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World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King

Posted in Gaming, Internet by aceman on August 3, 2007

The first official info and screenshots for the upcoming second World of Warcaft expansion are available around the net, but I’ve put some info and uploaded them to Mental Gamers for everyone to see.

WoWWotLK Artwork

Blizzard is proud to officially announce the next World of Warcraft expansion set, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King! With the opening of the Dark Portal, and the renewed war to stop the Burning Crusade’s destruction of worlds, the heroes of Azeroth have given little thought to the frozen wastes of Northrend – and the terrible, ancient powers that wait there. Yet the brooding evils of the fallen Nerubian empire and their malevolent sovereign have not forgotten Azeroth…

Orc Buildings artwork

The former death knight and now Lich King Arthas has set in motion events that could lead to the extinction of all life in Azeroth, as his undead armies and the necromantic power of the plague threaten to sweep across the land. Only the mightiest heroes can survive the frozen northlands with any hope of disrupting the plans of Arthas – and perhaps even challenge the Lich King himself and end his reign of terror for all time.

Xbox Live Shenanigans

Posted in Gaming, Internet, Xbox 360 by aceman on August 3, 2007

My Gamercard lies?Last night, I played a Futurama DVD and some FlatOut UC on my Xbox 360 and the console was turned off before midnight.

As I came to check my blog just a few minutes ago, I noticed that I had apparently been offline only an hour and that I was ‘last seen’ on Xbox.com. Two things wrong with that:

  1. I wasn’t even online with the Xbox 360 at that time, in fact, it hasn’t been on since turning it off last night.
  2. I haven’t been on Xbox.com… oh wait…

I got another achievement last night and went to see what it was about. I wish it wouldn’t do that, I’m not paranoid about my account being compromised as I’m quite savvy with security type stuff and things like my passwords are usually quite complex of at least 8 mixed characters, an example of which would be A5bn4I8n (not a password of mine, just an example). It’s just that all this integration of stuff can tend to confuse things when your Gamercard should really be kept separate to everything else, it shouldn’t say that I was (supposedly) on Xbox.com or even the forums, that’s one thing that worried me slightly and kind of still does.

Every now and then I’ll see the Gamercard say I’m on or have been on ‘Forums’, which forums, I don’t know since I don’t use the Xbox.com or MyGamerCard.net forums, so what’s going on?