Shadow Island Games Articles About Games
Odder Bloggers2009-09-18 00:00:00Keeping up to date on this industry is a living, screaming nightmare. There are dozens of games with dozens of stories, each of which changes on at longest a monthly and often weekly basis. Each game has dozens of developers and public relations staff who are trying to get the word out, but often what one tells us isn't quite the same as what another informed us about in the not too distant past.
Thanks goodness our network is fortunate enough to have a King's ransom in quality editors, many of which write their own blogs, kind of like the one you are reading now. There is simply no means to keep up with this industry without a knowledgeable, inebriated staff. Let me introduce you to a few of our intrepid staff.
Jeff Woleslagle, who many of you know as our TenTonHammer.com rodeo clown jots down his thoughts in Ganked when time permits. Jeff is a busy guy and spends more of his time writing articles of value, rather than the kind of tripe that I put out, but we'll keep him around anyway, even if he is pushing the quality meter a little to high for my liking.
Byron "Messiah" Mudry is responsible for Digital Haven, a World of Warcraft focused blog. He also uses a Mac. Need I say more?
Coyote Sharptongue is the author o...
Gems and Enchants for Your Death Knight2009-09-09 00:00:00 Once you start gearing up for the end game as a Death Knight, there is a whole other area to consider. That area is the enchants and improvements you put on your gear. These improvements to the gear many times even outweigh the next upgrade you are likely to get. All that later though, what are the type of improvements you can get and where do they come from.
Types of Improvements
The simplest and most straight forward enhancement that you can get for most of your gear is an enchantment. These are magically cast on your gear by an enchanter or by yourself using a scroll or enchanting that an enchanter created for you or that you bought in the auction house. While there are other types of item enhancements these are the only true ˇ°enchantsˇ±, however most players refer to all types generically as enchants. Leg Armor Kits offer huge bonuses
Other types of item enhancements are crafted additions to items such as leg armor kits created by leatherworkers, threads created by tailors, and belt buckles created by blacksmiths. Many different types of these can be created by these professions, and can add huge bonuses to your ...
The Black Market of Achievements2009-09-05 00:00:00Achievements are now sort of the lifeblood of modern raiding in World of Warcraft. It no longer about getting a boss down to get his equipment but instead about getting a boss down a certain way to get the achievement to do so. Achievements are a great way to extend a game playability as we can easily see with the Xbox or sites like Kongregate. Achievements are even a source of humor and mockery within games. Popular flash game artist jmtb02 even took a good jab at achievements with the totally meta-game chievement Unlocked.When taken into an MMORPG they in turn bring out a different side of things.
Achievements can be the gateway into a pubby raid. Show them the achievement they crave (the boss theye after down, the dungeon complete, whatever) and you can gain the golden ticket into the raid. The raid, that I might add, has a huge chance of failure. See, achievements aren the end all or tell all of anything. It easy to get to coax a game into giving you, the player the achievement. You don have to contribute anything at all to get most of the achievem...
WoW armory revamped to show achievements and more2009-09-01 00:00:00World of Warcraft players finally have the moment they've been waiting for. Well, okay, one of the many moments they've been waiting for. The armory has finally been revamped into the updated form Blizzard promised some months ago that will allow players to off the achievements they've earned. The armory version of achievements also contains the same tracking bars and lists for in-progress achievements as are on the in-game interface. For the W...
