The WoW expansion is almost here! Just a week until we’ll all be sitting waiting in unbelievably long queues to enter an overcrowded world where an incredible event has lead to the birth of thousands of Blood Elves and Draenei. Shall we go to the starting zones with all the other newborns and camp tiny baby wolf kills? I’m thinking no.
People are preparing for the expansion. I’m not quite sure what they’re doing, but they’re definitely playing a lot of WoW. For the first time in months, I’ve had to wait in a queue to log on to my server. Nothing too atrocious yet, but I can only imagine that it will be many times worse on release day.
I ordered my copy of the expansion from EB, so it’ll probably show up a few days after the release (hoping it shows up at all, given other people’s horror stories). I’m ok with not being there on release day – it’ll be really crazy with people bringing Barrens chat to all new world locations. I’m thinking that for the first few weeks it’ll be bad, but that first week will have a lot of people starting new characters. My plan is to just check out the new areas on some new, empty server. If I go somewhere empty and quiet I should at least be able to see what things look like and have a little fun without feeling like I’ve entered the lines at Disney World.
We’ll see, we’ll see. I certainly don’t want to invest any time into some throw away character that I just make to bide the time until my server isn’t as clogged. But a few hours of messing around sure can’t hurt!
In fact, I’m in new-alt withdrawal. I love rolling new characters so much, and I’ve very much wanted to do so for the last few weeks. The only thing holding me back is the knowledge that I’m going to be making new characters so very very soon. It’ll be so awesome! Ok, calming down. I’m calm. Don’t worry.
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7 brand new PSP titles have also been announced and they’ll be made available via the new network.
These downloadable games include three action titles, two musical titles, a racing title and a shooter, suiting every gamer’s tastes. If you own a PSP, you’ll be able to access the new content with the aid of a Wi-Fi connection or through your PC connected via USB. Keep in mind that the new titles will be shorter than the usual UMD games, but we’ve seen blockbusters ranking high in game reviews, although they only took up 200MB of storage space.
US gamers might get a surprise for Christmas, as the PC compatible version of the PSN will become active this winter. Care to guess what those 7 titles are? I’m hoping for Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep demo, or a brand new Ridge Racer, although I won’t be surprised to see NFS ProStreet surfacing on the PSP this winter. Sony’s finally doing something to catch up with the Xbox Live and the Wii’s similar service, but as long as there’s no daily update and the lag’s omnipresent, the PSN will still be number 2… or even 3.
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