Here at Plusnet Towers we’ve heard that some World of Warcraft players have been asking their ISPs why their gaming experience has deteriorated since installing the latest patch 3.2.2 update.
Are you a WoW player and which provider are you with? If you play regularly have you seen your gaming experience getting worse recently?
Hello again, it’s been a while. Since I last blogged, I have got married and been on honeymoon, and bought a Wii. I know, I’m weak, but it was for the little one, and it means my Xbox pads are no longer getting battered due to the frustrations of a 6 year old, just the frustrations of a 29 year old. More…
Like pretty much everyone in my age group, my first foray into online gaming was on a PC. It was on a Pentium 3, and it was Half Life online, using a 56k dialup connection. Since then, online gaming on the PC has given me many good memories, from Command and Conquer, Team Fortress 2 and even draughts. But is PC gaming dying out? More…
OnLive is being billed as ‘the future of video games’, but what exactly is it? The concept and system were demonstrated at the GDC (Game Developers Conference) recently.
You can watch the video of this here, be warned it’s quite long at nearly an hour.
Take a look through your gaming connection. Do you have any of the Guitar Hero franchise? Rock Band? Any of the Buzz games, or the Scene It? Games? I do, and yet I consider myself a hardcore gamer yet these are “casual” games. Games that you can pick up and play for 10 minutes or play for hours. Games that are primarily targeted towards people playing together, but who aren’t necessarily bothered to play all the way through to the end. Rewind four or five years, and games like this were few and far between, and the main staple of games are action games, first person shooters and racing games that took months to fully complete. So why the change?
Who remembers the first time that they paid full whack for a console? I had Mega Drives, Master Systems and the like over the years, but they were always when the cost had come down, or bought off a friend or neighbour. The first console that I ever bought at full price was the Sony Playstation, and after my recent blog about the most influential games, I started thinking of the console that I played most of them on. More…
Good lord, two blogs in one week? Normally, I would have waited to put this up, but I just couldn’t. I have come across something that I just disagree with on many levels, and needed to share my anger!
Working for Plusnet, there can be a lot of competition in the workplace, who takes the most calls, who has the best quality of service (where our calls and tickets are checked to make sure that they are as good as they should be), and competition is good, right? It actively pushes us to ensure that we are doing the best job that we can, and as a result you guys reap the benefits by having a support team that are good at what they do and constantly strive to be better. I have always been competitive, and this doesn’t end at work. At home, my better half and I like to play Bomberman on Xbox Live Arcade. Now I am a gentleman, but let my good lady beat me? I don’t think so 
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In a previous post, I stated that us gamers haven’t had it as good for years, with several months of AAA games coming out, and a healthy line up for 2009. Gaming is one of the few entertainment mediums that is holding its own in this credit crunch, and we have some amazing machines to play them on. The problem is, which is the one to go for? More…
For those who know me, I turned 29 recently. That means that I have been playing computer games for 25 years. Admittedly, I may not have been very good, but I was playing! People like to think that, with age, their skills grow. Their reflexes sharpen, and their tactics become more, errrr….. tactical. You also look back at the games that you played as a kid- BombJack, Donkey Kong, Wonderboy and so on and think how primitive they look compared to today’s ultra-realistic, photomapped 3D games. You usually had your joystick and one or two buttons. There was none of this 3D nonsense, and the Playstation was years away.
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