MMO Rivalry

By Ben, on October 19th, 2009%

While I play WoW, I also play Lord of the Rings Online and once upon a time I also played Age of Conan (I stopped because the game itself isn’t very interesting). If you’re like me and have stepped outside the confines of WoW you will have found quite a lot of animosty and derision . . . → Read More: MMO Rivalry

Nice Try…

By Ben, on September 30th, 2009%

In my junk mail yesterday:

From: wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com <wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com> Subject: World of Warcraft Account Management Greetings! It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your personal World of Warcraft account(s). As you may or may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement. If this proves to . . . → Read More: Nice Try…

It’s Our Secret

By Ben, on September 17th, 2009%

Shh! I just ordered Katamari Forever from the US and Oui doesn’t know.

Luckily he never visits ‘our’ blog.

External Factors Destroying Experience

By Ben, on September 6th, 2009%

For the past two weeks Oui and I have been experiencing higher than usual latency in WoW making the game practically unplayable and in a moment of weakness we tried out Smoothping. While it did seem to stabilise our latency it didn’t provide anywhere near the benefit advertised and most importantly it didn’t give us . . . → Read More: External Factors Destroying Experience

PS3 Hitting It’s Stride

By Ben, on August 31st, 2009%

If you haven’t heard the news: God of War Collection – Blu-ray Disc Compilation Available This Holiday Season!

All I can say is FUCK YES! This gives me hope that they’ll possibly do the same for ICO and Shadow of the Colossus.

. . . → Read More: PS3 Hitting It’s Stride

The Curse of Monkey Island

By Ben, on August 31st, 2009%

From Grumpy Gamer, blog of Ron Gilbert (of Monkey Island fame):

WoW Tip #1

By Ben, on August 30th, 2009%

During a raid recently it came to my attention that there are people who don’t know how to tell if a mob ability can be interrupted. I can’t recall exactly when Blizzard added in the ability to distinguish between abilities that can and cannot be interrupted, but here you go:

Example: Ability cannot be . . . → Read More: WoW Tip #1

Something Finally Clicked

By Ben, on August 23rd, 2009%

We bought a PS3 nearly a year ago and in all that time I’ve been trying to find a game that would get Oui interested in it. Even Little Big Planet wasn’t able to penetrate his ambivalence, but last night I found the game.

While he and I were looking through the PSN his reluctance . . . → Read More: Something Finally Clicked

Lore Nerds Rejoice!

By Ben, on August 22nd, 2009%

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Oui: Who’s Deathwing?

I Want My Katamari

By Ben, on August 18th, 2009%

I am so desperate to get my hands on Katamari Forever, the new Katamari game coming to PS3 to be released in the US on September 22nd. The previous games on the PS2 were awesome and if the game is exactly the same on PS3 I will be happy. I don’t care what it is, . . . → Read More: I Want My Katamari

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