Quite recently, Blizzard the creator of World of Warcraft has done something rather innovative to a 7 years old online game. They put together a mechanism to automatically matchmaking 25 random players from around the world to form a raid to slay dragons and more. This is a five times expansion of the existing 5-man [...]
Entries Tagged as 'World of Warcraft'
Are You Ready To Tank Deathwing, Version LFR?
January 9th, 2012 No Comments
Tags: Blizzard Entertainment · Cataclysm · World of Warcraft
Deathwing Must Die (And He Did, A Few Good Times)
December 26th, 2011 No Comments
A choir. I shall use a choir to illustrate what raiding in an online gaming environment is like. In any given choir, think Christmas Caroling if you may, there is usually one organist or a few guitarists who set the key and pace of the performance. The music draws attention but it alone does not [...]
Tags: Blizzard Entertainment · Cataclysm · World of Warcraft
Thrall: Twilight Of The Aspects By Christie Golden – Powerful, And Moving
October 24th, 2011 No Comments
After I have finished reading Thrall in Hong Kong, I said to Cynthia, “Drop everything you are reading now and start to read this!” It is that good. Rewind to the day when we were at the airport. On several occasions, I struggled if I shall read another book written by Christie Golden. Price is [...]
Tags: Christie Golden · Thrall · World of Warcraft
Enduring The Heat – A Journal Of Regrowth And Molten Front
August 2nd, 2011 4 Comments
I still remember where I was on the 261st day after Cataclysm. I was outside the Royal Bank of Stormwind when I spotted a new poster on the Hero’s Call noticeboard. It said: The Guardians of Hyjal, led by Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage, seek brave heroes to assist with a full-scale assault on the Firelands. Willing [...]
Tags: World of Warcraft
Online Gaming Is Good For You! (Alternate Title: Troll Dungeons Reloaded)
July 19th, 2011 3 Comments
I cannot think of an activity that works my brain as hard as what computer gaming does to me on a near daily basis. Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with passive activities such as watching TV. It is good to relax our minds after a long and tiring day of work. I [...]
Tags: World of Warcraft
So You Need A Cheat Sheet For WoW Cataclysm Heroic Dungeons?
May 12th, 2011 2 Comments
How time flies! Half a year has passed since the advent of Cataclysm. In this fantasy universe, something has gone wrong in the core of the world. Elementals emerge from within causing fire, flooding, earthquake, and lightning in a worldwide scale. Coincidentally, in our real life, we face similar environmental threats at a global level. [...]
Tags: Cataclysm · mmorpg · World of Warcraft
Snippet Of My Life Episode 30 – Love, Yusheng, Snail, and Bicycle
February 16th, 2011 4 Comments
How did you spend your Valentine Day? It was on a Monday, not an ideal day to celebrate. So we celebrated ours on Sunday instead. In case if you are curious on what we did on Monday, the picture below says it all. Something is very wrong about this picture in so many dimensions, I [...]
Tags: lo hei · valentine day · World of Warcraft · yusheng
The Shattering: Prelude To Cataclysm By Christie Golden – Missing Lore Explained
January 27th, 2011 6 Comments
Flawed as it may be, this book “The Shattering” in several occasions moved me literally to tears. For better or for worse, Christie Golden may well be one of our finest. She has the passion to the lore, connection to Blizzard developing team, and has the time and patience to write a book for the [...]
Tags: Cataclysm · Christie Golden · World of Warcraft
For The Love Of Singing Sunflower – Plants Vs. Zombies, The Warcraft Style
January 22nd, 2011 2 Comments
Cynthia finds it creepy. But I happen to love the singing sunflower companion, quite possibly the best companion we see in World of Warcraft to date. It sings random lines, musical notes flying up its head. OK. It is a little bit spooky. That child like voice coming out of nowhere. Randomly, it would sing, [...]
Tags: Cataclysm · World of Warcraft
One Month Has Passed Since The Arrival Of Cataclysm …
January 12th, 2011 4 Comments
Last year, our national paper sent in one of our finest journalists – who unfortunately a lapsed World of Warcraft (WoW) gamer – to preview the new expansion: Cataclysm. It is like asking a recently turned vegetarian to critic on a world class steakhouse dish (and in defense of my humble analogy, it was not [...]
Tags: Cataclysm · mmorpg · World of Warcraft