The MPQ files contained in World of Warcraft (WoW) have data, graphics,and sound….and they tend to get big fairly fast. And while they can be compressed, encrypted and segmented, their mere size poses a “threat” to WoW players’ games. That’s because the MPQs change regularly, and as their size gets bigger and bigger, and their size [...]

                               
For those of you with kids, or those adults who just like animals and games that are “good, clean fun,” you probably know all about Webkinz. For the uninitiated, you can go here to learn about these stuffed animals that take on a life of their own, a life that is controlled by the user [...]

                                   
Milk and cookies getting together, peanut butter and jelly joining at the hip. That’s how some have described the recent announcement of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of game developer Bethesda Softworks, acquiring id Software, the Texas-based developer of game franchises such as Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein. This news generated a lot of excitement [...]

Lewis Allard, from Colorado Springs, is a 25-year old programmer for a major defense contractor. While at his job he gets programming performance boosts from PerfectDisk, I’m writing today about the performance improvements his systems get while playing video games. Lewis plays a wide variety of games, with World of Warcraft probably being his favorite.
WoW is big — it takes up 15GB for the [...]

                            
The Dow may hit 10,000 again someday and World of Warcraft (WoW) interest may wane someday, but for now, both seem a long way off. Blizzard Entertainment's wildly popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) now boasts over 11.5 million monthly subscribers. And many of these subscribers are PerfectDIsk users, who we hear from all the time.                          [...]

With all the cool new consoles out there now, console makers are raking it in, as that is where the trend seems to be for the multi-billion dollar gaming industry. There are several analysts and gaming pundits that debate the issue, pointing out there there are still millions and millions of PC gamers around the [...]

Most World of Warcraft (and other) gamers know all about the importance of defragmenting their drives to keep their systems and games running as fast as possible. MPQs are large files used in Blizzard Entertainment’s games that contain a game’s data files, including graphics, sounds and more. Many World of Warcraft users want (need?) to [...]

Jason Spencer is a 31-year old guy who is a long-time gamer. He started playing at age 4, fell in love with them, and eventually became a game developer himself. Jason contacted me recently, and rather than try to extrapolate all he was trying to convey, I’ll let his words do the talking:
"Playing video games [...]

Awhile back I wrote about the fact that many World of Warcraft players use PerfectDisk to automatically defragment their drives and get their big MPQ files in top shape. They get their regular updates, have their drive automatically defragmented and free space consolidated with Space Restoration Technology, and get on with playing. I had one [...]

Here in the United States, summer is winding down, and that means (American) football season is gearing up. While baseball has long been romanticized as this country’s national pastime, it is now pretty much recognized that football is the most popular sport here. And one of the most popular video games ever is Madden NFL [...]