Mel's Gaming Blog

Dear Family + friends, If you don't know what to get for me, Please see the wishlist
that I've created at http://www2.razerzone.com/holiday-gift-guide/uczzxn9.

P.S. Not another pair of argyle socks please!

The Naga Epic

* 17 Fully-programmable MMO-optimized buttons (including 12 button thumb grid)
* Wired / Wireless dual mode capability
Wireless: USB 2.4ghz dongle (with wired-mode connector port)
* 3 Interchangeable side panels
* Charging dock (also functions as a wireless receiver unit)
* Unlimited character profiles with AddOns
* Optional MMO-specific software AddOns
* 16 million color backlight illumination
* 5600dpi Razer Precision 3.5G Laser Sensor
* 1000Hz Ultrapolling™ / 1ms response time
* Approximate size: 116L x 77W x 41H (in mm)
* Battery Life: 12hrs (continuous use); 72 hours (normal gaming usage)

The Naga Molten Edition

* 17 Fully-programmable MMO-optimized buttons (including 12 button thumb grid)
* 5600dpi Razer Precision 3.5G Laser Sensor
* 1000Hz Ultrapolling™ / 1ms response time
* Zero-acoustic Ultraslick™ feet
* Unlimited character profiles with AddOns
* Optional MMO-specific software AddOns
* Approximate size: 116L x 69W x 41H (in mm)


These Mice are specially made for World of Warcraft in my book and can be used with any other MMO present and future. Big time MMO gamers will love this mice if they can get a hold of one. Check this gaming Mice at NAGA EPIC and NAGA MOLTEN SPECIAL EDITION.

1. World of Warcraft Cataclysm - 7th December 2010









2. Battlefield 2: Bad Company 2 Vietnam - 18th December 2010 (Pre-Ordered Customers), 21st December 2010 (Official Release Date)






3. Fable 3 - Releases Date TBA




Other games are either too boring to even mention or has not actual release date but expected to be in December and are not confirmed.

Here we are again, Another month and more game releases.

1. Call of Duty : Black Ops - 9th November 2010

2. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - 16th November 2010

3. H.A.W.X. 2 - 16th November 2010

4. Nail'd - 30th November 2010

IGN has interviewed some of the best Starcraft 2 gamers and here are some of their secrets

http://guides.ign.com/guides/850126/page_4.html

Learn, Hit & Kill

Priston Tale 2 SEA has finally finish their Close Beta Testing and over 3 thousand likes in facebook has shown the thousands of gamers waiting to start a frenzy in the new Priston Tale.

Get ready cause its gonna be good i promise you.

1. Gothic IV – 12 October 2010

2. Medal of Honor – 10 October 2010

3. Fallout : New Vegas – 19 October 2010

4. Lost Planet 2 – 15 October 2010

5. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II – 26 October 2010

6. SHANK - 26/27th October 2010

For those who missed it, you missed out big. STEAM had a special on all Left4Dead games.
Discounts were up to 66% for Left 4 Dead Games. As seen in the Image below.


As you can see from the screenshot, how great and appealing the deal is and as the New DLC "The Sacrifice" Just release.

This alone tells me VALVE loves their Fans and Customers. A way to beat piracy. I got myself Left 4 Dead 2 - 4 pack package. And distribute it to my friends as a gift so we can have Zombie killing bloodfest together.

The offer was only online for 2 days. And this was a good promotional tool as well. Nothing says we love you gamers like a big fat 66% discount.

There were other discount
4% on Front Mission 4 Evolved.

September
1. Front Mission Evolved

2. Dead Rising 2

3. Darksiders

4. Final Fantasy XIV Online

Call of Duty Black ops Dedicated servers sounds like a great deal until they mention that to open your own server you will need to fork out some $$.

It is possible that Activision will open servers supported by other organization but that is still unclear.

Quote

According to GameServers' pre-order page,

Ranked servers will cost $14.95 a month

18 max player limit. Discounts are offered for monthly prepays.

Unranked servers will cost $0.99 a month per player up to maximum of 24.

Teamspeak support will have an additional fee. Discounts will be offered for a 3, 6, and 12 month prepay.

Unquote.


So there you have it. Are you getting Black Ops???

