Summer of Halo 3 Winners are Team Schwartenegger!
Filed under: Big Robot News, Console Gaming, Featured Stories, Halo
The SUMMER OF HALO 3 Winners are announced – and it is Team Schwartenegger! Trey S. and Rod S. had the best winning percentage (90%) over their 10 games. Teams had to play a minimum of 10 games together and they had the best record! Next time, we’ll have fewer teams and more games per team – maybe we’ll make it a minimum of 20 games or make it a $1.00 to register your team name for the tournament…anyway, Trey S. and Rod S., get in here and claim your prizes – a GIANT HALO Master Chief Figure or a $30 Big Robot Game Cafe gift card.
Next All-Nighter at the Big Robot Scheduled for OCTOBER 31st!
Fifteen young people enjoyed an all-nighter at Big Robot Game Cafe on Saturday night, September 26th! For just $15, they got to play any games they wanted all night, plus lots of food, drinks and pizza were available for purchase! The kids had a LOT of fun grouping up and playing all the latest video games with their friends. The next all-nighter will be held on HALLOWEEN NIGHT October 31st – again, $15 will get you in for the whole night and it will again be limited to the first 20 people to sign up and pay. Plus anyone coming in costume will get a coupon for a free beverage of their choice! Get down to Big Robot in downtown Tipp City or check out their website at www.bigrobotgamecafe.com for more information.
AION Showcase – Play for Free!
Filed under: Big Robot News, Featured Stories, PC Gaming
Aion is a visually stunning massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) where your character wields devastating powers and sweeping wings to explore a celestial world of breath-taking beauty and epic adventure. It features cutting-edge imagery, gorgeous environments, and a unique fantasy world. Your character plays a pivotal role in the fate of Atreia, where the enemy is not only the other player faction but a deadly ancient evil as well. Aion requires a paid Aion Account and a monthly fee and must be played on a Windows PC with Internet access.
At Big Robot Game Cafe, we’re excited about the release of Aion, the latest Fantasy MMORPG from NCSoft. We are offering the following EXCLUSIVES during our TWO WEEK SHOWCASE OF THE GAME, which runs September 26 to October 9:
- Free Game Time (one hour per day) to play the game (free hour based on store occupancy – if we are busy you may not get a free hour)
- Free DEMO ACCOUNTS to try out the game for free. Trial accounts are in a 3/5/7 format (last up to 3 days, 5 hours, or level 7, whichever you reach first)
- Free Exclusive IN GAME ITEMS that you can only get at Big Robot!
For more information, please visit the game’s official website at www.aiononline.com!
World of Warcraft’s Astounding Numbers
From Plugged In – Yahoo! Games
With about 12 million subscribers, chart-topping sales and enough pop culture cred to warrant both an Emmy-winning turn in South Park and shout-outs from William Shatner and Ozzy Osbourne, we knew World of Warcraft was big. But during a game conference in Austin covered by Gamasutra, the game’s developers dropped some stats that make it out to be, well, really, really big. To operate a game as massive as Warcraft, Blizzard employs over 4,600 staffers and uses 20,000 computer systems, 75,000 CPU cores and a staggering 1.3 petabytes that’s over 1 billion MBs of storage. And you thought your 32 GB iPhone was cool.
The game itself, when viewed from The Matrix, would take up about 5.5 million lines of code, made even safer by the fact that the QA crew has flattened over 180,000 bugs If you were actually wandering around in Azeroth, you could find over 1.5 million art assets, from wall torches to wheels of cheese, and would have the opportunity to chat up 40,000 NPCs non-player characters. They could then dole out 7,650 quests, which you could complete using a handful of the game’s 70,000 spells.The craziest stat of all? In the five years since World of Warcraft launched, players have earned a McDonald’s-threatening 4,449,680,399 in-game rewards. Man, that’s a lot of loot.
ALL NIGHTER SATURDAY the 26TH
ALL NIGHTER ALL NIGHTER ALL NIGHTER!!! Our famous all-nighters are back and the next one is NEXT WEEK! YIKES! Get in here and reserve your spot – only 20 people will be allowed in and the first 20 folks to reserve AND PAY will be invited to stay all night! The all-nighter will be on Saturday September 26th, costs $15 and runs from 10pm (yes the store will close early) to 8am the next morning! If you fall asleep you get kicked out! If you leave you can’t come back in! If you’re under 18 you need a permission slip! It’s gonna be a blast – play games all night and have the run of the place for only $15! Food and drink will be for sale, along with pizza by the slice. GET IN HERE and RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY!
Big Robot Closed This Week Mon-Thurs
Big Robot Game Cafe will be closed from Monday, September 14 to Thursday, September 17 to take inventory and prepare for the upcoming holiday season! We’ve got a lot of stuff to count to get ready for Christmas!
We’re stocking up on Magic the Gathering, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh card games and card gaming accessories, along with a large selection of new Lego sets. We’re also looking at brining in Star Wars merchandise, including action figures, Star Wars Transformers, and die-cast metal Star Wars vehicles. Check back to find out more or, better yet, comment on this post and make some suggestions – what would YOU like to see us stock?
Champions Online – at Big Robot!
Champions Online is out, and we have it at Big Robot Game Cafe! Champions Online is a subscription-based, superhero-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game by former City of Heroes/Villains developer Cryptic Studios based on the Champions license. The game has been released for Microsoft Windows and the game is also tentatively being developed for the Xbox 360. The game’s rules and setting are loosely based on the HERO System ruleset.
The game itself is action-oriented. Successful attacks and blocks increase a power meter which can then be spent to unleash more powerful actions. Death is handled in a similar manner to City of Heroes, in which a player may choose to be revived by a teammate or respawn at a neutral site, except respawning does not accrue experience debt. Instead, upon death you lose a one of your five possible accrued Hero Stars. These stars are earned for staying alive while defeating NPCs. Your character gains bonuses to their the effectiveness for every star earned (percentage increases to damage, healing, etc.)
Our Next Facebook Fan Winner is…James Persing!
Our Next Facebook Fan Winner is…James Persing! He was our randomly-selected Facebook Fan for TOMORROW, Friday! If James Persing wins ONE FREE HOUR of Gametime at Big Robot – he just needs to come in and claim it! He must visit on Friday, September 11 to claim his free hour.
Want to win a free hour? Sign up to become a BIG ROBOT GAME CAFE FACEBOOK FAN today!!!
Our Free Time for Facebook Fans Promotion has Started!
Big Robot Game Cafe has started our Free Time Promotion! We’ll pick a word of the day or a lucky Facebook fan – who knows! Folks who know the word get to take advantage of our “Buy one hour, get one hour free” promotion! And the lucky Facebook fans we mention get a FREE HOUR. Offers are only good for the day/date announced and folks MUST VISIT THE STORE to purchase hours or claim their prize. So FAN US ON FACEBOOK NOW!!
Don’t Be Alarmed…
Don’t be too freaked out and no, it’s not the Empire coming to your town to mete out death and destruction! The Big Robot website is undergoing some changes and growing pains as we roll out a new version and a few things might get moved around. Once it’s settled down we’ll post changes and such…