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Getting ready for Allods Online CBT#2
Tomorrow at 11am PST the second closed Beta test begins for Allods Online. If you do not have a key yet, and you want to try the game, it’s probably a good idea to grab one. However, there’s really no rush. Several websites have keys including us. MMORPG.com – 3000+ Keys ...
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Experimenting with Google Wave
Google’s latest toy is Google Wave. It’s entirely too complicated to try and explain. There’s a very long video about it but if you’re like me you’ll end up closing it after five minutes wondering what the heck you just watched, bang your head against the ...
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Allods Online ‘Tidbits of Interesting Info’
Astral Ship UI There is very little information floating around (in English, anyway) about Allods Online. The official website gives a very brief rundown on what the game is and who is making it, but then offers very little about the actual mechanics, features, and so on. Since the ...
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Pwn that Turkey!
Ahhh, a classic holiday full of classic good times. Nothing like having time off of work and school for that relaxing long weekend. We’ll be spending our weekend in Modern Warfare 2 (Which we’re both playing as the turkey finishes cooking) and awaiting Allods Online CBT#2 to ...
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My thoughts on Aion 2 Months Later and Aion’s Future
My thoughts on Aion 2 Months Later and Aion’s Future
keenandgraev.com — It is now roughly two months after Aion’s release in North America. For me, Aion wasn’t a... major launch. It was a game that came out of left field after being nothing more than a name until just a couple months before launch. As such, ... (more) My thoughts on Aion 2 Months Later and Aion’s Future
Exploring Allods Online (Video + Commentary)
As promised, here is a video of Allods Online. Yesterday I wrote a few quick impressions of the game and gave you guys a general overview of what it played like and what I thought about this F2P MMORPG. Today, I give you a video showing my Gibberling (Gerbil guy) running around ...
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Modern Warfare 2 PC/Xbox 360 Video Showcase
We recorded MW2 on the 360 and PC to show you guys. Both versions are identical in almost every way. FRAPS lag aside, the game runs smooth on both platforms. We’ll record more footage to show you guys the higher level guns now that we’ve unlocked them and fixed the FRAPS ...
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Allods Online:  Not just another F2P
Allods Online: Not just another F2P
keenandgraev.com — Keen the Animist (Lvl 6) I am not sure whether or not Allods Online has a NDA,... but I’m going to go ahead and proceed with talking about the game as though it were okay until I hear otherwise. On the main forums they have been very big on ... (more) Allods Online: Not just another F2P
STO is essentially PotBS
Anyone else agree? Watch the Part 1 and Part 2 videos (Part 2 embedded below) and, if you played Pirates of the Burning Sea, you’ll see quite plainly how STO is going to be almost exactly like it. The naval combat in PotBS looks exactly like this space ship combat with ships circling each ...
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Conglomoblog 11/18/09
Modern Warfare 2 I beat the MW2 singleplayer campaign today. Yet another amazing addition to this franchise and further proof that we have not seen the end but only the beginning. I can definitely see why some people are having moments of “huh?” with the story, but I think ...
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Oldschool Mario with a new twist
We picked up the New Super Mario Bros. Wii yesterday and it’s a blast! It brings back the olds feel of Mario with a new “Wii” feel. That Wii feel is best described as a tad more lighthearted and spry. It’s also kinda difficult at times. The first world is mostly very ...
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Lost in LOTRO
I logged in to LOTRO for the first time in about two years and I am so completely dumbfounded by my three+ hotbars of abilities. The only one that I could remember was the one that looked like a picture of a horse because it summoned my horse. Other than that, I’m at a loss. My ...
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LOTRO is trying hard to NOT welcome me back…
I’ve been trying to give Lord of the Rings Online a try during this “Welcome back” weekend that ends on the 18th, but thus far I have been hitting problem after problem with getting the darn thing up and running. Things have changed slightly since I last downloaded the ...
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More MW2 Impressions
Spec-Ops Missions These are special missions broken up into sections (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc) that require you to beat them and earn a Star Rating. It takes X number of stars to unlock the next section of missions of play. These missions are like challenges that throw you right into a ...
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MW2 Single Player Campaign
It’s amazing! Again, I think they outdid themselves. The first few levels have more tension, sense of epic scale, and suck me in to the story and the experience quicker than ever. In particular the moments that I enjoyed the most were the snow level climbing the ice then infiltrating ...
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Modern Warfare 2 Initial Impressions
Last night was the midnight release of Modern Warfare 2. I get a kick out of participating in these things even when they’re pointless. There’s no way I’m going to stay up all night and play, but at the same time it’s fun to go on the adventure. Hundreds of people ...
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Solutions to some problems faced by an aging game
Content aging and becoming less popular and the population of a game shifting to the “end-game” are both problems that all MMO’s face when they follow even a loose themepark model. In Lord of the Rings Online, this problem is exacerbated by their storylines being contingent ...
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I’ll be the guinea pig
The enormity of chaos surrounding MW2’s release, especially on PC, has people signing petitions now up to ~130,000 signatures, bashing Infinity Ward/Activision/Your mom, Digital distributors actually boycotting the game, and people saying they hope that the game crashes and burns with ...
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Keen in Torchlight
Graev let me play his copy of Torchlight the past few days since he’s been enthralled by Dragon Age: Origins almost every waking moment of the day. I decided to go with the Warrior looking guy (Is that even what he is… a Warrior? I don’t even know). I’m actually ...
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MMO Regret: LOTRO
I can only count on one hand the number of regrets I have for MMO’s, not counting the regrets I have for buying or playing. I’m talking about regrets I have for stopping or skipping playing a MMO. It’s that “Ugh, If only I had…” feeling. Sometimes ...
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