If you’ve been wondering just how the new Auction Houses are going to work in Diablo III, there’s now an extensive FAQ explaining the ins and outs of the system on the game’s official website. Blizzard will be taking a substantial cut of profits on any real money transactions – 15% on commodities like gems and recipes and $1.00 per item for weapons and armor.
Activision released a world premiere trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 today. Just when you thought the franchise couldn’t get any more ridiculous, Treyarch takes us to the future.
This is seriously the most ridiculous video game trailer I have ever seen. The fact that this isn’t some kind of sick joke floors me. What the fuck are they thinking?
UPDATE: A mountain of details about the game have emerged. Kotaku has a summary. It even sounds like a horrendous pile of shit. Jesus. Whoever came up with this should be fired.
Bethesda released a teaser image for the first official expansion for Skyrim today. It’s called Dawnguard and it’s due out for the Xbox 360 this summer. No details have been confirmed yet and there’s no word yet on a PS3 or PC release date – but it exists!
As was foretold in rumor, this is the new trailer that’s pre-rolling The Avengers.
We received dozens of new orders for lifetime VIP accounts today. We’re going to delay the drawing for the final VIP Appreciation Month prize winner until morning. We’ve got a mountain of existing orders to process and we’ve continued to receive new ones.
We’ll do the drawing at 11:59am PST. We’ll keep lifetime account sales open until then, too.
UPDATE: One very lucky VIP member just won a one-of-a-kind “elite” account upgrade. This is a unique account that cannot be purchased and will never be given away again.
The “elite” account will be granted access to all of our back-end systems and resources. This includes our core media server containing more than 2TB of Mr. Blue’s collection, 50GB of space on our private FTP with up to 1.5TB of transfer per month, and administrative rights to our internal database of content sources, applications, and tools. (7,000+ bookmarks.)
But that’s not all…
The winner is also receiving an all-expenses paid trip for two (capped at $2,999) to anywhere in the world. The winner’s airfare, accommodations, entertainment, and transportation are all on us – and we have a very experienced travel agent standing by to maximize the budget.
Thank you all, once again, for your support. We love running What The Christ? and intend to continue doing everything we can to make it one of the coolest places on the web.
Bethesda just released a voice command guide for the upcoming Kinect patch for Skyrim. You can check it out right here (PDF).
This is really one of the most exciting things to happen to a video game in a long time. If this works even half as well as the demo makes it look, I’m going to be all over it.
This is simultaneously one of the funniest and most uncomfortable things I’ve ever seen.
Developer Pedro Franceschi just released an awesome new app via Cydia, the renegade Apple app store. It’s called Quasar. It adds windows to your jailbroken iPad.
No, not Microsoft Windows. Windows as in windowed modes for all of your favorite apps.
