For everyone inside the United States, we have a new president after a long two year campaign. President-Elect Barak Obama and Vice President-Elect Joe Biden were elected today in a solid majority victory. Both candidates fought hard, but today the Obama campaign has made history today, as he will be the first African-American President of the United States. Interested in seeing his acceptance speech? You can watch it right Here.

Bill Roper, famed for working on such projects as every major Blizzard franchise to date, is joining up with the Champions Online team at Cryptic Studios. Curse.com broke the story earlier today with this article, highlighting his most recent accomplishments as well as the news release on this subject. This is just another interesting developement in the history of Champions Online, and we’ll be keeping our gaming eye on this one as it continues to grow.

Multiplayerblog over at multiplayerblog.mtv.com reported just the other day that, despite fantastic sales and earnings from Spore, EA is going to be laying off aproximately 600 workers in the coming weeks, which ammounts to about 6% of their total work force. EA’s CEO John Riccitello claims that his company is “bullish on the game sector overall” One can only hope this does not affect their most recent MMO success “Warhammer Online” or one of their developing projects through their Bioware branch known as The Old Republic.

The last few hours of my life have been utterly devoted to the enjoyment of Fallout 3, and they have been worth it. I haven’t gotten far at all in the game, most of the time’s been devoted to exploring the system and how characters interact excetra, but I can say from experience that this game has the systems in place to make a serious impact on the roleplaying gaming community. It’s $49.99 in most stores, with $24.99 for the strategy guide if that’s the way you swing. If you were on the fence about spending the money for the game, do it, it’s worth the cash. As a side note, watching a zombie’s head burst into peices at point blank range from a volley of assault rifle shots is so beautiful, it nearly brings me to tears.

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Blizzard’s given us a tentative date for their long awaited system that allows people to have two difference talent specializations at one. So far we’ve been told that it could be as early as their 3.1.1 patch, right after the launch of Wrath of the Lich King. We’ve also found out that as it stands, the switching shouldn’t actually cost any gold for players looking to switch, and there may not be a cooldown on the switch. All good news, hopefully this goes through as it stands.

We finally have some information on the new Star Wars MMO that Bioware and Lucasarts is developing. The title; Star Wars: The Old Republic. The setting is new, and the battle looks to be a major Sith power versus the Old Republic and the Jedi Knights. It’s set about 300 years after the original KotOR game, where a great Sith Empire has emerged from deep space when the Republic was at a weak point. They make a successful invasion into the Core and even onto the surface of Coruscant, and eventually a treaty is signed giving over many planets and solar systems to the Sith. This sets up for the game’s conflict between the unrelenting might of the Sith and the militarized but bruised Republic defense forces and the Jedi.

It’s unknown yet as to whether or not what players will have as to race or class choices, although it’s already assumed that they will have both Jedi and Sith Knights availible for play. You can find the website for this new MMO at http://www.swtor.com.

The latest version of R&D got “lost in translation/conversion/processing/etc”. We’ll be recording again tomorrow night. Appologies for the inconvenience folks, thanks for sticking with us on this.

Mark Jacobs, in a recent state of the game post in the Warhammer Herald, stated that in a soon-to-come patch for Warhammer Online will be bringing out two of the unreleased classes: The Knight of the Blazing Sun and the Black Guard. Both are tanking classes, one being for the Empire and the other for the Dark Elves. Exciting news and shows hopes that the other two unreleased classes, the Hammerer for the Dwarves and the Choppa for the Orcs will be coming out soon enough.