Dare to Play the Game

NHL 11 Microtransactions, Pinball Wizards, and Kinect Does Sign Language? - Welcome to the column that is the best in the world at what it does (which is?) known as Dare to Play the Game.

I think I have Lips fever. (It is like cowbell fever but with less clanging) I’ve been playing the Lips games quite a bit. For some reason, I have flashbacks of college when all I did was visit smoky bars and sing songs. But alas, I have over 800 achievement points and now own three Lips microphones, three of the titles and a bunch of the downloadable content.

Bungie Penalizes Ragequitters, Console Corporate Hacking, and Making Your Fable 3 Villager? - Welcome to the column that is the president of Ragejoiners of America known as Dare to Play the Game.

Most of you will be happy to know that I started a new game this week while finishing off some achievements for Marvel vs Capcom 2. As mentioned last week, I finally broke through the barrier and beat the arcade mode with a Street Fighter themed team. Apparently, I found the formula to beating the arcade mode and then repeated the same method to an Avengers, X-Men and even Dark Stalkers team.

Final Fantasy XIV ESRB Rating, Street Fighter X Tekken, and Jailbreaking is okay? - Welcome to the column that will be quite happy when streaking is determined to be socially and legally acceptable known as Dare to Play the Game.

Nothing to report on World of Warcraft this week, because I’m not playing. Yep, the extent of my Warcraft life this week was reading Arthas: Rise of the Lich King by Christie Golden and watching my wife play her Gnome Warrior (tank spec) named Ankletank. It is as funny as it sounds. Kneecaps and toejam beware! In addition, I turned to my 360 for my other source of weekly entertainment.

Alternatives to Split Screen Multiplayer, Plants vs Zombies, and Centipede making a comeback? - Welcome to the column that would like to know what happened to their parachute pants known as Dare to Play the Game.

As of Saturday morning, I am officially done with World of Warcraft until Cataclysm drops. I’m played my priest mostly, completing some last minute heroics which included exalted status with the Kirin Tor as well as enough marks to get an epic neck piece. I actually finished every heroic with the exception of Gundrak and Occulus. The last of which was no loss at all. Yes, boys and girls, flying around on a drake has no business being the main part of a 5 player dungeon.

Ubisoft and 3d, Big Ben in Madden, and 3ds can stop Piracy? - Welcome to the column that thinks you will find them a slasher…of prices known as Dare to Play the Game.

Welp, we are entering the last week of my WoW account until Cataclysm. After that, I’ll either be forced to play on my wife’s account or just cool it down for a while. My dwarf is still progressing, he did finally get the Superior achievement (involves every piece of gear being a certain level) by trading in some Emblems of Triumph for a spiffy helm piece. As reported in previous weeks, his dps is still improving and it is nice to see I’m not being picked on as much.

Eating Farmville, Manute Bol in NBA Jam, and a Call of Duty MMO? - Welcome to the column that caters to hobbits and gnomes who are addicted to Pixy Stix known as Dare to Play the Game.

Well, with a little bit of work I now have a gearscore that exceeds 2000 on my dwarf priest on World of Warcraft. In addition, he reached 5000 gold and purchased his epic flying. Luckily at this point, I still have two hundred gold to my name. Heck, he even raised his jewelcrafting to over 420 which is the requirement for a lot of high end jc recipes.

Gaming with Criminals, Kinect is like Super Mario Bros & Mario Kart restores Vision? - Welcome to the column that will make you go blind if you don’t use both hands known as Dare to Play the Game.

Honestly, I didn’t do too much in the land de World of Warcraft. Mostly I gathered some Frost and Triumph emblems for my dwarf via Ahune (Mid-Summer Holiday boss) and a few heroics. My dps is still pretty poor honestly, but I’m getting better. I simply don’t play as much as most 80’s, so my gear isn’t uber. Heck, my gear score hasn’t even cracked 2,000 (it is around 1800 last I checked), so it is unreasonable to expect anything wonderful.

Xbox Kinect Bowling, Sony Talks About 3DS & Microsoft pushes again for PC Gaming? - Welcome to the column that thinks 3d gaming needs a large slap of reality known as Dare to Play the Game.

I’m back for another week with more World of Warcraft gaming nonsense. As it turns out, I did play my dwarf priest some more but most of my weekend involved getting my troll rogue closer to 80. He started the weekend at about 75 and a half and ended up on Sunday at 77. His gear is starting to get better and my dps is starting to improve. However, the last dungeon I was in, I was still near the bottom though I noticed my dps had improved considerably. I was part of the pack, not behind it.

Some E3 News, Summer of XBLA Arcade is back & What exactly is a Kinect? - Welcome to the column that will make the announcement at E3 that they write a gaming column every Wednesday known as Dare to Play the Game.

Well, I did it, finally. On Sunday, my Dwarf Priest finally reached level 80. Oddly enough, it was accomplished in Utgarde Pinnacle on the very last boss. It was a very nice feeling and it was good to have Sarah along with me to complete the task (especially since that was my first time in Utgarde Pinnacle). I went ahead and also ran my first heroic instance which was Culling of Stratholme and cleared it in quick enough time to get Sarah the Bronze Drake.

Lawsuits against Final Fantasy, Dungeon Siege 3 Info & Booth Babe restrictions? - Welcome to the column that is considering the idea of launching an expo called Gaming Pron 2011 featuring nothing but booth babes known as Dare to Play the Game.

All is better in World of Warcraft. After a second GM ticket and a lot more waiting, Sarah’s account is back for the most part. They restored Sarah’s 2 80’s, her 78 and my 75 rogue all in one piece from what I can tell. Now while they did restore her and my lower level characters, they kinda piece-mealed it (all of the equipment but many of the items had no stats) which means if we do want to play any of the lower levels again, we will have to build them back up with dungeon runs most likely.