Ok WoW fanatics.  Get ready to get your panties wet… again. Warcraft Con, a.k.a Blizzcon, is rumored to be moving up to July 30th to the 31st next year. Also, I guess they have out grown the small Anaheim convention center and are moving to the Las Vegas Convention Center.  Why didn’t they opt for a closer yet a bit bigger venue like the San Diego Convention Center?

Oh well. In any case, start saving up that money because I expect ticket prices to go up again by another $25 and end up being $150 per person. Why? Because it’s the Las Vegas Convention Center and it’s Blizzard. Both can do whatever the heck they want to do or charge.

[via LVCC]

Updated: The official Warcraft twitter account had this to say.

For you people who are already making travel plans, really?! Is it THAT big of a deal to you?

We warned you about this. All 4 day passes, both with and without preview night, for the 2010 San Diego Comic Con are sold out. Now, you can try to whine, cry, complain, or blame Team Edward, but nothing you do now will get you a 4-day pass to the mecca of Comic nerdery. Your only option now is to wait for 1-day passes to go on sale online on December 15th and buy a pass for each day.  If you miss those tickets, then I don’t know what to do for you.

[via SDCC]

As I am writing this, the indicator on the official San Diego International Comic Con website says there are about 25% 4 day passes (without preview night) left. Last year, comic con 4day passes sold out 4 months before the con.  Now they are on track to be sold out about 9 to 8 months before!

If you don’t hurry and get yours soon, you’ll be s.o.l.

To start off our 2nd year on the internets, we’ll be heading to CES.  The mecca of geekery, gadgetry, and all around nerdery. We’ll be bringing back photos, videos, interviews, hands-on demos of everything we can get our hands on at CES. We promise we won’t head into the wrong door and somehow wind up in the Adult Expo.

Good news about the upcoming CES is that they are expanding the show floor to give gaming exhibits more room.

Featuring advancements in online gaming and gaming-related product debuts all in one centralized location, CES and many of its must-see exhibitors are prepping to show off the latest gaming technology across more than 13,000 square feet of exhibit space.

If there is anything you specially want us to cover form the show, let us know in the comments below. If you’ll be at CES, let us know as well. We’d love to meet up and say hi. It’s always awesome to be surrounded by new technology and fellow geeks.

I wish I could have been a fly on the wall to the discussion at Universal that lead to the formation of the Aliens Vs Predator movie. Here’s how I think it would have gone:

Ideas guy: ‘Dude, what about Aliens and Predators in one movie?’

Producer: ‘Man, that would be sick! But they’re not even in the same story universe’

ID: ‘Meh, so what? They did it in games in the 90s. Two of the best and biggest monsters in one movie, it would be epic!’

P: ‘Yeah but we can’t make a movie without a story can we?’

ID: ‘What about: Predators breed Xenomorph Aliens for sport hunting? Make it some sort of Right of Passage or something’

P: ‘Yep, that’d probably work. Game on, I’ll put a writing team together’

And so, the Aliens Vs Predator movie was born and a reboot to the series was initiated. Two of Universal’s biggest monster franchises, combined together into an all out action fest. Yeah, there was a story, well kind of, but the original AVP movie and it’s subsequent sequels have all been about glorious action. I think of them as the balance to all those period dramas and romcoms, which helps me come to terms with spending money to see a film with basically no narrative.

Of course, both Aliens and Predator have seen game-movie tie-ins that predictably have been a little weak. Probably the best of the lot was Alien 3 back in the 16bit era, but the latest in the long list of  franchise game spin offs, Sega’s new Aliens Vs Predator (AvP) is attempting to change that and it’s multiplayer was on show at the Eurogamer Expo in London for hands on. (more…)

The follow up to the wildly popular Xbox 360 and PC game Mass Effect is set to hit the streets in January 26th in America and 29th 2010 in Europe. Mass Effect 2  is set two years after the conclusion of the original having stopped the Reaper invasion, Commander Shepard must join forces with Cerberus, recruiting some of the galaxy’s most dangerous operatives in a bid to find out what’s causing the miraculous vanishing of entire human colonies. (more…)

So you’ve heard that the God of War 3 collectors edition is going to steam roll you wallet ($100 for the privaledge) and you’ve noted that the demo will be available on the District 9 Blu-Ray (available 29th December) if you’re not too keen on buying the first two games again on Blu-Ray with the God of War Collection, but what does God of War 3 handle like? Should it have been an FPS? Is it more of the same? Does it deserve your hard earned rent money? Well Pixelated Geek is on hand to find out.
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As a massive fan of the original, I’ve been waiting for the next instalment ever since I stepped out of the Animus. Landing on American shores on the 17th November and PAL regions 20th November, thankfully we don’t have long to wait. Assassin’s Creed II is set in 15th century Italy between 1476 and 1503. The story follows the exploits of a new assassin by the name of Ezio which has him running around Venice, Florence and Tuscany in the same ‘open-world’ type game play as the original. (more…)

By now you must no the score, Zipper Ineractive’s PS3 exclusive MAG (Massive Action Game) is both massive and full of action. Hitting American store shelves on the January 26, 2010, it’s one of the most ambitious online FPS games ever tried, featuring a total of 256 simultaneous players in one game, 128 versus 128. Zipper Interactive, the first developer to bring online gaming to the PS2 with SOCOM, is attempting to bring a new kind of war type FPS to the world, where whole battalions face off against each other in real-time combat. Hundreds of organised and well trained soldiers (that’s you if you hadn’t guessed) facing off in real-world type scenarios like those portrayed in Black Hawk Down. (more…)

We’re here and reporting live from the Eurogamer Expo in London. On show are some of the most exciting games to come out in the first half of next year and we’ve got some hands-on coming up for you shortly so stay tuned.

[Photo credits to Ben Smith]