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Sand Skeletons, Space Lasers, and Dragons

in General Gaming, Musing

I thought I would drop a note of what I have been up to, since it was quite a while since this blog was updated.
I have been keeping an eye on the Land of the Dead content, and although it all sounds really neat I doubt it’s enough to bring me back. It wasn’t really [...]

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Merry Christmas!

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I found this tree standing in the middle of a Raider camp in Fallout 3, and I think it shows quite clearly that even if the world is completely devastated by atomic wars, removed of any kind of vegetation, inhabited by cannibal raiders, super mutants, robots and whatnot, some will still celebrate Christmas.
I reserve to [...]

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What WAR can learn from Fallout 3

in General Gaming, Musing

I can without regret proudly say that Fallout 3 is among the best games I have ever played. Both Oblivion and Fallout 2 was among my favorites before, and who could have known merging them would produce this kind of god-touched game? There is a few game companies (Blizzard, Bethesda and Bioware among them) that [...]

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Going back to the core, and it’s rotten

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So Tigole, the raid mastermind of Blizzard, has posted some thoughts of what’s happening with World of Warcraft PvP. (Do you see the irony in that as clearly as I?) Chances are this is going to be the most dissected quote in the WAR blogosphere for quite a while (I’m sure Channel Massive will have [...]

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No respite. No forgiveness. There is only Ban.

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Since WAR launched we have been banning [gold sellers] like crazy. As of Saturday Night, we had banned about 400 of them. My CSRs have a zero tolerance policy. We don’t wait and let them stay in the game and ban them en-masse, my guys ban their useless, time-consuming butts right away. We have a [...]

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Games that must be played - RPG

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“When you gaze long into the abyss
the abyss also gazes into you”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you, like me, find yourself in a space and time without any Warhammer Online to play, do not despair - there are still things to do. Why not try out some of those old classic games so you finally understand why [...]

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