Archive for the ‘World of Warcraft’ Category

WoW Macros And Addons And How I Hate Them

I’ve been banging my head against a wall for the past week now with macros and addons in World of Warcraft. I’ve been programming for 10 years, hold a first class degree in Computer Science, and used to build levels for Doom using DCK, a DOS-based sector editor that required a degree in Astrophysics to [...]

The Dungeon Finder Makes Me Feel Like A Whore

Please excuse the vulgarity of the title and my apologies to any prostitutes reading, it’s nothing personal against your profession.
I’ve been using the World of Warcraft Dungeon Finder tool quite a lot recently and every time I’ve finished a ‘run’, I feel like I need to take a bath. The whole experience leaves me feeling [...]

Hear me, Hear me! WoW Voice Chat

Yes, World of Warcraft has a built-in voice chat feature. Surprised? I was. I’ve been playing for over a year but only found out about it a few weeks ago and only then because someone mentioned it offhandedly on Twitter. Apparently it was introduced in patch 2.2 way back in 2007. Really? How the heck [...]

How To Be Romantic: Celebrate Valentines Day In A MMORPG

Dearest wife,
My love for you is like an eternal well that spouts sparkly pink champagne love drops. I pondered many ways in which to show my deepest affection for you and pondered even further the ways we could celebrate our loving relationship together. A romantic candlelit dinner for two, mayhaps? Nay, too cliché. 24 red [...]

WoW Armory Facebook App - Why?

Whilst waiting for the World of Warcraft patch 3.3 to download a few days ago, I decided to try out the Armory Facebook app seeing as Blizzard were pushing it through the game loader. The installation was, as you would expect, quick and painless and within a couple of minutes I had hooked up Facebook [...]

Noobosaurus On The Rampage

I came up with this blog title whilst in the bath tonight. It made me chuckle. Anyway, on a completely unrelated point, my brother has been slowly getting to grips with World of Warcraft some more.
It’s funny how so many of us think of WoW as being too easy (often said, whether we honestly mean [...]

Would You Get An iPad If It Could Play World Of Warcraft?

As it seems like most people were, I was rather underwhelmed by the recent release of the iPad. I don’t have anything against Apple and I adore my iPhone but I’m not going to praise every product they release just for the sake of it like one of those Mac Evangelists (you know who you [...]

WoW Arena Season 8: Fashion Victim

Blizzard recently revealed the World of Warcraft Arena Season 8 armour sets and given my current interest in Project Runway, I figured I’d write up my reactions. I don’t know where my recent infatuation with fashion comes from but I do have a sneaking suspicion that my wife is secretly slipping estrogen supplements into my [...]

Would You Put WoW On Your Resume?

Somewhen, somewhere I read about employers encouraging applicants to list their gaming achievements on their resume. Now I don’t know about you but I’m not sure writing that you neglected feeding your cat in order to complete Super Mario Bros back in ‘86 or that you can absolutely destroy your son at Tekken is really [...]

Back To Work, Back To WoW

I’m back to work today after a nice 13 day break. It’s funny how quickly one gets into “holiday mode” - I had every intention of being busy and proactive during my time off but ended up, not surprisingly, slobbing around the house for the entire time. It was awesome
Now that I’ve returned [...]