Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Lol. According to a Reuters article, "w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary. Merriam-Webster President John Morse said "w00t" reflected the growing use of numeric keyboards to type words.
The article explains that "w00t" it "reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging and topped all other terms in the Springfield-based dictionary publisher's online poll for the word that best sums up 2007."
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Monday, December 3, 2007
Headline of the morning: Guitar Hero meets Warcraft Without reading the article on the ABC news website, I immediately pictured my Blood Elf Mage walking through the Hinterlands with a guitar strapped to her back. I wonder how much armor it would give? I imagine it would definitely increase stamina and spirit. =o)
This could be the deal of a lifetime for Vivendi SA. The company wishes to acquire a "controlling stake" in Activision, Inc. This would be great for gamers because it will force Electronic Arts Inc. to start competing with another big gaming company.
In the Blizzard world I would fear taking on Activision might cause patches and expansions for WoW to become even more few and far between. We're already being forced to wait until next December for the "Wrath of the Lich King." But who knows what will happen, it's just a very interesting plan.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Holy ethernet batman! D-Link's DGL-4500 Xtreme N Gaming Router has a GameFuel Engine to keep your game running smoother. Brian would this help with our latency troubles in WoW? It has Gigabit LAN and WAN ports to power a wired network. AND Xtreme N Duo wireless technology for data transfer rates of up to 300Mbps!
Product specs say the wireless signal will be just as strong in the basement as it is in the attic. Awesome! I mean with Gigabit ports, high-performance CPU and backward capability you have got to admit this is drool worthy.
There is even a Network Activity Display to show you what's going on with your router. You can see the securities immediately and you can also see how much is sending and receiving on the display.
For any of you who ever doubted my nerdiness...you really should have no doubts now.
Labels: gaming, router, wireless, WoW
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Now that Braeden is fully engrossed in playing WoW with Brian and I, I have already begun scheming to figure out how we can all play together. Eventually I feel we'll have to go wireless. We have two desktops and two laptops, WiFi and WoW could be fun, but troublesome without the right equipment.Brae is still getting used to using the keyboard and mouse, moving him to a laptop could be hard. I mean...he isn't even four years old yet and he is already gaming, but there are still limitations. Haha. BTW his undead guy "Codfish" is level 4 after only 2 hours of playing. He's going to end up kicking my butt I just know it.
Vigor Gaming is developing wicked fast and graphic intensive laptops for those of us nerds/geeks out there who need such a thing.
According to the Vigor site, their Atlantis notebook is the best gaming laptop out on the market. "Powered by dual NVIDIA GEFORCE GO 7950 GTX graphics cards with discrete 1GB DDR-3 video memory employing SLI Technology, the ATLANTIS delivers ultra-high performance in games and brings stunning, high-definition, superb picture clarity."
Aw man that is sa-weet! Too much for my little boy, but someday I just might have to splurge. We'll see how quickly he levels ;o)
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