My Space

Cuppy of Cuppycake.org asked bloggers to post pictures of their gaming setups. Mine’s in a bit of a flux; my main gaming computer just died, and I have a laptop replacement. Here’s mine. The left rear screen is for Supernova, my recently deceased computer. In front of it is Darkstar, its replacement (after a star … Read more

Bioware to use “Stream Processing Engine”

About the first thing I ever heard about Vanguard was that it was based on the Unreal 3 graphics engine. And the game turned out to be graphics intensive. Bioware has announced they will be using StreamBase’s “Stream Processing Engine” as the basis for this game — technology that can track hundreds of thousands of … Read more

Wuoshi and the Emerald Halls

Hi! Look at me! I’m a big scawy dwagon! So ha ha ha! When Tunare left Wuoshi in charge of the Plane of Growth, could she ever have predicted that he’d turn into a tin-pot dictator, strutting around in a circle, terrorizing innocent people who just wanted to skip and frolic in the home of … Read more

Emerald Halls and the Plane of Growth

We raided Emerald Halls last night, and the whole thing reminded me so much of old Everquest’s Plane of Growth… so before getting into our Emerald Halls raid, a little nostalgia to another zone that, years ago, was also filled with loads and loads of trash, mobs with a zillion hit points, and more growing … Read more

Freethinkers, Clockwork Menace, Labs of Lord Vyemm

Nice place for a pumpkin… I joined Eternal Chaos wanting to raid, and raid we do. Tonight we started off with Freethinker’s Hideout. This is a fairly short instance in the Loping Plains with just four bosses. I don’t have any decent pictures of the fights themselves, as 20 people gathered around one poor, frightened … Read more