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I just thought I would post this screenshot from WoW. It’s a shot of my human female rogue from a couple of days ago. Yes, her name is Idlemaam. What can I say? I’m a southern boy. Maam is just befitting of a lady. She was in Goldshire in a house I think. I went into a bedroom, and there were four children in the room. One was in the fireplace. Clearly this is a just a small goof in the AI, but I got a kick out of it.
Okay, there’s this new brand of crack rock I’m addicted to and it’s called World of Warcraft, or WoW. I’ve actually heard of relationships breaking up over WoW and Everquest, another MMORPG, and now I know why. Several friends of mine are playing it. One of my friends, eyedropp3r, told me I could trade in my PS2 + games at my local EB store, so I wouldn’t have to actually pay for the game. Taking his advice, I traded my PS2 + games, and got about $162 in store credit. I bought WoW and pre-ordered Quake 4. The ‘kid’ at EB said that I could pre-order Quake 4 for a $9 reservation fee, or I could just pre-purchase the game for full price. I figured I would just pre-purchase it, so that when it comes out I’m guaranteed a copy of the game and I wouldn’t have to shell out $40 in a couple of months to procure the game. Anyway, I figured since I’ve got $162 in credit, what the hell, go ahead and pay the full fee.
Anyhoo, WoW is flippin’ amazing. I’ve been playing it off and on for about a week now. My current player is a Level 10 Night Elf Rogue. Some of you won’t know what the hell that is without visiting the WoW site or actually playing the game yourself. The game is so good that I’ve been pricing a new AMD Athlon64 + new SLI mobo + new PCI-E video card to replace my current AthlonXP 3200 + Asus GeforceFX 5200. It’s a sickness, I know.
If you aren’t married or have a serious girlfriend and you have A LOT of time to kill, I suggest getting WoW.
Not content to watch Spiderman-2 and play Need for Speed, Seth Fogie took apart his PSP to see what makes it tick — and if hardware mods are in its future. Luckily he took notes (and pictures) so the rest of us could take a peek inside, too.
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Join Michael Miller for a trip down memory lane as he details the 30-year history of home video game consoles, from the original, dedicated, single-game units to today’s CD-based games.
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