Tag: WARCRAFT

Yup, it's been a long time coming, but the out-of-game value-added services for World of Warcraft are finally emerging. The subscriber base has seemingly stagnated at a meager 13 million, and Blizzard [or Activision...] is looking for other creative ways of milking its bulbous bovine. First we saw in-game vanity items -- like pets and mounts -- and now we're actually seeing the start of an ...

Are you bored with the default WoW music? It's great and all, but after five and a half years, you might be a little weary. Picking flowers is great, but mining mithril ore to the Rocky Fanfare theme is even better! Or perhaps you're of the other, older, lore nerdy school: you love one of the Blizzard tracks so much that you want it to play all the time, no matter where you are! Well, you're in ...

We've all heard the horror stories, often emanating from the neighborhood of the far east, of people who take their online gaming a little too seriously. These are folks that get real-life revenge for in-game defeats, like the guy who murdered (in real life) an online opponent for stealing his in-game weapon. There have even been cases, reportedly, where folks who were otherwise healthy just up ...

I've seen games like Flash Element TD before and haven't been overwhelmed, but after playing this one for about 45 minutes, and then realizing I had been playing it for 45 minutes, I realized it's a keeper. It's of the "tower defense" genre, wherein you have to protect against wave after wave of baddies by building towers. Each tower has strengths and weaknesses against different enemies, which ...

A Russian developer is working pretty rapidly on Medieval - a WarCraft III clone for Pocket PC devices. Just a few days ago I downloaded an alpha of this program and it was unplayable. Today I grabbed version 0.1, and it's perfectly playable, if a bit confusing. For example, by default the program opens in landscape mode, but if you use your PDA's directional pad to scroll across the screen, it ...

If you've been playing World of Warcraft for any length of time, then you know that there are just some quests you can't do every day. They're too special, too "l33t" to happen all the time. Like slaying the great dragon Onyxia. Or trauling through the menacing dungeon Zul Gurub in search of really rare treasure. But, if you're not paying attention to the spawn schedule of these quests, ...