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Starcraft 2 / Battle.net discussion

Starcraft 2 / Battle.net discussion

Here are some of the main talking points from this discussion…
-More players on battle.net than WoW
-Account and characters never expire
-See online friends even when in single player/campaign mode
-Introducing a rewind feature
-Improved achievement system
-New system is an “always connected” service: get friend achievement alerts
-Achievement decals can be applied to actual in game units
-All game progress saved [...]

Got Ganked? Bejeweled.

Got Ganked? Bejeweled.

Back in the day, 479 health meant I had a good 4-5 whacks left in me before the infamous “Release” button would appear.  What’s more, 479 health was the perfect indicator of life or death from a PvP perspective: if I had another player under 500, I was on the winning end of things.  A [...]

Borean Tundra: Barrens Chat 3.0

Borean Tundra: Barrens Chat 3.0

The game is littered with hilarious moments, you just have to find them…or, in my case, you can create them.
So I’m gaming it up in the great horse-cow village of Taunke’la when I suddenly see some guy named Yakdruid going on in general chat about how “those misfit hippies runnin’ round here smokin that marijuwana, [...]

The Spoon has landed…

Hey folks, Spooner’s wife here – Feilynn for any you who don’t know me – just reporting to all of you avid, concerned and (mostly interested) readers that Spooner has indeed landed in Santa Ana and is holed up in his hotel, ready for Spoonduction (this is short for Spooncraft Production) of Blizzcon 2008!  Wooooooo
The [...]

World of – What Did He Just Say?

World of – What Did He Just Say?

Barrens chat. You know what I’m talking about: the senseless, useless, “did-he-just-say-that-?” crap chat you’re entitled to endure while leveling (or casually flying by on your way to, say, Thousand Needles) that lures you in like the hopeful promise of casual sex at a keg party: you might not get anything out of it, [...]

Beware the Deviate Fish.

Beware the Deviate Fish.

Hello, virtual audience…My name is Feilynn, wife of Spooner, female gamer and fellow WoW enthusiast. I hope you won’t mind if I take a bit of your time to discuss a topic I’ve kept bottled up for the past three years!
Blizzard seems to have a metaphor for everything. If you look deep enough [...]