Posted on January 18th, 2009 by admin
Not really, but now there’s a way to play the game on your PC.
A new application called SwitchBlade brings World of Warcraft a tiny bit closer to console gaming by making it possible to play it on your PC with a 360 controller. The software preconfigures WoW’s “most popular” commands to the controller buttons, but if those don’t suit your fancy you can reconfigure them to meet your needs.
At the moment, WoW is the only game that supports SwitchBlade. Future versions of the application are expected to support more games and other controllers. You can download SwitchBlade from Xfire for free.
I can’t imagine anyone getting too excited about this news, but you never know. Would you play WOW on your PC?
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Posted on January 6th, 2009 by admin
Daelo, the lead encounter designer, has dropped a few more details about Ulduar, the tier 8 raid that is coming in patch 3.1 (whenever that happens to be). We heard yesterday that there will be more “hard modes” in the raid, analogous to Sartharion. Today we learn that, again like Sartharion, completing the hard modes will give you not only achievements but also additional, better loot. There is also, apparently, going to be an optional encounter in the raid that will be hard-mode-only; I’m picturing something like Nightbane here.
Furthermore, Ulduar in general, according to the post, will be harder than Naxxramas is. Naxx was tuned easy on purpose, and the devs have been saying for a while that Ulduar will not be that way, to the same extent. The analogy Daelo makes in his post is that if Naxx is “the introduction to raiding 101 class for players who have never raided before,” Ulduar is “the second year class.” So we won’t be hitting a brick wall, but it probably won’t be compared to UBRS either like Naxx often is now. Either way, we won’t know much for sure until it’s up on the PTR, but I’m certainly
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