Age of Booty - " Fileplanet has opened the seven seas for captains and unsavory crew to brave the choppy waters and help test Age of Booty." There you have it, you can now start to plunder all the booty you want. This RTS is sure to be a hit, considering your able to go around as pirates and pillage everything in sight. Here are some system requirements so you can see if you can run the beta. Single player and multiplayer real-time action strategy from Certain Affinity, lead by Max Hoberman, designer of Halo 2 and 3’s multiplayer gameRaid villages, sink merchants, steal gold, and upgrade your pirate ship to help send your foes to the briny deepMaster twenty-five unique multiplayer maps or create your own and share them with friendsEnlist help from fellow buccaneers, with up to four players on one console, and eight players over LAN or the InternetCountless customizable options to make your ship and crew the most feared scallywags to ever fly the Jolly RogerMinimum System Requirements:ATI Radeon 9600 / NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800Windows XP sp2 or VistaDirectX 9. Read More...

Motorcycles Finally Implemented In The Wrath Beta This morning I woke and decided I was going to see if the WotLK Beta was up and running, servers were down last night, and got welcomed by a new patch for the Beta. Figured ok can't be much more than fixes that have been reported. Well I found out not to long ago of something that got implemented in said patch that has me raring to go home tonight. A Motorcycle as a mount. Yes, you read that. Read More...

LittleBigPlanet Trophies Revealed So here we go with another set of trophies for you PS3 users out there. Might I add, finally a game I will own that has trophies. Finally! But enough about me, lets continue forth with what the skinny on this is. For the most part, it seems pretty straight forward. Complete levels here, place stickers there. Even a dash of get a crazy multiplier. Read More...

On Monday, Midway announced the complete character roster for the upcoming Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. The game is due this November for the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Read More...

Portal: Prelude Not get enough game time with the original Portal? Want more? Don't want to wait for Portal 2? Well you may have your wish in the not to distant future. Like end of the month future. How? Well keep reading. A small group of modders have taken the original Portal and expanded on the overall gameplay. They have taken the concept and world and created their own original story and content for the game. 48 challenges and 400 lines of script worth of new content for the game. Read More...

Update: Accoring to MTV Multiplayer, Doug Lombardi says it's a "complete fabrication"Yesterday at the GDC, our very own Clov3r got the chance to talk with the developers over at the Valve booth and got confirmation that it is infact a fabrication. The Valve developers joked around with the idea that someone could say such a thing, not seeming to mind the idea much and was "the talk of the office" yesterday morning- - - Original article:In a very interesting turn of events, it seems that Google is looking at Valve. Why you may ask? It really is quite simple, Valve has an amazing Content Distribution System, aka Steam. Read More...

Social Networks Now More Popular Than Porn We can all agree, the internet is for porn. Well at least according to a little song performed on Broadway. But that may not be all that true anymore or at least in the not to distant future. According to a researcher and author Bill Tancer, he wrote Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters, the number of searches for the coveted reason to log online and use the magic porn box is down. Like down 10% since Al Gore invented the Interwebs. The short and simple, it use to be 1 in 5 searches were for porn where as now it is 1 in 10. Read More...

God Of War III And It's 120 Page Dialog Script This was kind of a cool and fun read to find on Gamasutra's site. Partly because it is all about one of my favorite games and anticipated game of '09. God of War III just to be clear on that. Most of the article is about how they are going to the voice acting for the game, and it is a pretty interesting and an industry first. According to the article, I wasn't able to fact check. Pretty much, instead of using the standard to collect assets, they are using a method used for film and TV. Read More...

Cast Of The Guild At Blizzcon So by now you should know about The Guild. If not, you either need to get learned and PWNed for being here without knowing them or watch the show. Either way will work. But in any instance, for those of you lucky enough to have got your tickets to Blizzcon this year but not lucky enough to have picked up their DVD at Comicon, or be lucky in both aspects, you will be able to meet up with them at Blizzcon. Pick up the DVD and meet and greet with the cast. You lucky sons of bitches. Read More...

So it seems that Microsoft/Woolworths has decided to drop the price for all of you UKers. This isn't 100% positive until the actual flyer comes out of course, but it would definitely make sense that they did, considering they dropped the price for the US and Japan. So now all of you who thought the xbox was too pricey may have to speak another tune. Hell, if you have an old version, you might as well upgrade to a nice elite. Read More...

ACTIVISION UNVEILS FULL GUITAR HERO® WORLD TOUR SET LIST Featuring 86 Master Tracks, Game Delivers The Biggest Selection of On-Disc Music In The Music-Rhythm Videogame Genre To Date Santa Monica, CA – September 12, 2008 – Delivering unparalleled depth and diversity featuring some of the most prolific artists of all time including Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Van Halen, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Michael Jackson and more, Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today revealed the highly-anticipated full set list for Guitar Hero® World Tour, the definitive rock ‘n’ roll music videogaming experience. Spanning over 40 years of rock history and featuring 86 tracks, comprised entirely of master recordings, the game will deliver Guitar Hero® fans the largest selection of on-disc music in the music-rhythm videogame genre to date. Read More...

Resistance 2 Beta Taking Sign Ups So I spotted this in the late hours of the night last night, I just got around to being able to post about it now. But plain and simple, on the official site, they are now taking registrants for the new Beta they seem to be rolling out soon. That is if you didn't get the opt in from any of the other sources that were allowing for you to get to see how cool this game is going to be before launch. That and help get out all those bugs and exploits I can see people bitching about in the future if they are left in. Check it out and sign it up. Read More...

That's right, you heard it. Rock Band 2 has now been shipped. So you should all expect it on September 14th, so grab your friends, grab some cookies or something like that like, and bang on the old drums. From the press release: The award-winning Rock Band 2 standalone software will make its debut on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft on Sunday, September 14, 2008 with an exclusive launch window in North America.  Rock Band 2 standalone wireless drums and guitars will also arrive at retail later in the week. In addition, look for the epic Rock Band 2 TV commercial featuring AC/DC’s rock anthem “Let There Be Rock” that premiered during the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards at www. Read More...

Gabe Newell has announced a playable demo of the co-op survival horror game Left 4 Dead that will be released for both Xbox 360 and PC and will feature both single player mode and online co-op play. Newell states: "I don't know what the date is for release [of the demo] though. I think it's going to contain the first part of one of the campaigns. I think it'll probably be Hospital but I'm not sure." The game is to hit shelves at the end of November, so we may or may not get to try it before it's release. Read More...

MTV's official Rock Band 2 show!!! (Los Angeles) So, this is still rumor and has been posted only in a few places online as of late, but looking at the ad, it is most likely not a real one. But I thought I would post this due to the comic value of the concept and idea behind it. Why do I think it is a false one, because they ask you to email a GMail account instead of an official MTV account. Just me huh. Any ways, if you don't want to click in and haven't read the title bar, what I am talking about is that "MTV" wants to do a Rock Band 2 reality TV show. Read More...