Posts Tagged 'World of Warcraft'

SteelSeries Dual Anniversary Giveaway

In celebration of SteelSeries’ 10th Anniversary and Blizzard Entertainment’s 20th Anniversary, SteelSeries is hosting a giveaway from August 29 to September 7  where gamers can enter to win a fully customized prize pack of SteelSeries peripherals and Blizzard licensed products

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SteelSeries Dual Anniversary Giveaway

In celebration of SteelSeries’ 10th Anniversary and Blizzard Entertainment’s 20th Anniversary, SteelSeries is hosting a giveaway from August 29 to September 7  where gamers can enter to win a fully customized prize pack of SteelSeries peripherals and Blizzard licensed products

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WoW Patch 4.3 Brings An All New Darkmoon Faire

The Darkmoon Faire is getting a much needed make-over in World of Warcraft‘s patch 4.3 with all new quests and activities, as well as a new location. “It’s incredible! It’s unbelievable! You’ll be dazzled. You’ll be amazed! You aren’t prepared

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WoW Patch 4.3 Brings An All New Darkmoon Faire

The Darkmoon Faire is getting a much needed make-over in World of Warcraft‘s patch 4.3 with all new quests and activities, as well as a new location. “It’s incredible! It’s unbelievable! You’ll be dazzled. You’ll be amazed! You aren’t prepared

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Latent Intricacy

Multum in parvo. It’s a Latin phrase that I feel encapsulates the concept of emergence. Complexity borne of the combination of simple things. Linearity in games can offer the benefits of structure and focus, but it comes with a loss

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Latent Intricacy

Multum in parvo. It’s a Latin phrase that I feel encapsulates the concept of emergence. Complexity borne of the combination of simple things. Linearity in games can offer the benefits of structure and focus, but it comes with a loss

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Playing to Pay: PLEX in EVE Online

Don’t you wish that you could pay for an MMO with in game currency? Player A says I’m an epic level elf cleric, I’m leader of the top guild on my server, and if I want it to stay that

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Playing to Pay: PLEX in EVE Online

Don’t you wish that you could pay for an MMO with in game currency? Player A says I’m an epic level elf cleric, I’m leader of the top guild on my server, and if I want it to stay that

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Toys, Simulations and Stories I. Simulations

  One of the most noticeable and surprising problems with the study of video games (and interactive media in general) is the difficulty to describe their place in society. In general, there are three broad approaches to this question. Some

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Toys, Simulations and Stories I. Simulations

  One of the most noticeable and surprising problems with the study of video games (and interactive media in general) is the difficulty to describe their place in society. In general, there are three broad approaches to this question. Some

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Interview With Eitanya

Have you ever wanted to cuddle up with your favorite character only to discover hugging the game box or dvd case is just uncomfortable and not very fullfilling? Then you need to drop Eitanya an e-mail. Her plush version of

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Interview With Eitanya

Have you ever wanted to cuddle up with your favorite character only to discover hugging the game box or dvd case is just uncomfortable and not very fullfilling? Then you need to drop Eitanya an e-mail. Her plush version of

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The Bond of Gaming

Imagine a scenario where you are playing a game on its normal difficulty and you’re a quarter of the way through the game. You’ve been having a good time, especially for the last couple hours. Suddenly, your avatar’s speed is

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The Bond of Gaming

Imagine a scenario where you are playing a game on its normal difficulty and you’re a quarter of the way through the game. You’ve been having a good time, especially for the last couple hours. Suddenly, your avatar’s speed is

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Diablo III crafting trailer is crafty, all right

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3W7V5uv_6g&fs=1&hl=en_US] There seems to have been a subtle shift in strategy at Blizzard over the past few years. Old Blizzard, the Blizzard of Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3, were the type to take some risks, but focus primarily on perfecting

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Diablo III crafting trailer is crafty, all right

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3W7V5uv_6g&fs=1&hl=en_US] There seems to have been a subtle shift in strategy at Blizzard over the past few years. Old Blizzard, the Blizzard of Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3, were the type to take some risks, but focus primarily on perfecting

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Grind For This Content

The (not so) recent stink on the internet has been reviewing massive multiplayer games. Rock Paper Shotgun’s covered it extensively, in part because one of their writers got in on the act, and embraced the most dangerous topic in video

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Grind For This Content

The (not so) recent stink on the internet has been reviewing massive multiplayer games. Rock Paper Shotgun’s covered it extensively, in part because one of their writers got in on the act, and embraced the most dangerous topic in video

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The MMO and Risk Versus Reward

It’s been an interesting span of weeks for those of us interested in game design as a thing, not just as a process. We’ve been given access to not only Guild Wars 2’s design manifesto, which lays out the many

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The MMO and Risk Versus Reward

It’s been an interesting span of weeks for those of us interested in game design as a thing, not just as a process. We’ve been given access to not only Guild Wars 2’s design manifesto, which lays out the many

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