Blizzcon Finals: Frustratingly Good

Howdy doody! Well, Blizzcon was on the other night and in case you missed it there was some pretty good announcements made! There was also playable versions of the new Diablo 3 expansion, Reaper of Souls and Heroes of the Storm a Blizzard take on League of Legends/DotA and a Hearthstone competition.. but for this post I'm going to focus on the Blizzcon WCS Grand Finals! Let me start off by saying how good the overall production/competition was at the blizzcon finals. As someone who hasn't been keeping too up to date with the professional Starcraft...

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N00bc0n Postponed!

As the title says, the much anticipated first e-sports event in Ireland has had to be postponed for undisclosed reasons. This was a sad thing to wake up to as I for one was looking forwards to this as a starting point for events in Cork and Ireland on the whole. The CEO of n00bgaming posted this early in the morning to inform the world of the bad news. Due to circumstances outside of our control, n00b c0n has had to be Postponed until a later date.We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused, and if there was anything we...

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My stream and n00bc0n update

Well well well, that was fun! I only wish I had more stuff to give away! I hope everyone who got something got what they wanted! In other news, the n00bc0n hype is starting to build up! They announced that they have a new sponsor.. none other than Riot Games(the makers of League of Legends for those not in the know). What does this mean for the tournament? Well I guess for anyone who had doubts as to the validity of the tournament it should quash them somewhat. It also means that they now also have a Riot caster for the League matches, none other...

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Game Giveaway!

What's that? Free games you say? I'm there! Oh, what do you mean they are for people who read the blog and I can't have them? :-( well I guess that's okay, as long as they are going to good homes. Steam keys Bioshock Infinite GONE XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Gift) GONE Crysis 2 Maximum Edition GONE Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising GONE Origin keys Dead Space GONE Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box GONE Medal of Honor GONE Mirror's Edge GONE So yeah! It's exactly what it says on the tin..  All...

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SC2 WCS: Good or Bad?

First off; with a little disclaimer, I had not been consistently watching competitive Starcraft 2 for at least a good few months. I have caught the odd WCS regional matches and ever since that, I thought something was hmm, off about it. Just today I was enjoying watching some games in one of the WCS finals for the first time in a while! I will say this. For the most part WCS is a very good thing.. at least in it's essence. Lets look at the positives firstly. In my eyes, having one gigantic 'premier league' tournament is a much better idea than...

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GTA V: My thoughts

I finally finished the main storyline missions and I have to say, I love the game.. I won't go into what it's about, because well I think most people already know what it is about.. and if you don't, what rock have you been hiding under for the past month! Go get it and play the heck out of it!! I found the difficulty level to be okay for the most part with me dying stupidly probably at least once in most missions or shamefully losing the target that I had to chase. There was one side mission that I attempted three or four times before I left...

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n00b c0n - An Irish e-sports extravaganza

For as long as I can remember, the Irish gaming scene has been.. well let's just say that for as long as I have been around here, it's been somewhat lacking. I mean there are a lot of gamers here in Ireland.. I can name four big games studios off the top of my head that have offices here.. but even with all of that, there has been nothing going on here and it's all been very disappointing in that regard. However! All that is set to change with the upcoming arrival of an eSports event based in Cork, Ireland. When I first heard someone mentioning...

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Themer by MyColorScreen - a brief review

Hello! So I figured I would take a time-out from my busy college schedule and write a little bit about this handy little app that I've been using on my phone for the past few days! It's called Themer and it's currently in Beta stage of testing and it's all about customizing your Android phone.. something that an Android phone has been able to do, pretty much since it's conception. However this was something that was limited to people who knew...

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Induction and more..

Oh hai there! So yesterday I had my induction at the college.. it went fine.. but as soon as I walked in I was taken aback at how young the class was! They, for the most part have just finished their leaving certificate.. now I'm not sure what age they are when they do that over here since I'm not a native! But I'm guessing 17? Maybe 16?? The day was pretty informative. The first part was mostly just the tutor telling us how to get thrown out and giving us our schedules. After that there was a tour of the college which was okay, apart from the...

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Back to School

Oh hey! The past few weeks have been pretty hectic and fun filled, the last week I have barely played any games as I have been changing my life. Well, that's pretty ambiguous isn't it? why would I want to change your life, I hear you say? I mean, you have it pretty sweet.. you know, playing games and watching people play games all day! Since you ask, I shall tell you! I decided I wanted to better myself. Or rather, I came to the realization that unless I wanted to work in a call center for the rest of my life I needed to do something about it....

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The Humble Origin Bundle

Howdy guys! Today's post is going to touch on something that I'd heard about before, but never actually taken part in till now! The Humble Bundle. Now, this site offers weekly games deals, where you pay about as much as you want. For example this weeks bundle includes titles such as Botanicula, McPixel, Thomas was Alone and The Showdown effect.. and if you pay more than the average(for this bundle it's $2.50) you also get Amnesia: The Dark Decent....

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Well shucks

That's all she wrote. The International 3 is over and done with! This makes me a little sad.. but on the other hand, wow.. what an amazing Grand Finals, best one I've ever seen(I know, it's the only one I've seen but still). The Alliance and Na'Vi did not disappoint, the two best teams in the world, at this point in time! I shouldn't spoil it for you, but I'm going to, so deal with it! If you haven't seen it yet, go watch it then come back and...

