“Prof Gets $100,000 Grant to Study World of Warcraft”

“As reported by the Orange County Register, Prof. Bonnie Nardi of the University of California Irvine, received the $100K grant from the National Science Foundation for the project.”

I’m wondering how she went about getting the $100,000, as it doesn’t seem like it would take very much $ to research WoW. It’s interesting, though, to see that video games are being taken so seriously in the field of science. I would like to read her report later to see if she observes any interesting economical trends from WoW that can be applied IRL.

The closest thing that I ever did to this was making a Counter-Strike:Source presentation in my second year of university for French class. It was really fun giving 1337-speak translations and showing my class a demo of some pro CS:S players.

Best presentation ev0r!

Game Politics: Prof Gets $100,000 Grant to Study World of Warcraft

1337 Song – I heard it’s the softest thing ever

A Day to Remember

I love the singing at 0:45

Just listening to this song makes me feel ready to own it up like nobody’s business.

My favourite song by them, “A Second Glance”

ps These guys do a wicked hardcore cover of Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone”

TF2 Demos – a Hidden Treasure…

I like to watch demos (recorded game-play) to learn strategies for maps I’m not too familiar with, and I only recently came across the site RedRum-Demos, because it is run by a fellow in the clan that I recently joined.

I wish I had known about it sooner, because it really has a huge number of tf2 demos, and they are categorized by class to suit those looking to improve their skills. I’m excited about anything that will help me become a 1337 hax0r hehe. Also, I really enjoy that the name of the site is a nod to one of my favourite movies of all time – The Shining!