Some people just don’t deserve hype. Here we are, stuck in the doldrums of the MMO year and going through the motions in games or expansions where the shine has long since worn off. You’d think that injecting some optimism and excitement about upcoming games would be welcomed with open arms, right? But some players [...]
Archive for August, 2010
6 Rules for Enjoying Hype (and some cool videos from GW2 and Clone Wars)
Posted in general mmo, guild wars 2, star wars, tagged games, guild wars 2, hype, star wars clone wars, trailers, videos on August 12, 2010 | 18 Comments »
The Alliance can’t wait to welcome their new worgen allies
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged alliance, grizzly hills, worgen, wrath on August 10, 2010 | 22 Comments »
(thanks to mothtwiceborn for the screenshot) “Worgen. Blasted, light-forsaken, filth-ridden worgen. It’s time we showed the locals what us civilised folk do with beasts like them.” I am intrigued as to whether these Northrend quests will be tweaked once worgen become an alliance race in Cataclysm ….
It came from the PUG: The Infinite Healer
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged gearscore, group gearscore, infinite healer, it came from the pug on August 9, 2010 | 28 Comments »
One of the things I have noticed lately in high level PUGs is the effect of having a big variation in gearing between group members. It is very common these days to have three or more characters in a 5 man group with well over 5k gear score (that means they’re using a fair amount [...]
EQ Next: Three Games, One IP
Posted in general mmo, links, tagged eq, eq next, eq2, everquest next, fanfair on August 9, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Well, looks like I was wrong to assume that another MMO based on Everquest wasn’t going to emerge (in the light of SOEs recent redundancies). SOE announced that very thing this weekend at Fanfest, their user convention. Non-fans now have every reason to be confused. Between EQLive (aka EQ1), EQ Extended/ EQ2 and now EQ [...]
Gaming News: Starcraft 2 numbers, Torchlight 2, Gameforge buys majority of Frogster, Google Wave ditched
Posted in general mmo, guild wars 2, links, single player games, tagged gaming news, numbers, starcraft 2, torchlight 2 on August 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Starcraft 2 sells well, but not as well as WoW The SC2 numbers are in and they’re good. Blizzard claims best selling PC Game of 2010 with over 1 milion copies sold within the first 24 hours. Kotaku compare this number with WoW expansions, and finds that both TBC and Wrath sold over twice as [...]
Could games make grown men cry?
Posted in general mmo on August 7, 2010 | 20 Comments »
I read an article in one of our local free papers this week which listed the results of a survey about films which made men cry. This was in the wake of Toy Story being released over here and proving a weepie. Up made #3 on the list. #1 was Return of the King — [...]
[Guest Post] Adventures of Mizzi, the EXTRA SPECIAL goblin warlock
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged casual player, cataclsym, explosions, goblin, goblin starting area, how is cataclysm for a casual player, kezan, mizzi on August 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
(Mizzi is a casual player, she has never raided in Wow and is exactly the sort of person Blizzard are hoping to attract with the new expansion. And she’s kindly agreed to write up some of her experiences with the Cataclysm beta.) Entering the Beta I was surprised to get an invite. I’m the opposite [...]
[Guest Post] The first three seconds
Posted in general mmo, tanking, warcraft, tagged conflict, damage meter, dps, guest post, raid, tanks, threat, warcraft on August 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
(Salanna is a mage who runs in the same raid group as Spinks, for her sins. Her hobbies are drinking, setting things on fire, and reminding tanks of their own mortality.) Hi. So, Spinks is away, and has rather unwisely turned her blog over to other people. People like me. A mage. Spinks situates herself [...]
[Guest Post] Raid Leading in Wrath, One Tree’s story
Posted in warcraft, tagged alliance, casual, icecrown, naxxramas, raid leading, ulduar, wrath on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(Thron is known in other parts of the Internet as Natural20. You can find him on Livejournal here – http://natural20.livejournal.com/ or on Twitter here – http://twitter.com/natural20 He tends to talk a lot about Irish politics as well as gaming and conventions, you have been warned.) A short introduction, I’m Thron, a Resto-Druid and raidleader of Cobra, [...]
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