The Geek Repore Goes Number Two

MOVIES:
Hanna Montana is Bat Girl? http://www.hollyscoop.com/movies/miley-cyrus/miley-cyrus-to-play-batgirl-in-dark-knight-sequel_1613.aspx

XBOX:
OK, who’s the jack ass that ordered the Draft Combine game? http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/100/1008328p1.html

I quit the Splinter Cell series half way into the first game. Not because it’s not good, just did not have the time to be patient with it. But Splinter Cell: Conviction may make me forget my slavish conviction to continuity, and jump right in because it looks AWESOME! They turned the game play on it’s head from a Sneak game to an Infiltration game, and that means full out killing when the time is right. It’s fast paced. You get in fast and kill, while still avoiding the alarms. To be fair Metal Gear 4 was really the game that pioneered this revolution in the genre (hell, MG1 invented the genre) and this new philosophy of “fun now, no wait” is moving from just a trend in the game industry to a cliché. But this game looked like the shizz, unfortunately it’s been delayed to next year. Crap! http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/100/1008237p1.html

MMOs:
Want an MMO that levels you up while you’re not online? Alganon is for you. Sign up for Beta by posting here http://www.alganon.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1608&hl=

Anyone who knows me, knows that I want to create my own society and then rule over it with an iron fist. That’s why I signed up for Beta for a game I found out about TODAY “Dawntide” http://dawntide.net/beta.php

Aion looks to have an EXTREMELY deep item system. http://aion.ign.com/

Champions Online Open Beta (8/5) at Fileplanet. 50,000 keys, be quick! http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1008341p1.html

Check out Crime Craft (8/25), another third person twitch shooter MMO, but this one looks good and is in gang land. Gangs are obviously guilds here. One thing to note on this one, it’s not open world battle. You go into instanced battlegrounds. You character, gear, skills all that is persistant, and there is an open world area where people can be social, craft, use the auction, do guild stuff. So essentially, it’s taking “Counter Strike” as for toward the MMO without actually becoming an MMO.

Star Wars: The Old Republic, if you have not yet heard, is the fully voiced, Mass Effect-esque story driven MMO from BioWare, which is probably the best game company in the world. SW:TOR is also fabled to be the much prophesized “WOW Killer”. But unlike the 100 that have come before it, this might actually be the one. Probably will have to wait at least a year.