31 Jul

World of Warcraft: Raid Addons

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by Oreo
Raid addOns generally improve Raid performance. There are various mods which offer features such as main tank lists, raid warnings (messages which appear mid-screen for all raid members), voting mechanisms and boss status trackers. Another useful utility for raids are voice communication programs like Ventrilo or Teamspeak. Install them even if you have no [...]

30 Jul

World of Warcraft: Raids

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by Oreo
After a long list of boring builds here comes the fun part Raiding. Raiding is time consuming yet fun and you get great gear.Raids are parties of 6-40 people divided into 2-8 groups of up to 5 players. The terms raid and raiding primarily and traditionally refer to PVE raid-specific instances and [...]

28 Jul

Red vs. Blue – The Blood Gulch Chronicles

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by Kashif Ali
“…You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. ‘Cause you know what, the [...]

24 Jul

The Brick Knight, anyone?

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by Kuriakose Saju
July 18, 2008, was a landmark day for me. After close to seven months of keeping a close watch on YouTube for new trailers and reading up on message boards on the most obscure fan sites for any information on the latest cinematic outing of Gotham’s caped crusader, The Dark Knight finally hit [...]

24 Jul

World of Warcraft: Hunter Builds

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by Oreo
The Hunter is known for their pets, their long-range, sustained DPS, and their traps.The three trees of a Hunter are all viable for a hunter to choose for leveling, player versus player combat, or end game raids or instances, but since only two of the three trees allows for the complete use of talent [...]

22 Jul

A day in the life of … MARIO!

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by Kuriakose Saju
8 am: Morning finds me with a headache, whereas last night had found me molesting mushrooms with Luigi. I think at some point we wandered over to Peach’s palace as well, thanks to Yoshi and his fetish for midnight walks. Luigi, as usual, told me to head on home after we were done [...]

21 Jul

World of Warcraft: Rogue Builds

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by Oreo
The Rogue is primarily a melee damage dealer. This section lists common talent builds for both dagger and sword. But in my opinion the most fun class to play with. I personally while leveling went for a triple-spec combat hemo with two daggers and the starter gear and then respected to ShadowStep Build for [...]

19 Jul

Philosophy and Gaming: Part 3

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by Nike Okami
Most of us think of the drop-dead gorgeous art direction of an Ico or Shadow of the Colossus and we immediately remember a masterpiece of visual proportions being played out on the screen. Original soundtracks for games have also surpassed the usual 16-bit arrangements of yore, as anyone who listens to the beats [...]

17 Jul

E3 round up: Day 3 of 3

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E3, is an annual trade show for the computer and video games industry presented by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). It is used by many video game developers to show off their upcoming games and game-related hardware. Split-Screen presents a round up of what transpired in the E3 2008. This is day 3 of 3.
Joystiq [...]

16 Jul

E3 round up: Day 2 of 3

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E3, is an annual trade show for the computer and video games industry presented by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). It is used by many video game developers to show off their upcoming games and game-related hardware. Split-Screen presents a round up of what transpired in the E3 2008. This is day 2 of 3.
E3: [...]