Archive for April 21st, 2009

‘Warhammer Online’ Rolls Out ‘Beyond the Sands’ In-Game Live Event

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 363 views

Call to Arms will introduce an array of new content for WAR players, and from April 20 to April 27, the armies of WAR will clash over the wreckage of mysterious airships that fell from the sky and puzzle over the appearance of strange artifacts from far-off lands.   Experience the glory ...

Put Yourself in Age of Conan, Win Some Swag

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 29 views

I noticed on Shacknewsthat GGL is currently playing host to an interesting contest. Crown yourself King Conan, and have a shot at winning a share of $1,000 in AoC subscriptions, plus in-game bonus items. Using Big Stage's technology, you have to embed a digital version of yourself into Age of Conan ...

Slap Your Face Into Age of Conan

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 19 views

BigStage and Funcom are teaming up to produce an online (and eventually in-game) feature that lets you put your mug into Age of Conan. People play MMOGs to act out the lives of their fictional characters, which, most likely, look nothing like their real life selves, especially when it comes to ...

EVE Online: In the Future, There is Only War

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 22 views

The state of nature was an argumentative device employed by political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau that presumed a complete absence of government beyond each individual's own judgment. This metaphorical state was invoked in order to prove their preferred form of government was not just ...

First day for Champions in the Argent Tournament

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 33 views

How you uh, how you comin' on that Argent Tournament you're working on? Huh? Got a big, uh, big stack of Valiant's Seals there? Gotta, gotta nice little title you're working on there? Your big achievement you've been working on for one week? Huh? Gotta, gotta compelling lance? Well, if you ...

Blizzard gets an F at the Better Business Bureau: a, bbb, better-business-bureau, blizzard, business, comcast, comcast-sucks, complaints, f, fradulent, rating, relevance, world-of-warcraft

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 25 views

Looks like quite a few of those players who threatened to complain about Blizzard ended up doing so: over on the local Better Business Bureau website for Blizzard's region, our favorite game developer has earned an F. The BBB says that they've been given this rating "for reasons such as ...

Ruminations on Razorscale (and Ulduar)

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 16 views

From: http://www.machiavelliscat.com/lioreblog/2009/04/17/all-about-razorscale/ After two nights of trying, last night my guild finally defeated the Door Boss in Ulduar and zoned into the instance for more than 10 minutes. I’m not sure what Blizz did, but to their credit the server was rock solid last night and it was a real pleasure ...