Sadly no release date, so it isn't the platinium-coated dream interview of miracles :P Still worth a look, there's good info about the balancing concepts.
Yeah, because American media censorship is so radically different from Australian censorship. Face it, most nations have banned films, games, or even books for really stupid reasons, American is far from immune from that.
...and they're already moaning about a game that probably isn't going to be out for at least two years. Talk about quick reactions. The alpha versions of Warcraft 3 that was being shown off at the big events like E3 was miles different from the finished product three years later. Don't they realise that nothing is concrete, most of the graphics are placeholders, and whatever's on screen now very little will remain in the finished product anyway? Crying out right now is pointless.
I wonder why this is taking so much time to get approved? I'm fairly sure there isn't a duplicate.
All hail the frosty lords and master of us all, and may they continue to bestow their brilliance upon us through their works of wonder and dedication.
I think having them both out would be bad. Bad for the whole of Azeroth. As in crossing the streams bad. That bad. Don't you dare do it, I don't want yet another server crash on Tularyon!
I hope the missus doesn't read you post then, I think she might have something to say about that :P
Try keeping your room ventilated well (I'm supposing it's summer there, that time of the year where everything gets hot for your part of the world?) and windows open/airconditioning on. Many PCs struggle with the heat, my old Athlon 64 rig used to be fine in December but come July...nightmare to work with until I installed a pair of chassis fans.
I think that will probably be the case. Not much point liciencing something only to use it once after all :P And it would certainly be impressive on the scale that Diablo III was operating on during the WWI demonstrations. Nothing solid saying that it will be in there right now that I know of, but I wouldn't expect Blizzard to squander the technology while it is still hot and quite new.
A XPS machine is supposed to be a high quality gaming machine, anything that struggled with Diablo II is either over ten years old or has a major fault with it. I would really phone them up and ask them to take a look at it, especially if your warranty is still good on it.
I don't expect Blizzard are going to throw us for a ring, but I'll keep my nose on what they are up to. I really don't expect they'll go beyond their famed mass market accessability, if they made the Pentium 4 series unable to run the game at minimum levels there will be many niggled customers. I wish I could have taken one of those PCs at the WWI to peices just to see exactly what they had set up there, alas.
If anyone is interested in seeing a really good implimentation of the Havok Physics Engine, I'd recommend having a look at the World War 2 RTS game Company of Heroes by Relic Entertainment, very good game with good phyics. The fact that Blizzard have intergrated the same physics engine into Starcraft II is quite exciting to me, also encouraged me to take a look at Company of Heroes's minimums to see the kind of overhead I could expect from the demands of Starcraft.
Oh yes. I can already hear the cries of "Console gaming 4ever! PC is past it!" fading out, such a pleasant relief.
Pigcraft. Simply got to be, a territory that few if anyone has ever explored. It'll be a hit, like the Bajillion different expansion packs to The Sims...
A politician that doesn't blame games for every social evil is a good one in my book
Great, now I won't just be having level ones begging to for gold, they'll be expecting a lift to wherever they desire as well :P
To wasted job time! :P
I hope for reality, but experience tells me otherwise. Yet another Diablo III rumor is born :P
Wouldn't mind some new info from the Blue Boys regarding paladins and thier relation to the Death Knights, what was once hailed as "The anti-paladin" in Warcraft 3 Alpha.
Guess they need a moderator or two, can't they use some of that subscription revenue to hire some? :P