Archive For June, 2010

Blizzard’s Battle.net Real ID

By | June 24, 2010

The US realms received patch 3.3.5 yesterday. One of the new features introduced with this patch is “Real ID” that is tied to Battle.net. What this means is that I would be able to add new friends by using their Battle.net user name. Because it is tied to Battle.net I would always be able to [...]

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Quality time well spent!

By | June 20, 2010

A little while ago I wrote about spending quality time in Netherstorm. I found a gap in my time this weekend and I settled down for some hardcore grinding action. It wasn’t all that hardcore, but I think I managed to grind roughly 600 insignia’s today! Thankfully there was some football on TV to keep [...]

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In the midst of the action

By | June 14, 2010

What do you get when there are no train services because of an accident and thousands of football fans wanting to go home? Actually, no. Don’t answer me, it was a rhetoric question. I have never experienced such chaos, such noise and such a huge mass of people crowded together. At one point I decided [...]

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The Geek’s Weekly #3: Unable to verify *.mpq!

By | June 14, 2010

Aaaarrrggh! I believe it was Monday (perhaps Tuesday?) last week, when I discovered I couldn’t log into any of my characters in Dalaran. I kept getting stuck in the loading screen and when I alt+tabbed out of the game, I would find a WoW error waiting for me. It’s a shame that I didn’t think [...]

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An eventful weekend!

By | June 14, 2010

This weekend has been very eventful! I might even have something to write the third edition of The Geek’s Weekly! On Friday before the weekend the World Cup kicked off with a match between South Africa and Mexico! I was pleasantly surprised when the boss told us to shut down our computers and go to [...]

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