Valve has a lot of people confuse to as why Alien Swarm is free when they could have sold it on steam for a few dollar signs. As for me I believe this is a very smart move by Valve, Steam has always had a bad publicity since you’ll need steam to play Valve games, problem for gamers with low computer specs and etc… The point is Valve is attracting gamers to steam by placing a free game on their list and we all know free things always turns heads. Unlike Activision who tries to get every dime they can get their hands on as their attempting to involve fees to their medal of honor franchise, Call of Duty developers is keeping away from this plans and announce that Call of Duty games present and future will always be free, EA has not objected to this and that’s a good sign for all Gamers.



Alien Swarm is a co-op of 4 players on a mission to clear a facility from all alien infestation. I haven’t gone through enough of the game to see all that it has to offer however I can tell you that it’s a blast co-op with friends and killing every alien you see. It’s like Diablo (top-down view) with guns would be the best way to closely describe to gamers who has not touch the game yet. The options of welding a door shut is a nice feature in game to prevent aliens from attacking you from behind or use it as a defenses to keep aliens at bay till you exterminate the ones in the room with you.

The game is solid and would encourage anyone to try the game with friends.

Well Blizzard has suprise a lot of people thinking they can just download starcraft off torrent.

Each game will need to be verified CD_KEY in battle.net and then activated online to be able to play STARCRAFT 2. This is not something easily bypass and it looks blizzard did take a look into protecting their hard earn work from unresponsible users.

1 point Developers 0 points Pirate's!

For you who are enjoying Starcraft 2 drop me an email to melvynrcarroll@gmail.com and let me know how the game is. I was hoping a cousin of mine to get a copy of the game isn't i could not afford one and apparently my cousin was not able to afford it as well, it shows that a lot of users will not be able to afford the game.

1 point My Bank Account 0 points Blizz, Activision, IAHGames bank account!!

Visit Starcraft 2.

Starcraft 2 Official Website

You can download the game client at their website as well

Well for those of you who are getting your hands on Starcraft 2 this coming 27th July 2010. This video will make you cry waiting for it.

Enjoy

IGN Video: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty PC Games Trailer - Launch Trailer

I have always been a fan of Gothic Series Part 1-3 had a great storyline, battle system and the thing i love the most about these games was the factions you could join and the monsters and people you had to fight your way to reach your goal. It was full of mystery and you could not predict the story, that was all done by Piranha Bytes.

Now that Jowood had hired a new Developer due to the bugs the game had in the last Gothic series, they given it to Dreamcathers and their first Expansion for Gothic 4 wasn't promising, it had many flaws that killed the environment, one example of this flaw was when i was talking to every orc in town, i was listening to an Orc telling stories to other orcs and when i entered into a discussion with him he sounded like a squeky nerd (no offence)

Now in Arcania, Dreamcathers looks like their in the right direction and seen here in this video, a very promising game and its battle system isn't to shabby as well. I hope the storyline is good as Piranha did in the pass or even better. And i hope you get to choose a faction to join.

Enjoy the Video

Analyst - Activision Must Begin Multiplayer Fees - PC News at IGN

This is very disturbing news. As a gamer i would purchase a game on it's features and price and one feature is to play my favorite Bad Company 2 game for free is one of them. If Bad Company 2 had a fee charge for playing i would have not bought the game in the first place. I would have never known what a great game it was and i would just have been happy, like when i didn't know Bad Company 1 in the past.

See where i'm going? Many gamers will possible skip the upcoming game which they have to pay for anyways. Sales will still drop and faster from my point of views.

It's not the community that pushes the game industry to piracy but the high prices of the games. Adding another $$ scheme won't help the industry the consumers will find other means. If only games where cheaper then piracy would be a thing of the past.

Guess i'm not gonna be puchasing any games under Activition if they decide to add fees.

Edit: Oh Lucky Battlefield is under EA

Guild Wars 2 is shaping up to be a very good MMO. Well from what i can see of the 3 class introduced.

They manage to make the ranger a little unique from other rangers in other MMO's.
Don't don't only use bows but throwing axe as well. This video makes me want to use a ranger when it's release.

Bulletstorm is a first person shooter game that is being developed by Polish company People Can Fly – a company which Epic Games own a significant share in.

