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    Fallen Earth: Patch 2.0 & F2P Goes Live Today 

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    smokeh
    Published on 10-12-2011 11:39 AM
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    The servers will be down for 4-5 hours, starting at 10 CST in order to deploy patch 2.0, and enable the free to play parts. Information on F2P, and the patch notes can be found below.

    The game is certainly fun, and for free, it's hard to go wrong. See you in the wastelands!

    Free to Play:
    • Fallen Earth is now Free2Play! What this means, most importantly, is that you can now play Fallen Earth for free, forever! Some specifics:
    • All new accounts are classified as Scavenger status, can achieve max level, craft everything, join and start clans and much, much more!
    • Players who currently have game time remaining on their accounts will have it automatically converted to Commander Premium.
    • Subscribers will be automatically subscribed to the Wastelander Premium plan when their subscription renews.

    For more information on Free2Play and Premium features, check here!
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    League of Legends: Dominion Officially Live 

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    smokeh
    Published on 09-26-2011 04:39 AM
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    After a week of partial beta testing in the new map/mode Dominion, it is now live.

    Nearly a year in the making, League of Legends: Dominion represents the largest and most ambitious update to League of Legends since its launch in October of 2009. In Dominion, summoners do battle on a brand new map, the Crystal Scar, and vie for control over five Capture Points, a style of play never before attempted in the League of Legends universe.

    The Crystal Scar is a domination style game type with 5 capture points. A team must hold more points than the other team in order to deplete their nexus. Games typically take no longer than 20 minutes, and XP/gold gain are greatly increased, and death timers have been lowered. There is more teamwork, and no lane grinding, or people getting fed. For a quick, bloody melee, Dominion is a great way to enjoy your favorite champions in a new light.'
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    From Dust 

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    Dark Knight Zer0
    Published on 08-21-2011 10:30 AM
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    The game plays like a very simple god-sim/puzzle game. You are the Breath of God which is represented by a giant snake like thing. The point of each level is to get your followers to populate the world and then eventually move on. Your other objective in each level is to cover the world in plants. This unlocks "memories of man" which you can look up later. The way you accomplish this is by having them worship at totems around the world, up to 4 in each level. The amount of control you have over your followers is go here and set up a town, or go here and grab this item. That's it. You cannot tell them go here and wait or anything else. Your interaction with the your people is minimal. If, somehow, you lose your villages and you have less then a total of 5 followers left in the world then you lose. This has happened to me once, on purpose, cause i was bored. Each town your followers create can grant you special powers which I will get to shortly.
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    Fallen Earth: GamersFirst & Free to Play 

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    smokeh
    Published on 06-17-2011 08:55 AM
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    Fallen Earth, the post apocalyptic MMO created by an independent game developer was recently sold to GamersFirst, the free-to-play gaming company that most recently resurrected APB in a free to play model. The specifics were broken over at Massively, and you can find the whole article here.

    I actually resubbed FE a couple of weeks ago, completely unaware of all of the craziness surrounding their sale to Gamersfirst. I actually enjoy FE, it's a complicated, difficult, and huge mmo that gives you a sense of accomplishment when you just level up on your own. It's graphics are pretty awful, although the world is large and detailed enough that I can get over the bad graphics, but I understand it's an issue for some.

    In general, I believe that offering a free to play model will get a lot more people into the game, rather than having to buy the game AND a subscription fee.
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    Terraria 

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    Dark Knight Zer0
    Published on 05-19-2011 08:49 AM
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    Doc, Stick, and I spent a few hours earlier tonight playing Terraria (Doc and Stick played longer then I did). I have to say that it was worth the $10. and its $30 for a 4-pack.

    The game is kind of like Minecraft meets Final Fantasy in a 2-D action adventure side scroller. You can make a house and furnish it with various items and can even get NPCs to live there. We had the Guide NPC, who tells you what you need to do to get started, and the Merchant NPC. You can have your own characters that are persistent across different servers with some character creation (colors for shirt, skin, ect). You can keep what you have on you and can transfer it to another server if you want.

