The Teacup SWR Tourney is on hold for a bit while the players are busy with real life… so here’s a brief intermission.About a month or so ago, mikey posed an interesting question about the accessibility of games or at least the experience that comes …
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Warhamer 40K No Longer MMO
THQ’s long-awaited Warhammer 40,000 massively multiplayer online game is no longer going to be massively multiplayer, as the publisher today announced a genre shift to turn Dark Millennium into a single-player game with some online multiplayer features…
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What I’m doing for my summer vacation
Lately I haven’t been posting because I have been steadily working on projects and playing a lot.My bi-weekly LL game is moving along nicely. I set up the characters in the Keep on the Borderlands and populated the wilderness around the keep with the s…
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Battlefield 3 – Unlock Weapons and Gear for Cash
The worryingly large 1.5GB Battlefield 3 PC patch went live today. Yet despite its size I managed to download and install it in a matter of minutes. Now this patch addresses a ton of issues in the game and should finally bring balance to the force, so to speak. However, I subsequently noticed that among ther various bug [...]
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Decimating Dol Dinen
Real life has been kind of hectic lately with all of us seeming to take turns being ill, so this post is a little late. A couple of weeks ago, we managed to get a full fellowship of Khazad Guard together, for the first time. We realised that we all had various alts and levelling [...]
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Contains Moderate Peril Episode 53: Time is a Predator
It’s back to just me doing the podcast this week, but it certainly doesn’t stint on content. We here at Contains Moderate Peril don’t know the meaning of cutting corners. We also don’t know when to shut up. In this latest episode I ponder the following topics. My love affair with MMOs is officially over: After nearly [...]
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Mare Nostrum
A while ago, I was looking for some good naval rules that I could incorporate into my toolbox for D&D and Labyrinth Lord. I was looking for a simple set of rules that I could tweak a bit and make work for a scenario I have in mind down the road in …
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Pirate Bay to Use Unmanned Drones
Although this is not video game news I just thought it was interesting. This comes from sky news.One of the world’s most popular file-sharing websites, The Pirate Bay, has said it plans to use unmanned drones as network connections to avoid being shut …
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Random Campaign Setting
Over at Monsters and Manuals, noisms threw out the challenge to take 2d6 random monsters from your bestiary of choice and build a setting around them as the intelligent races of the campaign world.I decided to roll randomly to choose between the three …
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An Alternative Look at Mass Effect 3′s Ending
As Alyssa before me, I must point out that this article is riddled with spoilers from start to finish. Those of you who have yet to finish the trilogy should stop reading now and finish playing Mass Effect 3 before coming back here. Anyone reading past this point runs the risk of me revealing that [...]
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F1 2012 Coming Soon
With the 2012 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP now underway. Codemasters has announced that F1 2012 will launch worldwide in September for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. F1 2012 is the next game in the award-winning, multi-million selling series from Codemasters as part of an exclusive multi-year deal with Formula One World Championship Limited.
To mark the announcement and introduce one of F1 2012’s new headline features, Codemasters has released a video following F1 2012 Creative Director, Stephen Hood, as he meets the next generation of drivers at the Young Driver Test. Filmed at the Yas Marina Circuit, home of the FORMULA 1 ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX, Stephen asks if their experience with Codemasters’ FORMULA ONE games has been of benefit as they prepare for a career in the world’s most exciting motorsport in real life (note: you can see the video below).
F1 2012 will introduce a new Young Driver Test mode as one of the headline additions to the series that will take players even closer to the experience of becoming a FORMULA ONE driver. Players will be introduced to the world of FORMULA ONE through a range of tutorials explaining how to handle racing’s most exciting and responsive cars, and challenged to earn a drive from a team for the 2012 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.
In the video, rising star Sam Bird, testing for Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team, says, “I think Codemasters have done a super job of giving regular people a proper insight into what a FORMULA ONE car is like.”
Stefano Coletti, representing Scuderia Toro Rosso added, “When I came to Abu Dhabi I couldn’t go to the simulator so I switched on the videogame and started to play. It actually worked because when I got here I felt like I’d already driven [the circuit]. It was my first race in GP2, first ever time in GP2, and I won in my first race so it actually helped.”
