Tis The Season: Love is in the Air

On February 11th through the 16th, Love is in the Air hits Azeroth.  This is, of course, the Azerothian equivalent to Valentine’s Day, and boy howdy is there a lot to do.  In between gathering gifts for significant others (or plenty of wine and beer for Single’s Appreciation Day), you may want to jump on [...]

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Two New Games… Two Extremes. Castle Crashers and Portal!

Over the last two days I purchased 4 new games for only 35 bucks.  Note that Bird picked up NBA2k9 used for the same price.  The best part about it is how these games were purchased.  The first three games I purchased were at a brand new GameStop in downtown Boston.  The store layout and [...]

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The Return of Resident Evil…and Bird

Ho there folks, sorry about the impromptu hiatus from posting. It’s been a long couple of weeks, I’ve been fighting numerous colds, work has really ramped up (translation: kicking my ass) and I was in DC last week for the Inauguration and I am still recovering from that. Ok really all I have is a [...]

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Tis the Season: The Elders of the Dungeons

The Lunar Festival has come!  Bring out the fireworks!  Go grab some dumplings!  It’s time to celebrate!
You’re probably going after that title like the world is ending, and I’m here to help you out.  As you may (or may not) know, I wrote up a much longer, more in-depth look at the holiday and some [...]

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For Instance: Halls of Lightning

/commonname joins the group
/sets loot for Free for all
Hey guys!  Today, we’re going after the construct Loken and his army of Iron Vykrul in the Storm Peaks instance of Halls of Lightning.  Are you with me lads!?  Then let’s grab a healer, make sure we’re all level 79 and above and we’re good to go!  [...]

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Smile! Happy Gamer Moments FTW

How much do you love the random gamer moments?  They can span generations, and they just make me feel pure joy.  In Best Buy yesterday, I naturally gravitated toward the xbox360 aisle to see what this mega beast of a store was offering.  They had the usual selection and I considered purchasing Call of Duty: [...]

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The Fifa Challenge

How much do you love it when your buddy challenges you to a game of Fifa.  An exhibition match… its fantastic.  After you spend countless hours playing ranked and club matches against randoms, you need to test your skill against friends.  Why?  BRAGGING RIGHTS BABY.  Its even sweeter when there is build up and shit [...]

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GoW2 Horde Mode Wave 50 COMPLETE BABAY!

This post will mostly be incoherent babble because its 2 AM and I’ve played 360 for about 6 solid hours.  BUT I have to strongly urge everyone to GET Gears of War 2. That was one of the most fun gaming experiences I’ve had in a while.  When you have 4 of your friends to [...]

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Hartford, the Whale? NHL 09 thoughts

Well this has certainly been a slow week at the bird nest. After such a promising start to 2009 I have to admit that I have been pretty absent this week. Part of that relates to my day job; basically I am swamped at work and don’t get to spend the day surfing around looking [...]

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Life at 80 so far…

Well I’ve been 80 for a little over a week now (I think?) and I figured I’d report on what I’ve been up to.  At the moment, a lot of content has opened up to me – I can finally run the high level dungeons and heroics, I can go around anywhere I want, I [...]

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