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    WoW Patch 4.1 Live Today 

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    smokeh
    Published on 04-26-2011 10:36 PM
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    Patch notes, stolen directly from MMO Champion, who stole directly from blizzard!
    Biggest additions:
    • Guild finder tool
    • Guild challenges
    • "daily" heroics are now "weekly" heroics
    • ZG & ZA have been added as 5 man heroic dungeons
    Patch 4.1 will soon be upon us, and it’s high time we dig into the meat of this patch to digest the new content, features, and official patch notes. The rise of the Zandalari is happening soon on a realm near you, so make sure you’ve read up on the new level-85 Stranglethorn quest line, as well as the updated dungeons of Zul’Gurub and Zul’Aman -- now suitable for five level-85 players with an average item level of 346 or higher. All-new epic gear, rare mounts, pets, and other interesting treasures await you, should you be able to rise to the challenge of the Zandalari!
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    How to enable "Ducking" in Ventrilo 

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    blue
    Published on 04-10-2011 12:35 AM
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    This is a great tip for those who didn't know about it.
    How to turn on "Ducking" in ventrilo.

    Q: Hey Blue, what is "Ducking"
    A: Well friend, "Ducking" is when all sounds on your computer dim down by 50% or 80% when you use your microphone or when you are receiving incoming voice chat.

    Q: Why would I care about this Blue?
    A: Well... For example, if your a schmuck that doesn't use headphones, and likes to broadcast the annoying feedback of ventrilo across ventrilo... It would turn down your system sounds to a lower level so you don't broadcast a ridiculous amount of shit across town.
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    Darkspore Beta Preview 

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    DarkWHITE
    Published on 04-04-2011 09:26 AM
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    Just starting a thread in case some don't know about this game, and also to let everyone know that the beta is available through steam for free, and that this beta period has been extended till April 4th at 10AM PST. It's free so you might as well check it out.

    So now some info on the game while you wait for the game to download :0

    It's an action RPG(hack and slash) a la Diablo with some twists. You are playing from the perspective of a Crogenitor and control a squad of up to 3 living weapons(creatures/heroes). As you complete stages you gain xp and loot. XP contributes towards your Crogenitor level and will allow you to unlock new creatures, stat caps, ability to chain stages and more. Loot can be equipped on your heroes to increase their stats and to change their look, which is very customizable and is based on the Spore creature editor.

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    Black Ops Patch Hits: Stuttering for Dual Core Users Fixed 

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    smokeh
    Published on 12-16-2010 06:46 AM
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    I woke up this morning and did my daily black ops forum check. Low and behold, the Jesus Patch had been released as of last night. I loaded up my Blops, jumped into a server, and could instantly tell the difference. No stuttering, no hitching, game ran smoothly. I still had all of my gfx settings at the absolute max (since it was a partial fix pre-patch), so I had a few FPS issues. I dropped my settings down to more reasonable levels, and everything played smoothly. It's not quite as good as MW2, but it's a newer game, and at this point my PC is on the low end so that's understandable.

    From Steam News

    Updates to Call of Duty: Black Ops have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
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    World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Released 

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    ferret
    Published on 12-07-2010 04:00 AM
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    The latest expansion of Blizzard's World of Warcraft MMORPG has been released today, drastically changing much of the game. Deathwing has returned and wrecks havoc across the world. Here's a brief list of some of the important features:
    • New level cap has been raised to 85.
    • New races: Worgen for the Alliance, Goblins for the Horde
    • Completely redesigned Azeroth content, including redone zones for levels 1 through 60, and several new 80+ zones
    • Talent trees have been simplified and reduced to 31-point trees
    • Spell ranks are gone, spells and skills get more powerful as you level.
    • You can now fly in Azeroth after level 60
    • Many stats have been combined or removed
    • New stat: Mastery, improves a tree specific ability for each class, such as doing extra melee swings, DoT damage, double proc spells
    • All mounts now use your highest mount skill, so your favorite 150% flying mount is now 280%, etc.
    • Mount speed 310% is now purchasable for 5000 gold.
    That's a lot of major highlights. There's a huge number of changes and it's hard to list them out. ...
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