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You: Fan or Fanboy?

Are you a fan or a fanboy? In most dictionaries, a fan is defined as “an enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc.”  A fanboy as defined by the Urban dictionary, is “a passionate fan of various elements of geek culture (e.g. sci-fi, comics, Star Wars, video games, anime, hobbits, etc.), [...]

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World of Warcraft: Blizzard Burgles Again!

Blizzard will be making several improvements to the user interface for tracking quest objectives in their next content patch, 3.3.  Here are some of the features: Quest Log We’ve added a new “Show Map” button on the Quest Log. The “Show Map” feature highlights any quest in the log and will pull up the map [...]

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Modern Warfare 2: The Dedicated Controversy

Recently, Infinity Ward’s Creative Strategist, Robert Bowling, announced that Modern Warfare 2 would not ship with any dedicated server support.  Instead, the game would be using their new IWNET matchmaking system.   Robert “FourZeroTwo” Bowling’s on his own blog, posted some of the benefits of this new system, which were most likely crafted to quell the [...]