Have you checked out Wizard101? Both my kids (currently 5 and 10) have started playing in the last month, and both are really enjoying it. If you’ve ever played World of Warcraft, you’ll recognize a lot of familiar features in Wizard101. In fact, Wizard101 is really a slimmed down version of WoW for kids (and [...]
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Star Trek MMO for Fall ’09
Posted in games on Sep 26th, 2008
This month’s Game Informer magazine has a preview of Star Trek Online, a new MMORPG from Cryptic Studios. This game looks pretty sweet with tons of character and spaceship customization options. Apparently, it’s slated for PC and Console, so us Mac users are out of luck.
Running Civilization IV in Parallels
Posted in games on Jul 29th, 2008
With a little work, I finally got the PC version of Civilization IV (Civ4) running on my iMac in Parallels. The game uses DirectX 9 and this was the source of most of my problems. Clearing up the graphic glitches was a two step process: First, I had to enable DirectX Shaders in the Parallels [...]
Linking Logs :: 2007-12-05
Posted in blogging, games, humor, linking logs on Dec 5th, 2007
Below you’ll find the interesting tidbits for 2007-11-29 through 2007-12-05: Courtroom Testimony – A Gamers’ Manifesto – ChessProblems – I’m no chess expert, but this is pretty fun. Antiarc’s WoW Sig Image Generator – Cool looking signature generator for WoW toons. Seven Levels of Perl Mastery – A little Perl humor to brighen your day. [...]
This is pretty off the wall, but one of the searches to reach this blog in December is “hunter pence” world of warcraft I don’t rank terribly high for that particular combination of keywords (second page as of 2007-12-02), but I’m cool with that. This has me wondering something, though. Is there some rumor floating [...]