I’m off to go see Múm tonight in concert so I won’t be here to record, but zug will be putting up an older show on the live stream and keeping the chat room up.
Next week, I will also be gone for Hex Hollywood so we will see you in November!
However, we’ll be posting some news about Guitar Hero 3 soon, and our thoughts and impressions on Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer whence we return to the podcastery. Also, Battalion Wars 2 will be out before then so you can bet we’ll have something to say about that one.
(10:28:20) zug: http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6069/wow1shotyv2.jpg
(10:28:35) oizys: Illdiowned
(10:29:10) oizys: seriously, how did he hit twice… wouldn’t the first have killed anyone?
(10:29:21) oizys: or is that just lag
(10:29:35) zug: might have been a thrash
(10:29:42) oizys: ah
(10:30:12) oizys: 76000 = your character restarts in Dun Morogh with no clothes
(10:30:35) oizys: like… and shorter than they were before
(10:30:39) zug: hahaha
(10:30:44) zug: missing hair
(10:30:47) oizys: yeah
(10:30:58) oizys: “this is how gnomes are made”
This weekend it was time for our bi-yearly pilgrimage to Claremont to dig up and dust off our gaming roots. The Southern California Classic Collectors got together once again to bring out the best of the best from classic gaming history.
This visit offered a few more cabinets, in addition to an xbox with emulators being hooked up and projected onto a big screen.
The usual fare of games was there, with a few more additions in terms of gaming cabinets and a computer projected on a screen in the back. There was much more Wii-playing, as people enjoyed Wii sports and other games. We also caught a glimpses of a Japanese jun-ken-pow/ro-sham-bo hentai game, where winning a round of rock paper scissors meant your attractive host takes off another article of her clothing… wooo hoo.
The big projector in the back was playing a showing of “SC3 TV,” which was a montage of retro-gaming themed shows, specials, and commercials from back in the day.
While we were there, we got a chance to interview some of the founders and collaborators of the event, We also chatted with as Rob from Coin-op.tv, who coincidentally interviewed our friend Rog over at i-mockery.com. It’s a small world!. These events are set to happen at least twice a year, and don’t worry; we’ll sound the alarms when it happens again so we can hook up for more old school gaming.
I have begun to follow EVE Online much closer now that I have delved into it personally. In pure internet synchronicity, the news temperature surrounding the game has spiked in recent weeks.
First, September 3 housed their highest peak user count record to date. While 35,000 doesn’t seem like a lot of users in the post-WoW newsworld, when put in context the achievement is actually substantial. World of Warcraft has millions of players split into sharded servers of smaller population. The average US WoW Server has about 20,000 accounts (not all online at once - probably only a few thousand online at once during peak). Under this light 35,000 sharing one world and economy is an impressive endeavour (and no record breaking is possible without a little database record scratch sound effect).
In other news, the first report from CCP’s own in-house economist was posted. It contains the kind of qualitative analysis that makes my mouth water and makes drool come out of my eyes (er.. I think the other way around). Look for more awesome totally SFW graphs and charts soon.
Lastly, Shacknews released the second part of their ongoing series on EVE - primarily covering the GoonSwarm alliance and the drone bay worth of political intrigue swarming their frothy hull. This story covers the rocky formation of the alliance and some amazing PVP tactics.
It’s a good time to be a pilot. If you want to hop in for 14 days via the buddy program, just let me know, I can hook you up and show you around (read: I’m actually really a n00b but I think I’m hot shit).
