If I can't do it in real life I will simulate it!

When Brick Gamers last explore the reason why people play The Sims we came up with this. However a recent survey seemed to have unearthed darker reasons.... but hey, it is just virtual anyway. Right?

It is Castle Crashing time!

Check out the red knight from Castle Crashers by Danny Rice.
Let us hope the rest of his buddies made it to town. :D

Source : Brothers Brick

Get a Load of This

Just when you think a Collector's Edition game release couldn't get any bigger, check this out! That's a bundled Night Vision Goggles with the game Call of Duty 4 - Modern WarFare 2 - Collector's Edition of course! Let's hope the next expansion of this series will come with a working AK47. Right.

LEGO® Set Review - 8960 (Thunder Driller)

From the LEGO® 2009 Power Miners Theme, we review the Set 8960 (Thunder Driller) in the BrickBoy Forum:

Checkout the video of the Drill Gears @ work on the BrickGamers YouTube Channel!

Giant robots don't sleep forever

For those of you who enjoyed spending time piloting giant robots shooting lasers and missiles alike at other giant robots in the MechWarrior series, good news... the franchise is finally getting a New Game after a long hiatus.

You Want a Piece of Me Boy?

If you are an RTS (real time strategy) fan by now you would heard of the grim news of Blizzard just recently confirmed that there will be no LAN (local area networking) game mode in StarCraft 2. This was confirmed in a interview with Rob Pardo, senior Vice President (VP) of game design at Blizzard Entertainment. Rob Pardo stated:

"We don’t have any plans to support LAN,” he said and clarified “we will not support it.” The only multiplayer available will be on Battle.net... and that is because of the planned technology to be incorporated into Battle.net.”

Well d'oh, any gamer who has even the slightest sense of logic would know the real reason of it is as above mentioned in the comic, what more of cold and calculated RTS pro fans. Truth to be told, they have all the rights to do so, but in our opinion let us just say stating other reasons being the cause of it is just plain lame.

Cyber War Zone not spared of the shock wave

We at BG are sure scene like above was repeated across the globe as the news of King of Pop's demise sinked in on that fated day. Readers are welcome to share their experience with us :)

BrickGamers 34 - Online Pirates

This may be something not all gamers may be aware of, but it's one of those things that goes on behind the scenes of gaming that's rather interesting to look at for it's another view of digital pirates.

First they attacked the offline gaming industry, now digital pirates are increasing on the online gaming industry as more MMORPG (and other types of genre) games begin mushrooming online for its sheer ease in not requiring a single-player (story-mode) development time, which can be years in the case of blockbuster games like the recent Fallout 3 (which BrickGamers still honour as our title bar!) - only to have it short-live its purpose.

Single-player games, like monolith operating systems (like Windows), are increasingly becoming tiresome to develop owning to its long creation time. As a result, online games take a load off the developers and allow the 'story' to be created by the gamers themselves, and this makes for a very lucrative piracy for the digital overlords. Which is why, don't be surprised when game developers have to come up with more and more exotic security barriers to protect their games.