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Listen To The Entire Doom Soundtrack Clocking In At Over Two Hours

Mick Gordon the composer of the new Doom Soundtrack has dropped the whole score in it's entirely on YouTube and you can stream the whole thing above. At over two hours this intense hash metal soundtrack is worth checking out if you were a fan of the game or crazy metal scores.

First Look At The NES Classic In All It's HD Glory!

From the first mention of the NES Classic I was in. 30 amazing NES games in HD that hook up to your modern TV? Hell yes. Nintendo is known for producing good quality stuff but we didn't know how it would look in person or what the user interface would be... until now. Nintendo has launched a new commercial with a song that sounds like Don't You Want Me by The Human League which basically means it's pitch perfect for the NES classic. The TV spot shows off how easy it is to create save points by pressing the reset button. The NES classic interface is a 8-bit themed homage to that era and it looks very easy to use. When you move through each game there is a 1P or 2P icon... Read All

Get New Hearthstone Hero Tyrande Whisperwind Free- w Twitch Prime

After Amazon bought Twitch I was wondering what that had in store for Twitch as when a company is bought out it usually has a big effect on the child company. Today Amazon is launching Twitch Prime which is an extension of the Amazon Prime yearly service. Basically if you have Amazon Prime you get Twitch Prime included as part of the package, which is a nice bonus for Amazon Prime members. Twitch Prime gives you an exclusive ad free experience and every so often you get free games and exclusive in game items. For the launch of Twitch Prime you can get the free Hearthstone hero Tyrande Whisperwind free until November 5th. If you have Amazon Prime but don't care about... Read All

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 10/01/2016 at 05:36pm

I read about this last night. I have Amazon Prime, but not a Twitch account, so I think I'm going to create one. I do have the Twitch app on the PS3, but I've never used it. I haven't watched any Twitch channels, but I suppose I could start. If nothing else, the game bonuses would be nice to get.

*Update* I created my account and found one of my favorite YouTubers to follow for free. I claimed my free Hearthstone gift, but am waiting for Battle.net to update.

>Tyrande and she is a fun new hero that makes losing as Priest a bit easier to handle.

What do you mean by this?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/02/2016 at 12:45am

It's a sort of inside joke about the current state of Priest not being very good. In fact I didn't have a Priest deck even made before this. I made a Rez death rattle deck and it's not amazing but fun!

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 10/02/2016 at 01:13am

Ah. That's the funny thing about this game, you'd think the Priest would be one of the best because his ability is to heal yourself. Also, you'd expect Gul'dan to be the worst because his ability to draw a card causes you to lose life. It seems that's apparently not true, from what I've seen and you've said.

Speaking of Gul'dan, I'm thinking about posting about the Warcraft movie, because I recently rented it via Amazon Prime (see I mentioned AP, too, so this is even more relevant). He was in it and I thought it was a cool movie.

As for Twitch, I'm all signed up and have my AP account linked. My user name is "gregopeck" and I've already subscribed to one of my favorite YouTubers and followed another. Let me know if you're on there, or send me a friend request. :)

Back to Hearthstone, since I got Tyrande, I switched out the Priest and selected her. I also changed the card back for all of my decks to the one you get when you unlock her. That one is beautifully blue, even better than the Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void card back.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/02/2016 at 05:55pm

> Ah. That's the funny thing about this game, you'd think the Priest would be one of the best because his ability is to heal yourself.

It's a fine ability later game but not great early game. Nearly any other classes hero power is better early game. Turn 2 comes around and you have nothing to play? Well with Rogue you get a 1/2 weapon. Druid gets a 1 attack 1 armor weapon. Warlock can draw a card. Paladin gets a 1/1 minion. Shaman gets a Totem. Mage can hit face with a fireball. Warrior gets 2 armor. Priest's healing is USELESS turn two because you nearly never need to heal anything.

Warlocks ability seems to me to be terrible until you realize how incredible drawing a card is.

> Speaking of Gul'dan, I'm thinking about posting about the Warcraft movie, because I recently rented it via Amazon Prime (see I mentioned AP, too, so this is even more relevant). He was in it and I thought it was a cool movie.

Interested in reading what you think of it. I was thinking of buying it straight up because of getting the Hearthstone Midevh hero for free with the Bluray.

> Back to Hearthstone, since I got Tyrande, I switched out the Priest and selected her. I also changed the card back for all of my decks to the one you get when you unlock her. That one is beautifully blue, even better than the Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void card back.