Bulletstorm will be release sometime in 2011, and is a game to wait for.

Bulletstorm is a visually great game and the gameplay will get those diehard first person shooter fans something that other developer never really focus on, that is you get extra point for killing in STYLE. Watch the video and let me know what you think.

I'm already thinking of pre-ordering the game.

IGN Video: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC Games Trailer - VIP Map Pack 4 Trailer

Another Bad Company 2 Map packs has arrive, take a look see.

Before I get into details let me explain the game.

Single Player Mode

The storyline is build around weapon of mass destruction from the World War 2 and was covered up. Many years later a squad discovers the weapon and was ordered to stop the terrorist and bring a halt to the use of the weapon on American Soil. The End.

Those are Mortar's heading my way

Multiplayer Mode

After registering you game, you get to make a profile and the name of your choice. All your achievement will be recorded into your account unlocking deadly weapons at your disposal. Each class will be able to unlock their own group of weapons and support.

Attack!!

Each class will have 7 weapons to unlock, 2-5 gadgets depending on class & bunch of specialization add-on. There is also an “All Kits” category which can be used by any class but still needs to be unlock as you play the game ranging from rifles & shotguns.

As you play, you will be able to unlock achievements; example of these achievements can be 500 headshots to melee killing 200 players can collect their dog tags. The player you kill with a combat knife, their names will actually be saved into the EA database.


There are a few multiplayer modes in the game, CONQUEST, RUSH, DEATHMATCH & PS3 & XBOX will get ONSLAUGHT but not the pc users but it’s not a big lost since it’s a survival mode fighting off AI’s.

CONQUEST – Take control of flag points by standing & protecting the area. Each map has between 3 to 4 flag points.

RUSH – As the name says you rush in with your team & set a charge on a machine and wait for it to self destruct the team defending will be able to disarm the machine.

DEATHMATCH – Squad vs. Squad who kills the most wins, most team base among the modes.

ONSLAUGHT – Survive as long as you can from barrage of AI’s.

Conquest you got to stay till your flag is up then move to the next point

All I can say about Bad Company is I have been addicted to it since I played it. Snipers are not safe in their hiding spots no more, you see a sniper in the building then you blow him and the building up. Snipers are defenseless they have camouflage clothing, mortar strikes and C4. As I played the game I could see and hear bullets passing me, explosion from grenade launchers, tanks, Anti-Air guns, bazooka’s,

Apache choppers and etc...

I'll get you this time Rambo!

Medics can revive their teammates with the defibrillator helping the teams to stand their groups, very useful supportive class but that’s not all. They carry light machine guns which can fire as far as a sniper rifle would but without a zooming scope. They are the back-bone of your team, protect them and they will revive you to no end.

Engineer’s carries a sub-machinegun, a Bazooka and a repair tool to repair tanks, choppers and other vehicles. If you spot an enemy behind a concrete wall, use your
M2 CARL GUSTAV AT and blow up that wall with your victim with it, they also have Land Mines with them.

Recon carries a sniper rifle, handgun, C4 or Mortar choose your pick and hide in a bush and take your enemies down from a distance and your enemies won’t even know what hit them. Or blow them up with C4 or Mortar your enemies from a distant.

Assault carries an assault rifle, handgun and grenade launcher. They basically are the frontlines of your team. Their lethal at close and med range, that doesn’t necessary mean they aren’t long range fighter in their own rite, they just need to spot the range shooters first. Assault can also support their teammates by placing ammo on the ground to be collected by your teammates or yourself.

Eat lead! Railgun is just so cool

Vehicles make all the difference in game to turn the tide but don’t be too comfortable in your iron war machines since Engineers were made not only to support the harden vehicles but to destroy them as well. Let to pilot a Blackhawk, Apache, MI-28 and MI-24 and blow up anything in your path but if a tracer in shot and gets stuck on you almost any engineer and their GUSTAV can shoot you out of the sky.

You actually needed to get used to the game multiplayer mode and figure out a strategy of your own or with your squad to be able to get more kills then be killed.
It is surely a competitive game and when fought to a stalemate, one person can make a difference between losing and winning, I have seen this for myself in several matches I played.

