Diablo 3. I’ve accepted that it’s really real, a fact that sends a twinge up my balls. In a glorious way. However, I got greedy. Began thinking it may come out this year. Blizzard has confirmed that it won’t, and I cry a single tear.

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Give it up to us gamers! Granted, a term that is so encompassing across different social and cultural strata that to say “gamers solved it” could mean god knows what  anymore. Still though. “We!”, yeah I’m including myself, we solved something pretty fucking fascinating.

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Microsoft hasn’t hid their desire to get into the television business on the 360-degree Xbox. It’s 360-degrees! All inclusive. They got themselves some UFC and some ESPN and some miscellany. Soon! Soon, they may be able to offer their console as a cable box.

Sick.

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The Tokyo Game Show got itself a ‘new’ BioShock Infinite trailer that interweaves pure gaming porn with footage we’ve seen before and ladles on top of it some new segments. I need this game. What are you waiting for?

Hit the jump to check it out.

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[Caffeine Note: Friend of the Brothers Omega Budrickton is a scholar, gentleman, and frequenter of conventions. He wanted a venue to share his thoughts and but of course we obliged. Hug him and give him a mug of your freshest mead.]

The young nerd’s life is often an unforgiving enterprise. Their trading-card-trading, Pokémon-playing, perpetually chunky and uncoordinated elementary years are just the beginning of a number of roads, many of which run off the edge of a cliff, socially speaking.

These rocky starts for my brethren are usually followed up with a high school life of true class; basement-dwelling, Han-shot-first, ‘virgin-forever’ years function as a training ground for learning how to work an innate and exuberant nerdiness into daily life, and possibly, actually interact with ordinary people!

There’s hope in these years; nerds either abandon their ways in pursuit of socializing, underage drinking, and the holy grail:  losing your virginity before age 18. Or, they go full throttle, and become what they were always destined to be at the place where all nerds unite:

The Con.

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Grand Theft Auto sells. It sells really fucking well. While I wasn’t blown away by the fourth installment, I enjoyed it enough to understand why it’s such a plastic disc-pusher. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick recently announced the son of a bitch has shipped 22 million copies. 22 million.

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Game of Thrones is a perfect source material for some fucking fantasy RPGing. Right? It practically screams adapt me, be it as a classic RPG or some sort of Bethesda beast of modernity. And it almost happened, but then came fucking Skyrim.

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I should have bought a Kinect for Child of Eden, a clear successor to an all-time favorite Rez. I didn’t. Perhaps I will now for Project Draco, an obvious homage to Panzer Dragoon. A fucking classic.

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The wait for the third Max Payne has been interminable. But if the trailer is any indication, it has been worth the wait. It’s everything I loved back in the day, with new graphics, an obesity problem, and even more angst and action.

Hit the jump to check it out.

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I’m not one for calculating classes and shit in World of Warcraft and now Diablo 3. I let the smarter people tabulate them, and the I humbly ask them to tell me what I should use. So smarter people! You can now get on it.

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