It's a very cool card back. Currently what I am playing with for all my decks too.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 10/02/2016 at 07:01pm

I think Midevh was in it, too. I don't really have much to say about it. I liked it and thought it was cool. I liked things that were in it that reminded me of the Warcraft games I've played (I haven't played all of them), including Hearthstone. Other than that, there's not much else to say about it. I think if you like Warcraft, you probably won't be disappointed. From what little I've seen about it online, it seems that it is pretty popular.

JaBo wrote on 10/13/2016 at 11:25pm

I did not like WoW, but I do like the traditional Warcraft series. Would the movie still be good without an appreciation for WoW?

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 10/13/2016 at 11:28pm

Yeah! I've never played WoW, but I've played the first two games and Hearthstone, so I was able to appreciate the movie as a Warcraft fan.

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Upcoming Hearthstone Nerf's In Patch 6.1.3

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For quite some time Hearthstone players have noted that some cards are a bit overpowered. Chief among the cards most cited as massively overpowered are Yogg Saron, Tuskar Totemic and Call of the Wild. Blizzard seems to have agreed because today they dropped information about some upcoming balancing changes to the cards I cited. I never felt that Yogg or Call of the Wild were overpowered but I don't really mind the changes made to both cards. In the case of Call of the Wild Blizzard increased the mana cost to 9 still making it a very powerful late game card but it now competes with other Hunter cards like King Krush. One change I really liked is the nerf to Abusive... Read All

JaBo wrote on 09/30/2016 at 07:32am

So, I agree with all the nerfs except Yogg. I can't justify playing Yogg after this. Before, I could kill myself with Yogg or do some great things. It typically averaged out that if I had 10+ spells, I could hope to wipe the board at the least. But, I've killed myself by over drawing my deck and fatigueing myself out more than a few times.

Now though, it's like servant of yogg. Could have 20 spells to cast, but the 1st one could kill Yogg and then done. I can't spend 10 mana to do nothing in a game. So now, the odds will be more likely that Yogg is a flop or a negative effect than ever. It was barely a competitive card as is... I'm not sure why C'Thun can be powerful, N'Zoth can be powerful, but not Yogg.

The rest are nice changes though. So sick of Shaman decks, FUUUU hahah.

Call of the Wild is way powerful, so it going to 9 is actually reasonable.

Btw, the best way to stop that Worgen OTK is with mage or hunter secrets :D

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/01/2016 at 04:07pm

> So, I agree with all the nerfs except Yogg. I can't justify playing Yogg after this. Before, I could kill myself with Yogg or do some great things. It typically averaged out that if I had 10+ spells, I could hope to wipe the board at the least. But, I've killed myself by over drawing my deck and fatigueing myself out more than a few times.

Yogg often kills himself early on, so you're right, this is a pretty big nerf to Yogg. Firstly I don't have Yogg and was sort of considering crafting him. This doesn't change that, but I might craft another more essential card. Yogg always seemed like a #yolocatchup card, this does change that but it seems.. honestly it seems more fair to me. Typically when people prayed to Yogg I never felt like the outcome was very good, I mean sometimes it was but generally it was a pile of nothing. That said, when Yogg works it's incredible and people seemed really upset by that.

> The rest are nice changes though. So sick of Shaman decks, FUUUU hahah.

Agreed. The deck is so much value on value it's gross. I am not sure these changes really fix the main issues but when standard rotates GOODBYE TROGG AND TOTEM GOLEM! Honestly liked Totem Golem before Tunnel Trogg and when they added Tunnel Trogg Shaman still wasn't amazing but those cards combined with others make it so hard to out value. Shaman used to be my favorite class but it feels like such cheese now I have a hard time playing it.

> Btw, the best way to stop that Worgen OTK is with mage or hunter secrets :D

Or a later game taunt. Once I knew what to look out for with Worgen OTK I don't think anyone ever killed me with the combo again.

JaBo wrote on 10/02/2016 at 10:48pm

http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/30/twitch-prime-users-get-new-hearthstone-priest-hero-tyrande-whisperwind/

I already had amazon prime, so yay for free hero

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/03/2016 at 12:52am

Totally. I picked her up. She's a fun hero.

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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Character's Blinking In Mario 64

YouTuber Pannenkeok2012 has made one of the more interesting videos i've seen in quite some time that covers everything there is to know about character's blinking in Mario 64. Apparently not all character's in Mario 64 blink but the ones that do are somewhat diverse. For instance Goomba's have two eye states with eyes open and closed yet Mario has 3 eye states of eyes open, eyes partially closed and eyes fully closed.

You can also check out more Pannenkeok2012 videos that focus on other interesting things related to Mario 64 like in game pause buffering and what happens when you talk to Yoshi with negative lives.

