This week, Yahtzee takes apart the making of a successful gaming webcomic, or: how to make millions of gamers happy with the minimum amount of effort.

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If you havent seen this already you need to watch it now. Best Buy (like DSE here in NZ) has commited staff members. Commited enough to dance to make commision.

Did you know Gaming Generation offer free services ? You didn’t ? Well now you do.

We offer the following:
- Team Speak Server
- Ventrilo Server
- IRC Channel
- Clan Forums

If you want your own TS / Vent / Clan Forum you can request them at our services page here. All are free to use ! The clients to connect to TeamSpeak & Ventrilo servers are in our downloads section.

Connecting to our IRC channel is also free. You can use the free webpage based java client here or download a client such as mIRC here.

So a reader at Kotaku took a photo of a GTA:IV Mural he found on the side of a Manhatten building (a bit hard to miss me thinks).

You can find the article here at Kotaku.

For those who didn’t know, CES (the Consumer Electronic Show) is one over in America. While there has been lots of information flowing out of CES, most of it has been far to boring to bother our readers with.
If turns out that the fine folk at tech site ‘Gizmodo’ took the time to cause some industrial sized trouble, all thanks to ‘TV-B-Gone’ (pictured above). Basically ‘TV-B-Gone’ is a device that shut off TVs. And shut off TVs Gizmodo did… lot of TVs. Walls of TVs. TVs in the middle of displays. Big TVs during press conferences.

I implore you to check this video out… Sound is a must.

Next Gen has put togeather a top ten list of 2007’s biggest blunders.

10) Microsoft’s Non-Elite Elite
9) Wii Undersupply
8 ) Sony’s Four PS3 SKUs
7) Microsoft’s ‘Big’ E3 announcement (That we already knew)
6) Sony’s VP Jack Tretton: “If you can find a PS3… I’ll give you 1200 bucks for it.”
5) Sony attempts to gag Kotaku
4) One word: Gerstmann
3) Guitar Hero III and Rock Band Issues
2) EA: We Already Bought All the Good Ones, Right?
1) The ongoing issues with the Red Ring of Death

As someone whose Xbox just died, I can agree with that last one.

A Norwegian Boy, Hans Jorgen Olsen, survived a moose attack by feigning death, just like you learn at level 30 in World of Warcraft. The skill acquired at level 30 for hunters enables the character to fall to the ground and convince enemies they are dead.

This all occured during a walk in the local forest. His sister enraged a moose, he grabbed its attention at which point he feigned death.

According to Norwegian site Nettavisen , Hans and his sister apparently enraged one of the local moose (mooses? meese?) during a walk in the forest near their home. After shouting at the gigantic creature to ward it away from his sister, Olsen dropped to the ground, and presumably his lifebar plummeted to zero.
Moose have never been known as the wisest creature in the forest, and the boy’s show of necrosis seems to have worked, as both he and his sister survived intact.

Whilst comical in nature, the outcome was the best one could have hoped for. We are all glad he opted for the feign death option and not a combination of fireballs & lighning bolts.

It seems Blizzard have found another way to make money!

FigurePrints will allow World of Warcraft players to order customized 3D “figure prints” based on their in-game characters. Your character’s race, class, weapon, and gear is printed using a high-tech 3D color printing machine used by the manufacturing industry to build prototypes, converting three dimensional computer models into physical objects. You can even add your character’s name and customize their pose.

The site and service doesn’t open until December 11th and their FAQ is a little sparse on real details. Oh yeah, and they aren’t cheap — $99.95USD plus $14.95USD for Shipping and Handling. Ouch.

Still, having a physical 3D model of your in-game WoW character in which you have logged hundreds thousands of
hours played would be pretty cool to put on your deck.

Source

More images in the full article.

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So just to give you a little background, the team at GG have been trying to hit 50 users before the 1st of December. We have done that tonight and would like to thank Griever who is our 50th user.

To celebrate this we have a prize for Griever. Congratulations you have won a Xbox 360 Lanyard & the full boxset of the Anime “King of Bandit Jing”.

Read more about it on our forums !

Today I finally got Mass Effect for my very own, and that means I’ll be waving goodbye to ‘Call of Duty 4’ for a few weeks. I thought now would be a good time to reflect on what the ‘realistic’ battles in CoD4 have taught me about the realities of war.

* Small arms fire can penetrate walls and doors… but bombs from an air-strike can not.
* Russians speak English…. In a Russian accent.
* In war, you can fight for the British, Russians and Americans all in one day.
* RPGs are effective close combat weapons.
* No matter how many times you shoot a friendly in the face, he will not die.
* “Friendly” choppers do not give out hugs.
* Dancing from side to side, left to right in the middle of a firefight reduces your chances of death
* Knife wounds, even in the leg, are always instantly fatal
* The war in Iraq is obviously not about freeing the people or getting oil, so it’s probably about the USA’s attempt to hold three strategically irrelevant flags for as long as possible.
* In war you can shoot down a helicopter with your handy dandy desert eagle.
(Thanks to ‘Pure Evil’ from our forums, for helping me come up with some of these)

See the full list below!
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