Time to vote on my leveling style… Do you want me to quest after level 15 or do dungeons mostly? Let me know! I’ll do videos accordingly.
Also, I update you on the professions you all voted on!
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World of Warcraft - Professions Update & Vote on Leveling Style!
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Quarry & Invasion Maps
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Want to know the starting positions for maps in COD:MW2? This video will show you three of the popular starting zones and typical routes of both teams.
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Review: iMob App for the iPhone
Erin G-Homes
You can tell I’m traveling… When I can’t console game, I end up iPhone gaming!I downloaded this app – iMob – for the iPhone and it’s coined as the first ever MMO game for the iPhone (so basically all handheld devices because let’s face it, there isn’t anything as cool as an iPhone… Sorry!) The app basically allows you to register a character, choose a “class” and play against other people online.
My character’s name is… drum roll please… Rayanna and she’s a hustler. That’s her class. Don’t get any ideas…
A hustler means that instead of regen’ing health faster or being tougher, she’s damn good at making money… I’m gonna find a way to exploit this app like I did The Sims Online (I’ll tell you that story later…) Apparently if you download it now, you also get 30 extra points for their reputation system.Okay, so the deal with this app is that you complete missions for money and experience, you fight other iMobbers for reputation, you can purchase weapons to increase strength and you can also purchase buildings and lots to earn an income. It has all the similar qualities of an MMO except that it’s in a really compact form.
I like the style of play and it already has addictive qualities to it. For example, you have to wait for time to elapse before you regen your energy (you need energy to complete missions, etc.) and you gain your income from your purchased buildings every 50-60 minutes. Your health decreases as you play… especially if you have people fighting you! I had one dude fight me to the point that I had to go to the emergency room… LAME!
I have to give this one some srs nods because I really do think it brings the qualities of an MMO to the smaller screen. The coolest part is that it’s portable and FREE! You can purchase reputation to use with “The Don” to get things like a henchman and $20K at a time but otherwise, all of the options are available to you at no cost.
Look me up as Rayanna on there – would love to see you fight me to the death!
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My First Live Webcast & Girl Gamers
Erin G-Homes
One Saturday in March, I decided to air my getting to level 80 on World of Warcraft. Some of you attended and some of you did not. The key thing here though is that it gave me SO much insight into the type of people who watch and follow girl gamers.People would log onto the cast and would first ask, “What is this?” The first reaction they had was one of surprise… How could people be watching a girl game? They waited a bit to see what I would do – maybe I would pause for some comedic relief or offer up some instrument playing of some sort – but I just sat there gaming… Grinding to level 80.
I met many, many interesting people that day. Those people who popped in and out all day to check on my progress and those people who popped in long enough to be a bit of a bother and to be moderated out of the channel. All in all though, it was amazing to see the outpouring of support you all had for a girl gamer.
The webcast proved to me that girl gamers really are unique in this industry but also that they are needed. We need to have a voice that speaks loudly and is opininated on games that some game developers may not think girls play. Some of you may be reading this and thinking that I am being all femininst-like and I want to clarify… I’m not a feminist. I simply want women around the world who game to be taken srsly when we have opinions.
I want to see things like high level character customization, scenery that suits both a female and male audience, girl characters that don’t just make a boy’s mind run wild but that actually look like a normal girl… You know, equality. Don’t get me wrong, I think that Lara Croft and blood elves from World of Warcraft are some of the hottest gaming characters but I would still love to see a few characters who were gorgeous AND had normal proportions (y’all know what I’m talking about…)
That being said, I do love being a part of an industry that is more male-focused and here’s why… In a group of women, I wouldn’t get away with screaming “DIE MOFO” at my monitor but when I’m around the guys, it’s cool… No one minds and in fact, they egg the behavior on. I like being able to throw down the heels, take off the earrings and just game – talking about all sorts of things I wouldn’t normally talk about.
After all that, I just want to say that I love gaming and am so glad that others do too. Awww, insert corny, “You’re such a girl” here.
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Add-Ons for World of Warcraft
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For those of you who play often and do specific things inside of WoW (raiding, instances, questing, gathering, etc.) there are really great add-ons that you can get to make your life easier. I often get asked which add-ons I use so I wanted to outline those here and explain what they do so that you can get a sense for what I use inside of WoW.Add-On #1: Bartender
Bartender is simply amazing for customizing your action bars in-game. You can put them wherever you like, adjust the size of them, add bars you couldn’t see before and so much more. It has allowed me to put my portals and teleports up on the main screen all the time (as a mage) and not have to shift-click to them.
Add-On #2: Recount
Recount is great if you want to know how much DPS (deeps) you do in your group or on your own. You can set it up to track all of your DPS for a set amount of time and then you can do a recount on it. It’ll rank you against everyone else in your party and you can also broadcast the info out via raid or party chat. This becomes particularly helpful when you are trying to place higher DPS’ers in various groups or have them burn bosses faster. Plus there is something sexy about knowing that you place high in DPS… It just feels good!
