a group of adventurers on an epic quest
HBO is going to have one more sub soon thanks to this news:
Winter is, indeed, coming.
HBO has greenlighted highly anticipated fantasy series “Game of Thrones.”
The premium network has picked up the project for a first season debut next spring (below is the first released photo from the series). Nine episodes plus the pilot have been ordered. Production will begin in Belfast this June.
Awesome.
- Ethic
Or don’t. Anyway, Curt Schilling (of Green Monster Games 38 Studios) posted this over at the F13.net forums:
Look for something that actually matters, information wise, soon, REAL soon. Like before the end of the month soon.
They are planning to release a non-MMO console game first, that ties into the MMO later. What the “something that actually matters” applies to, we will find out soon, REAL soon. Like before the end of the month soon.
- Ethic
Just a brief note, this one is worth checking out in my opinion.
Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your neighbors, tell your dog, Allods Online is going Open Beta! The Allods Online team is pleased to announce that the Open Beta will officially go live on February 16th, 2010! All players will be able to access the game (no beta key needed) and all current content through level 40 will be available for play!
Please note that all CBT characters will be deleted prior to Open Beta. Characters created in Open Beta will NOT be deleted.
- Ethic
Looks like a new Expo will be held in Minneapolis later this year for MMO Fans. I plan to be there.
Here are some of the details of the Looking For Group Expo:
June 25 – 27, 2010
Minneapolis, MinnesotaLFGX is a three-day exhibition for massively multiplayer online games, virtual worlds, tabletop, RPG card games and comics. LFGX is a personalized fan event for the MMO gamer dealing with any related to the games you love to play. LFGX is a community of gamers coming together to preview upcoming games and expansions, connect with people from your guilds and clans, participate in developer panels and community discussions, compete in tournaments and have a bad ass time doing it.
LFGX isn’t your typical fan event. This is where true community comes out, where people can connect in the real world like they do in the virtual one. Contests, games, live-questing, LAN parties, giveaways, concerts, developer panels and hot chicks walking around in elf costumes, WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE?! Community is easily one of the most important aspects of any successful MMO and LFGX brings home that point by providing a community-fostered event put on by people who love MMOs, for people who love MMOs.
- Ethic
This just in from Interplay, regarding the “upcoming” “Fallout” “MMORPG”:
This MMOG will have many unique features that we will disclose before launch of the public Beta in 2012.
Hey everyone, guess what? We will open up for beta testing in 2012! Save some time for beta testing in 2012! We only started work on this in 2007, give us a break! Unless the Mayan thing is true. In that case, nevermind.
-Ethic
Below are the winners I chose for the Siege of Mirkwood upgrade key contest, based on how hard I laughed.
Each winner has been given a free Siege of Mirkwood upgrade key for the North American accounts (Turbine run servers).
Caption 1
(Submitted by MU): “You know, this doesn’t have to be the LONE lands…”
(Submitted by CH): “Dear Gandalf, You take the Hobbits to Rivendale, Something’s come up.”
(Submitted by JB): “She’s totally giving me her ‘Light of the Eldar’, if you know what I mean.”
Caption 2
(Submitted by CS): “Fearing that their armies are underpowered, the Dwarves and Elves devise a way to create a new army. Unfortunately, they need the war to be over before the spring because, well…”
Caption 6
(Submitted by MH): “Little did Frodo know that in that jolly instant the ring slipped from his pocket and fell to the ground. He had to start that whole [CENSORED] Ring quest over again.”
Thanks to Turbine for the upgrade keys and congratulations to the winners!
- Ethic
I just wanted to say thanks for spending a little of your precious time here at KTR over the past year. It’s been a lot of fun getting to know so many of you and talking about a common passion we all have. Hope you all have a safe and happy New Year’s Eve and a great 2010.
I’d also like to thank a group of sites that have sent a lot of traffic here over the past 12 months and they are as follows:
VirginWorlds, thanks Brent.
All the great folks over at Massively.
Scott Jennings at Broken Toys.
Everyone at Guild Wars.
The staff at WoW.com.
Keen and Graev.
Syp at Bio Break, probably the best MMO blog out there.
Tipa at West Karana, you rock!
All the people behind the Official Guild Wars Wiki.
The folks at Guild Wars 2 Guru.
Who can forget about Tobold?
Sanya’s amazing Eating Bees.
Green Armadillo over at Player Versus Developer.
Syncaine at Hardcore Casual.
And finally everyone over at MMORPG.com.
- Ethic
UPDATE: CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. Winners will be announced soon. Thanks!
It’s a caption contest! Choose one of the six images linked below and then send me an email with the caption image number and your caption.
I’m going to limit it to five entries per person but please send them all in one email.
Five winners will be selected by me as the sole judge, based purely on how hard I laughed.
Each winner will receive a free Siege of Mirkwood upgrade key. Note: the keys are for the North American accounts (Turbine run servers). So while technically anyone can use them, they’ll only update your account if you are on the US servers.
Caption 1
Caption 2
Caption 3
Caption 4
Caption 5
Caption 6
Contest Ends December 31st, 2009 at midnight Central time US (or when I fall asleep that night, whichever comes first). That means sooner is better than later.
Thanks to Turbine for the upgrade keys. And good luck to you!
- Ethic
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?
Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir!
Mal: Ain’t we just?
In Fallen Earth, I am not a big damn hero. I am not really a hero at all. Mostly I am just trying to get by without becoming a meal. A survivor if you will.
Ammunition is limited. If I want to shoot a bullet I need to make it first. Every time I fire a shot and it misses, seeing the bullet ricochet in the dirt behind my target makes me die a little inside each time. My own! My precious!
I don’t want to have some post-apocalyptic freaks rape me to death, eat my flesh and sew my skin into their clothing. Not even if I’m very very lucky and they do it in that order. I want to live.
Bang bang, I shot you down
Bang bang, you hit the ground
- Ethic
At Depot 66 I was involved in choosing which play the locals would put on. I chose Macbeth and since I picked it I decided to watch. It is now presented here in tl;dr text form (with spoilers?) in the best way I could put together using screen captures and some free OCR software.
Macbeth says: If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well It were done quickly.
Macbeth says: If the assassination could trample up the consequence, and catch with his turkeys success;
Macbeth says: That but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here.
Macbeth says: But here, upon this bang and shoot of time, we’ld jump the life to come.
Macbeth says: But in these cases we still have judgment here;
Macbeth says: That we but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.
Macbeth says: This even-handed justice commends the ingredients of our poison’d chalice to our own lips.
Macbeth says: He’s here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed;
Macbeth says: Then, as his host; who should against his murderer shut the door; Not bear the knife myself. Continue reading ‘Macbeth, Fallen Earth Style’
