Category — Gaming

After a pretty long silence from Blizz it appears they’re finally giving out some decent info on Wrath of the Liche King.

An NDA must have ended at 12:00 PST or something as it’s not common for game sites to elect to put new content out when most folk are asleep, gamespy are the first to break silence:

Hands on
Death Knight info
Videos
5-man and raid instances 

I know a few folk are considering straying to the likes of Age of Conan and Warhammer at the moment, with AoC releasing this month I’m thinking the timing of this barrage of news isn’t a coincidence

Update: WorldofWar.net have posted their take on the preview info here and a separate piece on death knights here.

Source: WoWInsider.com

It happened a few days ago but I thought I’d post to raise my hand as one of the affected - my Xbox 360 died this week.

To its credit, it was one of the original units and lasted almost 18 months before the red ring of uh-oh appeared. Bleh.

Thankfully Microsoft are covering repairs of all units up to three years old with this problem so it’s just a matter of packaging it up and being without it for almost a month. Ugh.

Adding insult to injury PGR4 went missing in the recent postal strikes, only to arrive a couple of days ago, so it will be almost two months from release to me being able to fire it up. Bleh. Ugh. Bah.

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Whilst test-driving my new Razer Lachesis I’ve been digging through my old periphery and uncovered my Logitech G15 keyboard. I stopped using the G15 after an unfortunate drink spillage incident and consigned it to the keyboard graveyard along with my diNovo and a couple of microsoft keyboards.

Today I’ve finally decided to engage in a little belated spring cleaning and before binning the G15 plugged it in to remind myself what wasn’t working after the unhappy incident.

Miraculously the G15 now works fine (well, almost), 8 months of drying out appears to have done the trick, with one exception… Hitting the tab key correctly tabs out of a text field but before leaving the field inserts a ‘9′ - any ideas?

I wasn’t particularly bothered by its loss originally as the screen function wasn’t supported in the games that I play, but today I stumbled on an add-on to provide in-game stats for Battlefield 2142, which would be really handy to work out how badly I’m doing

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Apple’s Mighty Mouse is one of those love-or-hate devices. When I got my iMac one was provided in the box, so I have it a whirl and was pleasantly suprised. So much so that I’ve bought one for my work machine and now install them as standard on all the new macs I buy.

A year later and the Mighty Mouse on my home machine is beginning to show its limitations. While ideal for pootling around desktop apps I’ve recently started playing Battlefield 2142 again and needed something a little more serious (or at least reliable in the mouse-wheel department).

Not content with a normal OEM mouse, and having been warned off the Logitech Revolution MX by John I’ve opted for the Razer Lachesis which as you can see from my flickr photostream has just arrived. I was impressed that they have a mac driver. I’ll post some kind of verdict after the weekend.

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So either Wordpress 2.3 is horribly broken for Safari 3 users, or the WYSIWYG editor is b0rken in general and will (hopefully) soon be bugfixed. Either way I need a new way to post to my blog so have been dabbling with MarsEdit, Ecto (I bought this a while back…) and a Firefox plugin called ScribeFire.

Because of the changes with categories and keywords posts I fired up Ecto and edited some old blog posts. Big mistake… Where originally I had preview text with an expanded post on clickthrough I now only have the preview. Thankfully my intial blogging wasn’t too extensive (or for that matter interesting) so I’m just forging ahead with finding something that plays a little nicer with 2.3 for the time being. One down, two to go.

MarsEdit seems to be a similar deal to Ecto, it’s a standalone Mac app, it edits the posts in markup (so I cheat and write blocks of text then use the Humane Text service to convert my posts to XHTML…. But it feels a little more limited than Ecto and is going to cost me to use until they fix Ecto for 2.3, so I’m shelving it for the time being at least.

As to ScribeFire, well I’m writing this post with it, I guess I’ll see what happens when I click ‘Publish’. Hold me, I’m scared

Edit: So I did some tests with FF and Safari, looks like it IS a Safari bug. Ack. Oh and ScribeFire works, so no more excuses from me…

Technorati Tags: ecto, marsedit, wordpress, scribefire, firefox

Finally a reason to buy a PS3 other than as a cheap blu-ray player. Too bad it’s not out until 2008.