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1 hour 37 min agoMarch 19, 2010
22:16
The contest currently stands at 10 entries. That is a sufficient number of entries, and they are of good enough quality, that I will feel no qualms about awarding the prize on April 1st. Somebody will get an in-game pet.
But you can still win.
There is still time. You have until March 26th.
And there still hasn’t [...]
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15:39
Over at Joystiq we find that EA is setting the bar for success (and failure) for Star Wars: The Grand Ol’ Republic:
Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia recently visited EA to check in on the progress of the company’s upcoming, cutscene-driven MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. He reported that “earnings are [...]
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06:18
Wow… I mean just… wow…
Derek Smart has been on stage running Alganon for… what… 20 minutes now?
Okay, it has been a little longer than that, but already he has brought much attention to the game he is now running, Alganon. Previously Alganon was primarily known for openly admitting that they copied WoW in every interface [...]
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March 18, 2010
15:20
Well, that sounds silly, doesn’t it?
I mean, we did Sunken Temple the previous week, why would we then start preparing for it?
Well, we’ve been big on doing all the quests for instances and seeing all the sites as we make what might be the last run through pre-cataclysm Azeroth, and Sunken Temple has a couple [...]
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03:35
And wrecking my credibility.
A couple of months back my daughter and I took all of the loose change in the house to a nearby CoinStar station with the intent of getting an Amazon.com gift certificate. CoinStar takes a percentage of your total amount if you want cash, but if you will take a gift certificate [...]
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March 17, 2010
21:36
Because I know you are looking for a true, honest, and loving relationship.
Tobold forwarded me a spam email sent to him with an endorsement from me… or at least my URL:
Hello.
I am”miss Sandra single, how are you? hope you are fine and in perfect condition of health.I saw your contact in tagn.wordpress.com today and took [...]
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15:18
Quote from the “help orc” screen on TorilMUD:
Warning: As one of the six evil races on TorilMUD, the orcs are extremely difficult to play and face many hardships. Their hometown has been specifically designed to make life hell and death waits around every corner. Orc will most certainly encounter situations that would be deemed “unfair” [...]
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March 16, 2010
16:26
I got a note from Cryptic today that has a little more information about the “extras” that those of us who bought lifetime subscriptions to the game get. Anything to validate my purchase!
STO LIFETIME PERKS
Greetings Lifetime Members!
We just wanted to thank you again for purchasing a Lifetime Subscription from us. As you already [...]
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March 15, 2010
16:31
Last week was my fourth pass through the Game Developers Conference, having also gone up to San Francisco in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
This year my expo pass was provided by the fine people at FileCatalyst. They were at the show to talk to companies about their accelerated and managed file transfer solutions. While they asked [...]
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March 14, 2010
20:42
Today is the day. Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver launch today.
The web site for HeartGold and SoulSilver has been updated with a lot of new information about the game, along with some hints of things to be revealed later.
We pre-ordered through Amazon.com, which means that a Sunday launch date guarantees that we won’t get the game [...]
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18:16
I’ve been playing Star Trek Online at a rather relaxed pace so far. It does seem to be designed to let you drop in for a quick mission or two. But that does not mean I have not been paying attention to the game.
Still on the press release mailing list, this fell in my inbox [...]
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March 13, 2010
00:08
Saturday afternoon found Potshot and I running around with alts on Lightninghoof.
I had Grungur, my healing shaman on and he had his pally on, who was only a couple levels ahead of Grungur, and also spec’d healing.
Thinking we might get some good, fast exp, he re-spec’d to protection and we hit the dungeon finder as [...]
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March 11, 2010
18:01
World of Tanks has released the American tank tree for their game.
The American tank tree illustrates quite clearly the US position on tank development, which were largely influenced by General McNair, that the US Army didn’t need anything better than the Sherman, which should be used for infantry support and which should leave the enemy [...]
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March 10, 2010
16:03
Hail, hail, fire and snow,
call the angel, we will go,
far away, for to see,
friendly angel come to me
-Rhyme from the worst episode ever
There I was in another strange solar system checking on another Federation outpost.
There had been a distress signal. Something strange was happening on the surface. There was a request to beam down to [...]
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07:10
Back to my 2010 predictions, and one in particular.
One of the following companies will announce their first/next project, and it won’t be an MMO (5 points):
Aventurine
Carbine Studios
Red5 Studios
Simutronics
Turbine
Only, when I first made that list, I had 38 Studios on it. It seemed logical. I had lumped them together with Red 5 and Carbine last year.
Then [...]
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March 9, 2010
17:00
What to do with all that ISK I have in my wallet?
A few weeks back I was sitting in EVE Online. Star Trek Online was down and I had had all of the WoW I could take for the day. So there I was in New Eden wondering what to do.
I started thinking about one [...]
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March 8, 2010
06:35
I asked my daughter a few weeks back whether I should work on saving up cash for one of the mammoth mounts that can carry two passengers or if I should concentrate instead on the Mekgineer’s Chopper, an engineer created motorcycle mount that can carry one passenger.
