Ubisoft Promo Video

WoW Cataclysm Cinematic Making Of: Finally up!

/afk: the movie Part 1

Dedae Reviews old Fable games, for some reason....

Video Games | | Checkpoint: Basement Level Ep. 9

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Boy is she going to pissed at Fable 3. LOL!

Gary Platner video also unlocked! Cool!

Unlockable Interview with Jesse McCree, well Unlocked!

Back To World of Warcraft!

            I haven’t played World of Warcraft for a year this month.  Once I went to Blizzcon however, I some how got lured back in.  The sense of community and nostalgic thrill that crept in finally over came me.  This may seem like a crazy reason to return to the game.  But with this strange confluence; patch 4.0 was also out.  Which if you haven’t all ready experienced it.  Changes everything.  I had five characters on Horde side and retalenting each one of them really changed my attitude toward some of them.  In fact, I started playing my Warlock again, which I had basically relegated toward basically a bank and profession alt.  But with the new rebalance of talents and such the old specs that were good are no longer that great and over all it seems that the classes are far more balanced against each other.

      The only problem I have of course, is I missed the entire endgame content for my Main and my Main isn’t geared anywhere near well enough for Battlegrounds.   Which means I’m pretty much on hold with my Main.

     I also started a new character, Troll Shaman.  So that I can experience all the new Cataclysm content. Oh yeah, I pre-ordered the Cataclysm content.  There are certainly plenty of things wrong with World of Warcraft in general and even with all the new updates and innovations the game is far from perfect or where I think the game SHOULD be after this much time.  But, World of Warcraft is still fun and currently the only REAL viable MMORPG worth playing.  Considering I’m so completely invested with multiple characters over 60.  I feel like if I want to play an MMORPG, this is one.

      I also can’t wait to play a Worgen.  In fact, I’m going to give you all an update about the status of my Worgen progress on a RPPVP server, which I have never been on before.  So you can all experience the coolness of the new race with me.  I have NO IDEA what class I’m going to play.  Hopefully something viable in a Raid but still makes sense with the essence of the race.

      I certainly can’t wait for Guild Wars 2 to come out.  Whenever that is…  I’m guessing sometime at the end of next year.  Which I’ll be completely done with all the WoW content by then.

      Well, see you all on December 8th for the first WoW update. Oh and read the site between now and then too. Lol.

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Dedae Reviews Fallout New Vegas: Cause I'm not going to!

Video Games | | Checkpoint: Basement Level Ep. 8

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

So I haven't mentioned Dedae before, but she rocks! The thing I love about her video reviews is her honesty and her creativity. Both of which are on display in this review. All her videos are on Gametrailers.com and while she hasn't done a review very recently since this last one. They are awesome to watch anyway.

XBOX LIVE UPDATE! IS this what an Extra $10 gets me?

 

     Once again Microsoft is trying to change their image from Corporate Raiders who want to sell you over priced software to a cute and cuddly company that is more like Nintendo or Apple.  The difference is that unlike Nintendo or Apple there is very little behind the fluff.  And worst of all they are taking down the people who have supported them all these years in doing this.

   As with every Dashboard update things have changed.  And as with every Dashboard Update since the Avatars were released, not for the better.  For some reason it seems that Microsoft feels that their old Dashboard from years gone by was just not soaking up enough processes.  So they have, with every update tried to stress the system so that you are seeing more loading screens than actual content.

   Best of all not only do you have to download the ESPN add-on and a new Zune Marketplace add-on separately.  But the inital setup of the new dashboard drops all your original settings.  Thanks, Microsoft that was handy.  Perhaps instead up changing the design of the dashboard and Avatars AGAIN!  They could have worked on the back end and make everything run more smoothly, have fewer loading screens, fewer errors about content that doesn’t exist, and less time screwing around in menus just to go to other menus.  Yeah, but where would the fun in that be?  How would that be a good PR campaign.  Because after all, ALL these people who are going to buy a Kinect for their living room/gymnasium aren’t going to know the difference.  Yeah, that’s too bad, considering those people are probably going to buy two games and never touch the system or any of the the content again.  These are people the analytics refer to when they talk about people who don’t use DLC.

     Apparently however, everyone wants a piece of the Nintendo pie.  Too bad Microsoft, isn’t holding back on the crazy to do it.  After all, Sony seems pretty low key about their casual jump and that’s good because the people they are targeting aren’t going to be impressed by marketing or ads.  They will be impressed by word of mouth.  Unfortunately the only word of mouth I can give this new update is, “rip-off.”  I say this because starting in November we get to pay an extra $10 a year for the casual revolution so that Microsoft can pretend to be Nintendo for six months until they realize they aren’t making any money and start on Halo 4.

So thanks Microsoft, good to see my money is going to good use.  Perhaps next time, you’ll survey the hardcore before you start throwing our money around.

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