It was a big year for videogaming – the console war began to cool down, some great games were released, World of Warcraft was expanded, and Jack Thompson is facing disbarment.
Here are my picks for top gaming news stories of 2007.
Mar. 14: Games for Windows – LIVE launches
There are a few problems with Microsoft’s PC-based version of Xbox Live. For one thing, it costs money – PC gamers didn’t have to deal with that issue until now. Second, […]
Saratoga Springs, New York dumbass Joshua Stetar was arrested Friday on felony stalking charges after harassing a 15-year-old Spokane girl over Xbox Live.
In other news, there was a girl on Xbox Live.
Okay, not really. The best year ever for geeks was 1977, because Star Wars, Close Encounters and the Atari 2600 all came out that year.
But it was a really good year to be a geek. Here are some of the top events, in no particular order, that made 2007 great.
Nick “Tasteless” Plott, famed shoutcaster and pretty damned good StarCraft player, has made a statement on TeamLiquid.net that he’s going to Korea to work on Arirang TV as an RTS commentator. Check it:
For those of you who don’t know me I’m Nick Plott also known as “Tasteless.” I’ve been a competitive gamer on SC since the game has come out and have since then moved on to shoutcast many live tournaments such as […]
GGL’s resident video producer Chachi Ramirez is sounding off about his year. Find out what makes this quirky, hairy, crazy video producer tick, and see his contributions to Epileptic Gaming daily on epilepticgaming.ggl.com.
It had been three years in making…my dreams of making movies had finally come true. Although everything in this statement is true nothing about the last three years had been dreamlike. When you are from a small town in Texas, Hollywood seems like a distant and unimaginable cosmos of money, women and fame. I […]
First we learned there is one Nintendo DS handheld for every 7 people in Japan. Now the DS has outsold the PlayStation 2 - in all time sales.
Since its release in Japan on March 4, 2000, the PS2 has sold 20,901,468 units. As of this week, the Nintendo DS sold 20,954,157 units.
The DS has been on Japanese shelves since December 2, 2004.
The figures come from Japanese media firm Media Create.
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You want to talk about a beastly StarCraft player? The numbers don’t lie: Song “Stork” Byung Goo boasts a 75-33 for the year of 2007 inside Korea. That’s 75 wins, 33 losses, and a lot of beatings for some more universally-loved players.
Aside from the whippings, though, Stork stands out for something else. He made headlines earlier this year for throwing matches at the WCG in an effort to position Korea’s players for a sweep of the StarCraft medals. Say what you will about nationalistic pride, but many (myself included) felt that […]
Daryl Hill, a father from Cooksville, Tennessee certainly had some explaining to do this Christmas.
The man had purchased three MP3 players over the holiday season from a local Wal-mart, to give as Christmas presents to his daughters.
However, one of the daughters had a … most interesting holiday when she realized that her device was preloaded with pornography and explicit songs. Apparently the device had been returned to the store, and the previous owner had loaded sex clips and songs with lyrics describing drug use. Daryl Hill reported on Thursday that […]
Street Fighter IV has been polarizing gamers since the first screen shots were released. Many complained that the art direction was too “Americanized”. Well today game play footage was released in the form of a 20 minute documentary esque video from 1up.com.
I have always been a hardcore Street Fighter fan. To this day, if there is an argument among my roommates, it’s settled in a game of Street Fighter Alpha 3 or Street Fighter III: Third Strike. I don’t know how to feel about the new Street Fighter. I guess I’ll just have to wait to get my hands on […]
Much of my youth was spent in the dying arcades of Cleveland area malls. I would drop quarter after quarter into machines hoping to get to the next boss before my mom made me come home. One particular game series that captivated me was the Metal Slug games.
Lucky for me, Metal Slug 3 will be hitting Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday. If you have never seen the game, it is a shooter, much like […]
If I were asked to describe the development of Defense of the Ancients within the past year, only one word comes to mind: upheaval.
2007 heralded over fifteen DotA maps released to the public, a handful of new heroes and items introduced into the title, and the emergence of a multitude of new international teams and superstars. Only this month, the German multi-gaming organization MouseSports announced the addition of the DotA squad Back to Basics. This comes on the heels of SK-Gaming’s very own announcement of a DotA sponsorship; it seems that everyone these […]
Okay, so it wasn’t the worst year ever in gaming. That was 2001. But a lot of stupid shit went down in 2007.
