Tavelogue Azeroth: The Darkmoon Faire and Patch 4.3 The Hour of Twilight

Posted by | December 5, 2011

The Darkmoon Faire had some upgrades come World of Warcraft patch 4.3 and now it has its own island. With the advent of the Hour of Twilight patch, you can now visit the Faire out in their strange recesses–but you can’t fly there–and there’s a great deal of weird things going on.

Get tokens, get shot out of a cannon, have your fortune read.

A lot of things for any anthropologist to get up to.

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Better Vaults and Bunkers — Fallout 3 Housing Mods

Posted by | June 14, 2009

Everyone has to live somewhere, even in video games. Give people total control over what they can do and build in a video game, and you’ll get porn, lots of porn. But the second thing people are going to get working on is player housing.

Mostly to store their video game porn collections.

Fallout 3 is no exception to this rule, and while the game itself offers two fine little hovels to while away the apocalypse in, that’s just not enough for those who desire more in life than a hole out of the rain. We’re talking style, design, wall art, and a comfy bed that isn’t hopping with lice like those ruins down near Megaton.

Take a look at this collection of unique and interesting lairs for your wasteland wanderer, all courtesy of …

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World of Warcraft 3.0.8 Patch Fails to Go Live

Posted by | January 7, 2009

This Tuesday did not see the release of the anticipated 3.0.8 patch for World of Warcraft, instead confronting players with the usual maintenance downtime. There were no changes in world mechanics, such as the ability for any race to ride any mount, nor were class mechanics updated, like the Hunter’s Aspect of the Wild going raid-wide.

Despite the lack of a patch, or indeed any change at all, the players who bitch about nerfs and class imbalance on the World of Warcraft forums have continued to bitch about nerfs and class imbalance on the World of Warcraft forums. We wish them luck with their inevitable panic-induced heart attacks at age 25.

The full patch notes for the update which didn’t happen yesterday may be found at Blizzard’s Test Realm page, but here’s what they look like at present.

General

* Players …

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