Gaming Archives - Surviving the Madness

Today I finally get to see the Warcraft movie

June 4, 2016

In 2007, when I starting dating The Husband I made my very first World of Warcraft character on his account because we didn’t have internet at home yet. She was a Blood Elf Mage called Sakura (Naruto also being a big thing in my life). When we got married in 2009, I finally got the luxury of an internet connection, I got my own account and started over. I created Hinata, a Blood Elf Hunter and she’s been my main homegirl ever since. I’ve made so many other characters over ...

Gaming

Pokémon Go!

September 16, 2015

So I was going to share that Apple Crumble recipe today (and I probably will later this afternoon) BUT Nintendo announced an Augmented Reality mobile game yesterday called Pokémon Go where you can catch Pokémon in kinda real life and I am too damn excited about this!!!! It looks like Niantic Labs is involved, the same people who brought us Ingress. I lost interest in Ingress pretty quickly but here’s hoping that Pokémon will keep me interested. I hope the game play isn’t ...

Gaming, Things I love

It’s Comic Con weekend!

July 10, 2015

This is perhaps the weekend I look forward to most in the year. San Diego Comic Con! I am beyond excited every year. I flit between desperately wanting to be there in person and running for the hills because I hate being crowded by people and standing in long lines. I can’t stress how much I hate these two things. So I live vicariously through the lucky sods who get to walk the floor and take in all the geeky goodness and especially those who get to attend all the panels of my ...

Gaming

QuantumCon Boardgame Festival

March 24, 2015

Attention fellow geeks, gamers and boardgamers. This Saturday is the first ever QuantumCon Boardgame Festival in Cape Town and it’s going to be so much fun. There will be tons of boardgames available to play and you can also bring your own. These aren’t just your usual Pictionary, Monopoly or 30 Seconds. These are just the boardgames that I’ve played. There will be tons more available for you to try. For a full list check the Facebook event page. And ...