In F1 2012 players will feel the unparalleled thrill of becoming a FORMULA ONE driver with a host of new features, wide-ranging technical and gameplay advancements and extensive competitive and co-operative multiplayer components. F1 2012 will feature all of the official teams, drivers and circuits from the 2012 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, including the debut of the 2012 FORMULA 1 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX at Austin, Texas and the return of Germany’s famous Hockenheim circuit to the calendar.
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Book Review – “The Raider’s Companion”
Being a long-time fan of the MMO blog Epic Slant, when Adam “Ferrel” Trzonkowski mentioned he was starting a Kickstarter project for his next book, The Raider’s Companion, my ears perked up. And when he offered review copies it, I couldn’t type the email fast enough. As a long-time MMO vet and raider, I wondered what [...]
Thank you for reading Book Review – “The Raider’s Companion”, a post from Professor Beej.
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My Final Thoughts on the End of Mass Effect 3
Needless to say, this article contains a lot of spoilers for the whole game and it’s about my view and experience upon completion. I hope that my feedback will reach someone in Bioware and that it can help give them insight into one fan’s response, hope and expectations for the rest of the series. I [...]
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Mass Effect 3 Ending Has Done Some Good
Retake Mass Effect is a petition to BioWare asking for alternate endings for the entire Mass Effect trilogy. But as of this writing, the petition has also raised $34,232.96 USD for the Child’s Play charity which will be used to provide video games for …
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Bethesda To Announce MMO In May
So apparently to no surprise Bethesda are going to announce an MMO for Elder Scrolls, thus will take place a whole millennium before Skyrim. Which will be before any of the Elder Scrolls gamesThe game will contain at least 3 factions, lion, dragon and …
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GAME Is Going Bust, So What?
A lot of you would have read this in the news, if not you’ve read it now 
. So do we really care that one of the world biggest high street video game retailers is going bust?
Some of us in other countries are saying GAME? who cares we have GameStop, or in the UK there’s always GameStation. Well if you don’t know they are all the same group, so of one goes they all go.
So why do we all like GAME? Well the advantages were you could get games then and there, and also receive points for buying games/consoles, you could also make a quick buck by selling your games/console and even though they ripped you off you could do it then and there.
Are we really going to care though? a good example of GAMEs exploits was when COD 4 came out, it remained at the £40 for ages, but 3 months after its release I got a hold of a used copy for £15, how? Well the seller lost the case and manual. So browsing the Internet for an hour or so can get you really cheap games, only problem is it takes a few days to arrive.
Nowadays you can pre-order, sell your used games and loads of other stuff all on the internet, but instead of going down to GAME we just pop to the post office, and places like amazon will only take around 10% which is a lot less than GAME.
It’s always sad to see retailers that you went to for many years go bust, but truth be told we don’t care after a few weeks because we all know we can get it in the post.
VERDICT: Whether GAME does close or gets sold on it won’t really affect any of us buyers, but watch out the next few weeks are critical as GAME is slashing their prices. Battlefield 3 on the PS3 used is around £18 so keep an eye out.
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GAME Shares Rise…
UK videogames retailer GAME may be on the brink of administration, but its share prices have suddenly seen a spike. Stock is currently trading at 3.2 pence per share, a rise of over 50 per cent in the last 24 hours. At one point they rose as high as 3….
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Mass Effect 3 Ending
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERSAlthough this is brief, this is all its going to take to give you the ending (and i’m not kidding the bit in bold at the bottom is the ending movie)So now that the game has been out long enough and everyone is complaining abou…
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Battlefield 3 Close Quarters DLC & Major Patch Coming Soon
A trailer was recently released showcasing the new maps coming to Battlefield 3. The Close Quarters DLC pack is adding frenetically paced, small scale combat environments that are fully destructible. The video clearly demonstrates this with walls, furniture and sundry soft furnishing getting blown to shit. It all looks looks devilishly saucy and appeals to [...]
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Bioware Director Comments On Mass Effect 3 Ending
Bioware Director Casey Hudson has responded to enraged fans that have criticised the game’s endings and day-one DLC. In an interview with Digital Trends, Hudson responds “I didn’t want the game to be forgettable, and even right down to the sort of pola…
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