Monthly Archive: September 2011

Brewfest is here!

Brewfest is here and will remain active until October 5th. This usually means really late at night on October 4th, so you’ve still got some time to grab your steins and grab some achievements!

Each year around the end of September and into October comes Brewfest. It’s a WoW holiday that’s modeled after a real life beer festival in Munich, Germany that lasts anywhere from 16 to 18 days. For WoW players that means lots of activity outside of Orgrimmar and Ironforge. It also means several achievements, an obtainable title, and a holiday boss that’s been updated to drop several ilevel 365 versions of trinkets we’ve known to love over the past few Brewfests. The best part is that the boss is repeatable as many times as you’d like and you can requeue over and over for the fight. You have no excuse to have at least 1 trinket from him after the holiday is over. Each day you beat Coren Direbrew you receive a Keg Shaped Treasure Chest. This item contains just a few justice points, or something fun like the Direbrew Remote or a holiday mount.

MMO Champion has their usual holiday guide to Brewfest that’s been updated for Cataclysm. Check it out!

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Diablo III Release Update

The Beta is going on right now and the release date was “end of 2011”. Knowing Blizzards tendency to not rush things they’ve pushed their release date back to “early 2012”.

The positive side of things is that the beta testing will be longer than expected so the chances of you getting to play it a little earlier if you’ve opted in have just gone up! If you haven’t opted in yet and want to try to get in on a piece of the Blizzard testing pie, check out their Opt-In and FAQ.

It may not clash with the release of SWTOR, which probably is something Blizzard was looking forward to (detracting from people playing SWTOR over WoW) but I’d rather D3 to be more polished and finished when it releases than if it were rushed out the door to meet their first release date guess.

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Hardcore Mode in Minecraft 1.9

So the 1.9 Pre-Release has brought a plethora of fun stuff to the table… everything from NPCs to Snow Golems. But Notch has tweeted today that there will be an all new game mode introduced. Hardcore mode!!! Similar to what it sounds like and what we’ve seen in other games’ hardcore modes – it will bring a whole new meaning to death in Minecraft.

Obviously it’s an optional thing… it doesn’t apply to every game you play, but you can now choose to play Hardcore in addition to normal Survival and Creative modes. Notch has stated that it automatically sets the difficulty level to “Hard” so there’s no playing Hardcore mode on Peaceful.

In some hardcore modes in games you simply lose your character and have to create another, or lose all your items and are forced to start from scratch again… in Hardcore mode in Minecraft you will lose your entire world. Yeah, sounds harsh, right? That’s because it is!! I’m totally ready to give single-player a shot in Hardcore mode and see how long I can last.

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