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It took longer than two weeks, but it looks like starting in

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-DF5xBvt/0/L/i-DF5xBvt-L.jpg

It took longer than two weeks, but it looks like starting in November Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO is going the free-to-play route. According to the article, free players will be able to play through all the class story lines but be limited on what flashpoints (think instances or raids) they can do and have limited access to the auction house.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/175042/After_less_than_a_year_The_Old_Republic_is_going_free_to_play.php

Warsow is a free Open Source shooter that has been in

Warsow is a free Open Source shooter that has been in development for 7 years and recently just released 1.0. It boats a hefty selection of features and looks incredible. I am going to check it out, but I wanted to let everyone know it went 1.0 so you can check it out.

Oh right, did I mention it is free?

http://www.warsow.net/

A few Skyrim news bits I thought were worth sharing. Looks

A few Skyrim news bits I thought were worth sharing. Looks like Bethesda is starting to move its 1.7 update patch through the works. It will be released on XBox 360, PS3 and Steam and contains a few notable bits including stability fixes, general optimizations, bug fixes and updates the the dragon shouts via Kinect.

Also looks like later this week Bethesda will be talking about the release date for Dawnguard on PS3 and Steam. Looks like the XBox 360 exclusive lockout window is over and my guess is they will talk about it when they show next week at Quakecon. Well, not entirely my guess a few have speculated about it.

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Any of you guys ever found the Development Hell level? Just

http://thecontrolleronline.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Diablo-3-Development-Hell.jpg

Any of you guys ever found the Development Hell level? Just a fun little easter egg I stumbled onto the other day.

As a conversation starter then, what are the best easter eggs you can think of? Did you find them yourself or did you use a guide?

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/30/2012 at 04:36am

Some cool easter eggs I found recently were the ones in Rage. I saw videos online and sort of figured out the rest.

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/183

The Legend of Zelda Link to the Past I found an easter egg. Well or a bug, I don't know. I was able to do it a few times and my cousin was able to do it on his system as well.

What you did was go through the game normal and get the sword tempered. Then save the game and quit and start a new game. Go up in the rain to the left and talk to the guards blocking the exit. They will reveal mostly all the text that everyone says in the game. They will just keep feeding it to you, its kind of neat. Didn't know if that was an easter egg or a bug. Either way, it was awesome.

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/30/2012 at 04:36am

Oh and is development hell in hell mode?

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 07/30/2012 at 06:17am

It's random, but apparently it shows up more often in the higher difficulties. I found this in nightmare.
BTW: that is not my screenshot. I tried to take some, but was unable to recover them.

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 07/30/2012 at 01:52pm

You know when you are looking for the royal crypts? If you ever see four doors open instead of three, one of them is "Development Hell". It's really just a normal crypt but all the zombies have the names and titles of the real people that worked on the game and the Lead Designer is an Elite.

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 07/30/2012 at 01:54pm

Were you ever able to get into the secret room in link to the past that was made for the contest? Know what I'm talking about? It's named after the kid who won the contest and you have to do some ridiculous dash to get into it. (I never was able to pull it off, so I'm no help there."

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/30/2012 at 02:11pm

I did find that one, yeah. I think I read about it in Nintendo Power back in the day and eventually pulled it off.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 07/30/2012 at 05:33pm

I was able to get to the secret room in Link to the Past as well. There wasn't really anything in there but some rupees, but it was a cool easter egg. Here's some other fun easter eggs:
In Mega Man X you can learn Ryu/Ken's hadoken. :)
In Fallout 3 you can find a vault 77 jumpsuit, which is a reference to the Penny Arcade comic about the Puppet Man.
In Dungeon Siege there is a secret chicken level, which is a spoof of Diablo's cow level.
In Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, if you beat the final boss immediately after starting a new game + you get the developers ending, where you can talk to NPC's based on the developers.

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/31/2012 at 03:43am

Chicken level in Dungeon Siege? Awesome, have to check that out.

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 07/31/2012 at 06:15am

I did the Megaman Haduken thing. That was fun. What about Max (of Sam and Max) in Star Wars Jedi... damn what was that called? Forgot it.

hardeyez wrote on 08/01/2012 at 03:07pm

One of the games I worked on Dr. Muto had several easter eggs/secret characters. I.e. the artists had fun modelling each other, the programmers, and other fun stuff. (here's a somewhat complete list I quickly found http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/cheats/PS2/dr_muto.html although I'm pretty sure we also had MADDOG which was the initial lead programmer)

Usually there's lots of extra bits we throw into a game, but most get yanked out before shipping as they aren't appropriate to the age level of the game (another game I worked on Looney Tunes Racing had some really funny carts making fun of me that the artists created, but they were definitely not appropriate for the games rating... so they didn't ship with the game)

jdodson Admin wrote on 08/02/2012 at 12:04am

Ha, thats awesome.

