Archive for August, 2008
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008One of the games I really wanted to see at PAX this year was Champions Online. If you recall from my earlier responses, I hadn’t been terribly impressed with the videos that Cryptic has released so far, so I wanted to see some live play with my own eyes. I managed to spend about [...]
Dragging at PAX 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008I’m sick as a dog right now — my fiancee brought home a nasty cold and infected me, and I was feeling miserable last night. This morning I felt a little better, so I got up and headed downtown to PAX to check out the floor and use my two hours of press time to [...]
Go Buy Herbs… Now!
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008It looks like we’ll be getting the World of Warcraft 3.0 content patch with most of the nifty WoTLK stuff in just a few weeks. Quoted from the official post:
We have outlined some of the larger features scheduled to release with the patch below:
New class spells and talents
Stormwind Harbor
Barbershops in capital cities
Zeppelin towers outside of [...]
Riddle Me This
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Is anyone else bothered by the fact that promotional World of Warcraft materials always show characters in cool-looking, matching outfits, when in fact your character’s outfit will never match in color or style until end game raiding (and then only if you choose to use all your set pieces)?
They should really do something about that: [...]
WoW’s Recruit a Friend Program
Monday, August 25th, 2008Ever since Myrix suggested that I use a trial account to power-level myself a new character on my World of Warcraft PvP server, I’ve been thinking about doing just that (for all the reasons I talk about here). Originally I hadn’t wanted to do it since it seemed like an exploit (and a hassle), but [...]
WAR Links and WoW Cinematic
Thursday, August 21st, 2008If anyone has lingering questions about Warhammer Online that haven’t been answered by the current coverage, definitely go check out the The Greenskin’s epic Beta Q&A post. There’s tons of great info there. Also, Tobold’s post has me reconsidering how I’ve been looking at WAR. He’s right about trying to play it as if it [...]
Warhammer Online - Analyzing the Response
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008I’m not going to give you my long-winded impression of Warhammer Online because 1) I didn’t play it long enough in beta for a proper review, and 2) everyone on the internet has been exploding with that information since the NDA belatedly dropped this morning. I suggest you hit any one (or all) of those [...]
DC Universe Online
Monday, August 18th, 2008Being a diehard Marvel fan, I haven’t really been following or interested in DC Universe Online. I mean, Batman is cool, but there are just so many lame DC heroes. Still, I decided to go look for some DC Universe Online footage on YouTube just to see how it stacks up to what we’ve been [...]
Twittering Like a Madman
Monday, August 18th, 2008So, I finally downloaded Twhirl at the insistence of a friend who told me that I couldn’t really experience Twitter properly without a client like that. He was right. I was shielded from it before, protected in a soft cocoon of ignorance. Now I’m hopelessly, shamelessly, hungrily addicted. I’ll be commenting on game and book-related [...]
Sick, Sick, Sick
Monday, August 18th, 2008Reports keep rolling in about just how fast the leveling is with WoW’s new recruit-a-friend program. I’m seeing a lot of discussion on the official forums about it, Cuppy was telling me that she expects to have her character up to 60 in just a few nights of dungeon running, and someone suggested that I [...]
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