Archive for the ‘Gaming’
Project Lore: Big Brother Is Armorying You
The good folks over at Project Lore have noticed that Blizzard did a major revamp to its World of Warcraft Armory site and the changes are quite revealing to say the least:
“…Now the new Armory goes a bit beyond that; not only can you check out a persons gear, you can check to see if [...]
Warcraft Player Trying To Level Without Killing Anyone
A college student is attempting to level two “pacifist” characters up to the top of World of Warcraft’s character progression, characters he’s playing without attacking anything. It’s partly to try out the philosophy of pacifism in the violent virtual world, and partly to see if he can do itread more | digg story
Gaming Notebooks Get External Air Conditioning from Intel
There is a new cooler that is in the works to help cool down laptops to prevent throttling while playing high-performance games. A prototype docking station has been developed to air condition your gaming notebook! My MacBook Pro 17″ CPU cores get up to about 190 degrees F during World of Warcraft, even with [...]
OpenGL components missing from Intel 10.4.7 delta upgrade
I didn't even know about this until I happened to be browsing the Mac tech support forums on the Blizzard World of Warcraft site the day after Mac OS X 10.4.7 came out. Apparently, if you own a Intel Mac (I own a MacBook Pro) and do a typical Software Update from 10.4.6 to 10.4.7 [...]
