We view March Madness like we view exclusive titles coming out for consoles we don’t play: we only peripherally pay attention. Well, most of us. I’m in the minority here as I’m a basketball junky and unabashedly into March Madness. I mean, c’mon, even the moniker is catchy. St. Louis hosts a Regional setting called…
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World of Warcraft’s newest expansion: Battle for Azeroth, is a breath of fresh gaming air. The last expansion, Legion, was fun albeit visually repetitive at the end. Seriously – can we get some blue sky for the Love of Elune? Argus doubled down on the scorched-earth-and-black-sky motif that ran roughshod over the rest of the graphics. We’re now…
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#PAXEast2018 has been a blast! Starting out as a calm morning, weather in Boston quickly turned into a snowstorm. Luckily the snow didn’t stick, but windows all along the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center offered a stark, cold contrast to the warm and cozy confines of gaming buffs and cosplay heroes. Where to first? Blizzard’s…
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Vanilla World of Warcraft (or Classic to be know from here-forth), still brings back sweet memories and haunting boss drops. Whether played for fun or as a lifestyle, the first iteration of WoW changed the culture of online gaming forever. I remember stopping at Best Buy off of Route 43 somewhere between Lake Geneva and…
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Let me be exquisitely blunt, friends: pick-up lines don’t work. Sure, sometimes you may garner a laugh, but you’ve probably got a better chance beating Contra without the Konami code than landing a phone number with a pick-up line – and NO, if you get one of these numbers it doesn’t count (thanks Buzzfeed!). So…
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You got me. I thought it would take longer, if it would happen at all. It’s been awhile since I looked forward to having a night of WoW. Don’t get me wrong, just because I didn’t love Warlords of Draenor, it doesn’t mean I thought the game was going in a bad direction. And if you’ve…
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Let’s face it. Warlords of Draenor was a move away from the center of World of Warcraft. While each expansion has its own flavor and spices, WoD definitely broke the palate for the casual WoW player, at least in my experience. And here’s why that wasn’t a bad thing. To begin, I’ve walked away from each of…
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CNET Magazine, summer edition, hit the shelves earlier this week. Ian Sherr’s article, Love Match? surveys several niche dating sites, and LFGdating made the cut. The content describes Jaime, a 40-year-old woman who wants to find a man who is more than ok with her playing World of Warcraft 10 plus hours per week. Sherr writes, “Her previous relationship ended…
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We want the upcoming World of Warcraft film to be the bees’ knees. Actually, we want it to deliver more than the final Hobbit installment delivered. The problem, though, isn’t that the film should be great. The problem is that films adapted from video games are a tough sell. Remember Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within?…
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Even though stores and towns are pushing the decorations and music earlier and earlier every year, Christmas still tends to surprise the heck out of most of us come I don’t know – December 23rd. With just hours until Santa, Father Christmas, or the portly guy in red comes barreling down your chimney, you frantically…
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