Firefight down there

The game forces you to support your teammates if you want to stand any chance of winning and rewards you for every good deed you do.

For beginners I have a few tips for you:

1. Support your team – Supply them ammo, first aid box, repair their vehicles & Mortar your enemy’s base.

2. Spot your enemies don’t go for glory and try to take on an army. SPOT them and get support from your teammates, you get rewards for spotting. Don’t have to worry, Spot and they will come.

3. Snipers are increasingly famous, if you can’t snipe then change your class don’t hide in the bushes and shooting the entire 10-15mins without killing anyone. Change your class and support your team to win.

The game is about teamwork, if you don’t have that then you won’t win anything. This has been one of the best First Person shooter I have ever played on my pc. I recommend this game a lot and gives It a 9.5 out of 10. Get a copy.

Get out of that tank cause i need it

Yes I know how you fans & gamers feel. That is a bit pricey isn’t it? Why you ask? There are official statements and there are rumors. Let’s start off with the Official Statement.

IAHGames has gotten the license to distribute Starcraft 2 in SEA, for those who do not know IAHGames, IAHGames is a organization which specialize in hosting Free to Play games and selling game cards, their very similar to the GPotatoes. And the reason why it’s so pricey is because it’s for our own gaming experience. They have stated that they will open a SEA Battle.net server in Singapore so SEA Gamers can play with SEA Gamers, this includes Australian and New Zealand players. Yes, you will not be able to player with your European and United State counter parts. This is to improve our gaming experience so they say. Some casual gamers may rejoice at the fact that we can play at a better latency and some will be disappointed at the fact that they can polish their skills with the counter parts on the other side of the world.

Rumor Circle

Rumors No. 1

Some believe that the costs of setting up and establishing a new Battle.net server is being push to their customers.

Rumors No. 2

Other believes that the combination of Blizzard, Activision and IAHGames has cause a 3 times markup in prices involves.

Rumors No.3

Some believe it is just Activision’s fault, ever since the high price place on the Modern Warfare 2 Series.

There are too much rumors to write and all the above sounds logical but the thing is no one knows. From my own take I would actually say its rumor number 2. It makes sense, and what establishment would actually tell you they’re in it for the profit.
However the problem is still the pricing, the price difference is just too much for most SEA players. While the Americans are getting the game at USD59.99 the SEA gamers are getting it for around USD75.00.

And you will not see a review of the game from Me once it’s release just because I’m a Parent with other responsibilities and I have gone pass my time when I played Starcraft 1 on a 56k modem and join multiple competition to prove my worth, but I would review it if someone I know has ordered the game. But blizzard can rest assured that their no 1 game will be sold out in Korea and by all the fanboys & girls around the world. If I’m wrong hopefully their review their prices.

I’ll stick with Bad Company 2 thank you blizzard.

It’s all about the money….. It’s all about the dum dum da de da dum

Every since Blizzard become millionaires because of their World of Warcraft MMO everyone wants a tip of the goldmine, however many have failed and are force to make their games free to play with a certain type of VIP or purchase ingame items, even other big companies has been force to do the same.

Compared to other MMO made developers might have realize that their gonna need to think outside the box and be very creative to go up againest blizzard and this may be when finally World of Warcraft days are numbered.

Coming this year and 2011 is gonna be great for online gamers as they will be given multiply choice of MMO games that makes the mind go bonkers! Here are just 2 two game trailers they will make any MMO gamers mouth watering.

TERA


WARHAMMER 40000 Dark Millenium

After you get decapitated, speared, death by magic or League/Empire Gank. This is where you end up. The Higher your level the longer it takes for you to resurrect back to life and continue your life journey to your next demise.

Big isn’t he. Servant of Tensess, I do not know who this giant figure is but apparently this Tensess guy made heaven. This giant figure is, I’m guessing looking after the gate of Allods Heaven.

Cheese! I took my picture with Servant of Tensess
Ooohhh…..so big.
I see dead people.

This guy looks like the catterpillar in Bugs Life but his been mutated!

Mr Gibberman comes to work, and will start to help reviewing games. We will release reviews of More ALLODS ONLINE and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 soon.

Now when my birthday comes i want each and everyone of my friends to buy one of the items for me.

