The “Break it Down” Blog

Star Wars: Force Unleashed Developer Walkthroughs

This is one of those games that just seems to look better and better the more you see it.  The technology behind the game looks great as always, especially the Digital Molecular Matter.  Hopefully this is like The Dark Knight and can actually live up to the hype. Also, if you stuck a green hat, nice [...]

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Communicating with Pirates – What the Community Thinks About Piracy

Over the last couple weeks, there has been some interesting developments on the computer game pirating front.  As reported by arstechnica.com, Cliff Harris, an independent game developer with Positech Games, put out an invitation to the average gamer to explain why they pirated games.  Simply wanting to learn from the pirates, Harris agreed to not [...]

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BlizzCon Ticket Fiasco Update

Earlier this week, we covered the quick sell out of BlizzCon tickets as well as the problems that arose from the massive load on the servers.  On Wednesday, the president of Blizzard, Mike Morhalme wrote an apology and presented an opportunity for those who were unable to purchase tickets due to the Blizzard Store problems. “Soon, [...]

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BlizzCon 2008 Sold Out

Tickets for BlizzCon 2008, Blizzard’s annual convention taking place on October 10-11 in Anaheim, were sold out last night. There were so many people trying to acquire tickets that the Blizzard store was temporarily unavailable several times over the past couple days.  Tickets for the convention were priced at $100 a piece and included access to [...]

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Star Trek Online Announced

Trekkies rejoice!  A new MMORPG developed by Cryptic has been announced today that will be based on the undying franchise of Star Trek.  Check out the following teaser to see it in action! While this game will make many Trekkies happy in the pants, there has to be some questions about how Star Trek Online will [...]

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Competitive Gaming as a Reality

When I was a kid, I always thought it would be awesome if I could get paid to play video games.  There couldn’t be a better job in the world!  Up until within the last few years, the only viable way to accomplish this be a tester, spending hours and hours slaving over a screen [...]

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MMO Lessons to Learn from World of Warcraft

In an interview with Kotaku, Blizzard’s game director Jeffrey Kaplan hopes that the new MMO that they are working on will become more successful than the current juggernaut World of Warcraft: “I don’t believe that WoW is untouchable,” he said. “I completely believe that a game could come out and be more successful than WoW. I’m [...]

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