Tag: gaming

EXCLUSIVE This is one deck that Capt. Picard hasn’t been on. A new card game based on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” is beaming into stores this summer, CBS Consumer Products and toy company Bandai America told Hero Complex. Among the 300 playing cards joining Jean-Luc in the deck are Locutus, a Borg cube and, of course, the U.S.S. Enterprise. The deck-building game will allow players to construct their decks while they play. Each player starts off as a captain of a small starship with a crew and basic weaponry. Throughout the game, players can choose to promote diplomacy or conquer civilizations. Hero Complex readers get a sneak peak at some of the cards (above), and they look pretty spiffy. Though competitive gamers might want to remember Picard’s advice in the third season of TNG: “Being first at any cost ...

The upcoming DC Universe Online game might feature more than 90 heroes and villains in the DC pantheon, but where exactly will they perform their epic deeds? The answer: in about 1,800 city blocks being created brick by virtual brick by Sony Online Entertainment in San Diego. On Friday, the developer released some slick screen shots of places that will appear in the game, such as Gotham Botanical Gardens, Gorilla Island, Braniac’s ship and Poison Ivy’s Lair, pictured above. Players create customized avatars with their own cocktail of super powers and choose whether they will work for good or evil. Villainous players are thrown into Gotham City. Heroes go to work in Metropolis. Each virtual city is about twice the size of the world featured in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which was known for its expansiveness. The game, slated ...

With thousands of World of Warcraft fans gearing up for BlizzCon in Anaheim this weekend, scammers have been licking their chops at the prospect of a surge in Warcraft mania to feed their online traps. SiteJabber, a consumer-protection site funded by the National Science Foundation, on Monday posted an infographic capturing the scope of questionable activity involving the popular online game, which is played by about 11.5 million people worldwide. Though Blizzard Entertainment, the Irvine company that develops World of Warcraft, bans the sale of virtual items for its games through third parties, players desperate to advance in the game pay hundreds of millions of dollars for such goods, according to SiteJabber. Among the virtual items that have been listed for sale on various online auction sites: “leggings of dubious charms” for $69.99. Check out an excerpt from SiteJabber’s chart ...