The recent Guild Wars 2 Beta Event is the focus of the latest Contains Moderate Peril podcast. Brian and I take a very measured look at the game which is currently still flagged as “work in progress”. After the recent hype and misplaced expectations over SWTOR we try to be as rational about this promising [...]
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Sorry; we’re not dead, and a Rushgore Tip!
What We have been up to Its been a heck of a time since we last posted, as always when we come creeping back from a long break its a confession of still playing the game, but having a bit less time so neglecting the blog. Its the preferable way round to do it for [...]
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LOTRO: A week’s raiding worth a fortune
Last week’s raiding was lovely. First we defeated Lightning T2 and I won a First Age symbol! I’ve won some before, but passed them over to DPS classes (as they profit far more from it than a lore-master). Now almost everyone in my kin has one, and the …
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Guild Wars 2 Beta Event Video
I thought that the Guild Wars 2 Beta Event would be a good opportunity to try and experiment with recording some in-game video footage as there is no NDA. I’ve had a fully licensed copy of FRAPS for many a year, but have never really used it. So last night I thought I’d give [...]
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Beta Photos!
Good morning! Please excuse any spelling errors on my part, because my hands are shaking from lacks of sleeps *grin* Here are a few of the screenshots from last nights beta!
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Guild Wars 2 Beta Event – The Hats are Cool!
Note: I cannot possibly cover every aspect of Guild Wars 2 in detail. If you want to know in-depth details of the game mechanics, then you best read about it on the official site. The following post is just my musings on the beta and the associated internet chatter and hype that goes with it. [...]
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Change of scenery: planting plants to shoot zombies
I had to live several days without internet connection (hence the low amount of posts), but luckily have it back now. Having no connection makes you think though: you realize how dependent we’ve all become on it. I’m just old enough to remember the day…
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Video Games are Racist
I know the first thought most people will have reading this: “What does a middle class white male with a Master’s Degree know about racism and diversity?” And you would partially be right; I do not have a lot of experience with racism first hand. I have not had to deal with racism as an [...]
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What’s Next
I have been following a lot of the news about D&D Next and waiting to see what it looks like before commenting. Today, Monte Cook posted on his blog that he is no longer working with Wizards and is moving onto other projects. So one of the main rea…
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Steam on linux?
The internet has been a little fired up today (at least the more geek oriented hangouts have been) as a certain forum (NeoGAF) has posted some information regarding the development of Steam for Linux. Here is a link to the source of the informatio…
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ME 2: Claiming a substitute Krogan
It is almost as if the Mass Effect game read my former post about missing Wrex and anticipated on that. Creepy. Wrex is apparently still busy on his homeplanet sorting out who-knows-what, so my employer Cerberus sent me off to a planet to collect a sub…
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PC Gamers work harder!
This weekend I shelled out for a new PC (well most of one). It was an epic event in my life, I scurried home to throw my I5-2500k and Gigabyte Z68AP into my new Cooler-Master case (lol, geek talk) I frantically slammed the 8GB of Corsair Veng…
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The Next Big Thing
I was chatting with a few fellow gamers recently and was asked if I had pre-ordered the two next big titles. These being respectively Guild Wars 2 and The Secret World. They seemed surprised when I responded “no”. I subsequently explained that I had reached a stage in my life where I was beginning to tire of [...]
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LOTRO: Saruman contemplations
Why is it so hard to take a good Saruman screenshot? There’s always someone jumping in front of your screen, red damage numbers above a Saruman, tanks running away from clouds and after that the squishies running away because there have been brought Sa…
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I am an ass, there, I said it.
For the first time in about forever, me and Hex are both playing and enjoying the same mmo, The Old Republic. So when he suggests that we start a new charcter together, why not I say. Me and Hex quite often play video games and chat over skype, usual…
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ME 1: Ode to Wrex
I’ve been playing quite a bit of Mass Effect lately, to the point where I finished the first game. My, what an epic conclusion that was! It was really exciting, apart from all the shooting that had to be done – luckily I could abuse my boyfriend for th…
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LOTRO: The art of burning things
A little pyromaniacFireworks! My little warden woke up in Bree after a long winter sleep and saw the sky turn all colours of the rainbow. Half of Middle-earth seemed to have gathered at the north gate of Bree and was blasting big colourful things into …
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Do You Have a Gaming Philosophy?
Gamers play for different reasons. You can argue that “fun” is the common factor, but as it is totally subjective term, it really doesn’t level the playing field. The simply fact is the reasons I play games may be radically different to why you do. I would also suggest that there is no right or [...]
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Will you have to
Woot Dark Souls on PC confirmed, ah crap if is going to ship with Games for Windows Live. Now I am not going to moan about the actual GFWL service, we all know that it is unreliable, awkward to use and locks out people from a lot of countries. In th…
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LOTRO: Five-year anniversary
My favorite online game is already five years old! I still remember my excitement when I first heard it was going to be released. I was at a Fantasy event and was allowed to try out the elf intro in Ered Luin (of which I did not understand a thing!) an…
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