Posts Tagged City of Heroes

60 minutes (or so) in City of Heroes

Posted by Rockjaw in Gamey, Personal on May 26th, 2008

I managed to get some time in City of Heroes the other night, a little while after Issue 12 had gone live. As I was playing I jotted down some notes; this is them cleaned up a bit. Read the rest of this entry »

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Consider yourself… linked

Posted by Rockjaw in Links of Others on May 25th, 2008

For some reason I have random lyrics and snippets from Oliver! in my head. Why.

Anyway, set up a new blogroll linking category to cover off a few of you called Playas, ‘cos y’all are. Which led me to checking a few places which leads me to pimpin’ ya out with linkage and quotage. Read the rest of this entry »

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Games that people – and me – play

Posted by Rockjaw in Gamey, Personal on May 25th, 2008

I think someone asked what games I’m currently playing. Eh, what the hell, it’s an easy post.

Right now my available gaming ‘platforms’ are as follows:

  • Xbox 360 – I’d say this is the primary gaming box.
  • Dell PC, circa 2003 – I still remember when this ran every game like butter. Not any more.
  • MacBook Pro – Not running many games natively, but the web, ah…
  • Nintendo DS Lite – Not doing much with this, but I do have one, so worth noting.

And what am I playing? Well, in a sort-of order pertaining to how much each one’s getting played… Read the rest of this entry »

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City of Heroes – Issue 12: Midnight Hour is live

Posted by Rockjaw in Day Today, MMO-related, Pimpin' on May 20th, 2008

Well yes, the five hour maintenance for the City of Heroes/City of Villains servers today was indeed to roll out Issue 12: Midnight Hour. Oh, we managed to squeeze in extra character slots as well. Happy?

Here are the current official known issues with the… err… issue, and here are the official (lengthy!) patch notes as well. Pity the poor localisation people who had to translate those, and our community folk who had to proof-read, edit and post ‘em!

Launch days for any big patch are always a little scary; just because everyone has to cross their fingers and hope everything goes okay. So far it looks like today is all good… so hooray! Guess I’d better try and log-in tonight and start exploring Issue 12, as I never did get to check it out on the Training Room.

Enjoy. Read the rest of this entry »

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DTWT sketchbooks arrived!

Posted by Rockjaw in MMO-related, Pimpin', Teaser on May 2nd, 2008

Woo-hoo! Nice way to start a Friday. Our limited edition Draw the World Together Sketchbooks – full of City of Heroes characters sketched by some of the best artists in the biz – arrived today. Behold the ‘exciting’ unboxing!

They look really rather nice, and the print quality is really ‘sketchbook-like’ if that makes sense – not as slick as a newsstand magazine, but not like a cheap photocopied fanzine either!!

As have a strictly limited initial run we decided we’d hand-number each one… well, after we had a good flick through of course….

Overall, I’m sure happy with ‘em and I hope everyone who donates a mere £5 to EveryChild to get their hands on one will be too. Remember, they go on sale at next weekend’s Comic Expo!

Speaking of which, I guess I better throw my £5 into the charity tin to get things started!

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