It’s once again that loving time of year. Valentines Day is just around the corner. (It’s February 14th in case you forgot!) World of Warcraft’s Love is in the Air Valentines event starts Sunday February 7th and runs for two full weeks ending Sunday February 21st.
So what’s to do in these two weeks? Quite a bit of running and around, kissing, hugging and eating chocolates.
I’ve assembled some links for you to get all the information you can on this event.
I’ll be taking screen shots during these two weeks. Stay “tooned”!
Over this past weekend I’ve been working to move all hosting services onto our own virtual private server. You can probably notice at this point that the website loads quite quickly and without hesitation. This is due to the fact that we are now living on our own virtual machine, completely configured by us. Settings have been tweaked and altered to achieve the fastest performance. We are no longer at the mercy of shared hosting in which shared hosting can be unreliable. I will go ahead and state that we were hosted on Dreamhost. They were an excellent service provider and were completely responsive when issues did arise. I just thought that it was time to move onto bigger and better things!
Global Agenda, an upcoming MMO slated for release February 1st, has posted some action packed screen shots for your viewing pleasure. Set in the distant future, an “Oppressive world government known as the Commonwealth aim to take over the planet.” Playing as an agent of one of the few remaining independent factions, you can team up with up to 3 of your friends for co-op PvE missions, or there is a matchmaking system to deploy you into intense team-oriented objective based game play. The major features of the game are available for just a one time purchase fee, including character customization, all 50 character levels, up to 8 characters, all weapons and devices, and the ability to create your own agency. However, for a monthly fee, You’re allowed to battle it out with other agencies on a massive persistent world map for control over territories and scarce resources for domination of the world. Additional end game co-op content as well as character customizations beyond the initial group, plus the ability to level up your agency and earn achievements, and who doesn’t want to participate in base raid with up to 60 people separated into strike teams?
Myself personally, am really looking forward to giving this game a try. I can’t even count how many games I have purchased in the past that have only held my attention for a matter of days before placing them back into the CD-holder and never touching them again, but this game looks very promising, and being able to experience most of the content in a game with an OPTIONAL subscription fee, feels like a step in the right direction in my opinion. I imagine that I will inevitably give the subscription fee a shot, at least just to see the end game content once I have reached the end of the box content, just to see what it all looks like, as it sounds amazing, but most things do in writing. I don’t feel that I will be disappointed in this game though, graphically it looks pretty astounding, and I’ve always been drawn to the RPG/FPS mesh.
So, ladies and gentlemen, What’s your Global Agenda?
January 22nd, 2010 Blizzard’s Mosaic was 50% completed. As a special gift, they release this spectacular piece of music with the following cryptographic message:
An ode to one who has fallen. Time and events have left it unclear whether the song refers to the former prince of Lordaeron or his beloved steed.
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Download: Invincible
Sharm@Aerie Peak EU made a great machinima video parody of Katy Perry’s hit song, I Kissed a Girl. It was also featured on WoW Insider Movie Watch for Monday January 25th, 2010!! Check it out bellow!
The Tankspot forums have been upgraded from VBulletin3 to VBulletin4 this weekend! I used to use VBulletin on a few communities that I helped manage and run and I’m excited to try out the new features!
I just finished leveling Zhanchi@Auchindoun a little more than 2 weeks ago. Grinding him to level 80 wasn’t so bad thanks to the 30% exp increase that comes with some bind on account items like the Polished Breastplate of Valor, Polished Spaulders of Valor and scaling damage that Bloodied Arcanite Reaper gives.
I’ve decided to start yet another paladin CiiCii@Shadowmoon. In order to get the same bonus that Zhanchi@Auchindoun had, I transfered an old character, Roachii@Cho’gall to the Shadowmoon realm. The reasoning behind this was to get those great bind on account item bonuses.
While I was setting up the transfer, I realized something. I’m paying to basically move items within my account to another realm. Blizzard calling these items bind on account is not accurate. These items really should be relabeled to bind on realm!
Probably my favorite World of Warcraft machinima of all time, I figured my first post on my new blog I’d share with you, The Craft of War: BLIND by Percula.
