Yesterday I heard from Fenix that Blizzard had registered a new trademark. At the time I figured it was a new game. And I thought to myself, pfft — with Diablo 3 and StarCraft 2 delayed this long, any new game has to be at least 10 years out.
I remember, back before I switched my blog over to WordPress — that was more than a year ago now — I came across an amateur-made fighting game online. Most of the characters are played by real people. Hilarious, brilliant, seriously impressive. I remember the author’s blog was called “Jiangxi Dinosaur’s Lair” back then. There were only a handful of characters, the story wasn’t finished, and there were plenty of bugs, haha. I downloaded it and played for a while, but after I reinstalled my system I never went back to it.
Cheat mode In the game, you can use Niko’s phone to enter the following cheat codes and activate the corresponding cheat functions. Note: don’t save your game after using them, to avoid unforeseen problems. Some cheat codes may affect achievement unlocks. Replenish health Dial “ 3625550100 “ on your phone. Note: this code affects the achievements for “Cleaned The Mean Streets”, “Finish Him”, “One Man Army”, and “Walk Free”.
The client is still downloading right now, so I can’t get in and play — all I can do is watch videos. I’m really looking forward to the comic updates; Jaina and Varian Wrynn have probably fought t...
EA recently announced that it will release Command & Conquer 4 in 2010, and the game will take players through the finale of the Tiberium War saga. EA really is prolific. We’ll get to see Kane again next year. I’m rooting for Kane, hehe.
In the early hours of this morning, Chinese Battle.net went live, and you can now bind World of Warcraft accounts. See the WOW transition official guide for details.
The new Battle.net for World of Warcraft still hasn’t shown any sign of life today, so let’s try a few new games instead. Remember playing The Sims years ago? That cookie-cutter AI really wasn’t much fun at all, and I got bored of it fast. If an online version of The Sims ever came out, I’d be rolling up my sleeves and would definitely have to give it a go. And what do you know — Yangbo Network recently put out a 3D online life-simulation game: Life Online!
World of Warcraft going offline triggers a “Professor Sheep” career crisis: (Couldn’t find the original author — if you know who it is, please speak up) Click the images below to view them full size
Having gotten bored of every other game, and with WoW’s Chinese servers temporarily gone, I was bored out of my mind. Into this gap stepped Plants vs. Zombies — a plain but adorable, simple but fun single-player game — and it was a real eye-opener. The art is just so kawaii.
I’ve been playing WoW since the open beta, and after the 9C servers started having frequent, mysterious and unstoppable energy fluctuations that made the game really unpleasant to play, I gradually went AFK. After TBC launched, I went back in and played casually for quite a while, but in the end I left again. I once thought WoW could no longer tempt me, but now that I’ve lost WOW, I feel an unprecedented sense of powerlessness — like the Kaldorei Moon Guard losing the source of the Well of Eternity.
