Brick Gamers 48 - Social Class Gamers

Did you know that gaming has evolved into a social class as the rest of society as well? Sure in the past it's as simple as either you're a gamer or not - but these days, as the gaming industry has been infiltrated by corporations eager to make money of a rising trend of gamers, the social class system which controls our world has now entered to 'sacred' sanctum of gamers as well. We're sure you know what we're talking about - DRM for a start! Anyway, we decided to visualise the Gaming Social Classes as you will observe below...

No one plays as deep as these Chilean gamers

Source: Kotaku, Trapped Chilean Miners Get PSPs

NZXT Phantom PC case airbrushed with Jalur Gemilang for 53rd Merdeka

For all you Malaysian gamers out there who are feeling Patriotic (not Nationalistic!) this 53rd Merdeka, Answer Sdn Bhd, a local computer distributor, airbrushed the Malaysian national flag, the Jalur Gemilang (Stripes of Glory), on the new NZXT desktop computer chassis, the Phantom. It took 2 weeks to do this! This exclusive case is NOT available for sale (unfortunately!) but it IS available for viewing (for a limited time only!) @ C-Zone, Digital Mall, Petaling Jaya, Selangor till the 5th of September and Atom Computer, Low Yat Plaza, Kuala Lumpur from the 6th till the 12th of September 2010. So if you're a Patriotic Malaysian Gamer, go see it!

Brick Gamers 47 - South Africa 2010 World Cup

Opps we did it again! We missed last month's (July) issue of BrickGamers 47, where we covered about the recent World Cup @ Africa, because we got caught up with our Football / Soccer 2010 special over @ BrickLives! So here's the dated comic that appeared in the GameAxis July 2010 monthly printed magazine!

Gaming Addiction Warning Needed

Dude spent 20,000 hours in the past 5 years playing Lineage 2 and now decides to sue NCsoft because it failed “to warn or instruct or adequately warn or instruct plaintiff and other players of Lineage II of its dangerous and defective characteristics, and of the safe and proper method of using the game". Read the whole news on Gamepolitics.

UPDATE - All Communications are off during War

This just in - we found a YouTube video about National Geographic where they made a documentary about StarCraft with the launch of StarCraft 2 recently, a game 11 years in the making, worthy of a highlight with the story of this gaming culture universe:

Might finally be done with the chewing bubble gum part

Last year we saw what looks like the end of Duke Nukem Forever with this comic, then very recently the article of Duke Nukem Finally? showed up in Kotaku. May be we still get to kick ass and chew bubble gum again after all.

Imperial Invaders!

The Imperial dudes from StarWars are staging a grand invasion in this creation by flickr user powerpig.

Source: Brothers Brick