Dear Blizzard Entertainment,

It’s been well over a year since I ventured around in Azeroth. It was sometime not long after The Burning Crusade was released that my wife and I closed our WoW accounts. In fact, I don’t think I completed more than a dozen quest in the Outlands. That said, I’m willing to come back and give it another try, for a price.

I am willing to reactivate both of my WoW accounts, provided you send me a beta invite for WoW: Wrath of the Lich King. It’s that simple.

But, we both know I’ll not be getting a beta invite. And therefore, my accounts shall remain forever frozen. To be honest, it’s probably for the best. It took me far to long to kick the addiction the first time.

Kindest Regards,
d3bruts1d

Ever since Diablo III was announced, I’ve been in the mood for some hack ‘n slash RPG. To quench my thirst, I decided to load up Titan Quest… besides, I never did get around to finishing the game.

And here I’ve set, I’ve spent more time here lately playing a computer game than I have in a long time. I’ve managed to complete the original game, and I’m now working my way along the Immortal Throne expansion areas. Why I never finished this game years ago, I have no idea.

I was feeling pretty good about myself for a while. I had completed about 95% of the original game with only 6 deaths. Not bad considering I was playing a caster (Diviner). Then came the last 5%… this was absolutely brutal. Especially once I got to Mt. Olympus. I must have died 6 times alone on the short walk to the final boss… compared to that, the final boss was easy.

What to do after this? Should I load up Diablo II and run around the gothic randomly generated dungeons, play Titan Quest on the newly unlocked increased difficulty setting, or is there another option? Do you have a suggestion for another game to pass the time until the Lord of Darkness returns to the PC?

With the recent Diablo III announcement, Blizzard is trying to stir up the Diablo community once again. They’ve wiped clean the Diablo II ladder, and a new race has begun for level 99. It’s cool to see a game that’s over 8 years old still holding the interest in players.

Additionally, patch 1.12a was released on Monday which allows players to play the game without the need to have the CD in the disk drive. In addition to the patch, you’ll need to copy the ‘.MPQ’ files to your hard drive.

You can obtain the patch by logging into Battle.net or from Blizzard’s support page.

Xfire 1.94 was released just a few minutes ago. And for the first time in a long time, I’m on the ball!

Aside from the usualround of game updates, and bug fixes, this build enables th in-game video capture by default. Look out Fraps! This is probably the only feature of Xfire I’ve never used. May need to give it a run later today while playing some Titan Quest.

The opening cerimony for Blizzard’s WWI is now over. The big announcement was as expected, and as I posted earlier, Diablo III. Got to see a bit of it watching the live stream, but it kept cutting out on me, so I missed a lot.

Check out WoWInsider, as I’m sure they’ll keep posting news and other information from the event. I’d also expect to see either diablo3.com to go live over the next few days…

If you haven’t seen it already, the splash screen that Blizzard has been teasing us with over the last several days has also been updated. “And the heavens shall tremble.” I am very excited for this game, and hope it’s not to far away from a release.

And don’t forget to Digg the release!

Blizzard has announced Diable 3 at the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational! More to come!

I haven’t posted anything about Xfire since 1.89 was released back in March. Part of that is I’ve been extremely busy, and part if that is because I haven’t done hardly any PC gaming in a long, long time. Sorry for the lack of information concerning Xfire. I’ll try to stay more on top of things.

That said, Xfire 1.93 was released on June 9th. I’m sure anyone who uses Xfire has already long since updated their software.

Yesterday Xfire 1.89 was released. Nothing really special about this update, except they have increased the storage space you have for uploaded images. The previous limit was 15MB, now users have 150MB of space.

Those of you connected to Xfire probably noticed that an Xfire update was just released. To update, simply start the Xfire client and it will auto update.

This release added a new theme to the Shadow skin called Standard. It’s a silverish theme. Other than that, we have bug fixes for the video capture, and a number of new games supported. That’s pretty much it.

If I’m not mistaken, we have the first Xfire release for the new year. For the most part, this update appears to be just the same as every other update. What I find interesting about it however is a new beta feature that can be enabled via the options: video capture. Could Xfire be getting ready to compete with Fraps? If Xfire keeps their version free, and without a watermark it could very well change the game. Though Xfire will have to be good to take down the king of video game recording.