Month: July 2008

  • Armada Online Alpha

    Brian in #ballistic alerted me to this fun little game that is in alpha testing right now.  It’s called Armada Online.  It’s a multi-player online game where you choose a faction a name and an icon to represent yourself and then you jump into a top-down 2d style gameplay where you strafe around alien space […]

  • Bluegrass Cover of the Stonecutters Theme Song

    Did you ever feel like someone should make a bluegrass cover of the Stonecutters theme song?  I know I have! Who keeps the metric system down anyways? Check out: Pickin’ on Series – We Do (The Stonecutters Theme). Once the page loads, hit the play button in the upper right corner. 😀

  • Paladins and Kalgan (Wrath of the Lich King)

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7sfV58O3Mg[/youtube]Following in a long line of re-captioned foreign language videos comes an amusing tale of World of Warcraft class balance.

  • Star Trek Online Website Launch

    Over the weekend, the countdown timer on Cryptic Studio’s homepage turned into a launch of the new Star Trek Online website.  The gameplay plan for this seems pretty different from what Perpetual Entertainment had in mind.  Instead of serving as a crewmember aboard a ship, you will be either a Federation or Klingon captain with […]

  • Wrath of the Lich King has new Shadows

    The WotlK wiki has some details on activating shadows in the beta: http://wotlkwiki.info/index.php/Graphics_Upgrade I did some quick cruising around and took a few screenshots with the new terrain shadows activated in the beta client.  These shots are set to Medium (aka #2 of 6), which is “Full environmental and PC/NPC shadows, low-res, med-dist.”

  • First Impressions of the “Wrath of the Lich King” Beta

    I finally got my BlizzCon 2007 beta key Tuesday night and got the download installed Wednesday morning. Nothing Ever Works… Last night after getting home from work I finished patching up, and started the long annoying process of migrating all my UI settings and AddOns over to the beta install of Wrath of the Lich […]