announcement posts

Blizzard updates announcement page with a wink

by Akela Talamasca Jun 28th 2008 @ 3:30AM

Here's the latest updated teaser image, straight from the front page of Blizzard's site. Notice the sigils have all acitvated, and there's winking smiley face in the upper-right area, highlighted ever-so-subtly by yours truly. In this blogger's opinion, all speculation that this is the Wrath of the Lich King announcement is now put to bed. That is definitely not Arthas.

With only a couple of hours away from the official unveiling, now's your last chance to place your bets!

Filed under: Culture, Opinion

SimCity Societies demo coming June 12

by Samuel Axon May 30th 2008 @ 9:00PM

A demo for SimCity Societies has been announced. We'll have it for you here at Big Download on June 12th!

The demo highlights some of the new features that have been added in response to player demand, including three new kinds of disasters, improved fire department and road construction management, city policies, new events such as revolutions and strikes, and new, harder strategic modes of play.

EA no doubt hopes to use this demo to promote the game in anticipation of two related releases: a compilation of SimCity titles called The SimCity Box, and an expansion pack for Societies, called Destinations.

Filed under: Demos, Sandbox, Simulation