Monthly Archives: December, 2010
The RIFT Test Drive: First (and second) impressions
With the rather abrupt lifting of RIFT’s NDA, the floodgates are open for any and all alpha and beta testers to flow through the countryside, knock over cattle, sweep away homes and drown thousands of dissenting opinions. Here is mine. You should probably take strong headache medicine in advance. The Inevitable Comparisons Instead of slowly …
Bio Break’s Advent Calendar 2010: Day 22
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Weird Question of the Day
What was your favoritist Christmas toy from when you were a kid?
Nostalgia Lane: GoldenEye 007
I’m hard-pressed to think of many movie-based video games that actually became more famous than the film they were based off of. TRON, perhaps. And whatever everyone in the comments section says. But there was something truly special about GoldenEye 007 that took a decent Bond outing and elevated it to a video game classic. …
Bio Break’s Advent Calendar 2010: Day 21
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STO: Warp Core Breach
Star Trek Online. We meet again, for the first time, for the last time, for glory, and for Del Taco. I’ve long since stopped fighting — or questioning — the pull of a different MMO when my brain demands it. It’s something that precedes my era in MMORPGs, as I’ve always been prone to getting …
Bio Break’s Advent Calendar 2010: Day 20
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Bio Break’s Advent Calendar 2010: Day 19
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Bio Break’s Advent Calendar 2010: Day 18
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The Adventures of Sype: Ales Well That Ends Well
“Him?” The bartender wrinkled his nose in disgust. “Oh, you don’t want to be talkin’ to his kind.” Sype took a long swig of beer and looked over his shoulder once again at the surly Dwarf in the corner. “No? Why ever not, my faithful alcohol-provider?” “That’s one of them Ale Association folks. They come …
