Blog Title: West Karana - Role-playing and Real Life

The Xbox NXE

Seems weird to be writing about the Xbox New Xbox Experience because, after all, I don’t have an Xbox… but my son does :) And when he returned home from college last night for Thanksgiving, he came toting his 360. And so I got my first look at the NXE. First off — he complained that read more..

EQ2: Crafting an alliance

No, really, I’m sure there are millions of puns out there about “crafting” and “tradeskills”. No laws against them. They aren’t WEA-PUNS of LAUGHS INSTRUCTION, after all. So, yeah. Still shocked and awed by the coolness of the Shadow Odyssey crafting quests. No killing. NO FRIGGIN KILLING. I had a quest to rebuild a cannon for some read more..

EQ2: The Shadow Odyssey? It’s like a really big book…

The Shadow Odyssey is like a really big book… but you only have summaries for each chapter, and you’ll be having a test on it the next morning. At 7AM. At least, that’s how it feels to me. Way, way too much to digest at once. New dungeons all over the place, or re-imagined old ones. read more..

How far would I go to play Spellborn?

Would I order the mainland European version of the game from Amazon Europe? And pay extra for the collector’s edition? Maybe. Costs less than US$60, so cheaper than a console game. I hope they let me play it. Why wouldn’t they? It’s not even going to be out in the US for months. They can cut me off read more..

Live in North America? Want to play Spellborn? No problem!

Here’s the link for Chronicles of Spellborn, Premium Edition from Amazon Europe for 39,95 Euros. Here’s the link for Chronicles of Spellborn, just the game, for 14,95 Euros. Just play on the European servers. As far as I know, English will be one of the Euro version’s supported languages. If they don’t take money from a read more..

Chronicles of Spellborn pushed back to January

I don’t think that anyone is really surprised by this, but Massively reports that the launch of Chronicles of Spellborn in North America, UK, Oz, NZ and South Africa has been pushed back to January. However, the closed beta will now start on the 27th of this month. Europe (aside from the UK) will still see the read more..

EQ2: The Shadow Odyssey… bare beginnings

What looks sillier than a very tiny fairly, with an even tinier fairy stuck to her shoulder, riding a huge, massive bear into a huge, massive bear convention with a group of gnomes in a steampunk city made out of mega-works and rusted iron? Not much, actually. That’s pretty much as silly as it gets. Or maybe read more..

EQ2: Welcome to The Shadow Odyssey!

If SOE sticks to the schedule, then The Shadow Odyssey should be live about now. Amazon tells me my box was shipped today and should be here in time for Thanksgiving. I didn’t remember to also buy a digital download for my main account, so guess what I’ll be doing when I get home… Tonight and for read more..

I feel your pain.

World of Warcraft is a name of power. It summons spam blogscrapers from the mist-filled depths where they lurk, waiting for someone of the mortal world to summon them forth. World of Warcraft. Their noses twitch, their ghastly bone spines quiver, the hunt begins. I feel most sorry for the WoW bloggers who have to deal read more..

EQ2: Game Update 50 patch notes

Just want to point out (I have a slightly longer expansion article scheduled for later so will be brief) that Kendricke has posted the Game Update 50 patch notes up on the Clockwork Gamer blog. Some nice changes. Nothing that makes the troubadour particularly more fun to play, but some nice stuff in there. Mostly read more..