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Have you ever wished Tristram was more.... metal?

This is playing on repeat while I code.

Iam8bit Opening Night

Will any fellow Happy Haunts from the Southern California area be attending the opening night for the new Iam8bit exhibit?

Mrs. Slim and I will be attending and would be happy to meet up with anyone else who can attend. Admission is free on opening night. :)

Details here: http://iam8bit.com/the-gallery/

Like most galleries I imagine they probably have a no photography rule, but if allowed I'll snap some photos to share with all of you after the event. :)

Mine Of Steel

I want someone to remake The Dark Knight in Minecraft. Not just the trailer, the whole film. Its cool, I can wait.

Skyrim Legendary Edition Released

If you were wanting to wait to dive into the world of Skyrim, now might be a good time to do that. Bethesda released the Legendary Edition that wraps up all the Skyrim expansions into one game. Featuring Dragonborn, Hearthfire and Dawguard this should keep you in Dragon slaying heaven.

If you buy large game tomes, Prima is also releasing the Skyrim legendary edition Game Guide. Last game guide I bought was for Fallout 3 and all its DLC and was quite large but this looks like it covers much more stuff. You know, if you were into reading game hints on actual... paper and all.

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Diablo III: What you've been missing

Many people played Diablo 3, and then for whatever reason hit a wall where it was no longer enjoyable. For most, it seems, that wall was Inferno. Back in the day the increase in difficulty when moving to Inferno was so high, people just stopped. But there have been many patches over the time Diablo 3 has been out, which have added some interesting and fun features. If you've been wondering if it's time to come back, here's what you may have missed.

General improvements
First off, and probably most importantly, things have been smoothed out. Some skills that were lacking have been buffed, some that were way overpowered have been scaled back. The difficulty curve when... Read All

jdodson Admin wrote on 06/06/2013 at 04:37am

This is a great update, thanks Travis. Getting a Hellfire Ring looks epic. Do you have one yet? Also, do you fight those zones on MP10 to get the keywarden drops and organ drops everytime?

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 06/06/2013 at 01:01pm

Nope, no hellfire ring yet, but we're working on it. We're so far only going as high as MP4, that's about as much as we feel comfortable with, and plus that should average out to a drop almost every other visit so it isn't a huge deal. MP10 would absolutely kill us at this point!

jdodson Admin wrote on 06/06/2013 at 03:19pm

That makes sense. How much have you collcted so far for the ring?

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 06/06/2013 at 05:31pm

Just keys. No parts yet. We're working on it though!

jdodson Admin wrote on 06/06/2013 at 07:13pm

Sounds like fun and I want to get that ring. I just don't know about the time it would take to get it. Sounds like a hell of a fun time though.

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 06/06/2013 at 07:57pm

I will tell you that it gets horribly frustrating at times. But those beautiful drops are worth it.

jdodson Admin wrote on 06/06/2013 at 08:01pm

I bet, then again I stopped at the molten armor in Terraria because going higher was much more work.

My goal with our upcoming server is to get a higher tier of armor this time. At least, last time I nabbed the molten armor... Or whatever you mine in hell... Obsidian?

This is horribly off-topic because I am jonesn for the 1.2 patch.

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 06/06/2013 at 08:10pm

Yeah it's molten. Obsidian is one or two tiers below Molten.

With the new content to hardmode, the new ores, etc... I bet it's going to be much harder to max out. I CAN DO IT.

jdodson Admin wrote on 06/06/2013 at 08:12pm

Hahahahaha. I bet.

Did you get top tier in the last few games we played?

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 06/06/2013 at 08:58pm

Not quite. I got it in the first world, but not the second. I stopped at half Adamantite, half ... whatever the green stuff is.

jdodson Admin wrote on 06/06/2013 at 10:29pm

Sure. I think we all stopped about then.

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The Super Mario Brothers Super Show

Hey Paisanos! For retro Tuesday I decided to talk about a television show I watched the hell out of as a kid. It is a show I rarely ever missed and had a blast watching each episode. The Super Mario Brothers Super Show was the first taste I got of a video game theme show and quickly became my favorite of its era. Watching Mario, Luigi, the Princess and Toad foil Bowser over and over again never seemed to get dull. The plots were interesting and they seemed to add in the right amount of Mario-ness to the show. I even liked the live action set pieces between animation.

Each season of the Super Show is available on Netflix and YouTube now, so if you are interested in... Read All

Starcraft II Adds Spawn Copy Support

Starcraft was a staple of my ol' LAN parties and to get everyone playing the game we occasionally spawned copies of it on people's machines that didn't have the game. Some have lamented this loss but it seems today Blizzard is bringing this back.

