Category: Games

Games

World of Warcraft Patch 4.1

Added a 20 second cool-down to Word of Glory. I am not amused. People are saying that Retribution Pally is dead for PvP. Player Vs Player is what has been keeping me around. I think it is time to take a break and see if this gets changed in a future patch.

Account Name
NEUTRALX2
Status
Canceled (Expires: 5/2/2011 3:16 PM)

In other news, I am now considering getting back into Planetside. Anyone want to join?

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The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle

Support indie game development and help charity in the process. The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle is running for 7 more days. Check it out while you can. It is worth getting for Trine alone.

http://www.humblebundle.com/

Pay what you want. If you bought these four games separately, it would cost around $50 but we’re letting you set the price!

All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

We don’t use DRM. When you buy these games, they are yours. Feel free to play them without an internet connection, back them up, and install them on all of your Macs and PCs freely. There is no time-limit on your downloads.

You can support charity. Choose exactly how your purchase is divided: Between Frozenbyte, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or the Child’s Play Charity. Also, if you like this deal, a tip to the Humble Bundle itself would be much appreciated!

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Noobs Paradise is Back

Keisukesan revived the game server, and I got the website back online. Unfortunately, the old website went down without warning and the guy hosting it at the time didn’t think to back up the database. Luckily, I actually had a copy of the database from October 2010. So I took that and ported the theme and database over to a new content management system. The site was set up years ago on phpNuke. At the time that was probably perfectly reasonable, but that CMS has not been updated in years. So I figured if I was going to bring the site back, I might as well move it over to a phpNuke fork that still being developed. Hopefully the users will have no idea that the website has switched platforms, and the result should be a more stable and secure site. There might be a few issues that come up, so please give me feedback if you run into anything. I did do some testing before putting the site up, but there are some things you just wont find until you have more people using it.

You can visit the resurrected website at http://noobsparadise.com. Update your bookmarks!

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Tribes Ascend Concept Art

Oh look, some concept art for Tribes Ascend. Hi-Rez studios is posting the images to their Facebook page.

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Planetside 2 Delayed

Well it looks like Planetside 2 didn’t completely escape the SOE studio closures unscathed. While speaking to the website Planetside Universe, Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley said that the game will not be coming out during the first half of the year as previously planned:

PlanetSide Next is getting More resources and will be out a little later in the year but we are pulling out all the stops to make it great.

So it looks like the game will be getting some extra resources as a result of the cancellation of The Agency. Personally, I am in no big rush to get my hands on the game. I am glad to see that they are taking their time and throwing some more resources at the game. Hopefully this sequel does Planetside 1 justice.

It also looks like we might be getting some news next week. In a post on the Planetside Universe forums Linda Carlson said,

We wanted to share this information with you all directly, rather than having you read about it on another site. What does this news mean for the squads of seasoned fighters in PlanetSide? There are few occasions when we see Vanu, NC and Terran all aligned in game, but we see it every day when we come to the PS forums or read about your campaigns in blogs, videos and other sites. We are listening; the community’s long-term and unflagging support of PlanetSide has ensured that it is one of the franchises that SOE will focus on going forward. I know that you’ve all seen a few cryptic and veiled messaged here and there regarding a new evolution of the game… while most of this development is still highly classified, we hope to bring you at least a few words from the Producer next week to whet your appetite and anticipation for the future.

~Linda “Brasse” Carlson

Director, Global Community Relations