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Gaming Update

November 18th, 2009 · No Comments

I have had no time lately to do any serious gaming in the past few months but an update should be given mainly for the posterity sake.
I just completed a 15 day “free” trail of  Fallen Earth which is a MMO developed by Icarus Studios LLC and Fallen Earth LLC.  Fallen Earth’s gameplay features [...]

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Tags: Gaming

Recent Pictures of Bananadoo

August 5th, 2009 · No Comments

Bananadoo spends his time roaming the World of Warcraft doing dailies and working through some high level achievements.   Here are a couple of recent photos of him.
Bananadoo on newest mount from Argent Tournament – awarded July 2009
Bananadoo – August 5, 2009 – Stormwind Harbor

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Tags: Daily Photo · Gaming · Geek · Metaverse

Age of Conan

February 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Bananadoo in Age of Conan (level 22)

The gang at MMS decided that we needed a new game to play.   Our problem is that we all wanted a game with a playing experience similar to World of Watcraft in terms of being well executed and fully developed.  Now it’s been more than four years since Blizzard [...]

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Daily Picture

January 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Yet another picture of the great Bananadoo hanging out in Sholazar Basin.

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Tags: Daily Photo

Wrath of the Lich King Day One Sales

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Blizzard announced that for its newest expansion of World of Warcraft, that Wrath of the Lich King, sold more than 2.8 million copies in its first day of availability, making it the fastest selling PC game in history. An amazing number when you consider that the game has 11 million subscribers around the world. [...]

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Tags: Random Thoughts

The Reason for World of Warcraft

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Watch more WoW Videos

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Visions of the Future Game Design and Digital Media

June 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Great event tomorrow (map link — event link)
Visions of the Future Game Design and Digital Media
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The Digital Media Factory

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Tags: Culture · Gaming · Geek · Metaverse · Santa Cruz · Technology

Killng Dragons for Profit

May 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Just another day – Just another dragon slayed

more pics following

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Tags: Gaming · Geek · Metaverse

Good vs Evil

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

I was reading an article on Peter Molyneux over on Wired where he is discussing the development of Fable 2. The article has some great info on the development process. There are some great insights into what can and can not work. I was very intrigued with the following statement:
Molyneux [...]

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20 Characteristics of a Mature Guild Member

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

As a person who is continually amazed by on-line behavior in MMORPG, this write-up but Matt from World of Matticus is outstanding. It lists 20 attributes and characteristics of a mature guild mate.

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Tags: Gaming · Metaverse

Gaming – PCs vs Console – the debate continues

March 11th, 2008 · No Comments

It is interesting to watch what I perceive to be the “closed architecture approach” of consoles versus PCs for games. Or maybe I keep reading information just coming out of Epic?!?
From Wired (Mar 10):
Epic Games co-founder Tim Sweeney thinks consoles are beating PCs, and the PC gaming industry has no one to blame but [...]

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