Not so long ago, Blizzard voiced interest in taking Diablo to other genres post-Diablo III—up to and including an MMO. That was the goal, said then-game-director Jay Wilson: to evolve the universe to be able to "support" an MMO. Now, however, times have changed, and so has Blizzard.
Blizzard's Overwatch is, in the grand scheme of shooters, kinda simple. Each character has one weapon, levels are straightforward, and movement speed feels like everybody is a giant moon ape—not just, you know, the giant moon ape. But each character is different, and I've already discovered some great depth.
We've seen a number of good hard drive deals in the run-up to Black Friday, but today's is a doozy. Newegg is currently offering a 3TB Seagate on their eBay store for just $80. That would be a pretty good price for a 2TB drive, so if you need the space, I wouldn't hesitate to pick this one up. [Seagate 3TB External, $80]
The biggest crowd draw at BlizzCon every year is the global finals of the StarCraft II World Championship Series. With $100,00 on the line and a returning champion in the final bracket, this year the crowd should be bigger than ever. Thank goodness we don't have to bother with them.
[Old-school Dtoid community blogger craineum shares his last seven Halloween adventures with us. What an awesome dad! Want to see your own stuff appear on the front page? Go write something! --Mr Andy Dixon]
I haven't written an article here in a long time. Life got busy, we moved, had new adventures and new jobs. During my life I have changed hobbies more than I care to admit. The one hobby that I have kept for the last seven Halloweens is our costume creations.
I will review all our costumes before revealing our latest. I will also include links to Instructables.com if you are interested in how to build these, or want more details.
Max and I got our hands on a copy of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare . We figured we should probably play it because people like to watch men get sweaty in videogames or whatever. Anyway, we recorded this the day after Max's birthday, so we were both pretty hungover, which served to exacerbate our lack of shooter skill and the incoherence of our jokes. Enjoy.
Here's our first peek at the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special – including a good look at Nick Frost as Father Christmas!
At a recent Xbox event, I got to play a bunch of multiplayer stuff in Halo: The Master Chief Collection . I was caught off guard when we were suddenly dropped into the online multiplayer for Halo: Combat Evolved's PC version, which was added to this Xbox One anthology to compensate for the original Xbox version's lack of online play. Naturally, when I posted this video on YouTube, there were a bunch of angry comments from people who got confused and thought of tricking them into thinking The Master Chief Collection was on PC to scam clicks because they have trouble comprehending sentence structure. Sigh. Anyway, Halo is cool.
Because the Skylanders and Disney Infinity figures weren't enough, the toy population of my desk has been increased by a dozen Nintendo icons. Let's meet the Amiibo!
Blizzard lore/story/sunglasses guy Chris Metzen and his daughter were watching a cinematic scene from World of Warcraft. There were swords, spells, dragons—the usual. His daughter, however, couldn't help but ask of the women characters, "Why are they all in swimsuits?"
