GenGAMEcast 032: Diablo

This time around Trevor, Kevin, Benny, and Chris from GenSTREAM talk about the week in gaming, including random outbursts of Diablo 3, Halo 4, a short mention of Max Payne 3, and did we mention Diablo 3. You should totally listen to this episode, /then/ try to log into Diablo 3. Be sure to subscribe to the show in iTunes(audio) and iTunes(video) or listen below or watch past the break!
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Diablo III Day 1 Stats

Diablo III launched yesterday which touted some heavy names for itself. Diablo III was the most pre-ordered PC game in the websites history, topping other Blizzard game Starcraft II. On day 1, when the US servers launched at 12:01 PDT or an underhanded 3:01 AM on the east coast Blizzard was flooded with over 100,000+ login attempts from US players. Players encountered the now infamous error 37 but servers managed to clear up. While personally I was upset that I had to wait until 4:30 AM to play the game after purchasing it at midnight thinking I could go home and play it then, it was well worth the wait. In the hour and half that I played with friends, and GenGAME owner Trevor Magnani we managed to cut through a good chunk of Act I and leveled up to the level 9-10 range. Our team of four braved the tired-ness of waiting to get into the game and spammed the login screen with eventual success. Some players have boasted record breaking game completions like a team of four Korean players that beat the game in 7 hours. Did the Korean players have to wait an extra 4 hours? No, but regardless; hats off to those players who were dedicated to beating the game on Normal. For those of you who want to see the last screen of the game from those players feel free to take a look at this link. For those of you who don’t want to see spoilers, go ahead and play the game!

Source: MMOSite.com

Halo 4′s Cover Art Revealed

Yesterday we posted about the potential Halo 4 cover art. Today it was confirmed that this will be the cover art for Halo 4. The Halo community is one of the most lively and adamant on the web and quickly banded together to get the cover art up and ready to be seen. Fans eventually got together on NeoGAF and posted the much larger quality image there. Halo 4 is slated to release right before the holiday season, but before November hits expect some more news at E3 which is quickly rounding the corner. With Microsoft keeping mum about a new console release they’ll have to rely on things like Halo 4 news, Xbox Live in the near future, and any other card they have up their sleeves to put on a good showing this year. Make the jump to check out the cover art.
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Xbox Live Marketplace Deal of the Week: May 15th

For this week’s deal, we have 6 Kinect arcade games. This deal is good through May 20th and is available to Xbox Live Gold members. 4 games have been added to the On-Demand Marketplace.

Deal of the Week

On-Demand

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Halo 4 Box Art Revealed?

At around 3pm yesterday,  some Halo Waypoint community members received emails with the message, “You’re part of the Halo 4 puzzle” accompanied by an image that was numbered from 1-32. The members of the Halo Waypoint forums got right on top of the case and managed to splice all of the images together to form the image below. The image has not yet been confirmed as the box art, but it’s a definite possibility.

Via: Halo Waypoint Forums

Minecraft Mondays: OCD and Autoswitcher Mod

Hello and welcome to another week of Minecraft Mondays!

Texture Pack: OCD

Status: 90% Completed

This weeks texture pack is the widely used OCD texture pack by FVDisco.  The name of the texture pack comes simply from the fact that FVDisco himself has OCD. He states this fact right off the bat in the info section of his Facebook page.

He definitely has catered his texture pack to those who like things orderly. All the blocks are even, and all the angles are at 90 degrees. He also has used calm colors, making the pack easy to look at.

The pack is very easy to use, and there is almost no block confusion seeing as the pack is inspired from the default pack. No guessing or uncertainty here. Only the blocks are changed, items remain the same as default.

You can download the pack here on his planet minecraft page.

Minecraft Mod: Autoswitcher

Status: Fully Updated

The mod I looked at this week was the autoswitcher mod. This mod is incredibly useful and saves you a lot of time when taking on building projects. The mod was created by Risugami, along with his many other creations. The function of it is to pick the best suitable tool on my hotbar to use on whatever object I’m clicking on.

For example, if I have a pickaxe, a shovel, an axe, and a sword on my hotbar and click on some dirt, the mod will automatically switch to the shovel for me to use. If I were to click on some stone, it would automatically switch to the pickaxe and so on and so forth.

There is no delay while the mod switches tools, which makes gathering resources almost effortless. Whenever you are done using the tool it jumped to, the mod will revert back to the slot you originally had selected.

The mod will also jump to a sword when a mob or player is clicked on which is extremely useful.

This mod is a must for laptop users who are stuck with a trackpad much like myself.

I would definitely recommend this mod (unless your server of choice prohibits it).

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Diablo III Becomes the Most Pre-ordered PC Game on Amazon

The long-awaited Diablo III is hitting shelves in just 4 days on May 15th and has been making quite an uproar on Amazon.com. Diablo has surpassed Starcraft II as the most pre-ordered PC game on Amazon. Players have copies already downloaded onto their PC’s and are ready to play once May 15th hits and they can play their copies of Diablo III. Additionally this is the same time that Amazon, and retailers like Gamestop, Target and Best Buy can start selling their copies of the game. Noted by our good friends at Digital Trends, Mr. Anthony John Agnello asks why are players allowed to download the game early if they can’t play it yet? He goes on to say:

If publishers are going to let people download the software, why not let them play it? Why not bar them from downloading it until the box release day?

Mystifying.

It doesn’t seem to make sense that players can get the game earlier but still not be allowed to play it even if the game is “gold.” On day one the Diablo III servers will be slammed with players trying to get into the game and if the Diablo III beta has shown anything it’s that players want to play the game for obvious reasons. Downloading the game on release day would be a nightmare for a launch because of server stress which has been strenuously worked out on the aforementioned open beta which lasted for a long weekend.

Not trying to call you out Mr. Agnello, I agree with you and what seems to be your more open-ended question. Players should be allowed to only download it on the day of it’s release, but in today’s digital age where players can download the title from Amazon, or straight from Blizzard; whats the harm in having Diablo III sit on the desktop for a few days before launch?

Digital Trends