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BlizzCon 2013 Getting Closer

October 26, 2013 by Richard Vincenti Jr Leave a Comment

BlizzconStage

This years Blizzcon is set to begin a little later this year then it has in the past with the first day of the convention beginning on Friday, November 8 and the second day on Saturday, November 9 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m on both days. Blizzcon 2013 will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center, 800 West Katella Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92802.

Tickets to attend the event in-person have long since sold out but you can still join in on the fun from home by purchasing a Blizzcon virtual ticket. The virtual tickets are being sold for $39.99 and will allow you to see the full event streamed live on the Blizzcon website with multiple channels so you can pick the content you want to see.

Here’s a list of what to expect from the live streaming event:

  • Developer Panels: Get the latest news and firsthand developer insight into the creation of your favorite Blizzard games.
  • Exclusive Interviews: Dig deeper into the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo universes in exclusive interviews with Blizzard executives and developers.
  • Costume and Talent Contests: Get a great view of the creativity on display in the legendary BlizzCon Costume contest and the brand-new-for-2013 Talent Contest.
  • Closing Ceremony: Be there for the closing festivities on Saturday night, celebrating two full days of Blizzard gaming and eSports action.

When you buy a virtual ticket you will also receive some cool in-game goodies which for 2013 include:

  • World of Warcraft Pet: Murkalot
  • StarCraft II Portrait & Decal: Tearin’ Stitches & Stitches’ Hook
  • Diablo III Banner: Mark of Death (PC version only)
  • Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Card: Mystery Minion

For complete details on the event and/or to purchase a virtual ticket, head to the official Blizzcon website.

 

 

Filed Under: Games, Internet, News, PC, Software, Video, Web Tagged With: blizzard entertainment, blizzcon, Diablo, Gaming, live stream, Mac, murlock, News, PC, Software, Starcraft, Updates, video, video games, virtual ticket, Web, World Of Warcraft

YouTube Could Offer Paid Subscription Service

October 23, 2013 by Richard Vincenti Jr Leave a Comment

YouTube Logo

Billboard has reported that YouTube may be offering a paid subscription service later this year that focuses on music, more specifically, music videos. The service will likely have both premium and free content that will be available on any device.

The challenge for Google is that many users already enjoy their favorite music for free at anytime on YouTube, so how could they design a service you would want to pay a fee for? It’s likely that some features may include the removal of ads, access to full albums, and exclusive “premium only” content. In many ways this service will be similar to what Spotify currently offers and with the massive audience that YouTube has, this could be a very sucessful move for them.

As of this posting there is no official confirmation from YouTube on whether or not such a service will launch or if it does, when, although some have speculated a holiday launch later this year.

Filed Under: Google, Internet, music, News, Rumors, Video, Youtube Tagged With: Google, internet, Music, music video, rumors, subscription service, video, youtube

World of Warcraft Siege of Orgimmar

September 13, 2013 by Richard Vincenti Jr Leave a Comment

Hey Warcraft fans, if you have been out of the loop or have been unsubscribed for a while you may have missed that earlier this week Blizzard went live with patch 5.4, Siege of Orgrimmar. This patch packs in a lot of new features and enhancements including:

  • A repeatable solo scenario for level 90 players called the “Proving Grounds”
  •  Flexible Raid Difficulty
  • Connected Realms- which will permanently link two realms together for a better overall experience for less popular realms.
  • A new pet battle tournament called the Celestial Tournament
  • A new land called the Timeless Isle
  • New Shiny Amor Sets

The tensions stoked by Garrosh Hellscream’s arrogance have reached a boiling point with the devastation unleashed upon the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Now it’s time for leaders of the Alliance and Horde to lay siege to Hellscream’s capital and topple the ruthless Warchief once and for all!”

For complete feature overview on patch 5.4, head over to Blizzard’s official page.

Filed Under: Games, Internet, Mac, PC, Software Tagged With: blizzard entertainment, Gaming, Mac, MMORPG, patch 5.4, PC, siege of orgrimmar, video games, World Of Warcraft, wow

ASCII Art Generator

August 30, 2013 by Richard Vincenti Jr Leave a Comment

ASCII stands for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange and it is a code that represents English characters as numbers in computers. There are a total 128 characters in standard ASCII and many of them can be used to create ASCII art, which is created by using the 95 printable characters out of the total 128.ASCIIHeart

You can easily piece together your own ASCII art by simply opening any text editing program but if you want a quick way to turn ordinary text strings into an ASCII art masterpiece, then check out this awesome Text to ASCII Art Generator by Patorjk.com.

Here’s an example of what one style of ASCII text art looks like. There are tons of different styles to choose from and there are even options to change format output.


 

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| $$  | $$          | $$| $$                | $$  /$ | $$                    | $$      | $$
| $$  | $$  /$$$$$$ | $$| $$  /$$$$$$       | $$ /$$$| $$  /$$$$$$   /$$$$$$ | $$  /$$$$$$$
| $$$$$$$$ /$$__  $$| $$| $$ /$$__  $$      | $$/$$ $$ $$ /$$__  $$ /$$__  $$| $$ /$$__  $$
| $$__  $$| $$$$$$$$| $$| $$| $$  \ $$      | $$$$_  $$$$| $$  \ $$| $$  \__/| $$| $$  | $$
| $$  | $$| $$_____/| $$| $$| $$  | $$      | $$$/ \  $$$| $$  | $$| $$      | $$| $$  | $$
| $$  | $$|  $$$$$$$| $$| $$|  $$$$$$/      | $$/   \  $$|  $$$$$$/| $$      | $$|  $$$$$$$
|__/  |__/ \_______/|__/|__/ \______/       |__/     \__/ \______/ |__/      |__/ \_______/

You can also create images by using ASCII characters, you can use a picture to ASCII converter like Picascii. You can either enter a URL or upload an image to convert it to ASCII Art. There are even options for size and color plus an HTML formatter to ensure it looks correct when posting the art elsewhere.

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Filed Under: Apple, Art and Design, Computers, Electronics, Fun, Internet, iOS, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, OS 9, OSX, Windows Tagged With: art, ASCII, ASCII Art, Computers, converter, design, generator, Linux, Mac, OSX, PC, Software, Web, Windows

New League of Legends Debit Card Will Give RP

August 13, 2013 by Richard Vincenti Jr Leave a Comment

LOLAEXCard
(Image Credit: The New York Times)

According to the New York Times, American Express will be releasing a League of Legends pre-paid debit card that will award you Riot Points when you use the card for everyday purchases. Just for signing up you will get 1,000 RP, plus another 1,000 RP when you preload $20 onto the card. You will get 10,000 RP when you set up a direct deposit to the card and another 1,000 RP for the first 10 purchases.

If this type of reward system catches on, and I hope it does, it could be a great incentive to use these cards. This is a great way to get into the growing gaming demographic. This could easily apply to any other popular game currency and appeal to a rather large audience. Getting in-game cash for spending money like you normally would in real life, sounds like a good deal to me.

There haven’t been any details on just how much you will be able to accumulate after the first 10 (ten) purchases, but either way, it’s more than what you were getting before.

Filed Under: Games, Internet, News, PC Tagged With: american express, debit card, Gaming, internet, League of Legends, News, riot points, RP, video games

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