Musings of a technophile

OnLive is a new gaming service which will basically let you play PC games, even if you don’t have a beefed up gaming PC. How it does this is simple: The game runs through cloud servers (basically multiple servers working as one), and the outputted video is streamed to your PC. As you play the game, the input is sent back to the server in order to control your… Continue reading

As many of my friend know, one of the games I play the most these days is Defense of the Ancients, which is a mod for Warcraft III. Defense of the Ancients has become such a huge game played by so many people, that some people even buy Warcraft III just to play DotA.

DotA differs from Warcraft III in that you only control 1 hero, and you don’t… Continue reading

So I was playing Warcraft III online last night and this guy used a strategy against me that I had never seen before. You know that’s one of the best things about Warcraft III, and perhaps other RTS games as well; no matter how many times you play online, there is always someone else who uses a different strategy.

Anyways, this guy’s strategy was pretty simple. Basically he brought… Continue reading

StarCraft II is one of Blizzards highly anticipated games coming out (from what sources indicate) in a few months. A new StarCraft game hasn’t come out in like ten years, so this new addition to the series has some old time fans all excited. I never played the original StarCraft until recently – a friend at work still plays the game so we’ve played it a few times at LAN… Continue reading