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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 ...

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...

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.

One week ago, I wrote that the theme of E3 2010 would be Innovation . I was wrong. The real theme was Schadenfreude, in every possible way. It was slamming motion control on the Xbox and PS3 non-stop for a year, then finding one game that genuinely sold its potential. It was professional PS3 basher Gabe Newell stepping out on Sony's stage and thanking people for not punching him in the face. It was Shigeru Miyamoto unable to get a Wiimote to work live in front of a thousand chuckling people, and then blowing those same people away with the 3DS. And more: It was admitting Treyarch may have stepped up to step into Infinity Ward's size-12 shoes. It was Dave Jaffe eating years of flat-out denials to unveil a high-def Twisted Metal. It was Nintendo passing out sacks of candy after years of broccoli. It was getting excited for Gears of War multiplayer again. It was Microsoft ignoring XBLA at its own press briefing, then unveiling an evolved Xbox. It was the PSP getting a ton...

Let's get this out of the way up front: it looks like I've been wasting my life. I'm nearing the 75-hour mark in my Patapon 2 save, and it looks like that data won't carry over to Patapon 3 . I started a new game and Patapon 3 didn't ask me if I had played before and if it could load my old save like the game did in Patapon 2. Luckily, the game is packed with awesomeness, so I really don't care. We're going to need a bigger spear. If you've never seen a Patapon title before, you're missing a franchise that won PSP Game of the Year back to back. You use the PSP face buttons to pound out four-beat songs that make your one-eyed troops march, attack, jump and party. You take the archers, spear throwers and more up against massive monsters, collect loot, and evolve your team. Patapon 3 keeps all of that. Kind of. When I started a new game, I needed to choose what type of hero I would be. That's right; what type of hero I would be. Previous Patapons ha...

After Apple set company records for first day pre-orders, selling over 600,000 in the first 24 hours, the iPhone 4 is expected to be one highly sought after device. Though it launches this week, Apple is delaying shipment of new pre-orders into the second week of July and beyond. For those who weren't fortunate enough to have secured a pre-order before shipments started getting delayed, but want to get their mitts on Apple's latest smartphone, IGN has you covered. Below we've listed some of the most basic ways to track down an iPhone 4 on or soon after launch day. Brave the Lines If you've got the time, the stamina, and the sheer mental willpower to wake up at the crack of dawn and get in line, you could walk out of a retail store with an iPhone 4 on launch day. In addition to Apple Store locations, Best Buy, Walmart, and Radioshack will all be carrying the iPhone 4 on June 24. Be forewarned, however; these stores are expected to be carrying only limited supplies, an...

The arrival of Nintendo's 3DS could be sooner than we hoped as Reggie Fils-Aime revealed that the company are looking to release the handheld in all major territories by March next year. Quite easily the star of last week's E3, the 3DS wowed with its no-glasses 3D display and strong support from Nintendo and third-party publishers – leaving many wondering when they could get their hands on the device and how much cash they'd have to part with to do so. "The reason we haven't announced a launch date or pricing is that, first, we wanted to get reaction here," Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime told Industry Gamers , "Secondly, we'll be making individual market decisions in terms of what's happening in Japan, what's happening in the Americas, what's happening in Europe. The one thing, for sure, is that we will launch in all of our major markets by March 31, 2011." We've reached out to Nintendo to confirm the date, and whi...