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EA And Activision: Things Are Getting Ugly.
EA releases SWTOR, Activision calls it an affront and is now suing EA for $400 million.
Looks like the gaming wars are heating up even more!
(Clarification, due to apparent confusion over the opening statement : The lawsuit relates to EA allegedly luring programmers away from Activision, not to the release of SWTOR)
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Happy Holidays From FleshEatingZipper
In case you hadn’t noticed, we’ve been pretty lazy today.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic – SWTOR Rap
A few days ago, Dan Bull fired me off another email and told me that he’d dropped a new rap, inspired by the new EA/BioWare hit “Star Wars: The Old Republic“. Knowing some of the stuff Dan has dropped in the past (Like his epic Skyrim Rap), I popped on over to his youtube page and had a look.
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Trion Worlds (Rift MMO) Database Hacked – Credit Card Information Compromised
Well…Having been a Rift player for a short time, I thought I was done with them when I did not renew my account. Unfortunately I got an email from them, about 5 minutes ago, which indicates that one of their account databases was hacked and sensitive information was leaked.
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Verizon + Another National 4G Outage = Sadface
Well, here we go again. Verizon is suffering yet another 4G LTE outage this month.
They say technical issues are to blame…naturally.
Let’s talk about this.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Guide – Companions And Affection (Warning: Spoilers)
One of the interesting Mechanics used in SWTOR is the inclusion of “companions” to the game. Now, when I say “companions”, I’m not talking about the kind that cost $400.00 an hour and require you to pay up front, I’m talking about the kind who travel the galaxy with you and do all of the tasks you’re just too busy to deal with.
One of the dynamics of the companion system is “affection” which relates to how much your companion likes you. The more they like you, the better they perform and more likely they are to succeed when given tasks. If they don’t like you at all, they’re unlikely to want to work too hard and that can be very frustrating.
It is for this reason that we have assembled this guide. To help you, the player, ensure that your companions love and respect you, and will do their utmost to help you succeed.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Guide – Datacron Locations
Star Wars : The Old Republic (SWTOR) has tons of hidden goodies and extras. Today we’re going to be talking about datacrons.
Datacrons are objects in the game which will boost your stats, permanently, for no cost or negative effect. These objects are found laying around in various places and on different planets so finding them can be a bit tough.
For that reason, we are proud to present you all with a list of the known datacrons, and their locations.
We will be doing this alphabetically, by planet. This information has been sourced from myriad locations, including IGN, various WIKIS, the SWTOR guide written by Dealenn from the guild Liberi Fatali and my own experiences during testing and playing the game, because NOBODY has this all in one place, at this point, so if there are any inconsistencies, please let us know and we’ll do our best to fix it.
Enjoy!
Star Wars: The Old Republic – The Review. Includes The Story, So Far.
I think that in order to understand what is going on in Star Wars : The Old Republic it is important that we understand the back story. The events leading up to the game and the time period it takes place in are important because those things also explain why certain thing are the way they are and why the story is – or ISN’T – any good.
Those things effect, in my mind, the plausibility of review scores because, let’s face it, if the game looks good but the story is bunk, that’s a big dent in a review.
So I present to you the review of Star Wars : The Old Republic, along with a very condensed version of the story that got us to where we are now…And even an explanation of where, exactly, we are!
Lack Of Player Base Pushes Aion To Go Free-To-Play
Yep, the free-to-play bug has bitten yet another [formerly] major MMO and will have Aion going F2P as of February 2012
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Star Wars : The Old Republic Early Game Access Update
Star Wars : The Old Republic started its early game access (EGA) program yesterday morning for NA customers and things seem to be moving along quite nicely.
The first few waves of invites only covered players who had gotten in on the pre-order spike around the 21st of July, which had players worried about when they would get in to the game.
Read on to find out where they are with the invites, as of now.
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