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Author: Isey

Maybe Worth The Price of Admission

Posted on August 14, 2009August 14, 2009 by Isey

Unconfirmed rumours from a reputable source about Blizzards Cataclysm expansion. I would probably buy it and try it. I have complained about not using the world of Azeroth before – 80 levels shuttled into a handful of instances for the end game. Those rumours, if true, are a brilliant move by Blizzard. That is what…

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Online Reputation

Posted on August 13, 2009August 13, 2009 by Isey

A little bit of frustration is settling in with Blood Bowl my past handful of matches. No, not the gameplay (which can be punishing) No, not the randomness (which I love) – but Yes, the weak network programming. BB keeps a “reliability rating” with your account. Basically it is a percentage based score of matches…

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From Russia With Love

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Isey

I have been getting an inordinate amount of spam from Russia, written in Russian. Anyone else noticing this? Sadly, I deleted them all before running a google translate, but I’ll be sure to remember to fix that when I get another stack.

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Blood Bowl Part 2 : When Doves Cry

Posted on August 10, 2009November 29, 2016 by Isey

Online play is pretty spectacular in Blood Bowl. No, not the interface or lobby (needs a lot of work) or the random connection errors (before starting matches – I haven’t had it happen during a match) and the matchfinding needs work too. It updates slow. After a little nudge from Syncaine from Hardcore Casual (the…

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I’ll Take the Red Pill

Posted on August 4, 2009August 5, 2009 by Isey

One thing I loved about the Star Wars pen and paper game was the concept of the ‘red’ dice. SW was played with all d6 – and on your rolls you always had to had an off colored dice. That dice was the “special” dice. We called it the fate dice. It may have officially…

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Pre Marketing Hype Example Gone Wild!

Posted on July 27, 2009July 27, 2009 by Isey

If you don’t have anything nice new to say, don’t say anything at all. This ‘exhaustive’ Q&A about SWTOR is just exhausting to read. To save you the clicky, I’ll paraphrase the key points for you. After the break.

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Lack of Inspiration

Posted on July 25, 2009 by Isey

Blargh, I tell you. Blargh! I find it extremely difficult to write about gaming when I am not gaming. It’s frustrating as I see all of you poking your noses in here to see what I’m writing about – and no doubt that comes with heavy dissapointment. Bored and Unispired Gameaholics Anonymous (BUGA) chatter, after…

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Beta Fatigue

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Isey

I am a very busy guy lately. Work is rediculously busy, family is busy trying to enjoy the summer, and a lot of games are getting closer to release. Since when was summer beta season? I am in 5 right now. With little time to play any. I manage to do a little in each…

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A Survey request from EA/Bioware

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Isey

I know a lot of people hate EA. I am in the small minority who have really enjoyed their products, and haven’t been dissappointed when purchasing their games. Of course I do a lot of research before buying games, and never buy a game by who it is from – but rather on the merits…

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Building Blocks

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Isey

Comic created by Masssively.com. Funny Stuff! The Cities XL closed beta started last week (I cannot confirm or deny being a part of aforementioned beta) and it has brought a lot of attention back to one of the great PC staples of the ‘building genre’, and ties a little MMO into it. I loved Sim…

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Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up?

Posted on June 16, 2009June 16, 2009 by Isey

Breaking news over at broken toys – the return of an old MMO hero/villain. Is Brad McQuaid back? Myself, as well as others tend to think it’s a hoax. Let’s chat about it a bit – it has been a slow gaming “work” week anyway.

