Comic-Con [Note]
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Is Food Hating Genetic? It’s not even Friday yet and already Comic-Con is filling the site with news, previews, screens and videos. My favorite story, so far, is Blizzard talking about what role they think Bruce Campbell should play in Warcraft. Did I tell you I met Campbell once? This [...]
You Can Buy Actual World Of Warcraft Gold Coins [Comic-con 09]
With World of Warcraft comic books, action figures, t-shirts and trading card games already thoroughly merchandised by Blizzard and their partners, what’s left to license? How about World of Warcraft coins? DC Unlimited is making ‘em, legitimizing WoW gold selling. Both the Horde and Alliance will get 24 karat gold plated, Sterling silver and copper [...]
Blizzard Rolls Out WoW Mobile Armory [Blizzard]
Clean those third-party World of Warcraft applications off of your iPhone or iPod Touch, because Blizzard’s free official Mobile Armory application is go. The World of Warcraft Mobile Armory takes all the functionality of the full armory website and places it at your fingertips. The iPhone app allows players to immediately access character, guild, [...]
World Of Warcraft Still Suspended In China Indefinitely
Blizzard’s World Of Warcraft appears to be down indefinitely in China, which is one of WoW’s largest user bases. Blizzard recently changed the company that was operating WoW for them in China from The9 to NetEase. WoW was supposed to be up and running by the end of June. Apparently the transition hasn’t gone so [...]
Analyst Sees StarCraft II Inevitably Delayed To 2010 [Blizzard]
Blizzard set its sights on one “front line release” for 2009, a title that we expected to be StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the first of three StarCraft II games. One analyst isn’t so sure Blizzard can make it. The day after Activision pushed back sci-fi first person shooter Singularity, Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia [...]
How to Use Time Machine Backups on Windows Home Server (or Any Networked Storage) [Time Machine]
One of the lame things about Time Machine is that backups over the network are only officially supported on Time Capsule. Luckily, even if you don’t have one of HP’s Time Machine-compatible Home Servers, you can make it work. Brent Freidman lays out exactly how to get Time Machine backups to work with any Windows [...]
What Are You Playing This Weekend? [Lazy Sundays]
Thank God it’s Friday. This has been a hell of a week, one I hope to forget with the help of thousands of Terran Marines dying at the claws of my Zerg swarm in a few games of StarCraft. I foolishly purchased a digital copy of the game via the Blizzard Online Store a few [...]
