SF: Playing for Keeps

I don’t game all the time, though you wouldn’t know it from this blog. I also enjoy reading, dinking around with 3D renders, playing real instruments (gotta keep my pennywhistle skills up should I find an Irish band without one), writing fiction…. Anyway. I planned awhile back to try and branch out to perhaps other … Read more

Rock Band: Online

I checked the Buzzkillaz gamer score last night on Xbox Live and… well, we’re lacking. It showed that we’d unlocked everything up to the tour jet, but all those solo achievements were missing, since we’ve been playing it in band mode since we got it.

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Star Trek Online: No more Captain Kirk?

Via Tobolds, more news: apparently Perpetual and STO have been on deathwatch for awhile, and last-gasp development is trying to change the direction of the game to more casual. It didn’t sound very hardcore to me anyway… Free to play? Merde… This is definitely not how I saw the game being released.
Reaction on the STO Forums and [ STO Source ] has been muted. Perhaps with months of little attention to the title, it’s slowly lost fans to keep the community alive.
F13.net has some usefully cynical commentary, as usual.

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