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Even with captach I have been seeing a fair number of user spam account creation requests. For the time being I am closing site registration. If you would like to sponsor a new site member (and frankly all the real members come via you guys anyway) just PM me the particulares (account name email etc) and I will gladly create and send them the account info manualy, and they will be good to go.

Thahnks

-Griffon

The family not in sync with your pc update holiday wish list? Time to embezzle the bonus :).
http://m.tomshardware.com/reviews/fastest-graphics-card-radeon-geforce,3...

A must watch

http://youtu.be/FPQHiVecHZs

The SFX->compressor function is supposed to normalize everyone's volume. Here are the instructions I used for it:

- Go to Setup
- Enable Direct Sound
- Select the SFX Button
- Select Compressor and click Add.
- Under Compressor Properties use the following settings
- Gain = Adjust for how loud you want people to be. (I use 15)
- Attack = 0.01
- Release = Around 500
- Threshold = Around -30
- Ratio = 100
- Pre delay = 4.0

I very cool movie created with a small team and open source animation tools

Stardocks newest creation. Yeah so it snuck out when I was not looking. It's available direct download and retail. I will probable wait a bit for a sale, currently I gather it's um under heavy patching but still a remarkable effort.

http://www.elementalgame.com/purchase

After reading a review I made a impulse purchase on a iPhone game called Reiner Knizia's Samurai. This is a pretty fun bear and pretzels type board game setup to run as a turn based phone game. It supports multiplayer and online play. The essentials are to compete and capture resources by placing tokens on the game board to surround said resources and effect influence for capture or tie. As with most good board games, play is simple but victory conditions are complex. You have to really watch what is getting captured rather then just pursuing your own goals. Anyway, I have been looking for something new, having burned out a bit on uniwar with a nice turnbase feel. I think it's a bit pricey at $4.99 though, so it might be worth waiting to see if get down to a more reasonable buck or so.

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I was wondering when this would break. LOTR has finally gone Free to play alla DDO (as in go buy some content packs if you really love us).

While the game never quite grabbed me I would be willing to give the F2P content another shot if other guildies are interested?

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/08/18/septemer-10-lord-of-the-rings-onlin...

There is a dice package installed for the P&P usage. it's known to not be working yet so stay away until you see a update about it

Sorry guys, clearly things are taking a bit longer then anticipated to get everything back up and running. We are still sorting through the module soup ingredients to get things flavorful again. Mike is working on the theme, the old one could not work with drupal 6 but on the plus side drupal 6 opens up a lot of options we did not have before.

EDIT: We're done with all the heavy lifting.  The site should be stable and useable for the foreseeable future.  Carry on.

I have been stalling for a while but no more. We are upgrading to druapl 6... now. And possible for the rest of the weekend depending on how this shakes out. If things seem broken after I say things are good feel free to bitch at me.

Just for the record it's all MJ and his boundless enthusiasm's fault ;).

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/

Good stuff.

http://twitter.com/steamsalesus/statuses/9345304592
20% off, so $39

http://universe.lego.com/en-us/Beta/Default.aspx

One of the few upcoming MMO's am actual interested in. Great graphical style :).

I have enabled a new rich text editor. It dose not have the integration with gallery but I'll see if I can fix that. It also dose not many of the problems the last one did so give it a try out and let me know what you think.

A bit back I finished Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey. My Dad did one of his creepy read a chapter at random and decide who the book is meant for things... you would not believe the batting average his has with that.

Anyway, this is a fun romp set in LA. It's told from first person and is the tale of a guy who got dragged of to Hell, worked as a hitman for the powers then eventually escapes home to get him some 'Justice' for what was done.

So a couple of us got L4D2 from santa. If you want to run some coop with friends post your user id or just message us in steam. Anyone know if consoles canc play with PC's?

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mikemac202 (lame, get a real tag :) ).

http://www.cad-comic.com/comics/sillies/20091221.gif

Torchlight is ten bucks this weekend on steam. No multiplayer goodness but pretty fun romp. In fact ten bucks is just about the perfect price for this sorta game.

Crunchgear has some vidoe of a updated version of D&D tools runing on the MS surface device. Looks like it has come a long way since the last demo.

SurfaceScapes Gameplay Session from Surfacescapes on Vimeo.