My daughter immediately said, “The motorcycle!”
As a father, I [...]
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March 7, 2010
20:28
The contest has come to life, we now have one entry! Sometimes a little bit of whining works.
The entry has been validated, accepted and has a good chance of winning even if somebody else enters. I don’t want to give it away, but I’ll put out this hint.
As good as this entry is though, it [...]
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19:28
The contest update is that there is no contest update, really.
There is no update really because nobody has entered yet. So there is NO competition currently to win a code for a WoW in-game pet.
And if there is only one entry, they will get the pet even if it is a variation on Leeroy with [...]
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March 5, 2010
17:23
A further indulgence in the Fitzcaeraldo-like effort of this fake Werner Herzog to establish his own oeuvre with the interpretation of childhood classics through the lens of Werner Herzog.
Like life, this continued effort will simply lead to disappointment after disappointment as the freshness of the original parody can never be recaptured. This is of course [...]
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03:28
I have to come up with a new title scheme for these posts about revisiting instances, as I tend to fall back on “Return to N,” where N represents a dungeon we have done before on the alliance side of things. See last week’s post, Return to Zul’Farrak.
This week the post is about Maraudon, and [...]
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March 4, 2010
17:06
I have at least one more tree headline to go I think.
Over at World of Tanks they have put out their Soviet tank tree to show the progression through the armored vehicles of the Red Army. You can compare this with the German Tank tree.
Soviet Tank Tree Available
If you feel like going for the Red [...]
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March 3, 2010
18:01
One of the problems starting out on a new server is you can never be sure which character you roll will end up being your main and who will get left behind.
At least that is one of the problems I have. Some people just roll one character I hear.
So when we moved over the Lightninghoof [...]
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March 1, 2010
17:50
I tend to start thinking about April Fools way in advance. I was tinkering with the an outline of the Graphite Realms posts about nine months in before the fact.
Not that I feel compelled to do an April Fools post, but I know if I am going to do something, I need to do it [...]
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February 28, 2010
23:41
General
After an outstanding, record breaking January here, along came February.
There is a reason we tend to travel in February. Even in California February tends to be a chilly, gray month. Work also tends to ramp up as certain departments finally sober up from the holidays and start making demands, leading to long hours at the [...]
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February 27, 2010
19:14
I have been a Netflix subscriber for a number of years now.
I like to browse through their selection and add things to our queue that I might like to watch some day. There are well over 100 titles on our list.
I try to keep at least some of the top of the queue dedicated to [...]
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February 26, 2010
16:36
While sequels are depressing reminders of both the limits of creativity and man’s primitive desire to find safety in the known and routine, I present another childhood tale seen through the lens of Werner Herzog.
“His affection for the machine was out of proportion with social norms.”
-Fake Werner Herzog
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00:50
It was time for a return to an instance that was a challenge the last time we were there, Zul’Farrak.
ZF is interesting in that it is an outdoor instance, which means you can mount up and ride. But the spaces are not that open, and they can be quite crowded. Plus the trolls who live [...]
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February 25, 2010
19:00
More news from World of Tanks.
While I have obstinately refused to learn anything about the game not obvious from the front page of their site, I did sign up for their newsletter since my first post about the game and have already received two updates, both of which were short and to the point. (Take [...]
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February 24, 2010
17:28
I got a note this morning from Cryptic about Star Trek Online.
They wanted me to take a survey!
We’d like to know more about you!
How often do you play the games you love? For that matter, what games do you love? What’s the one thing you’d change about Star Trek Online, if you could?
We’ve put together [...]
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02:34
Pokemon.com played coy for a week, then finally let us know the dates for the last download event before Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver.
You will be able to download Jirachi at GameStop from February 27th through March 13th, just one day off from the timeline I predicted in my previous post on the subject.
As has been [...]
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February 23, 2010
22:45
Meanwhile back in World of Warcraft, where I seem to be spending most of my gaming time of late, I have achieved yet another pointless achievement!
Yes, I have finally managed to fish up all those damn coins from the fountain in Dalaran!
I have actually been one coin away for quite a while. I needed Thrall’s [...]
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February 22, 2010
23:05
The free-to-play browser based game Crown of Byzantus went live today!
So perhaps my post last week about the open beta ended on a bit of a dire note. If you missed the tiny crack in the open beta window I left open, have no fear, you can now play the game for real.
The game features [...]
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February 21, 2010
20:42
As part of the build-up to the mid-March release of Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver, Pokemon.com has announce that there will be another download event at GameStop.
While the dates for this download event have not been announced, I would have to think that February 28th through March 14th might be a reasonable guess. That would mirror [...]
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00:53
No, not WoW-type tanks. Real tanks. Armored fighting vehicles.
Well, virtual armored fighting vehicles. Darren has the trailer posted over at his site.
I am talking about a free-to-play online game which is all about tanks called World of Tanks.
All tanks and nothing but tanks, or so it seems.
And WWII tanks no less. Everybody’s favorite!
From the site:
World [...]
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