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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
Went in, started, worked through and finished the Shard of Fear last night with an almost all-guild group. My son, who’s been to SoF many times but never finished, vowed never to again go with a pick-up group. Just for fun, I ran Fraps in SoF and took the occasional short clip; here’s about a … Read more
Very quick note on Live Update 39, will do more tonight… Hallowe’en quests aren’t in, those are scheduled for the 26th. The next quest in the Kunark line went live, it requires you to kill a few followers of Venril Sathir in Feerrott (there was a line for one of them) and eventually scare them … Read more
Since not playing since the Dungeon Runners beta, I figured it was time to give it another shot. It gives me that WoW experience — cartoon characters with huge weapons and armor, humor, ability to solo, fast levels and quick upgrades and the occasional group — far cheaper. Free’s cheap, right? Though I went ahead … Read more
This was all part of our “execution strategy”. Carefully arrange ourselves beneath him, with our weapons all pointed up, then when he gets tired and lands, WHAM! Death of a thousand needles, we rez and we loot. It was just crazy enough to work. Okay, we really didn’t think we were going to roll in … Read more
And yet I saw them in a limitless stream – flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating – urging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare. And some of them had tall tiaras of that nameless whitish-gold metal … and some were strangely robed … and one, who led the way, was … Read more