Category: Art, Gaming, & Fun
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Guild Wars 2 for the Mac Without Re-downloading the Whole Game
Today, ArenaNet announced Guild Wars 2 for the Mac (beta). As excited as I was for that announcement, I wasn’t looking forward to downloading the client all over again. With some digging, I discovered that I could simply copy my GW2.dat file from my windows installation to the mac install. Here’s how: Make your Windows client GW2.dat…
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Heroes of Newerth: Patch 0.1.39 Released
Heroes of Newerth has released patch 0.1.39 that brings in 2 new heroes (I’ve updated my HoN/DotA equivalents post appropriately)! Wretched Hag Equivalent of the Queen of Pain in DotA Succubus Equivalent of the Bane Elemental in DotA For those interested, the full changeset is as follows: Version 0.1.39 ————– General: – Added PSR and…
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Heroes of Newerth: DotA Hero Equivalents
As I’ve posted many times on this blog, I’m a huge fan of DotA (Defense of the Ancients). It is only right that I suddenly become enamored with Heroes of Newerth (HoN), a game by S2Games currently in beta that matches the functionality of DotA and adds a layer of awesomeness on top. I’ve played…
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Art: Self Portrait
I have finally decided to join the countless others out there and draw a self-portrait. Overall I don’t think it turned out too bad. Drawn with an Intuos 3 in Photoshop. Self Portrait by =borkweb on deviantART
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Literal Translation Music Videos
We all know that music videos can be quite abstract and often times downright weird…the connection to the lyrics are often a stretch. Well, the guys over at DustFilms have taken a few music videos and have changed the lyrics to describe what is happening in the video. The result? Awesomeness! Check out one of…
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Art: Dark Jedi
I’ve had some free time recently so decided to whip out my Wacom Intuos 3 tablet and see what I could drum up. I had a few commissioned drawings waiting on the wings – all three were character drawings of members of the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. As usual I have uploaded them to my Deviant…
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Artwork: Troll Physical Adept
Tonight I figured I’d whip out my Wacom and try drawing my new Shadowrun character. This guy is a Troll Physical Adept named Alexander “Pygmy” Cohen. Drawn and colored in Photoshop. Approximately 2.5 hours. Overall, I like the way he turned out.
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It is Official! Knights of the Old Republic MMORPG
Exciting news! BioWare‘s secret MMO project has been unveiled and my hopes are being realized! Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Massively Multi-Player Online Game is slated for release in 2009, and if all goes well, this MMO will deliver where Star Wars Galaxies failed. BioWare has a track record of developing outstanding computer…
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Diablo 3 Officially Announced!
Blizzard has had a splash screen that changed daily for the past 5 days, today was its final day and I was extremely surprised to see that it revealed what has long been rumored…Diablo 3! This is exciting news! The graphical announcement looks freaking awesome and I look forward to the link on the announcement…
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Cyanide & Happiness Graces the Chalkboard at ROFLCon
So, as I mentioned, I’m at ROFLCon and one of the attendees whom I was excited to see was Cyanide & Happiness. After their session on Making it Big (also on the panel: Homestar Runner, Rooster Teeth, etc) – Cyanide & Happiness graced the chalk board with a wonderful piece of art: Sadly, Matt Chapman…
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ROFLCon 2008
I’m at ROFLCon in Boston this weekend and there are a number of really cool guests here and speaking. Some quick names/groups: Leeroy Jenkins (Ben Shulz), Homestar Runner, xkcd, StuffWhitePeopleLike, I Can Has Cheezeburger, LOLCode, LOLCatBible, Cyanide & Happiness, and many more. The conference has been fun thus far with some great swag; loose talks;…