Evee! Jolteon, Umbreon, Espeon, Flareon, Vaporeon, Glaceon, Leafeon… I choose you!
I’ve been asked—no, commanded—to find more fanart for Vox Ex Machina. Since I am painfully aware that Nelson Williams is a pokémon fan, here’s Evee and a bunch of its evolution forms.
I want an Evee I can change evolution of in the midst of combat as a free-action. I want it now.
So cute!
Link, via reddit.
I’ll Just Leave This Here… Magnificent Legion Fan Art
Click the image for the full-glorious version on Patryk Olejniczak’s DeviantArt page—he’s got more, and more, showing off other characters from the Mass Effect universe as well.
Link, via DeviantArt.
It’s a City of Heroes Christmas and who doesn’t miss the Level Lord
Back in the early days of MMORPGs—and those days it was 2004—the MMOs started to realize that people wanted more to do than just new content involving episodes and new villains and higher level caps. Instead, MMO companies discovered that people wanted to experience in-game what happened to them outside in the global culture. So City of Heroes added the Winter Event.
With that winter event came some unexpected bugs…currently best described in the most recent MMO Anthropology article,
By far the most amusing phenomena that rose out of the original 2004 Winter Event in City of Heroes happened to be the city-region bosses the Winter Lords. These were gigantic snowmen appearing about ten stories tall, textured as if made entirely out of snow, with icicle noses.
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Nintendo, EA, and Sony Electronics Pull Support for SOPA…Sortof?
Right now, with GoDaddy staring down the barrel of a boycott over their initial support for the Internet-censorship bill SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) other companies are beginning to follow suit and renege support for the bill.
World’s largest video game producers Nintendo, EA, and Sony Electronics have yanked their direct support of the bill and this is a good thing.
However, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA)—an alliance among whom EA, Nintendo, and Sony happen to claim membership—still supports SOPA. Unless the big three listed above remove themselves from that alliance they are still supporting SOPA by proxy (and with their money.)
Pulling their name from the list is
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Coruscant Datacron Sneakthrough Guide
If you’ve been playing Star Wars the Old Repulbic long, you’ve either found or heard of datacrons. World objects that give you stat boosts that are hidden across all the different maps. Some are easy to access and some are extremely difficult; all of them provide a worthwhile reward and some bragging rights.
Look no further than this walkthrough: here’s the datacrons available on the 10-16 level city-world of Coruscant.
Old Galactic Market – Shipping and Receiving Docks, +2 Presence Datacron
Not that difficult to locate, but it’s guarded by an elite (11) enemy and his pals. After entering the area, and picking up the first few missions, head immediately north through the firefight in the double-bridge. Turn west (do not use the elevator in front of …
Augmented Reality and Mobile Computing in the Era of the Personal Cloud
I personally enjoy the discussion near the 13:00 mark when it rolls into augmented reality.
Anyone who reads science fiction should look at Acellerando by Charles Stross—it’s exactly the sort of thing to set up any technologist for the potential future we might see coming out of wearable computers and the advent of augmented reality. By this, I don’t mean the high science tech seen in the later book, but the very beginning where the star of the show is the everyman cyborg who uses his technology to better mankind.
Manfred—who I keep thinking is Mankrik—happens to be an excellent example of how technological near-telepathy comes out of our personal cloud and mobile devices. We already augment our reality as cyborg beings every day with our Internet-connected …
Celebrating Christmas in World of Warcraft With the 2011 Feast of Winter’s Veil
World of Warcraft has a winter celebration that affects both Alliance and Horde that involves the winter holidays. The Feast of Winter’s Veil involves a great deal of traditions taken from the Western celebration of the winter holidays and that primarily of Christmas. Such icons appear as the Abominable Greench – the Grinch of Dr. Seuss’s work added to the abominable snowman – Metzen the reindeer who is an echo of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer – and even Greatfather Winter – an analogue to Santa Claus.
The orcs in Orgirmmar set up a Yule tree covered with decorations, holly and mistletoe are handed out to revelers who then can use that to make their mount into a reindeer. Gimmick gifts abound that allow the production of …
After 5 Years “Serenity Now Bombs World of Warcraft Funeral” Still Speaks to the Ethics of Griefing in Video Games
Jerks are ubiquitous in the video game community and PvP servers additionally self-select for their sort of behavior.
It’s impossible to have a community the size of World of Warcraft and not having at least one guild willing to ruin someone else’s day on any single shard that permits PvP. In this case, a Horde guild holding an in-game funeral learned the hard way that when you stand around in no armor, in a contested zone, a small band of people can totally bring ruin and sorrow onto you. And also, at the same time, many people condemned the actions of the attackers of taking advantage of the ritual.
In the end, Serenity Now got their "fifteen minutes of fame," but Fayejin — the dead PvP player memorialized in the "bombed"
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APB:Reloaded First Impressions
GamersFirst just recently re-released the game APB:Reloaded to much critical adversity in the MMO community. It’s original incarnation, the pay-to-play APB didn’t do so well, and it was crushed beneath the grimy boot heels of cheaters and hackers before its community imploded. This reincarnation is free-to-play and has already netted a population of over 3 million users in the first 8 days after launch on the Steam platform.
Kyt Dotson over at GameOgre brings us a review of this rags-to-popular-acclaim story:
The city is overwhelmed with thugs; gangs roam the streets with impunity and endanger the lives of everyday citizens with their criminality. The only answer? Deputize the entire population and give them guns—lots of guns. …
Interview with World of Warcraft’s Master Rogue Fiveshot
Fiveshot is an avid poster to YouTube –visit his channel gregory06– and also a World of Warcraft player. Through his activity in MMO games — such as WoW, League of Legends, Modern Warfare 3, and others — he has made use of YouTube to deliver a cross-section of his experience and others.
The interview highlights the social aspects of MMO gaming but also reveals how YouTube changes or enhances that experience. He has gained quite a following and many of his videos reveal a great deal of comments. These are individuals who may play only one or two of the games that he takes footage from; but they’re all coming together on YouTube to comment.
Community-wise, games like WoW and such do not have a forum …
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