It was such a busy week in games that I didn’t have time to take good notes about what I accomplished. Alinniel did attend the BBB concert in Bree on Sunday. There were so many hobbits in the band this … Continue reading →
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MMO Ipsum Generator
Writer’s block’s been hitting you hard? Need to fill a new blog with some basic content? Hope this lorem ipsum generator will help. It will produce a couple of paragraphs of MMORPG related, randomly generated filler text. It is based on text collected from my fellow bloggers, all listed in my blogroll. As an added [...]
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Riders of Rohan Soundtrack: Theme for Rohan
A brand new musical score has been released on The Lord of the Rings Online YouTube channel entitled “Theme for Rohan”. Composer, Chance Thomas, shares his thoughts in creating this piece: How does one more broadly define Rohan? A storied nation in decline? A land simmering on the verge of all-out war? Anglo-Saxon reference with [...]
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Interviews over at Massively
I’m always proud and excited over doing interviews, even if they aren’t always the pageviews blockbusters that I’d hope they’d be. Anyway, I’ve done two recently that I wanted to share with you: Interview with Puzzle Pirates’ Matt Jensen — … Continue reading →
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Dev Diary: Captains in Riders of Rohan
Erika “DEViled_Egg” Ng (one of the newer system designers for LOTRO) has released the upcoming changes for the Captain class in the Riders of Rohan expansion pack.
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Creatures Of Darkness, Prepare Thyselves For a Merciless Thrashing
Me in my long-coveted outfit from the Witch Hunter deck, which I finally completed last night in The Secret World. The hubby is in his Exorcist outfit which he says makes him look a little like Father Guido Sarducci. Wait, who? Oh, old SNL references. Of course, the irony is that while I’ll be sporting [...]
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The Risks of Rewards: When BLAP Gamification is Problematic
Last time, I introduced the concept of BLAP Gamification – gamification that focuses on Badges, Levels, Achievements, and Points. I also suggested that there were some significant risks with this type of gamification. When I first started looking at gamification, I was reading the core text on BLAP gamification – Gamification by Design (Zichermann & [...]
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Gamesradar–Riders of Rohan Preview
Another preview of Riders of Rohan has been posted; this time by Gamesradar.
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Issue #1: Unleased – out today
The first monthly update for The Secret World launches today, bringing with it seven new missions and a whole lot of new content including new Nightmare Mode dungeons, the Marketplace, and more.Additionally Funcom are celebrating the first month of the…
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RIFT: Life in the fast lane
After two crazy weeks of work, I finally had a respite this past weekend — and some much-needed time to myself. When it came to gaming, I decided to have fun and throw all my chips into one basket to … Continue reading →
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Blaming the games
Edward Castronova at Terra Nova wrote an article about Zynga’s and Facebook’s decline. He thinks the reason is the lack of payoff at the end:
Are there genuine human fundamentals behind the demand for Zynga products? Yes and no. Yes: There are some p…
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3 is a magic number
. . . yes, it is . . . it’s a magic number . . . somewhere in that ancient, mystic trinity . . . you get three . . . as a magic number . . .
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Lament for Boromir
Tolkien did write a piece himself in The Lord of the Rings for the sadness that Aragorn and Legolas felt upon losing Boromir.
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Preparing for the Mists
Since we now officially have 55 days until the launch of Mists of Pandaria, it came to my attention that I should probably prepare for this event. After which, I promptly kermit-flailed and panicked because I’m horrible at organizing. But after some coffee and … Continue reading →
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CGL – Season 1: League of Legends debut
Not quite a WoW related post today. I looooove my League of Legends. I’m not the greatest at it, but I certainly get a huge adrenaline rush from both playing and watching. A few months ago, I mentioned my desire to start a recreational gaming league within the guild (and for other interested players). League [...]
“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”
- Wayne Gretzky
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Asking the wrong question
The question most often asked by a DM in Dungeons & Dragons is: “What do you do?”. But sometimes you get a convoluted answer about some very complex action a player wants to try which makes no sense to you at all. And then it is better to ask: “Wh…
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Kickstarting
Three items to note for you on Kickstarter: Have you seen The Gamers? There are two movies, and the creators have taken to Kickstarter to fund the third. I hadn’t realized they also had a series, so I must check out JourneyQuest. I pledged. If you liked Defense Grid, would you like to support Defense [...]
Kickstarting is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
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How I Ruined The Industry
Not singlehandedly, of course. But I, like many others set my expectations unreasonably high and chased the elusive “one MMO to rule them all”. No matter how much I denied it, I secretly hoped for a “WoW-Killer” to become a run-…
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LOTRO Community Update July 30, 2012 [Video]
In this week’s Community Update Sapience let’s us know what is going on with the community as well as what Riders of Rohan information will be released this week.
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Blog Break
Don’t worry, the blog isn’t broken, I’m just giving everyone an update. Remember how I said my erratic schedule was going to level out? Well, I was wrong. I haven’t been blogging as much as I would like, but at … Continue reading →
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