Evening Reading: EA Grabs MW2 Talent
If there were a way to place bets on things in the video game industry, I would put a lot of money on West and Zampella snatching a majority of the team at Infinity Ward to populate the new studio.
Treyarch's stock within Activision must be rising because pretty soon they might be the only team at the publisher with experience working on a Call of Duty game.
What I'm most curious about is when we'll see something from Respawn. I'm guessing they cannot use the MW2 engine so West and Zampella are either going make their own engine or license something. Maybe EA will hook them up with DICE's Frostbite (Battlefield: Bad Company 2) or Crytek's CryENGINE 3.
Gaming News o'the Day
- The full tracklist for Green Day: Rock Band is confirmed.
- Epic and People Can Fly officially announce Bulletstorm.
- Rush'N Attack getting new XBLA/PSN game.
- Ubisoft details Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
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Bioware Bazaar Pay it Forward Thank you Contest
As many of you were aware Bioware held a contest this past week where you accumulated points by people clicking on a referral link. Clicking on that link then generated Tokens that you could bid on free stuff with.
And as much as I am sure it annoyed all of you I did continue to post a thread about it in each Discussion thread the past week. But even annoyed you people still clicked on links, and in doing so it generated enough points for me to successfully bid on and win one of the 6 computers they were giving away.
So as a thank you, I am going to run a little contest for the Shack.-
The What
I want you all to post something creative having to due with Bioware, whether it be a drawing, story, song, or anything else that is creative and/or funny that took at least a tiny bit of effort and thought to create.
The When
This Contest runs until Weekend Discussion is posted next week (the 17th). Post your entry in the appropriate thread I will be making for this in each Discussion this week.
The Prize
I will select 4 winners. Each of these winners will be given the Steam game of their choice. Hopefully it will be a Bioware game.
The How
Ok here is where it gets a bit complicated. 2 Of these games will only be given out to people who have posted their referral link in my threads this past week. 1 of these 2 winners will be chosen by me. The other will be chosen through a random drawing. So please post your referral ID's with your entry. Shack Search is your friend if you don't know it.
The other 2 will be given out in a similar fashion as the first 2 but will be for anyone who enters the contest. This includes the people from the first group.
The Rules
Enter as many times as you want. You will only be counted once in the random drawing at the end regardless of how many entries you put in.
You must have over 100 posts to be eligible.-
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Little space hamster
Your fury can't be contained
Go for the eyes, Boo
http://social.bioware.com/brc/119840
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# Coolermaster 840 ATCS case
# AMD Phenom 2 965 Black Edition
# ATI Radeon 5870 HD
# 4 gigs Kingston ram 1600mhz
# 1 300 gig WD Velocity Raptor
# 1 TB WD data drive
# 1 Coolermaster V8 proc cooler
# 1 1000 watt coolermaster power supply
# Windows 7 Premium
# DVD Lightscribe
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A few poems in dedication:
Protheans are read,
Quarians are blue,
Salarians are Green,
and Krogans crush you!
Miranda, hot ass
Jack is the one you will fuck
Tali is an odd choice
Grunt has a hot head
Mordin is kind of a fag
Joker is also
Paragon, good, safe
Renegade, lies, death, risky
Wrex, Shepard, Wrex -
Sure! My posts are missing because... well you know the comment search is broken.
Anyway:
Shining dawn, the sun's glare bursting through low clouds. Made it hard to see, last thing you needed when hunting Darkspawn. But what else was a man to do? Loghain had killed the Grey Wardens, and the King, and... my daughter. I'd gone on ahead when we had evacuated the village to scout. Protect the people. They had come from behind.
But a man has to do his duty. Grunts ahead in the waning mist, not a large group. I signaled, Denson and his group to the right, mine to the left. I crept up, quiet as a mouse. Just above the rim, only nine of them down below. They'd grown exhausted, had been running since Denerim. And we'd given chase the entire way. I waved for Clay, he'd take the first shot. We were only five, but would come charging in none the less. What else was a man to do?
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