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Dota 2: The International 3 - Day 3

Well, first of all let's start with clearing something up! The other day I mentioned that MLG Columbus would not have Starcraft 2 in it's line-up of games.. some speculated that this was due to MLG dropping it.. However it came to light that the reason that it would not be there, is because Red Bull gaming requested a date lock for that weekend from Blizzard before MLG did. So let's move on to the thing that is dominating the world of E-sports right now.. The International 3, what an amazing load of games that happened last night?! I won't go...

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Dota 2: The International 3

Let's just start out by saying.. holee moley!! G'wan, take a look.. ah you will now won't ye? http://www.dota2.com/international/home/overview/ For me.. well, I'm impressed. The only other tournaments that I have watched have been Starcraft 2 ones and somehow they didn't seem to be so.. well, huge. Valve has done a good job I think! The hall looks pretty darn cool and so does the booths the players sit in! The picture below was taken by someone...

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Crazy days..

following the Steam Summer Sale! Oh hello and welcome back fair traveller! Or y'know, you! Sat there in your pj's.. or you even, sat there looking at me when you should be working.. So, I've been pretty absent from Blogger.. as you can tell from the lack of updates.. I have however been quite busy playing games and attempting to produce content for my Twitch.tv and YouTube channels! Another reason that I've not been here, is that I've just got back from a lovely birthday holiday.. my lovely lady took me to Prague for 5 days and it was absolutely...

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Steam Summer Sale and Streaming games

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Well hello there! First up, it's the start of the Steam Summer Getaway Sale! The first sale I saw on Steam was last Christmas and saw me buy around four games and that was only because I caught it halfway through! Still more than I've ever bought it one go! You can find more information on the sale here! Though it's currently experiencing some heavy load right now so tends to time-out! Today's deals are as follows and are available for the next 20 hours: Bioshock - Infinite -50% (€24.99) Defiance -66%...

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What up?!

Howdy doody! Been a wee while since I took some time to write one of these here blog buddies! So let's have a brief catch up. I had been living in the UK and working for a games company there, now however my other half and I have moved back to Ireland.. I'm currently unemployed and claiming back the money I put into the Irish system during the four years that I was employed here previously! On the plus side; since we moved back and I got my lovely...

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Starcraft 2: IEM and slow internet

This will be a short one! My PC arrived yesterday! Oh my days! The tower is huge! Much bigger than my old one, that right there tells you that it's better.. cause bigger is better right?! While I'm writing this, it's downloading stuff on my nice and slow interwebs.. joy, it just did 10,001 windows updates. Ok, that may be an overestimation but still.. it was a lot! I love getting a new computer, but then I also hate it very much. I've downloaded...

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Starcraft 2: HotS and stuff

I figured it was about time I did a bit of a natter about Starcraft.. and I guess it's the perfect time to do it, with Heart of the Swarm being released in 9 days and the beta was closed on the first of March(I think), which was two days ago! Since I've been spending a bit more time checking out twitter, I have seen a lot of pro-gamers tweeting that they don't quite know what to do to fill their time now that they can't play HotS.. I don't have that issue, mainly because I haven't played it for quite a while! Apart from that though, for those...

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Diablo 3: Monster Power and stuff

Oh hi there! So, over the past few months there has been a lot going on in my life that I won't go into here. Needless to say my posting had been infrequent and that's something that I have been addressing! Hooray for me. The outlook is looking quite a lot better than it has for a while, but I can honestly say I am nowhere near saying that all is rosey and perfect. There is still a lot that can be better but I am doing my best to make that happen. What have I been doing gaming wise? Well, I guess the first thing to mention is that I am getting...

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I'm awake!

Don't you just hate it when you wake up from a lovely sleep and all you want is to try and get back to sleep, but your lovely brain just won't shut the hell up?! This exact thing just happened to me. So I was lying here thinking to myself.. what should I do, since I can't sleep? Yep, you guessed it! Real Talk time! At the moment I'm working evening shifts which means I start work between 3 and 4pm, then finish between 11pm and 12am.. I got home last night at about 12:20 in the AM last night, so we didn't end up getting food till nearly 2am.....

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Dota 2: Hero of the week

Hey again all! So I decided after having looked up some other blogs that I perhaps needed to give the ole girl a bit of 'love'. It took me ages, even though all I basically did was change between two templates! So, the idea behind this post was to go into more depth about one of my favourite Dota 2 heros! That hero is Jakiro, he is what is known as a intelligence hero which means that he gains more damage for each point of intelligence he has....

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Steam Market Place, Mike and Dota 2

Hi again!! I told you I would be back soon! Not a lot has happened in the past couple of days. Though I did discover a couple of things! Firstly, I found that a good friend of mine has been secretly(perhaps not so secretly) reviewing games on one of the most fabulous forums available: YouTube! You should check out FairlyAngryMike. Links will be provided at the bottom of this post. Apart from that, I made one other monumental discovery!! Steam market place.. a place where you can sell items that you get in either Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2, both...

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I'm baaack

Okay so I know I've had quite some time off from writing here! There has been a lot going on, obviously! I've been trying to concentrate on work and of course my little free time has been put into playing a few games. But what have I been playing? Well, that is the question! I finally set up a Steam account - most people I know found it crazy that I didn't have one! I guess I was dubious about the whole thing.. then forgot about it for a long while! I never needed it when I was at Blizzard as I was more than happy logging into WoW for a few hours...

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