Starcraft 2: A Heartattack Waiting to Happen

I got into the Starcraft 2 Beta a few days back, and I’ve been playing it in what free time I’ve had.  It’s graphically impressive and fluid, the Battle.net UI is superb, and the game is fun.  That’s all I really need to say about the gaem, other than: it’s Starcraft. I may have given [...]

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Quick WoW News: Twitter Chat for 2/26

Developer chat on Twitter (h/t MMO-Champion)

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WoW: New Build of 3.3.3 on PTR

Once again, stealing content from MMO-Champion, the newest PTR build patch notes are available. New spells and achievements are in relating to the Gnomeregan/Echo Isles business. Tracking variables are in relating to vote kicking (probably internal) A new pet spell and new mount spell have been added (celestial dragons!) We also have some class changes.  [...]

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More Tidbits from the Latest PTR Patch

Just to make sure to disseminate this, MMO-Champion did some more revealing of what they data-mined from the latest PTR build. A lot of it appears to relate to a pre-Cataclysm event wherein Gnomeregan and the Echo Isles will be retaken, giving the gnomes and trolls capital cities and home areas.  The post at MMO-Champ [...]

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WoW: 3.3.3 Deployed to the PTR

Courtesy of MMO-Champion, the Patch Notes for 3.3.2.  Nothing terribly surprising in the notes as far as new features are concerned, though there are some interesting class changes.  Looks like a spate of DK buffs, particularly for Frost, and the latest attempt at fixing Scourge Strike.  With the upfront damage getting a buff but moving [...]

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Starcraft 2: A Quick Comment on the “Chrono Boost Toss Rush”

Seriously, this is a pretty good analog of the 4-pool zergling rush, which was relatively counterable by a decent player in a robust built.  While you will, as the narrator says, beat Noobs, you take some significant penalties that will absolutely cripple you mid game. First, your friggin’ gateway is in the middle of the [...]

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Some More World of Warcraft News: Ruby Sanctum For Realz

Once again, MMO-Champion scours blue posts so I don’t have to! First up, as was revealed in a Game Informer interview (worth reading), the Ruby Sanctum will open up in 3.3.5 as a mini-raid leading up to Cataclysm. A powerful war party of the Black Dragonflight, led by the fearsome Twilight dragon, Halion, have launched [...]

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WoWser: BG and Honor changes incoming, plus: Ghostcrawler is a Scientist

As pointed out by MMO-Champion, Zarhym announced some pretty big changes to Battlegrounds and their rewards that will be appearing in the next minor content patch. Marks will be going away, and things that used to be bought with them will instead use something else (likely more honor).  Existing marks can be traded in for [...]

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Sid Meier’s Next Great Innovation in Civilization V: Hex-based Maps!!

OMFG, this has never been done before.  Seriously, now you’ll be able to move in six directions from any spot!  Instead of the crappy old 8 directions… Sorry, sometimes hype wakens in me a beast of cynicism that I have a hard time tranquilizing.  I know I’ll play a new civilization and like it.  But [...]

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Starcraft 2: Closed Beta Begins

Hell-fucking-yes Go opt in if you haven’t and cross your fingers.

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