Leveling Down

Smack dab in the middle of my 3v3 Random Team ladder league after my first week.

With the little time I have, I’ve been devoting my free time for gaming directly towards Starcraft II – bouncing back and forth between the campaign and the multiplayer. So, while I may have occasional other games to write about in the coming entries, perhaps you’ll be reading about Starcraft II from me for a while.

Being a huge 3v3 RT fan and having played over a hundred matches during the Starcraft II beta, I’ll spend today’s entry sharing my thoughts and experiences with 3v3 multiplayer in the retail now that I have 18 matches under my belt.

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If you need evidence that gaming is alive and well in Asia, check this out: at the Osaka Aquarium, you can download information to your DS.

I spent a few years in junior high living in Hong Kong, which were major formative years – in my gaming life. After playing NES, SNES, Famicon, Super Famicon, and Street Fighter in arcades with my cousins, I was a gamer for life. When Mrs. cmfl3x and I decided to take a trip to Asia this summer (Taiwan, Japan, and Hong Kong), I was curious as to what the gaming scene looks like over there these days – to my more adult eyes. Hit the jump from my impressions.

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If I am logging onto my account in offline mode, why do I get kicked out with this error screen?

Starcraft II was released last Tuesday. How did it go? It’s almost comical for me how badly it went. Even with my Internet down, all I wanted to do was play Starcraft II’s single player but couldn’t even do that due to the Internet authentication steps the game took. Read on for what I had to go through to play Starcraft II in a time when my Internet was actually not working.
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