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Sniper: Ghost Warrior

Boom Headshot a really interesting Game but not the first one to do this..

Team Fortress 2 by the People, for the People

Last month Valve issued a sizeable update to its popular team-based online shooter Team Fortress 2 called the Mann-Conomy. The odd title shouldn't divert your attention from the impressive results and interesting potential long-term consequences. Basically, the update added a microtransaction store to the game. It offered a variety of headgear, weapons, and other random items like paint buckets to players for a price. You didn't have to buy anything, but could spend $17.49 on a crocodile hat if you wanted to. Maybe you already knew that. What you probably didn't know is how much the community is not only contributing, but profiting. Not only is Valve putting its own items up for sale on the in-game store, but it's allowing players to submit designs for approval. If they're good enough, Valve assigns appropriate statistics and a price and pushes it live, letting anyone who likes the look to make the purchase. Valve's not keeping all the profits; it's cutting

World of Warcraft: Everyone Hates Their Class

In past years, the World of Warcraft class panel at BlizzCon is where players would get a preview of the future of their characters. New talent trees and talents would be showcased at this panel for attendees to mull over. Not this year, though! With Cataclysm only a month and a half away, class changes and new talent trees are open and available to everyone, and future abilities have been playable on the beta for weeks. So instead of holding the traditional class panel, the developers opened the floor to the public. For anyone who has seen the end of any previous year's class panel, the Q&A sections can be cringe-inducing. This year was no exception, and the hour-long session began with one player bringing up the hunter class and his perceived weaknesses. After the devs tried to give him what sounded to be a pretty legitimate answer, he basically called them wrong, and everyone booed at him. Later, someone tried to ask like fifteen longwinded questions and got booed too. Hunte

NBA 2k11 PC Experience

UTAH JAZZ VS CHICAGO BULLS BOSTON CELTICS VS CHICAGO BULLS LA LAKERS VS CHICAGO BULLS It's a start for me to post my PC game experiences on this blog. Playing NBA 2k11 on PC with MJ was really a fantastic experience.