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Champions Online Free Weekend Clusterfudge

2009-11-01T18:39:20Z

I've been wanting to play Champions Online so I can relive some of my more glorious pre-teen fantasies fighting evil as a costumed hero. But while the game looks pretty and all, all the complaints have largely kept me away. I don't really follow the game, so it came as a pleasant surprise the past Thor's [...]

Torchlight Commence

2009-10-23T08:46:53Z

Well, I went and did it. I pre-ordered Torchlight on Steam. While I'm sure it's going to be a great game, I'm a little concerned the Diablo-style ARPG gameplay won't hold my attention. Then again, at only $18, it's not that big a deal. I'm playing DDO more lately, though two weeks ago I was uninstalling it [...]

GAMING ROOOOUNDUPPPP!!!

2009-10-22T03:06:13Z

The older I get, the more and more amazed I am at how time flies. Combined with my penchant for history it is easy to see what people mean when they say tempus fugit. In the past two weeks I have been doing naught more than usual, with one exception - I decided to give Fallen [...]

Grand Ages: Rome

2009-10-03T18:06:51Z

Oh, I am very, very bad. Why am I very bad? I broke down and bought both Left4Dead and Grand Ages: Rome yesterday. Both were on sale and combined were still less than a single new release. I don't really plan on playing L4D much in the near future, but at $15 I couldn't pass up [...]

Of Dice and Men

2009-10-03T16:36:26Z

In my last post I talked about my first steps into Ryzom's world of Atys. Sadly I have not logged into Ryzom since last I wrote so I don't have the follow-up I said I would write. Instead I spent the weekend and Monday working and researching on project WOTAN. To blow off steam I [...]

Ryzom, Part 1

2009-09-25T20:57:42Z

I was going to post this yesterday but life has a way of taking over sometimes. For the same reason I didn't log into Ryzom (let alone anything else, work included) yesterday. Oh well, hopefully I will be able to catch up on both some work and some Atys exploration tonight. Below are some features I [...]

A New(ish) MMORPG

2009-09-23T23:09:36Z

So the past week or two I have begun casting about for a new MMORPG to waste my time with. Currently I only play Lord of the Rings Online, and my opportunities to log into that have been few and far between so I am not sure why I am bothering. I have a lot to [...]

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

2009-09-22T00:20:04Z

If the title of this post means anything to you, then you and I would probably get along. I can't believe it, but I may actually have to go out and buy myself a Nintendo DS. The operative response here falls something along the line of "OMGWTFHAX" or "Is there a dog with a human head [...]

Welcome to the Wiki World

2009-09-23T16:52:05Z

while ($brain = smoke($weed)) $_SESSION['progress'] = $brain['obsessive_workaholic']; That is how I have been feeling the past week. The downside is I do not get enough sleep and that makes me cranky. The upside is that I can power through any workload (for so long). The beneficiary in this case was, once again, my pet obsession Project [...]

Progress Report – W O T A N

2009-09-20T07:06:11Z

I write about the state of project W O T A N, browser RPG, and give a rough sketch of its future progress.