My first love [insert flying doves and shit here] was a huge gaming nerd who was in love with me but whose first love was Lunar: Silver Star Story on the Sega-CD.

Up to that point in my rather dismal gaming life, I had only played the occasional game of Mario Brothers or Duck Hunt and played WAY too much Lion King on the Sega Genesis [DON'T JUDGE ME!].

Since I wanted to keep boyfriend interested in me and I liked spending hours at a stretch in front of the television, I let him talk me into playing Lunar. The boy even loaned me his prized Sega-CD.

Within ten minutes of sitting down with Lunar, I was officially hooked and playing the game quit being so much about pleasing the boyfriend and became about the wonderful story. Lunar was my first experience with an RPG and that is a love obsession that has lasted LONG after the first love was left in the dust.

Before I had kids, I would spend HOURS playing video games.

My usual choice was RPGs though I occasionally dipped into games like StarCraft, have been known to play a round or two of online Call of Duty:4 and have a tendency to become obsessive about all things Sims franchise related.

While I was at a blogging conference this weekend, I started thinking about what I was going to write for “work” and I realized that I haven’t really played a video game in I don’t know how long. The closest that I’ve come to being immersed in a game was Fallout 3 and before that it was Oblivion but I haven’t played Fallout in a month or two.

I don’t know if life has just gotten in the way or if I’m lacking a game that inspires me but I WANT to love gaming again. Actually, I never stopped loving gaming…I just stopped having something to love. I want to get back that feeling that I had with Lunar where I cried near the end – the game moved me THAT much. There was a time when I could listen to one of the themes from Lunar and it would take me back so strongly to playing that game that I would get emotional all over again.

Where is THAT game?

Right now, I don’t care about co-op. I don’t care about any online components or DLC. I want a story that connects with me. A story that grabs me by the shirt and makes me want to spend hours on it. That makes me miss it like a far off friend once I’m done with it.

I hope that game is out there because I miss gaming.

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I Miss Gaming

Blizzard is said to be removing the LAN support for Starcraft II which beats the excitement of the product. Ok, there is called the battle net but there were already a ton of anti-social games from the world of Warcraft, and now Blizzard is contributing anew to this community with their Starcraft II game.

I hope Blizzard hear out gamers and bring back the LAN support for this game.

Image from Blizzard.

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Don’t Tell Me Starcraft II has no LAN Support

Let’s look at the history of the biggest game of the year:

1. 1st StarCraft – released on March 1998

2. Brood war add-on – released on November 1998

3. StarLeague – OnGameTV which is a gaming channel in South Korea launched the StarLeague on year 2000

4. BoxeR – Lim Yo Hwan is the first Starcraft star on 2001

4. StarCraft Ghost Recon – third person stealth game in 2002

5. BoxeR – recruited by Korean Air Force to join their StarCraft team in 2006

6. Starcraft II announcement – The world was rocked when Blizzard announced the development of Starcraft II in 2007

7. StarCraft II trilogy – was announced in 2008

8. Starcraft II -  this is the release date, hopefully in 2009.

Are you a big Starcraft fan?

Source of timeline from PC Gamer and image from Blizzard.

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Starcraft History

Second Life has silently managed to sneak into second place in the “PC Games” category as the most played title.

Traling them far behind are games like Dar Messiah of Might & Magic, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Bookwork, Half-Life 2, Civiliation IV, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Chessmaster Challenge, and StarCraft.

I am surprised to see Chessmaster Challenge make it on the top ten, but I am happy that at least a lot of people are spending time exercising their brains more than any of the other games could offer.

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Second Life Trailing World of Warcraft

Former World Cyber Games (WCG) StarCraft: Brood War 2003 Korean champion Lee Yong Bum (ogogo) was nabbed for breaking into an advertising company and looted more than $18k of video equipment last year. Prior to this, Lee had stolen a handphone in his high school and robbed a rental van driver.

In his account to the police, the retired Zerg pro said he has suffered enormous stress due to long training hours and mediocre results during his pro-gaming days. Has instant StarCraft fame and failure get the better of him? We really don’t know.

Image: Sina

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Former WCG StarCraft Champion Nabbed For Break-In, Even Zergs Can’t Help

Learning a new language is not easy, especially when you get to the age like me (20++++). However, if you combine the still-popular StarCraft in Korea with English, you can get StarCraft fanatics motivated to learn English. Siliconera uncovers StarCraft English in Korea. Users can learn basic English from Protoss, Hydralisk and other StarCraft vocab.

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StarCraft English Makes Learning English Fun In Korea, Repeat After Me…Proto-sss

I’m jealous. Korea gets to know StarCraft II firsthand, Sony 80GB PS3 in a week’s span…what’s next?

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Ogle At Blizzard Babes, Who Cares About StarCraft II?

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Fresh! StarCraft II Screenshots From Korea World Wide Invitational

Itzik Ben Bassat, Vice President Business Development and International for Blizzard, recently mentioned, “I’m a StarCraft player myself and I hope it’s not a decade, and we launched StarCraft in 1998, before I’m standing here again, celebrating the next game in the series.”

Zergness via ActionTrip

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StarCraft 2008?