X4 965BE 3.4GHZ RM605.00
ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO / USB3 SATA6 RM600.00
CORSAIR XMS3 1600 CL7 RM815.00
SAPPHIRE 5850 TOXIC (CROSSFIRE) RM2260.00
SILVERSTONE STRIDER PLUS 850W (PSU) RM649.00
1000GB BLACK SATA6 RM313.00
2000GB GREEN POWER (BACKUP) RM435.00
DANGER DAN BLACK SERIES 21 RM1000.00
LITEON 24X RM78.00
TOUGHPOWER POWER EXPRESS 650W (GPU PSU) RM450.00
TOTAL PRICE RM7205.00

Currently this is what I want for a Gaming Rig. Wondering why I pick some items which are not the latest? Let me Explain. Each item I will attach a link from various review sites currently on the web.

AMD X4 965BE 3.5GHZ vs. AMD X6 1090T

Following a few reviews I found that the difference in processing power did not merit me to get the X6. Why not intel? Look at the pricelist and take the same spec item and compare the price, thats your answer.

ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO / USB3 SATA6

This is good enough just take my word for it. Overlockersclub.com for info

CORSAIR XMS3 1600 CL7

It doesn’t matter what performance ram as long as it is a performance ram the more GB the better.

SAPPHIRE 5850 TOXIC (CROSSFIRE)

Why not the 5870? Well it’s very hard to believe many people to be able to get 2 5870. Let’s be practical 2 pcs of 5850 is already too extreme.Overclockersclub for more info 5850

SILVERSTONE STRIDER PLUS 850W (PSU)

Not Enough power? Maybe but that’s why we’re getting a ThermalTake TOUGHPOWER POWER EXPRESS 650W. I’ll explain later why we’re getting this.Read up more from bjorn3d.com

1000GB BLACK SATA6

Why not? The Motherboard supports it. – It means the transfer rate is faster……I think.

2000GB GREEN POWER (BACKUP)

Just to backup stuff, more space the better.

DANGER DAN BLACK SERIES 21

After all the cool stuff above, you got to have a LEET casing.Dangerden for more info

LITEON 24X

Basic and you need it.

TOUGHPOWER POWER EXPRESS 650W (GPU PSU)

Keep the main PSU focus on supplying power to the rest of the components. This is a standalone PSU for Graphic cards only. More PSU power then can be use to keep the computer stable. More info at Thermaltakeusa.com

So now you know, if i had financial control this is what I would waste use my money one and I’m very sure that it will be well WORTH THE SACRIFICE.

City of League - Novograd


The city has the peaceful look to it. This alone tell you the game designers really took detailed design as an important feature to the game. As I played my Trickster Gibberling through the town I found it organize and easy to navigate myself around the city and never once had any difficulty looking for anything I needed. First time MMO players should come to the league.

The City of the EMPIRE!


This is all you need to see. It looks like Russia. And I had to go to the next quarter to take this picture of the grand castle of the EMPIRE! Again I say very much detail was put into the design of the building, i would dare say better than some of the best MMO around and let me remind you the game is FREE TO PLAY. Why didn’t I place more images of the city? Well looking at this image is enough and you better experience it firsthand yourself. But the empire hasn’t had it all good, rebels, termites, elemental, undead arisen are in the city doing some damage and it’s your job as underlings to deal with them. I found it VERY HARD to navigate around the city, THANK YOU programmer for putting in the quest finder otherwise all would be lost and NOOBS would be stuck in the city for weeks.

Everything can be found here

http://allods.gpotato.com/

And again I say farewell until next time for more info in the games

Yes it took that long and its gonna be release into 3 pieces.

Blizzard is gonna release 3 set of Starcraft 2, which are the Terrans then Zerg & lastly Protoss.

Its gonna set you back close to RM200 Ringgit for us malaysians, what if each set cost the same price? RM600. But at least they'll be out on different dates throughout the year or maybe reaching 2011, who knows. A lot of people on the net are gonna make some noise but i'm pretty sure their gonna buy it anyways, Cause they waited for it for more then 1/10 their life.

Will i take this gibberling into my workplace? I need help since i have a child to take care of now. What say you?

Something i made from the Allods Online Fan Kit.