Starcraft II has had the starter edition for quite some time, which allows you to play as Terran on a few maps and also allows cross play with your friends that own the full game. Up till now, all the Heart of the Swarm maps and units were unavailable if you wanted to play with your starter edition friends until now.

The video above showcases how it works, simply start a game with starter edition friend and you get all the... Read All

Battle.net client in beta testing

http://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2013/may/installer.jpg

MMO Champion has a rundown of the currently available features of a Steam-alike client that Blizzard is currently testing. It does everything you'd expect an app like this to do.

Keep all your Blizzard games in one place, and automatically update them when an update is available. (This also replaces the game-specific launchers)

Chat with your Battle.net friends outside of gameplay

See all the news about your Blizzard games.

A store, of course, to buy new games (though this isn't implemented in the current build).

Other social features like forums and player profiles, also yet to be implemented.

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scrypt Supporter wrote on 06/04/2013 at 04:30pm

If they could implement a voice chat feature, that would solve all of the problems. Sweet info. Thanks, Travis!

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 06/04/2013 at 07:27pm

Yes, that was number three. I forgot to add that when posting. Voice chat and an overlay are a must!

jdodson Admin wrote on 06/04/2013 at 11:55pm

So a new service to buy games from? I imagine this will be used to buy other non Blizzard games as well?

Not sure I need another game service.

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 12:05am

I don't think it will, from what I've read. It seems to just be distribution for Bnet stuff, which is great since currently they don't exist on any game service and you have to wait for updates to download, etc.

I agree though, if they're using it for other things beyond Blizzard games, I'll probably pass on those, but it will be great to have Blizzard's games all under one roof at least.

jdodson Admin wrote on 06/05/2013 at 12:06am

The games update themselves already and you can get them all from the website. I am not sure that was a problem for me, but I can see why they would do it.

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 12:09am

They update themselves when you launch the launcher. And then you wait.

This way, you leave it up and it downloads when it's ready, and you never have to wait.

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 12:12am

Plus, you get to see what your friends are playing before you launch the game, so now you can say "hey Jon is playing SC2" and message him to see if he wants to play, rather than launching the game, signing in, seeing nobody online.

And *if* they make it so you only have to sign into the client and not each individual game, that will make me very happy.

jdodson Admin wrote on 06/05/2013 at 12:14am

Yeah, that could be good. Unifying sign in would be nice and the friends thing you mention. I wonder how impossible it will be to use the Steam Overlay now that each game might not support login?

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 12:17am

Yeah, I hope they have their own overlay. I doubt you'd be able to use Steam's if you're launching anything from the BNet client.

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Assault on Dragon Keep Walkthrough w Anthony Burch

Revision 3 recently posted a video with Tara Long and Anthony Burch the lead writer for Borderlands 2 going over the new Assault on Dragon Keep DLC. The walkthrough contains some mad spoilers but its fun to see the game unfold with Burch's commentary.

The new D&D influenced DLC will hit June 25th.

scrypt Supporter wrote on 06/04/2013 at 07:30am

I never finished BL2, and I feel a little ashamed of that. Spent so much time in the first game, that I got a little burned out when it came to the second. I don't know. This expansion, however, looks mighty awesome. May have to dive back in.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/04/2013 at 11:54pm

Yeah, I chip at it a bit at a time but largely I find the main campaign to be way too long between interesting bits. The writing is good, but I think the smaller bite sized DLC packs might be more my style too.

That said, perhaps another reason is I crushed so hard on the first game and second one was essentially the same kind of thing with better writing.

Anyways, Dragon Keep looks good and I want to give it a spin at some point.

scrypt Supporter wrote on 06/05/2013 at 02:38am

That's exactly it! The first game was amazing, fresh and new. Played through several times, with multiple characters, and sometimes would just grind for weapons. Then the second came, and I was really into it, but lost interest somewhere along the way, and couldn't get back in.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 08:59pm

Right. I chip away on BL2 a bit at a time because it fun in bursts but, yeah it doesnt have me like BL1 did. Kind if been wanting to go back and play the original lately too.

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Awesomenauts: A Fun Action Side-Scrolling MOBA

After Humble Bundle 8 dropped I picked it up and after thinking it over decided to play Awesomenauts first. I had heard from people on the site that this is a good game, plus I see people playing it on Steam all the time so I figured it was time.

While I was at University I played a fun Warcraft III UMS map called Defense of the Ancients. That made it into our LAN rotations among other Tower Defense maps and regular ol' War III. I really dug DoTA but never was exceptional at it. Fast foward to today to the more modern DoTA 2 and League of Legends and whereas the core idea is fun, the immense difficulty ramp is not.

Intro Awesomenauts. It comes packed with all the Tower... Read All