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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending The9 Limited, the operators of World of Warcraft in China, has announced that they recently achieved a peak of one million players online at the same time. That’s not the fudgy sort of numbers you get for subscribers either – that is one million World of Warcraft accounts online and playing at one time. That’s the biggest number they’ve seen since the game launched there back in 2005. Of course there are 1.3 billion or so people living in China, so a million is just a drop in a bucket, but that’s a very big drop in a absolutely gigantic bucket. To put things in perspective, if a million people stood on your head, your skull would be completely crushed. Them’s skull-crushing numbers right there, and before you go blaming gold farming, keep in mind that these are Chinese servers, not people accessing servers outside of the country, so nya.
World of Warcraft Hits Record One Million Concurrent Chinese Players [GameDaily]
Well, this is it folks, the final Friday of regular Smash Bros. Dojo updates and, essentially, the final Dojo Dump wrap up. The final daily update to the official site will be on Monday, but we expect the odd new post, sometime around the launch of the PAL version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Oh, the bittersweetness of it all! You may already know that the Dojo had a bang up post for today, helping the medicine go down easier, but don’t think we aren’t crying ourselves to sleep tonight!
For the final, spoiler-filled wrap up, roll on.
Don’t forget folks, this weekend is the Chessmaster Live Hip Hop Weekend on Xbox Live, where you could win fabulous prizes just for playing a Chessmaster Live match online! Sponsored by the Hip Hop Chess Federation and Xbox.com, players who register either online or by downloading the Chessmaster LIVE Registration Gamer Picture Pack and then play an online match are automatically entered to win an hourly drawing for a 12-month Xbox Live Gold subscription and 1500 Microsoft points. All hourly winners are then entered to win the grand prize – a custom chess board signed by Grandmasters, and a copy of the PC version of Chessmaster: The Art of Learning. Woot! The chess action will be slow and furious this weekend! See you there!
Chessmaster LIVE Hip Hop Weekend Play & Win Sweepstakes [Xbox.com]
What will we do when GTAIV actually comes out? Play it for 1,000+ hours? How lame. We’d much rather waste our time on zany flash ads that only take 1 minute or 2 a pop. For instance, if you’re as cool as us, you’ll have an awkward conversation with a representative from Goldberg, Ligner & Shyster…which we’re beginning to suspect may be more of an escort service than a law firm, but no harm, no foul.
Hit the jump for 3 quasi-games that will bring a few minutes of fun to a hardcore GTA fan. Oh, and the spastic theme music is coming from the third box. Click “beverage menu” to start and things get a lot quieter.
18-year-old Jean Pierre Orlewicz is currently on trial for first-degree premeditated murder, after he and a friend ambushed 26-year-old Daniel Sorenson last November, stabbing him multiple times in the back before sawing off his head and burning his body. After the prosecution spent the better part of yesterday describing a young man fixated on committing a crime, the defence revealed the real reason behind the teen’s murderous drive. Hitman:
This Saturday, make that tomorrow, the Nintendo World Store will be hosting the launch event for the Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys event.
Stop by the store between noon and 4 p.m. EST and you can get a chance to check out a demo of the game. They will also have the three lead zombies—Finnigan “Fins” Magee, Lori “Lefty” Lopez and Zach “Halfpipe” Boyd—on hand to take pictures and such. Attendees will each be given a limited edition Teenage Zombies t-shirt and some other goodies, while supplies last.
All proceeds from the event will be donated by Ignition Entertainment to the Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York.
It sounds like tonight’s episode of GameTrailer’s TV with Geoff Keighley is going to be a must watch. Not only will they be showing the first gameplay footage of Yoda and Darth Vader as playables in Soul Calibur IV, but they will be premiering the teaser trailer for Resistance 2 from Insomniac Games.
With a planned nine straight days of obligation gaming, defined as titles I might not necessarily play on my own time, I think I’ll be taking it easy this weekend, doing my best to re-beat Ikaruga and keeping my hands controller free. I’d beaten the Dreamcast import version of Ikaruga a few months after its release, but I’m a credit feeder, never to be skilled enough to play with default, no-continue settings.
Outside of that, there’s trip planning and taxes to be done, plus the odd housekeeping chore. Expect a very worn out set of Kotaku editors by next weekend, some who might swear games off forever. No joke! What you playing this weekend with your free time?
