After a week’s break, the GamingLives Podcast is back for its fifth episode, celebrating the week on GamingLives with some extended discussion from Adam, Ben, Lee, Mark and Lorna. This week we’re talking Diablo III, following up from Ben’s experience in the recent closed beta, offering our points of view regarding the modern multi-disc game and capping off the week on GamingLives.com with a look at Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Outisde of the GamingLives bubble we give our take on the ‘Notch vs. The World’ legal battle and what we make of this week’s news regarding Multiplayer in Mass Effect 3.

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The Gathering

At first mention, The Gathering evokes a sense of sinister trepidation, a horde of glassy-eyed children standing around a huge woodland fire as they chant to summon some horrendous beast from the bowels of Hades and offer one of their own as a sacrifice. The reality of the situation is considerably less twisted, yet with the same glassy-eyed stares as a room full of people sit transfixed to a television that could only be described as “shit, purely because it’s not mine”.

Mark’s coverage from “The Gathering” >

Diablo III Beta Impressions

There are few titles that invoke such a high level of nostalgia as Diablo, its very name having been used to all but describe an entire genre since it first saw release.  Similar games have never just been ‘dungeon crawlers’ or one of the myriad of words often used to describe them; instead it was always, and without fail, Diablo style. This is a sequel to a game that was released so long ago that by the time it actually finds itself sat on store shelves it’ll likely have been twelve years since the previous…

Full Diablo III beta preview here >

There are times in my life where I read a news story and wonder “is this classed as real news now, or is it just a really slow day today?” For instance, I recently saw that NASA had come out and said that the sci-fi horror flick ‘Apollo 18′ is, and I quote, “not a documentary”. The Daily Mail had an inside scoop in the past month that the creators of Sesame Street had released a statement confirming…

Insert Disc Two… >

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – Interview with Chet Faliszek

As we touched down at our location, I couldn’t help but feel nervous. This was my first combat situation in this environment, and I was ready to take down the terrorist threat by any means necessary. Taking a look at the weapon selection in front of me, I convinced myself there was only one real choice for me: a shotgun. It may not have been the smartest selection…

Full interview with Chet here >

Bethesda: Nobody enjoys being ‘forced’ to sue Mojang

Bethesda VP of marketing Pete Hines is providing some context for its case against Minecraft-dev Mojang’s coming title, Scrolls, saying Mojang hasn’t fairly presented Bethesda’s side of the fight (probably because it’s on the side against Bethesda). “Mojang’s public comments have not given a complete picture as it relates to their filings…

Read the full news story over on joystiq.com >

Mass Effect 3: Galaxy at War announced

Join your friends in the all-out galactic war to take Earth back. The universe of Mass Effect expands with the addition of new co-op multiplayer missions, playable over Xbox Live, PSN and PC internet. Players can choose from a variety of classes and races, form an elite Special Forces squad, and combine their weapons, powers and abilities to devastating effect as they fight together to liberate key territories from enemy control…

More details over on the BioWare Forum >

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