Dragon Age 2 only came out yesterday, but some crafty people have already discovered an easy to perform glitch that gives the player an infinite amount of experience points and gold. Hmmm, those are surely some of the basic fundamentals of the game, no?
The glitch, or “cheat” if you’re the judgemental type, involves some quick button presses while turning in quest items from delivery missions. Check out GameFront’s video for the details:
Lily Allen has asked viewers Not to tune into her new television show. No Problems there then.
The show, which is set to air on Channel 4 next Tuesday (March 15) at 10pm (GMT), charts Allen’s launch of her clothes shop, Lucy In Disguise. The enterprise is a project she has started with her sister Sarah.
As usual, her Twitter account was where all the action was saying “I am inclined to ask you not to watch it because quite frankly I am embarrassed.”
If it means embarrassing Lily Allen though, might more people actually tune in. I know Dan Bull and I will both be watching.
A team of BBC journalists in Libya were kidnapped by security forces loyal to the Gadaffi.
Reports say they were hooded, imprisoned, beaten, and subject to repeated mock-executions. While imprisoned, they witnessed horrific torture of rebels who’d also been captured by Gadaffi’s forces.
The BBC reports:
One of the three, Chris Cobb-Smith said: “We were lined up against the wall. I was the last in line – facing the wall.
“I looked and I saw a plain-clothes guy with a small sub-machine gun. He put it to everyone’s neck. I saw him and he screamed at me.
“Then he walked up to me, put the gun to my neck and pulled the trigger twice. The bullets whisked past my ear. The soldiers just laughed.”
A second member of the team – Feras Killani, a correspondent of Palestinian descent – is said to have been singled out for repeated beatings.
Their captors told him they did not like his reporting of the Libyan popular uprising and accused him of being a spy.
The third member of the team, cameraman Goktay Koraltan, said they were all convinced they were going to die.
It seems that the events in Tripoli are far from the sort of mere civil unrest we saw in Egypt, which at some high points, managed to put together moments of humanity.
First person shooters are crazy popular at the moment. My friends, who are between 25 and 35 are telling me stories of why they had to quit playing them because they felt compelled to put the kids to be early to squeeze in an extra half hour. Weather your Call Of Duty or CounterStrike you can’t deny that we’ve come a long way from GoldenEye or doom.
Seeing as the first person genre seems to be both competitive and repetitive I was sure that we wouldn’t really see a new style of multi-player mass murder game until the world saw another war to base it on. The market is enjoying such good sales at the moment that it simply hasn’t had the need to waste money on coming up with anything new, if if ain’t broke don’t fix it. Right?
The video below is the best looking this i’ve seen for sometime. Barely do i ever see a trailer that makes we actually wanna wait for the game to come out. Set in what looks like some sort of slum in the future the first/third person shoot em’ up seems to be trying to bring something of a mech-warrior culture back. And they’re doing very nicely indeed. Named Hawken and rumoured to be released for all platforms, no real solid news has been released yet about its creators. It is however planned as a downloadable game, and has been built using Epic’s Unreal Engine.
Check out the cool mother-ship looking thing at 1:51……….
More Total War: Shogun 2 screen shot have emerged and they look as plush as the last few. With a sneaky hint at what looks like to be naval warfare says I. Some campaign map shots are knocking about and some sort of super-magic gold dude. It is war, but still, you have to look good don’t you.
Click the pictures for a better look.
Outburst-prone actor Charlie Sheen is reportedly seeking a social media intern to manage his Twitter account. But what does this new role involve?
Celebrities have both used the new social networks to improve their image in the public eye and damage it awfully. Charlie is supposedly too busy being famous and having TWO live-in girlfriends that he is looking to employ someone to run his Twitter account for him. I’ll Do it.
Alluding to two of Sheen’s tweets, the job advert says the actor is looking for applicants that are “all about winning” and have “tiger blood” in their veins, according to the career site where the application form is posted. To hear more about Charlie’s life changing opinion on winning, visit and watch his weekly streamed programme named “Sheen Korner”.
With the sheer volume of social media action, it’s understandable that celebrities would be tempted to hire social media interns, but ghost tweeters might be an exception rather than a rule. A social media intern typically works to monitor and advise, rather than act as the celebrity. Its the new PR by the looks of it.
The real, honest-to-goodness Nintendo DS is made in CHINA. And knock-off cheapo Nintendo DS handhelds are also made in……? China. Funny that.
Over 90 percent of counterfeit goods that entered Japan in 2010 were, according to Japanese customs, from China. The number is 11 percent higher than the previous year. The number two country for knock-off goods entering Japan was South Korea
The most popular knock-offs brought into Japan were Crocs sandals. Random and Lame. Number two was the Nintendo DS and DS-related items. Custom officials say that these phony goods do look real, noting that it is difficult to distinguish them from the genuine article.
Japanese custom officials are eager to work with China as well as South Korea to come up with effective measures to counter the counterfeits.
It is said on the grape-vine, that Ubisoft didn’t originally intend to release the Wii version of Michael Jackson: The Experience before the other consoles, but since it worked out that way, the publisher is taking advantage of the delay to tweak the experience based on feedback from last year’s best-selling Wii release.
Reviews were largely favorable when it came to the dancing mechanic and gameplay, but the dearth of bonus content and criticisms with the game’s Dance School mode were key points it wanted to correct. A small self life by the sounds of it, that kind of thing can result in thousands of gamers handing in their copies part exchange and the retailers are laden with a plethora of Michael Jackson game for sale second hand and any integrity the game has ever had disappears for ever.
On the latter point, Guillaume Cada (Ubisoft international product manager) said, “We decided to improve these so now that in the Dance School you see yourself dancing, just like in a mirror, so you can modify your moves.” With regard to new content, “We also had unlockables, now you have Trophies from the PS3. Every time you unlock a Trophy you unlock a visual or video in the Extras and in the Gallery part of the game.”
This year, Blizzard Entertainment – the developers behind series like Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo – turns 20. To celebrate, they’ve released this fascinating video retrospective.
A 19-year-old University of Nevada student in has been charged with hacking into his school district’s computer system and improving his classmates’ grades for a fee.
Local police say Tyler Coyner led a group of 13 students (most of whom were minors) who have all been charged with conspiracy, theft and computer intrusion. “Last year, Coyner somehow obtained a password to the Pahrump Valley High School’s grade system and, over the course of two semesters, offered to change grades in return for cash. Run like a business, consultancy fees and all, Coyner would take money and up their grades for a fee and pay his “workforce” after the workload became too much!
Coyner is reported to have bumped his own grades so high (a 4.54 GPA) that he “was the salutatorian at his graduation, an honor given to the student with the second highest GPA in the school.”
Cops raiding his dorm room also found a stolen LCD television set, and gear for printing fake driver’s licenses. Not so smart after all.