Yahtzee reviews Soul Calibur IV. Watch it.

Age of Avatars is available on the SBS site as part of the My Generation series of documentaries. It is a brief but interesting look at a few World of Warcraft players, including one I used to know in my LAN days. It was produced by some Flinders grads.

Microsoft has announced Fable 2’s release date: October 21.

Yahtzee on Ninja Gaiden II for the 360. I still haven’t got past the third level. I suck.

Blizzard have introduced new incentives to their Recruit-a-Friend promotion:

1. Characters on both accounts can summon each other once per hour.
2. While adventuring with your linked friend/family member, you will each gain triple experience.
3. For every two levels the new player earns, the new player can grant one free level-up to a lower-level character played by the veteran player.
4. For each person you refer who upgrades to a retail version of World of Warcraft and purchases his or her first month of game time, the account you sent the invitation from will receive a free credit of 30 days of play time.
5. For each person you refer who upgrades to a retail version of World of Warcraft and purchases two months of game time, you will be able to give a character on the account you sent the invitation from an exclusive in-game zhevra mount. This unique mount can be claimed through the website, is only available to Recruit-A-Friend participants, and can only be applied to a single character.

A bug/feature in Age of Conan allows players on a particular server to farm high-quality gear off a certain mob. Some citizens revolt, others attempt to cash in. The rest of the Internet has a chuckle. (via)

Soul Calibur IV just launched on 360 and PS3 with the bonus characters of Yoda and Darth Vader respectively. Now comes word (thankfully) that the characters will be available as DLC some time in the future. Which is great, because from what I hear Vader is Mitsurugi with a light saber.

Yahtzee's take on Age of Conan. To Funcom's credit the game is apparently not a worthless piece of garbage, a point previous developers competing with World of Warcraft have failed to address. I'm still waiting for AoC's server instability to evaporate, and for Funcom to start offering trials. Buying an MMO without trying it out first? That would be stupid.