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Host: This week, teams, science news from Slashdot who point out a research paper from Dr Johnson on “Human group formation in online guilds and offline gangs driven by a common team dynamic”, which suggests “a common team-based model can accurately reproduce the quantitative ...
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I suspect it won’t come as a massive shock to regular readers if I revealed that I too have succumbed to the recent Steam sale. Like Melmoth I bought the Complete THQ Pack , and in the competitive bargain-off stakes I lose out from already having more of the games (Company of Heroes and ...
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Another Steam sale arrived this weekend and I once again found myself buying a huge number of games all because they were reduced in price and thus a ‘bargain’. Games are to me as shoes are to Mrs Melmoth: I see her come home with five armfuls of shoe boxes and she then spends the ...
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You may have seen the news this week that Games ‘permit’ virtual war crimes . It’s terribly easy to be sarcastic about a headline like that. Terribly, terribly easy. Astoundingly easy. Not chewing a fruit pastille is simplicity itself in comparison.
It’s always ...
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Human
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Part the second. ( Part 1 ) Colin:
“Norman, my dearest of colleagues, why so glum?” Norman:...
“Oh, you know, Colin. It’s these ‘player’ specimens that keep running around our game, killing our wildlife ...
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Notes from the boardroom.
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kiasa.org - 5 days ago
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After the announcement of the final two classes
to be included with Star Wars: The Old Republic...
, it has become clear that there will be an abundance of force sensitive characters in the game. As such Bioware have had the foresight to come forth ...
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Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal ...
Host: This week, teams, it seems that a music executive was arrested in Canada for failing to Tweet . In a crowd-control disaster second only to that time you got a really good Mass Sleep off to recover from a terribly over-pull and some bozo woke everything up with a Rain of Fire, vice ...
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kiasa.org - 2 days ago
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The healer of our static group in World
of Warcraft was otherwise detained last week and so...
I took up the healing mantle for the evening, a garment that I am very comfortable wearing, although I was given again to muse upon its curious properties. ...
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Folly is the cloak of knavery.
If there’s one thing I hope Blizzard’s Cataclysm expansion does for World of Warcraft it’s to leave the auction houses of Azeroth in smouldering ruins.
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Badadadadada dum dum dum dadada daa daaa dum dum daaaaaaaaa! Back, by popular demand, it’s Hat News Now Today, today’s premier column focused, now, on news about hats. Everybody’s been talking about Dragon Age: Origins, about the story, the world, the characters, but ...
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Battle formation number one: The ‘ Song 2 ‘.
As can be seen from the picture, in this UTD formation we have the glass cannon ranged DPS classes leading from the front in order to take the aggro alpha-strike, with the tank and melee DPS following behind in order to attack ...
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kiasa.org - 9 days ago
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It’s a wonder, word-friend that I am, that
I haven’t tried Lord of the Rings Online’s Runekeeper...
class in earnest before now. One of the first spells that they get, Fiery Ridicule, has a description which in part reads ‘The ...
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Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet’s ...
The village elder looked weary; two nights of attacks had taken their toll. “How is morale?” I asked him.
“Aye, much better now, stranger, thanks to your efforts we have a chance. The weapons are ready, and those you persuaded to fight with us should make a difference.” ...
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Where better to hide his secret base of operations than in the impenetrable blackness of the dwarven mines?
And so begins the flood of comic book crossovers into our favourite MMOs.
Apparently you’ll be able to find the Fortress of Solitude in Star Trek Online, although the rumour ...
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We’re not exactly firebrand activists here at KiaSA, not least because there’s usually little to get worked up over in UK politics as far as games go (unlike our Australian cousins, who I gather from the Van Hemlock News Podcast have been clandestine mavericks living outside the law ...
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World of Warcraft
The first thing you notice when you enter the School at Tham Mirdain – a three-man instance in Lord of the Rings Online for characters around the level fifty two mark – is that on initial observation the place seems to consist entirely of just one room which you can see all the way ...
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The Baldur’s Gate series are Dungeons & Dragons
The Knights of the Old Republic series are Dungeons & Dragons in space with Jedi
Mass Effect is Dungeons & Dragons in space with Jedi without the Jedi
Dragon Age: Origins is Dungeons & Dragons in space with Jedi ...
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Some Twittering about Dragon Age: Origins caught my eye last night:
Shuttler : I doubt I’ll finish DA:O it feels old & environmental limitations just shouldn’t happen anymore.
Zonk : What do you mean by environmental limitations?
Shuttler : not being able to walk in ...
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Our valiant heroes hung the head of the troll on the wall of the kinship house and stood back to admire it.
“It looks as though the troll has crashed his head through the wall of our house” mused Van Hemlock.
“Ha ha! His body is probably in the air on the other side of the ...
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kiasa.org - 21 days ago
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The scary thing isn’t that Blizzard have opened
a micro-transaction store for World of Warcraft; one should...
consider that event to be as the emotive theme tune is to the shark in Jaws, or a dissonant violin crescendo is to Jason Voorhees. ...
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Thought for the day.
