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Laguna college adds game major and Warcraft art show
2009-09-26 00:00:00
Everyone is jumping on the computer and video games trend, including the Laguna College of Art & Design.
This fall, the school debuted a new major: Game Art, with a focus on digital media for games. The new Bachelor of Fine Art degree is being touted by the school as a way graduates “will be qualified to enter this billion-dollar a year market.”
And to kick off the new major, the school is hosting a free exhibit featuring works inspired by the Wo...

World of Warcraft: Call of the Crusade Patch
2009-09-22 00:00:00
According to various WoW sites and also VG247, Blizzard is preparing to make its latest World of Warcarft patch (a.k.a. Call of the Crusade) hit live servers in the next 24 hours or so.Patch 3.2 is a monster, and as we've detailed before, contains some big ch...

Patch Perfection
2009-09-17 00:00:00
The Austin Game Conference is rolling along and our own Nicole Hamlett is there taking in the sights. Keep checking back for any interesting tidbits that Nicole throws our way.Apparently the MMOG Rant session was a hoot yesterday. NCSoft designer, Scott Jennings was first up and took on MMOG companies abilities to deliver patches and game content."WOW just had a patch a few weeks ago. As usual, their patch distribution completely failed. That may be because their patch distribution system is best described as 'Let's make something so frustrating people will just host the damn patches for us.' It's unacceptable. It amazes me that WOW's peer-to-peer distribution has become accepted practice. Why are you people putting up with it? Part of our core business as an MMO provider is providing the damn MMO."If you read this column regularly you know how I feel about the WoW patching system. Why not ram an Elephant down a straw? Jennings is absolutely right that others host the patches just to give players a quick and efficient option. You can find the WoW patches on our WoW Community site.EverQuest 2 does a good job at delivering both patches and new content. The downtime is usually small and the files are sent readily to your machine. Everyone realizes that World of Warcraft is a giant next to EQ2, but so be it. The patches should still be delivered in an efficient manner. Making the community sites hold the patches is ridiculous and why isn't the expansion going to be available by digital download?How do you feel about the patching process in the game you play? Is it a thing of b...

Gaia Online: A Different Way to Role Play on the I
2009-09-16 00:00:00
What do you think of when people talk about the "best" fantasy games? I'm sure you're probably going to immediately think of names like EverQuest, World of WarCraft, Lord of the Rings: Online or any of the other highly successful, commercial fantasy series. For those who have a  particularly good taste in games, you'll hear the Elder Scrolls series come up - and rusty old video game dogs like myself will tell you about the original Arena. But these titles are less successful based on their quality as they are on the simple amount of c...

World of Warcraft Cooking Dailies
2009-09-07 00:00:00
So, your character has finally completed all of Rokk's daily cooking quests in Outland, and you are ready to move on to bigger and better things. 'But what?' you may ask. Just as there were cooking dailies in the Outland, there are cooking dailies for your character in Northrend as well.
The NPCs that give this quest are Katherine Lee for the Alliance, found in the Inn on the southwest side of Dalaran, and Awilo Lon'gomba for the Horde, who is found in the Inn on the northeast side of Dalaran. The requirements in order to see the quest is a character level of 65 and a cooking level of 350 or above. Only one of the five daily quests will be offer...

WoW: Dual Talent Specialization - How Has it Changed the Game?
2009-09-05 00:00:00
Sincenearly the dawn of World of Warcraft manyplayers have clamored for the ability to have two talentspecs.With the release of Patch 3.1 those players finallygot their wish. Many aspects of the game were changed forever with thisintroduction and most of those changes were for the better. No longerdid raids or groups need to wait for a player to hearth back andrespec, no longer did hybrid class have to shell out 50g every timethey were needed to perform a different task Many aspects of the game were changed forever with thisintroduction and most of those changes were for the better. No longerdid raids or groups need to wait for a player to hearth back andrespec, no longer did hybrid class have to shell out 50g every timethey were needed to perform a different task. The flip side to this was increased loot competition as the linesbetween main spec and off spec blurred, with players asked to fill somany roles so often it becomes hard for anyone to keep track. No wherein the game did the ability to have two specs available with the pressof a button become more of an issue than in end game raiding.

Anyoneknow a tank?
Prior to patch 3.1 most players were invited to or applied to a raidingguild wi...

Elect the Best Online Phone Card for You
2009-09-03 00:00:00
You will consider it not very easy to look for the most appropriate phone cards on the market nowadays, because of its saturation. You can see that there are a lot of variants. When you strive to get it with the help of the internet, it'll present you more than twelve million results. Most people strive to get internet calling cards with the lowest rates. But usually these are the most expensive cards. Make a scheme from your needs to economize your funds and get the most appropriate phone card.
Try to realize your demands, because of the large variety of cards nowadays. When you will look for international phone card, it will be really helpful for you. The calling time price should not be underestimated by you. The diversity of proposals will present you an opportunity to call for 1 dollar per 40 minutes to any region of Earth.
After identification of your needs, you are to clarify your options. Read all the info connected with phone card before buying it. There are lots of corpo...

Civilization MMO 憆eally intriguing? says Meier
2009-09-01 00:00:00
Head of Firaxis Games Sid Meier has said that he finds the prospect of a Civilization MMO ‘really intriguing’ – and hinted that it may soon become a reality.
Speaking to readers of GameDaily.biz, Civilization creator Meier also hinted that a game from the series could come t...