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BlizzCon 2008 is offering a free pay-per-view package to new DirecTV subscribers for its upcoming World of Warcraft tournament starting at 1:30 p.m. on October 10, 2008, and 2 p.m. EST on October 11, 2008, broadcasting live from the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA (USA).

The DirecTV special promotion can be subscribed to only through the BlizzCon website and is available only to those living in the United States that subscribe to service before September 30, 2008, and activate it before October 9, 2008.

Current DirectTV subscribers can…

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I remember standing in front of the television with my co-workers September 11, 2001, watching in non-belief that such a thing would even happen on American soil.

So when I read the story on Fox News 29 Philadelphia that a new online game called New York Defender II featured images of that day caused an outrage, I can truly understand why. It was the pouring of salt into the wounds of all those who were still shocked by the events of 9/11.

Out of curiosity I found the website, Uzinagaz to check it out for myself. In New York Defender II, you play a small fighter jet patrolling the area and when one airplane changes its route or passes the airport and heads for downtown you shoot it down. Your progress board is in the shape of one of the two towers. If it’s completely filled in with red you lose. It didn’t bother me as much as New York Defender did, where almost instantly you see the twin towers and the airplanes speeding towards and crashing into the towers. You have to shoot them down before they hit the towers.

What was intended to be entertaining brought up memories of that day. I must say I agree with the…

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Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, the RPG being developed by German developer Ascaron Entertainment, has been delayed by several months. The game, which was expected to be released in the first quarter of 2008, will now be released in September, 2008. It has been announced by the game’s developer that the release of both the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the game have been postponed.

The developer broke the news of the game’s delay on the official Sacred 2 website. According to the announcement, the development process had to be extended to meet quality and stability requirements. Ascaron didn’t want to release to release an unpolished version of the game, which would have required a lot of patch work later. It clarified that it wanted to inform gamers much earlier about the delay, but had many reasons not to.

The game is the second full-fledged game in the series, which is set in the fabled continent Ancaria. Sacred, the first game in the series, was released in 2004 and was followed by two expansion packs. It has sold 1.6 million copies to date.

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