World Of Warcraft

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Prepare yourselves nerds! You have until January 16th to prepare your stash of Mountain Dew and Hot Pockets. The World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion pack is nearly here. If you are a World of Warcraft player then there is really very little I need to say to convince you to pick up a copy of this expansion. However, if you haven't yet joined the community of 7 million active subscribers 8 million active subscribers then I highly suggest you head over here and pick up a copy. World of Warcraft is a persistent online virtual world where players take up the roles of one of 8 (in the expansion 10) races to battle for their faction and protect their world. The expansion pack releases 2 new races, an increased level cap (previously 60 is now 70), all new skills and abilities, thousands of new quests and tasks, new professions, flying mounts (ever wanted to ride a dragon?), and plenty of goodies for any Warcraft series fan to enjoy. Seriously, why are you still ...
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City of Heroes, City of Villains Reviewed and Revisited

Way back before the days when Warcraft ruled the world, a small game company called Cryptic Studios gave us a very different type of MMORPG. It was called City of Heroes, and it wasn't your typical Elves vs. Orcs MMO. City of Heroes was for the comic book fan. It was for the guy or girl who's biggest hero wore tights, and who really wished he or she could turn invisible or fly. When the game was first released it was the only solid choice in a very underdeveloped market. The world has definitely changed since then. When I first played CoH on release it was a game full of holes, flaws, and a serious lack of end game content. In fact if one wished to continue playing the game post-50 they may as well get comfortable doing the same taskforce over and over, or learn to dance. Once World of Warcraft was released it wasn't too hard of a choice to leave the world of Paragon City behind and enter the world of Azeroth. After 2 years, an expansion, and a whole lot of time spent in ...
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World of Warcraft: The Wrath the Lich King (now with 80% more wrath)

You know, this really has gotten quite a bit out of hand. There was once a time, back in the day when playing a MMO was for the elite: the segment of society who had evolved beyond the need for grooming and social gatherings. However, times have certainly changed. Now World of Warcraft has 9 million devoted subscribers who have sold their soul to Blizzard Entertainment for their shiny purplz. Many had thought that after 3 years the World (of Warcraft) would finally be coming to an end. That people would emerge from the dark to once again blink in the warm sunlight. Well, put those thoughts aside as Blizzard announced the newest expansion: The Wrath of the Lich King. Ok, so lets start with the big stuff. What does a new expansion mean? Well, I will defer to Blizzard Community Manager Drysc for this: "Sometimes when a video game developer loves a game very much they go into a dark office, and after many months an expansion comes out! While the expansion can be a lot of ...
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Top 5 Best Games For Kids

At this point I'm sure we're all very aware that "video games is the devil," but what many don't realize (or actively choose not to acknowledge) is that there are some very educational, entertaining, and enriching games on the market that can actually do wonders to grab kid's attentions while teaching them valuable lessons. If you think it's about time you stopped judging games based on the mass media image, and started looking a bit deeper then enjoy this list of the top 5 games for kids: 5) Pokemon Pearl and Diamond - I know what you may be thinking. Pokemon is a mindless pastime of children these days, and has no educational value. You would say that because you have not watched your own children play with this game. You may see it these kids spending tons of money trying to "catch them all," but what you don't realize is the amount of social education that these kids are gaining from this game. Pokemon, at it's core, is a game of sharing, trading, and growing. A player is ...
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Team Fortress 2 Review - Is megafun a word?

I have never been a huge fan of the FPS genre. I love multiplayer gaming, but when it comes to FPS and RTS games people tend to get so good so fast that it's nearly impossible to keep competitive. Sure, I'll play a single player FPS now and then. I was a huge fan of Bioshock, and I hear that people are crazy for the Haloz, but I don't have the same reaction to them that I do to RPGs. I'll admit it: I never played Half-Life. I bought, but never completed, Half-Life 2. I played a little Counterstrike now and again, but only when the servers were down in World of Warcraft (or whatever MMO I was currently playing). So, when I started seeing videos of this Team Fortress 2 I was only slightly interested. This is of course until the "Meet the X" campaign began. I suddenly saw that this was not the typical FPS. This was a game that understood it's players. It was a game with a whole lot of style, a talented art team, and a whole lot of humor batched in. I started to see what there ...
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