Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm

Heyo all! So, I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the Beta that is going on for the next part of the Starcraft 2 legacy. Basically, it's a few new units for each race that will be available in multiplayer and a whole new campaign story, this time instead of from the Terran perspective, it's told from the Zerg(WAHOO!). Needless to say because I love the story/playstyle of the Zerg I am really looking forwards to it. At the moment, you can only play the multiplayer because they need to balance the new units so they aren't like super duper...

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Productivity Vs Me

Howdy doody! So, today is my fifth day of non smoking..annnnd the cravings are pretty bad. For the most part my coping strategies are that I am avoiding all the things that used to make me want to smoke. Though, I can't escape the dreaded work. So what have I been doing? Well, I played some HotS Beta.. but mostly when I have been playing games, I have been whipping butt in Diablo 3. I figured it was beyond time and finally got my Barbarian to level 60. It was easy once I got some better gear.. which I bought from the gold auction house using...

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Random scribblings: Kicking habits and passing tests

Small update, since today so far has been an awesome day.I passed the driving theory test in England.. I had already passed the theory test in Ireland.. but never got to take the practical before I moved back to England and due to the way things work I couldn't just take the practical here.. even though I had already passed a theory test! So now I have to book some lessons in preparation for the practical.. which I'm kinda worried and yet excited about at the same time.Even though I had to come into work right after I had taken the test, it still...

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Diablo 3: The Monk

As promised, I'm here again! This time with a little look at the class that I have been playing the most in the short spurts I've had at playing D3 recently. Unfortunately, most of my time has been taken up with working and.. being told what to do by she who must be obeyed.. so I'm whipped, what of it?! I actually have something else on my mind too, I was wondering about the different sites that offer homes to blogs and considering moving across...

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Starcraft 2: The Day[9] phenomenon

Heyo all, welcome back to my blog! I hope you are all enjoying reading this as much as I am enjoying finally scribbling my random thoughts down! I realise I haven't done a post about Diablo 3 for a while, so after this one I think the next one will be dedicated to my Monk character. So while I was playing around with the 2v2 games about a year or so ago, I discovered Day[9]. He was a pro-gamer in the Starcraft: Brood War and he did very well for himself! At some stage he started making shout casts and for those who don't know.. shout...

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Starcraft 2: The middling

So, where was I? Oh yes! I remember.. So I was left with Zerg! Why not? The general creepiness of the race seems to suit me.. or so she who must be obeyed tells me! After I had completed the campaign, I was ready for the ladder! Or so I thought, I dutifully played my placement matches and got the wondrous Bronze league! Though, as with most who got placed Bronze, I thought myself far better than that! I was at least Gold, maybe even platinum in my mind! I ended up playing quite a few matches and having double the wins that I had losses, which...

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Starcraft 2: The beginning

With the Heart of the Swarm beta going on, I wanted to talk about how my love affair got started with Starcraft 2. So how and where do I start! I have been playing starcraft 2 since it was early beta, on and off I might add. It all started because ... Well because I got into the beta automatically because of work. I had never really played rts games all that much, I mean I messed around with games like command and conquer and warcraft: orcs and humans. The latter I only played a few times because I didn't have a computer and had to go round to...

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Diablo 3 how to: Setting up the Real Money Auction House

First off.. wow, this has been a long time coming! I've been living back in the UK now for about 2 months and we only got the internet set up hmm, about a week or so ago thanks to moving into a newly built house share - BT and the landlord being utterly crap, managed to somehow fudge getting it set up for way too long.. and even now, the speed is garbage. I actually think I have poo'd faster than this internet. Let's get to the meat of this one. So, you found a nice shiny rare or legendary that you think someone else in the world may be able...

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Moving and stuff

Right at this minute I am homeless and will be till Saturday.. thankfully we have somewhere to stay in the interim. Though I have no access to my computer or the internet other than on my phone we are making it work. We have been watching the first series of a show called Suits, which is surprisingly good! We also have a few episodes of Bones to watch! I realised yesterday that I will have to do without any Diablo 3.. till I don't know when!! Can't check my auctions either, though I doubt any sold.. nothing has sold since the first item I managed...

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Diablo 3: The Demon Hunter and stuff

So, I got to level 11 with a Demon Hunter so far, seems quite fun! Though, I must admit most of my time over the past couple of days has been spent playing my Barb again, I specced him to a more tankish build and things are going much more smoothly. But anyway! The Demon Hunter, a ranged class that seems to have quite a lot of survivability, that could just be because I've not really leveled it! Not through taking the damage but more by avoiding it. Perhaps at later levels it will become more like the glass cannon-like Witch Doctor I've got! It...

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Diablo 3: The Real Money Auction House

I was going to post today about the Monk, but as I sat down to write, I had something else dominating my thoughts! What was that? I hear you gasp with anticipation? WELL!!! Today was the third(or so) date that had been set for the Real Money Auction House to be released for Diablo 3. Yet again it appears to have been delayed, at least in the EU. It does seem to be live in the Americas and several people are reporting that they have sold items for up to $250, which is kinda insane! I guess these items must be high end Inferno items, for them to...

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Diablo 3: My Witch Doctor

I didn't get to post anything the past couple of days, because I've been out of town! Flew over to the UK for a couple of days to somewhere I have never been before. I love exploring new cities, thankfully in this day and age, getting lost is extremely difficult to do! Anyway, more details on the Witch Doctor and what I think! So, who would enjoy playing one of these, the Witch Doctor? Well at the start they are very fun to play, the skills you unlock each level will most likely have you swapping around what you use each time! I know I did! The...

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Diablo 3: The Game

Here we go again! Second installment time! It's late! 4:15am late and I apparently have to stay up till 10pm tonight... and Diablo is undergoing maintenance.. whatever will I do?! I guess I'll just have to spend some time trying to customize this page! Wish me luck! Forgot to add this link in the first one.. I guess this will do! So, what is this game called Diablo 3? I guess I should really offer some explanation, in case you don't know.. right? Well it's kind of a hack and slash/dungeon crawl/grindfest genre...

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So, this is it?

So here I am, sat here after spending several hours playing games, looking at my screen and wondering what now? After a good few more hours, I decided to do something productive and write something! It's been a good year or so since I even thought about writing! But what to write about? Then it hit me.. I love video games and video games love me.. well, not really! I'm pretty pants at playing games but I can't help spending time playing them! You will have to forgive me, I tend to ramble and have disjointed thoughts.. so if I wander off on a...

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