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Final Weekend of the Spring Festival

Published on May 31, 2013 by in event, Events, festival, in-game, Spring Festival

Monday, June 3rd is the final day of the Spring festival

 
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Iterating on Events

Published on May 24, 2013 by in Events, Game Mechanics, Guild Wars 2, GW2, MMO, MMORPG, Playing, Ramblings

I was thinking on more about the Southsun cove update after the last post and how I would like to see them start focusing on the other zones more and enticing people into them. I still don’t think they have found the the best way of improving open world content and enticing people into it. […]

 
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Final Day of the Anniversary Festival

Published on May 6, 2013 by in Anniversary festival, event, Events, festival, in-game

Today (May 6th) is the final day of the Anniversary Festival! Make sure you turn in all your tokens and buy up all the goodies you were hoping for!

 
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LOTRO “The One Fund” Cloak

Published on April 30, 2013 by in Boston, charity, Coupon, Events, Free Sample, LOTRO Store

We were all saddened by the story of the bombing attacks on the Boston Marathon earlier this month. Turbine, who produces LOTRO for us, is actually located in the Boston area and so this is something that happened in their back yard.

 
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New Anniversary Rewards

Published on April 29, 2013 by in Anniversary festival, Events, festival, Rewards, tokens

Ketani was awesome enough to go get screenshots and prices of the new anniversary items. I will add these to the Anniversary Festival Guide later tonight but I thought you guys might want to see them before then!

 
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LOTRO: Six-year anniversary

Published on April 26, 2013 by in Events, LOTRO, Middle-earth Fashion

I logged in the other day to check out LotRO’s sixth anniversary event and saw that I had received two neat little packages in my inventory: one with a range of fireworks and one with the Festive Azure Steed which is given to all five-year subscr…

 
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Live Show Tonight at 9:30pm

Published on April 19, 2013 by in episode, Events, goldenstar, live, Podcast

The live recording of Casual Stroll to Mordor episode 192 will be tonight (Friday, April 19) at 9:30pm Eastern rather than Saturday. Same time just a day earlier.

 
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6th Anniversary Double Experience Starts Today

Published on April 18, 2013 by in 6-years, Anniversary, double experience, Events, LOTRO

Just a reminder that as part of the Anniversary Festival we will be getting double experience starting today and lasting until April 21st.

 
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LOTRO 6th Anniversary Festival Guide

Published on April 16, 2013 by in 6-years, Anniversary, Anniversary festival, clothing, cosmetic, deeds, event, Events, festival, Festival Guides, Festival Mount, Guide, Housing, in-game, Quest, Rewards

LOTRO is celebrating six years! This year’s event is going on from April 16 – 30th.

 
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Defiance: Time-Limited Episode Missions

Published on April 14, 2013 by in Defiance, Events, MMO Games, MMO News, New Games, Quests, shooters, TV Shows

Thanks to catching the tail-end of a twitter conversation a few days ago, I was reminded to complete all the current Episode Missions in Defiance. Good thing too, since they won’t be around in-game after the 15th. Because of Trion and SyFy’s collaboration on this cross-media project, the timeline content in both the game and … … Continue reading →

 
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LOTRO 6th Anniversary Festival

Published on April 10, 2013 by in Anniversary, Anniversary festival, beer-fight, double experience, event, Events, festival, in-game, LOTRO News, race

Details on the 6th anniversary festival have been posted! This year’s anniversary festival will run from April 16th – April 30th, 2013.

 
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CSTM Mithril Edition Giveaway!

Published on April 2, 2013 by in Events, gift, Giveaway, Manolor of Landroval, Mithril Edition, spring

April is a huge month! It’s the birthdays of LOTRO (April 24th) and of course our Baby Hobbit. It is also about the time here in Michigan that the outside starts to hint that it may not be cold and bleh forever.

 
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Happy Birthday Merric

Published on March 30, 2013 by in birthday, Events, General, Merric

Today is Merric’s birthday! Merric is a fantastic husband, father and podcast co-host and he deserves to know it. We are still on vacation in his homeland of Texas and have plans for a crawfish boil later today where we will celebrate. Since this is a post about Merric, I thought it’d be a good [...]

 
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DAW: Funcom

Published on March 28, 2013 by in appreciation, Bloggers, Blogs, community, Developer, Events, Funcom, MMO Games, MMO Life, The Secret World

Outstanding. Apparently, my blog’s revival has serendipitously coincided with DAW, or Developer Appreciation Week. This is good, because I would have been loath to miss out on this tradition. Let’s all take part in sharing the love! Originally the brainchild of Scarybooster, DAW is a chance for gamers and bloggers everywhere to show our appreciation for [...]

 
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Fashion Week: Screenshot Community Voting

Published on March 21, 2013 by in Events, Fashion Week, LOTRO News, screenshot

The screenshots have been selected for LOTRO’s Fashion Week Screenshot contest category of “Fan Favorite.

 
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LOTRO Developer Twitter Chat: March 21, 2013

Published on March 15, 2013 by in Aaron Campbell, Budgeford, community, dev chat, Events, Hoarsedev, LOTRO, LOTRO News, Rowan, Sapience, Scarycrow, Twitter

Turbine’s LOTRO team is hosting their next Developer Twitter Chat.

 
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Bullroarer Took Day Screenshot Contest

Published on March 14, 2013 by in blu-ray, bullroarer, Contest, event, Events, LOTRO News, Movies, screenshot, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Its that time of year again where we celebrate Bullroarer Took, defender of the Shire, defeater of goblins, and inventor of golf. Turbine is celebrating with a screenshot contest.

 
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Riders of Rohan Giveaway

Published on March 4, 2013 by in community, Events, Giveaway, Instance Cluster, legendary edition, Riders of Rohan

We have one (1) Riders of Rohan Legendary edition code to give away to a lucky CSTM fan.

 
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Twitter Developer Chat Transcript Available

Published on February 22, 2013 by in dev chat, Events, Hoarsedev, Horsedev, Jinjaah, jwbarry, Kelsan, LOTRO, LOTRO News, Rowan, Sapience, Twitter

Yesterday some of the Turbine team took some time out of their busy day to answer some questions via Twitter.

 
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Call for Player-Event Creators for Fashion Week

Published on February 20, 2013 by in community, Events, Fashion Week, in-game, LOTRO News, player-event, prizes, Server

Turbine is looking for players to step up and create an in-game player events for their Fashion Week event scheduled for March 4th – 11th.

 
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