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There are a few games from my Windows 95/98 college days that I’m hoping I can play again. Easily, that is, and on modern machinery. One of them is Lode Runner: The Legend Returns. This was one the of the first games I played with my little brother. I was 17, and he was 4 [...]

I was going to do a big post about the results from last week’s poll, but thanks to Blizzard’s fast action on behalf of the outcries about Real ID forum names, there’s not much need. The vocal majority did not want real names in the official forums, and the poll here was no exception. I [...]

My brother shared this on my Facebook Wall and I found it hilarious. Maybe you will too. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

The World of Warcraft blogosphere exploded with discussion about Real ID during the past few days, and it’s time to hitch NPC to that bandwagon. Not for the sake of hitching, but rather because I’d love to know what you NPC readers think of the fact that in the near future, you will be required [...]

On Thursday I asked if you bought the in-game non-combat pets from the Blizzard store. 885 votes later, we have this: So 49% aren’t interested in buying the pets. (The first answer plus the third answer.) At least 30% bought some or all of the pets/mounts, and let’s make it 33% since a lot of [...]

Unless you’re living under a rock, you probably heard that the Electronic Entertainment Expo took place in Los Angeles last week. Briefly, the highlights: Kinect: The Xbox motion sensor formerly known as Project Natal finally got an official name. It releases November 4, 2010, retails at $149.99, and doesn’t require players to hold any controller. [...]

A couple months ago 1up.com did a piece on 101 Free Games, and through that I found Little Rocket, located on the site Animals Play Games. I got frustrated with Little Rocket really quick. I just didn’t enjoy flying the rocket around. It veers off almost uncontrollably and I didn’t have enough patience to stick [...]

Plants vs Zombies is a pretty easy tower defense game, as tower defense games go. But HOLY CRAP the difficulty jumps up at the very last level. I really want to beat it so I can move on to trying for achievements and such, but every time I try, I lose, get frustrated, and play The [...]

The Creeps is my latest form of Tower Defense addiction. I downloaded this iPhone game for free when I saw Nicole Spagnuolo of the great girl-gamer podcast, Ladies of Leet, tweet about it. For the first thirty minutes, my reaction was similar to that of Defender Chronicles. I hated the visual design and the game was too [...]

A couple weeks ago I took a poll of fellow WoW players to see how many are authenticating. The results from this very unscientific poll were encouraging – out of 477 who voted, 310 use a Blizzard authenticator to protect their account. 167 do not. Two thirds of those already using an authenticator at the [...]