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This morning I read a really interesting article about the

This morning I read a really interesting article about the rise and fall of Curt Shillings 38 studios. A few things I learned from the Article:

1. 38 Studios bought Big Huge Games. Big Huge Games created Rise of Nations and Kingdom of Amalur.
2. The studio got a loan of about 50 million dollars from Rhode Island government by moving headquarters.

I wonder if this means the state of Rhode Island owns Rise of Nations, Kingdoms of Alamlur and the other 38 studios IP?

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/2012/07/38-studios-end-game/print/

Recently read a cool article on Mashable about 10 awesome

Recently read a cool article on Mashable about 10 awesome additions to Borderlands 2.

http://mashable.com/2012/07/20/borderlands-2-improvements/

A few things that caught my eye?

The Stash Is Persistent
Customize Your Character (shown in image above)
Beautiful Aurora Borealis in Pandora's Frozen Tundra (I enjoy awesome environments that immerse you in the game.

Some people felt the enemies in Borderlands were easy so 2K made them much more difficult. A recent article on Joystiq draws a picture of how much harder they can be.

Snip:

"New baddies include Threshers and Foreman's personal favorite, the Goliath. Goliath is a monstrous enemy with the singular focus to kill you.... Read All

Hey. The server will be open for business starting

Hey.

The server will be open for business starting today(6/27/2012) at 8PM PST at the following location:

terraria.cheerfulghost.com port 7777

I decided there will be a game password, so hit me up in the comments or on Steam for it. I want to limit it to our direct friends to protect against any kind of griefing. Understand I want anyone that wants to to be able to play, so just hit me up or anyone else playing for the password and you can get it.

See you at 8! Oh and the image above is the starting newb zone. I wanted to welcome people to the game and I won't spoil whats on the signs on in the chest!

The wonderful people behind the Humble Bundles are doing

The wonderful people behind the Humble Bundles are doing something different this time-- Music!

A few of the albums are video game related, some directly, some tangentially. All albums are available in MP3 or FLAC, DRM-free.

I wonder what their next foray into electronic media for charity will be. Movies?

This is an incredibly interesting resource. Their tagline

This is an incredibly interesting resource. Their tagline is "Explore the art, philosophy, politics, and psychology of video games with some of the medium's most influential designers and visionaries."

http://www.criticalpathproject.com/

Join The Cheerful Ghost Terraria Game Starting this

Join The Cheerful Ghost Terraria Game Starting this Thursday!

To celebrate this retro Tuesday, WhiteboySlim and I had an idea. Lets run a Cheerful Ghost Terraria server for two weeks and kick it all off this Thursday @ 8pm PST. If you are a Terraria newb or long time player, feel free to join us. Ill be in game explaining the ropes to new people as I build my house and start a mine. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments.

The Main Details:

When: Cheerful Ghost Terraria starting this July 26th @ 8PM PST

Where: The game will be accessible @ terraria.cheerfulghost.com port 7777.

How long? This server will last two weeks. This is to see how it went... Read All

Timogorgon Member wrote on 07/25/2012 at 05:32am

As you can probably guess since it was partly my idea, I will be there Thursday night. :) If we get a couple people on I say we try spawning a boss and see if we can take it down.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 07/25/2012 at 05:36am

Do bosses mess with your houses? If not, I am in!

Travis Admin wrote on 07/25/2012 at 04:01pm

I am so in, but as I til Jon last night, I am east coast so getting there on opening night will be a stretch.

I had no idea there were bosses in this game. It seems pretty deep for such a small game.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 07/25/2012 at 04:28pm

Bosses don't destroy structures as far as I know. Plus I'm pretty sure we can control where they spawn so we can spawn it somewhere away from the starting zone. So far the only boss I fought was the Eye of Cthulhu.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 07/25/2012 at 05:51pm

From all I read last night you can control the spawn of bosses unless you burrow to the wall of flesh. That guy is just underground somewhere.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 07/25/2012 at 08:17pm

The wall of flesh has a spawn condition too. You have to throw a guide voodoo doll in lava to make it spawn. The only boss I have spawned by accident is also the only boss I've fought, lol. The Eye of Cthulhu spawns when you reach a certain amount of health, but once you defeat him he won't spawn again until you use an item to spawn him.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 07/26/2012 at 12:29am

Good to know.

Travis Admin wrote on 07/26/2012 at 03:41am

Guys. This game is awesome.

I played with Jon for about an hour last night, that was my first time really playing it, and so far I'm up to about 3 hours total and I am *so* hooked.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 07/26/2012 at 04:01am

Yep, it really is. Blew me away how kick ass it is.

Will be fun starting the server tomorrow for the next few weeks!

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 07/26/2012 at 09:56pm

This looks fun... I might see if my computer can handle it in a week or so.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 07/26/2012 at 10:07pm

It doesn't require much to run.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 07/26/2012 at 10:31pm

My computer is pretty old (approaching 5 years if it hasn't already hit that mark) and it runs it just fine. It's not a very resource intensive game.

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