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    Monday Madness

    Monday, April 30th, 2007

    Got a few different things to talk about today:
    First, I’m having a great time at my second go on LOTRO. Now that I’m committed to playing it, I’m really getting into it. My champion, Aelryn, just hit 15 yesterday evening, and should be 20 soon. I want to get all five titles that you receive […]

    Landroval it is

    Friday, April 27th, 2007

    Well, I just realized that the Landroval server is the unofficial RP server for LOTRO, so I think that’s where I’ll be steering my new character when I get it installed on my new machine this weekend (I’m a bit of a closet RP fan). There are a few different guilds (kinships) there I’m considering […]

    Any good LOTRO guild recommendations?

    Thursday, April 26th, 2007

    I just got hired for a new position where I’ll be heavily involved with playing and writing about Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar. I’ll reveal more about the job later, when it starts, but in the meantime I’ve re-enabled my pre-order from Amazon and need to pick a server to start playing on.
    The […]

    Giddy as a School-Boy

    Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

    My new PC kicks so much ass. There were a few hiccups while putting it together, but it’s up and running in all its shiny glory now. I’m happily installing and patching every game I own (well, that I would want to play) onto my massive hard drive.
    The line-up looks like this at the moment:

    TESIV: […]

    Why buy Vanguard, SOE?

    Monday, April 23rd, 2007

    DarrenL over at The Common Sense Gamer got to thinking about Vanguard and the recent speculation that SOE might buy it, and wonders, “Why?” His comments:

    One question is: Why would they? They already have a fantasy game in EQ2. Why on earth would they pick up on another one? Given EoF, EQ2 has just finally […]

    Well, I’ve been tagged

    Saturday, April 21st, 2007

    Cuppy, whose recent posts appear to have blown up while migrating to a new format (I like it, by the way), tagged me the other day. Here’s five reasons why I blog:
    1) I’d been commenting on a number of blogs for a few months, and I wanted a place to post longer responses to stuff […]

    PS3 pricing strategy finally makes sense to me

    Friday, April 20th, 2007

    I’m working on a strategic analysis of the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD format war for a class right now, from the perspective of Sony, and now that I’ve done that their ludicrous pricing and adamant refusal to budge on it makes more sense now. From a gaming perspective, it made little sense. Why release a console […]

    Shiny New Toys

    Thursday, April 19th, 2007

    I made two exciting purchases this week:
    1) An Xbox 360 with DOA42) Computer parts from which I will build a fantastic gaming machine that will make Oblivion cry and beg me to stop rendering it oh-so-well (or, at least make it stop beating up my computer at any graphics setting other than “very low”)
    The Xbox […]

    IMGDC 2007

    Monday, April 16th, 2007

    As I mentioned in an earlier post, I attended IMGDC 2007 this weekend. Volunteering at the conference was a great experience because it gave me an extra excuse to talk to everyone, and it was really exciting for me to meet some of the people that have been working on virtual worlds almost as long […]

    China Lays Down Federally-Mandated Play Time for MMOGs

    Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

    China announced federally-mandated play time limits in MMOGs for gamers under the age of 18 today. After the first three hours of play on an online game, your “points” received for playing are cut in half. Then after an additional 2 hours, you will receive no “points” for further play, and will receive a mandated […]

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