Stardew Valley 1.1 Beta Released

There's a new update fresh off the farm! (Sorry not sorry for the pun.)

Earlier today ConcernedApe revealed that update 1.1 has entered beta to help clear out a few bugs before the full release. The change log looks pretty expansive with the big ticket items would be the new farm layouts themed after one of the in-game skills, two new marriage candidates, and a host of new buildings and warp items. The full change log as well as instructions on how to play the beta can be found here: http://community.playstarbound.com/threads/1-1-beta-thread.124827/

jdodson Admin wrote on 09/28/2016 at 11:39pm

Awesome. I missed picking this up at launch due to other games I was playing but I'll be picking this up sometime after the 1.1 patch drops.

jdodson Admin wrote on 09/28/2016 at 11:39pm

Are any of the new farm layouts something you are going to try out?

jdodson Admin wrote on 09/29/2016 at 07:37pm

Looks like 1.1 will go out on Monday:

https://twitter.com/ConcernedApe/status/781573088529879040

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 09/29/2016 at 09:58pm

I plan to start a new character when 1.1 drops and I will roll with one of the new maps, but I'm not sure which one I want to try. I like fishing a lot and the riverland map looks cool, but there's not really a shortage of places to fish. The forest map looks cool and having those renewable stumps would be nice. The hilltop layout isn't my favorite, but the geodes/ore could be really useful depending on how fast they respawn and what they drop. The wilderness map could be interesting, and it has a lot of area to farm still. I really don't know which one I want to try!

jdodson Admin wrote on 09/29/2016 at 10:11pm

Since I still haven't played it yet, do you have to replant trees then? I was wondering how you could get new trees to chop down.

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 09/29/2016 at 10:17pm

You can replant trees on your farm or the trees in the areas outside your farm grow back automatically.

jdodson Admin wrote on 09/29/2016 at 10:36pm

Looks like trees drop them or by plowing up bumpy ground under the tree itself. Interesting. Are the seed drops plentiful enough? Kind of annoys me when crafting games don't drop enough tree seeds.

http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Trees

jdodson Admin wrote on 10/03/2016 at 07:47pm

1.1 Update is now live.

http://stardewvalley.net/stardew-valley-v1-1-changelog/

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The RetroProjecto Is A 16mm Raspberry Pi Gaming Console - Interview With Creator Douglas Welcome

Douglas Welcome and I are friends from way back in the 90’s(if you can image that far back). Our friendship shared a mutual affinity for music and various geekery so when I saw a recent post of his about his project the RetroProjecto I reached out to him to talk about it. The RetroProject is a retrofitted 16mm Craig film editor with a Raspberry Pi added in it to run retro games.

jdodson: What interested you to getting into hacking the Raspberry Pi?

Douglas Welcome: Honestly it was the price! I have always been tinkering with electronics and was doing a little coding, but when I first started hearing wind of this $35 computer I couldn’t help but get one and start... Read All

10 Minutes of Early Game BioShock Infinite Footage Shows A Very Different Game

I think it's really interesting to see games I love in very early forms. Linked above is the first 10 minutes of BioShock Infinite shown in 2010. The game starts very differently and features a different voice cast for Booker. Columbia looks very similar to how the game shipped but the placement of buildings and nearly every story beat is different. That said, I think the final shipped game introduction is better as well as the gameplay. Some felt that the shipped version of BioShock Infinite wasn't what was demo'd and were disappointed with it but from this early footage I am very glad they made the changes they did.

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How Does The Super Mario Brothers Minus World Glitch Work?

The Super Mario Brothers minus world warp glitch was the first game secret I was ever taught. I say taught because game secrets were passed down from person to person back then as the Internet and even Nintendo Power wasn't a thing. When I heard about it I was really impressed that such a thing was even possible in a video game and my young mind was completely blown when a friend showed it to me. Later on I learned another Mario glitch where you could shoot fireballs while small that I loved even more than the minus world glitch. The video linked above talks about the minus world glitch and gives an in depth explanation as to how it works.

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Spore Comes to GOG Entirely DRM Free

Spore was one of 2008's most anticipated games and had a very rocky launch. Some people felt the game didn't quite live up to the hype and others chided it for it's, at the time, very draconian DRM. Recently it's had a sort of second-life on Steam, being one of the more popular games in various sales and today it finally comes to GOG entirely DRM free. Awesome to see EA finally open this game up to a DRM release and bundle it up at such a reduced price.

"From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations. Play through Spore's five evolutionary stages: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. Each stage has its own unique... Read All