Add-On #3: Quest Helper
Quest Helper, also known as QH, is by far the MUST-HAVE add-on for WoW. I don’t know how people could quest without it… Seriously. It would be like questing on Lord of the Rings Online. Warhammer Online figured this out by doing the nice pink area around or near what you need for the quest but Quest Helper has taken WoW to a whole new level.
What the add-on does is shows you where on the screen the items you need to gather are and the bosses you need to kill as it relates to open quests in your quest log. You can always turn it off too but once you have it, you’ll never go back. Think about driving across the country, in a country you’ve never been before blindfolded and without a map.
Add-On #4: Deadly Boss Mods
This add-on, otherwise known as DBM in the WoW community, helps you determine different unique abilities that bosses in WoW have. It also shows you when their buffs and debuffs spawn and how long until they disappear. Very cool in terms of knowing when to counterspell, mass dispel, etc. your target – specifically in raid groups.
Add-On #5: Auctioneer
If you place stuff on the AH to sell, you need this add-on. It will help you with pricing, availability, rarity of an item and so much more. It’ll also track your auctions over time showing you past posted prices, how to under price your competition and how many auctions just like yours exist. Very helpful to someone like myself as I’ve earned over 3,000 gold just from the auction house alone! My highest auction was 80 gold so you can see how many items I had to sell to get there!
What do you use in your World of Warcraft experience? What have you found to be helpful and what was a total waste of time?
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Review: Tap Tap Revenge 2 for the iPhone
Erin G-Homes
YAY! Finally an app that I can see myself getting srsly addicted to! I love my iPhone… Almost more than I love sushi, coffee and chocolate. But, I haven’t found that many gaming apps that I really loved. In fact, the ones I had downloaded thus far were either boring or felt too juvenile.Enter Tap Tap Revenge 2. While the name sounds slightly reminiscent of Dance Dance Revolution, it’s totally not! This is like Guitar Hero on mini mode and you get more control cause you can use a two fingers instead of five.
Basically, once you download and install the app, you load it up and choose your level. The cool thing is that you can play online versus other Tap Tap Revengers or you can play a single player game for yourself. You can also post your high scores online and compare it to other people… Or, simply save your own high scores to challenge your skill level over and over again.
Another wicked point worth mentioning is that you can download new songs online. I tried this app out while on an airplane to California so I haven’t downloaded any new songs yet but the two you get by default are catchy. They have a good beat and I found myself ignoring the flight attendants when they brought by snacks (which I never do!) to keep my eyes on the iPhone.
Best thing of all… This app is free!
The makers of this app should be proud. It seems that they are infusing indie music with a wicked app built from a super popular (and totally addicting!) console game. Kudos to you for that!
If you end up on this app and you want to challenge me, lemme know!
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A Typical World of Warcraft Login Routine
Erin G-Homes
I know you all have them… If you play WoW, you more than likely have a pattern for when you login – things you have to take care of before you actually sit down and play. For me, it seems to follow the same path each time and even my WoW friends have commented on it… They can predict exactly what I am going to do the minute I open up the game and queue into the server.
My routine is this:
- Login
- Check my friends list to see who is online
- Spam those who are online with a “Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!”
- Check my mailbox to see if I won any of the auctions I put up on the AH
- Collect gold from mailbox and get a bit of a rush knowing that I’m adding to my epic flying fund
- Take gear that didn’t sell on the AH and resell on the AH – I just KNOW they’ll sell this time!!
- Put other materials that didn’t sell on the AH into the guild bank – someone will need it…
- Look through my bags to see if anything changed, nothing has but I double-check anyway
- Re-spam my friends with a “What u doin??????????”
- Wait for responses
- Queue up into something – instance, raid, questing, general chatting / socializing or whatever else comes up
I’d love to know your World of Warcraft routine if you have one. Leave it here for me in a comment!!
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Win/Fail: Cadbury Eyebrow Commercial
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Ok, this video was recommended to me by Curtis from somewhere across ‘the pond’. I laughed SO hard when I watched it and then showed the h-band who also laughed… but he tried not to. He failed. The pink balloon is just so random! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s the Cadbury eyebrow commercial.
Check out my video here to see whether I’ve chosen WIN or FAIL for this video!
Original commercial here: Cadbury Eyebrow Commercial
Leave your comments below and subscribe to the channel over at YouTube!!
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Win / Fail Video Series - Submit Yer Stuff!
Erin G-Homes
So, I’m going to be starting a new video series called Win / Fail and I’ll be using these epic stamps I got to grade the stuff you send me. What stuff am I talking about? Anything!! Videos, advertisements, topics, celeb gossip, video games, tv shows, movies… Send me it and I’ll grade it!
Simply send your stuff to erin@eringames.com and watch for future videos to air!
Win / Fail Intro Video:
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