10 tips to save you from dying in DOTA2

10 tips to save you from dying in DOTA2
DOTA 2 has been around for less than a year, but the gaming community has been fast adopting to this game. This community is mostly made of people who have been playing League of Legends, or Heroes of Newerth … and also the successful predecessor DOTA. What this means, that sometimes this community can be ...

DOTA 2 2

DOTA 2
For Warcraft fans (the Strategy game, not the MMORPG), the game is a hallmark for many things. Among them being the origin for multiple different genres of games – including World of Warcraft and DOTA 2. DOTA 2 is the sequel of the most popular Defence of the Ancients (DOTA) mod of the game Warcraft ...

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

XCOM: Enemy Unknown
So, why does Hollywood and the entire gaming industries pit the aliens versus the human race? So if an intelligent race found signs of life on Earth, would it’s first reaction be to kill it or to move towards its annihilation? What would you do? Would you not first study it? Find a means of ...

Wololo or How Obama won the election

Wololo or How Obama won the election
In case if you missed the reference, then you clearly haven’t played Age of Empires (and it’s subsequent Rise of Rome expansion pack).

Torchlight 2

Torchlight 2
I had started playing Torchlight back in 2010, when Blizzard was sitting mum about Diablo III. During those days, there was a huge gap in the RPG space … a gap that needed to be filled with different Diablo clones. A gap which was completely satisfied by Torchlight. So with the impending delay in the ...

War of the MMOs

More than seven years back Blizzard launched the World of Warcraft. What initially started off as a small campaign within the Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne game, suddenly shadowed the entire Warcraft RTS series … Blizzard had struck on a gold mine with the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), a game which would later ...

Dune references in Diablo3 2

I am a big fan of Blizzard, not only because the quality of their games completely sucks you in, but also since they manage to include a lot of popular culture within their games. For example, during Christmas, the whole of Azeroth would also celebrate it with the rest of the real world. As I ...

Undead Deckard Cain

Undead Deckard Cain
I was playing D3 in Hell with my Barbarian, and just finished getting the third sword piece of El’durin. As I saw Deckard Cain die and I exited his cabin, I saw a strange figure huddling between Leah and the entry to the cabin. It was Deckard Cain!! Very much alive! I have taken a ...

Asus Nvidia GeForce 550X TI

Asus Nvidia GeForce 550X TI
Yep. I just bought this monster of a graphics card. Yes. Another navel gazing post, but I think it’s worth the trouble. After I bought Diablo 3 and started playing the game, I noticed major lags with this game on my desktop. I was not able to diagnose the problem initially, and was relegated to ...

10 reasons why Diablo drives me nuts

I have been playing this game for a month or so now, whenever there is a weekend, I do put in my 4-5 hours in this game. Some of the features in this game absolutely drive me nuts! Here are 10 reasons why Diablo drives me nuts! No offline single-player mode. Which means, my internet ...