At the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, Diablo 3 lead designer Jay Wilson, presented a rundown of the design philosophy behind the game, covering its origins, the game's approachability, and the design team's "better gameplay, less carpal tunnel" approach."

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It's official: Diablo III.

So http://www.blizzard.com/ now directs to a splash page, which has gotten the Diablo community freaking out (once again) because the last time they did this (a year ago) they announced Starcraft 2. Make what you will of the picture that the splash page current shows and the one hidden in the ( Read more... )

On Monday night's "Daily Show," Jon mocked the media's willingness to peddle insane rumors about Barack Obama and their tendency to blame the rumor-mongering on internet sites. Calling it "Baracknophobia," Stewart showed clips of anchor and pundits from all three cable networks repeating baseless rumors (Muslim, plagiarist, sexist, etc.) .

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Quite possibly the most useful addon you can get for any browser, period.

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So about a week ago the guild I was in (Dissonance on the Ner'zhul server) stopped raiding. So I ended up finding another guild on the same server that was a boss ahead of Dissonance named Virulent. So after a really good night Tuesday where we cleared boss 1 through 3 in the Sunwell Plateau, I got to finally see the Eredar Twins encounter. So ( Read more... )

Weezer's new album (their 3rd self-titled) drops at the beginning of June, and they dropped the video for their first single, "Pork and Beans", today. It features a boatload of parodies of various internet memes, most of them featuring the actual people who started them. Pretty good chuckle on top of a pretty good song, check it out.

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I felt that this was rather timely (on top of being really funny) with it being my 22nd birthday today. Enjoy.

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There are games that are downright fun to play, and then there are games that are downright fun to play fast! Now not many of us have the patience, time, skill and resources to play like a real pro. Luckily for us folk, there are those who do.

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