Gaming for School

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Want to make a life for your self in games?  Well the first thing you have to do is go to school and that requires money.  This is being solved by Scholar Gamers.com.  They are giving out scholarships for the best gamers that are in school and at least 13.  Think you have what it takes to win?  Then head on over to http://www.scholargamers.com/ and enter for your chance to win!

World of Warcraft Dungeons

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Instances in WoW can be the bread and butter of the game.  Sure you can level your character through exploration (all though that is pretty limited), killing mobs and questing, but once you hit end game you spend the majority of your time in dungeons.  With this in mind the great people at Blizzard are going to bring us enhanced dungeon maps.  The new maps are laden with great information regarding the bosses that will be encountered.  We will have 3D models of the boss, lore as to why we are fighting them (you know, besides money and loot).  You will also be told meta-game information such as what abilities that the bosses can use and what loot that the bosses will drop.  This will be availble in both 5-man dungeons and raids.

Updated Boss Info huh? They all know how to kill me as it is now anyway.

Let us not forget too, that with patch 4.1.0 and Cataclysm a lot of the vanilla WoW dungeons are going to see a bit of a split up.  Examples of this will be seen in the massive dungeons such as Black Rock Depths and Maraudon.  Maraudon is going to be split into two different wings, a life area and an elemental area.  Black Rock is getting teleporters to help you move around a bit better.  We are also seeing Uldamon getting split into two sections.  This will make lower level players able to get more done in less time.  Looking foward to it when I start leveling some new toons.

Happy 25th NES

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What is this?  Another 25th Birthday for Nintendo.  This time we have the 25 year mark from when the NES was released on the inhabitants of New York, New York.  Now 25 years later we are still playing games that got their start on this humble system.  Thanks Nintendo for changing the way we play games and we look forward to another 25 years!

Kämpher Review

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What is Kämpher?  In our case it is an anime adaption of a manga by the same name and this is my not so flattering review about said adaption.

So jumping right in, this story focuses on one Natsuru Senō.  He is given a stuffed animal from the Entrail Animals series (think stuffed toys that in some way committed suicide or died horribly) by the love of his life, Kaede Sakura.  Turns out the new "toy" is actually a messenger for the Moderators (ooohhhh, spooky and ominous).  As the owner of this messenger Natsuru is turned into a Kämpher.  This includes the wonderful accessory of a blue bracelet, and it also turns him into a girl.  What?  Kämphers must be girls.  It is somewhere in the rules, they are sure of it.  So now we have a boy who turns into a girl and gets the ability to throw fire. Natsuru must fight red Kämphers lest he be killed himself.  At this point it seems like it can be a cool anime. Ah the misgivings of the uninformed mind.

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Kämpher Review

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What is Kämpher?  In our case it is an anime adaption of a manga by the same name, and this is my not so flattering review about said adaption.

So jumping right in, this story focuses on one Natsuru Senō.  He is given a stuffed animal from the EntrailNatsuru Transformation Ending Animals series (think stuffed toys that in some way committed suicide or died horribly) by the love of his life, Kaede Sakura.  Turns out the new "toy" is actually a messenger for the Moderators (ooohhhh, spooky and ominous).  As the owner of this messenger Natsuru is turned into a Kämpher.  This includes the wonderful accessory of a blue bracelet, and it also turns him into a girl.  What?  Kämphers must be girls.  It is somewhere in the rules, they are sure of it.  So now we have a boy who turns into a girl and gets the ability to throw fire. Natsuru must fight red Kämphers lest he be killed himself.  At this point it seems like it can be a cool anime. Ah the misgivings of the uninformed mind.

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L2P

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Well it's official, the much anticipated patch 4.0.1 for World of Warcraft will be released tomorrow October 12, 2010.  Official story with all class changes can be found here at MMO-Champion.  Servers will be down for approximately twelve hours while the new patch is installed.  With all the changes that are taking place to the talent trees; it looks as if we're going to have to learn how to play our toons again.  Talent trees have been condensed and numerous "what's the best build" posts will be conducted across WoW forums everywhere.  Here's to a flawless patch release and hoping that these changes are for the better.  Cheers!