i was sitting there bored and i thought what could make the blog funner and i thought "i no a competition". You will not win any prize apart from the respect or your fellow ausgamers. Play the vid and guess the song. I modified the song in many ways. Hopefully we can do this every week with a new song but that depends if you like it. I no the quality of our new intro(it was excellent and somewhere along the way if became bad quality)but i hope you like it. So if you like the idea or no the song(this week is pretty easy but oh well)please guess and tell me if i should continue or not:)
Soz about the quality again and hope you enjoy:):)



Now just a small unrelated side note. Remember the animated Christmas light display vid i posted a couple of months ago. Well there are some i am finding all over aus. and finally after months of looking i have FINALLY FOUND A DISPLAY IN BRISBANE!!!!!!!
Here is one of the 4 vids and go to the videos info for more(it is in Rochedale i think)



See you next time and happy guessing

AndrewCow

So long then 3 in one

Hi
Sorry i haven't posted in a while. I have been a combination of busy and lazy. I have very bad news. I still cant review Windows 7 cause it has stuffed up on me. I am very sorry but i can tell you I is AWESOME. The Beta is still laggy but every day there were ad leased 8 updates. :) Now i no what i am about to say will be VERY VERY controversial but I LOVE WINDOWS VISTA. IT IS SO MUCH BETTER THAT XP IN EVERY WAY SHAPE AND FORM. people say it has bad security but who cares. since when has anyone only had 1 security. even if you think you only have 1 i can guarantee you you have more. Yea so you get it i love vista and 7 is just as good if not better. Now there are some things which are not as vista but i presume that's just the beta.

More of that will be in the next(hopefully) post. Now for something completely different.
iTunes Plus-- I have bought my first DRM free and really good quality songs off it and it is AWESOME. To those of you who think it will not make much difference you are completly wrong. Now not all songs are available with the Plus features but quite a few are. I no this is a bit off topic but the song i downloaded was this one(link below) except the later version where they are the Jackson 5 not just the Jacksons. I no this isn't very relevant but i found this funny vid. LOOK AT THE COSTUMES. THEY ARE SPACE MEN(maybe that's why they can sing so well)

Well thanks for reading and sorry again but now enjoy:)



AndrewCow :)

MMOs May Be Illegal In Australia

John Hatzistergos, New South Wales Attorney-General recently said that online games are illegal in his part of Australia.

Video game publishers and retailers are risking hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines by illegally selling online role playing games such as World of Warcraft without age classifications.

The games industry believes there is a legal loophole exempting online games that don't have a single player component from classification requirements but this view is contradicted by the federal and state attorneys-general.

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All are sold as boxed sets in retail stores across the country without classification by the Classification Board or the appropriate labelling, for instance M or MA15+.

A spokesman for NSW Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said the NSW Classification Enforcement Act prohibited publishers and retailers from selling unclassified computer games.

"The NSW legislation covers computer games bought online as well as those bought in stores, and treats single, multi-player and online games the same way," he said.

The spokesman added that enforcement of the act was the responsibility of police but penalties for breaking these laws ranged from $1100 to $11,000 for individuals and/or 12 months' imprisonment. For corporations the fines were approximately double.

"If there is any suggestion that any business is trading illegally, police need to know, and it should be reported," he said.

Source:http://news.bbgsite.com/content/2009-02-03/20090203030641095.shtml

News Original From: smh.com.au

EA Third Quater Results and Google Monoculture?

EA Today ported their 3rd Quater results for fiscal year 2009. They reported a net revenue of 1.65 billio dollars,up 165 million citing FIFA 09, Rock Band™ 2, Need for Speed™ Undercover, Rock Band, Left 4 Dead™, Dead Space™, Madden NFL 09, LITTLEST PET SHOP, NBA Live 09 and Mirror’s Edge™ as reasons for the profits.

On another note, I have been reading a lot lately about the world becoming a Google monoculture. I really think that may be true. People are relying on Google for search and email and if something goes wrong, people become confused. Sadly I believe this can't be helped and Google will continue being a major source for information.

Finally, The Sims 3 has a new ship date. It is now June 2. Just in time for US Summer holidays and our Winter holiday season.

Eight Cores on Feb 9?

ZDNet reports that Intel has revealed plans to release an Eight Core Xeon Processor on Fewbruary 9 at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. For consumers this would mean being able to run more programs at once or the same number of programs faster. This is a pleasant leap foreward for the CPU industry but we are still waiting to see the first 16 core processor for the home market.