Pariah’s Guild

Well, you waited for it, you begged for it, and you died for it (well, maybe not the last one) and Microsoft finally delivered. Last Thursday, Microsoft announced that the X-360 will experience another price drop. So how much are we talking? The infamous 120GB X-box 360 Elite will cost only $299.99.Microsoft made this move to make the $299 more of a replacement rather than a price cut.But what about the current X-box 360 Pro model? You know the system with the 60GB hard drive? Well, that console will no longer exist. Finally, the X-Box 360 Arcade model will cost $199. It’s a good day to be a potential 360 owner.

Well, I’ll sum up Pariah’s Guild 2008-2009 year with two words: It SUCKED! Not only did we lose all of our posts from the 2007-2008 year, be we lost our source where we got all of our gaming reviews, but we experienced numerous problems with the blog (e.g. random shut downs, multiple virus attacks). However, I know deep in my heart that the 2009-2010 year will be one of the best years in Pariah’s Guild history. With that said, Happy 2nd Birthday Pariah’s Guild!

Remember Quake Live? You know, the free game that ID Soft released that suppose to give the company revenue by placing ads in the game? Well, John Carmack said that placing ads in Quake Live is not working for the company. Carmack said to Shacknews that “The in-game advertising stuff has not been big business…[it will] not going to be able to carry the project. Quake Live is gonna be Quake Live for the foreseeable future. It’s only just now that we’re going to be able to put it to the test.” What does that mean? It means that Quake Live will adopt a pay-to-play model. Despite Quake Live moving to a subscription based model, there is a benefit to this new model. This new Pay-To-Play model will give players to create and host private server matches.

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Let’s admitted: The “Meet The…” by Valve is one of the best video game machinimas to be released by a company. These videos were extremely funny, and shed some light to the TF2 classes. Well, it looks like the “Meet The…” team will get a chance to work on an upcoming comic book based on game. Gabe Newell explained to G4TV that “[t]he reason we’re doing it is… that we think that’s where our customers already are…[f]igure this out, don’t… license it to somebody else. You’re the people who understand the property and we’re fans of you, so you have to figure out how to make the movies, the TV shows and the comic books.TF2 right now is very much at the cutting edge of trying to think through what does a cross-media property look like.” That’s not the best part! When host Geoff Keighley asked him “Do you imagine a day when you could have a Team Fortress 2 movie or TV show?”, Newell immediately responded with “Yes…”

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