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Lighter Topic

Posted on June 15, 2009June 15, 2009 by Isey

I am part of a WoW guild. I have spoken briefly about it in the past in a few topics, but nothing major (you know, the one I used to be GM of, yadda yadda). It’s going through a change right now, and the people that founded the guild are mostly gone. It was a…

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Forswearing Greed – Developers take Notice

Posted on June 12, 2009March 27, 2015 by Isey

This post is inspired by the article of the same title in the June 6th to 12th edition of the Economist. A group of Harvard Business MBA students have made attempts to turn management into a formal profession. Doctors have their oath, so do Lawyers. CEO’s have always had one too – except it isn’t…

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Repetitive Monetization Theoretics

Posted on June 11, 2009June 11, 2009 by Isey

Newsflash: MMO’s make you grind. (That new, informative and ground breaking statement should win me a blog-pulitzer, or blog-nobel, I am certain of it.) Follow Up: People tend to not like grind. MMOment of Truth: Grind equals profits for companies (both in the form of longer sub fee collection, and minimizing development costs) Sad Truth:…

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What is Hurting WoW’s Polish?

Posted on June 9, 2009June 9, 2009 by Isey

Warning – Fanboi’s may attack! WoW has changed. Change is sometimes a good thing, and I’m not going to belabor the obvious changes (less challenge) or industry misconceptions (subs are needed to cover ongoing costs) instead, I am going to look at two things I have noticed the most since my foray back into WoW. First, to stave of…

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Un-Expectations

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Isey

I took my 4 year old son and my wife (or did they take me?) to the movie UP! over the weekend. First off, I am loving the glorious 3D action that is making it’s way back into theaters. It is good to see the industry figuring out that if you don’t enhance the experience, it’s…

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Introducing (the) Pope

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Isey

A friend of mine is going to start adding a post or two, here or there on this site. The thought came by in a discussion – he reads a lot of gaming blogs and wouldn’t mind sharing his thoughts. I thought it would be fun to give him an outlet. I have known Pope…

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Valve Announces L4D2 – Fans Rejoice/Hate

Posted on June 2, 2009June 2, 2009 by Isey

Exciting news for fans of the game for sure! A sequel so close to the original – (Left 4 Dead launced last November) seems to have the fans of the title confused. Some, who have spent tons of hours in zombie guts glee are extactic that the new game, with new features and improvements, is…

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Bing Vs. Google

Posted on June 2, 2009June 2, 2009 by Isey

Bing Search: I has PC 1.       Lack of consistency on offence, defence has PC’s Welsh in bind.. 2.       Dell’s All-in-One PC Has the Guds, Design to Compete with iMac… 3.       I HAS PC 4.       Property: HAS PC member – semanticweb.org.. 5.       Motorola’s Renew has PC Magazine’s GreenTech Seal of Approval.. Google Search: I has PC…

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Can the End Game be the Game?

Posted on May 28, 2009March 17, 2015 by Isey

MMO gamers seem to be lamenting the fact that everything starts at the “endgame” in current mmo-land. The grind/level mechanics exist mostly to slow you down to getting to a point where you can start having fun. While that sounds back-ass-wards, the common argument in support is traditionally “Developers can’t create enough content to keep…

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Alliance Druids Rejoice

Posted on May 27, 2009February 3, 2014 by Isey

Time to level ol’ Couchon again.

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Continuing My Excellence in Game Breaking News

Posted on May 27, 2009August 24, 2014 by Isey

So much to get excited about, I’m not sure where to begin. With that in mind I will begin here. Released in the late 80’s (1987?) Mike Tyson’s Punch Out was a game on the SNES that my friends and I played for hours on end. It was a classic. Ah the memories. The 2009…

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Alamo Will be Happy

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Isey

Druids about to see a popularity increase? Credit: The old Wowinsider.com

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Yay Spam?

Posted on May 26, 2009May 26, 2009 by Isey

Oh, the joys of Askimet. After the break, I’ll show you my latest and greatest last 10 spam messages which were caught by the automatic filter. I “de-linked” them but kept everything else in tact (yes, there are some URLs in there – plenty, actually) so if SPAM makes you sick, or you do not…

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More From the Mine

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Isey

Not of Moira. Sorry LOTRO fans. I hope Zardoz doesn’t end up getting sick of me linking to his posts, but data gets me all hot and heavy. WoW data is always fun, and a couple weeks ago he posted his Minority Report outlining level 80 class allocation at 3.1.1. His sampling methods are reasonable so…

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