Gaming

Jan 5 2011

RIFT Launch date announced! -- March 1, 2011

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Yesterday, Trion Worlds, announced their intended launch date of March 1 for the much anticipated title, RIFT. Pre-orders are available for Standard and Collector's Boxed editions as well as Standard and Collectors Edition Digital Editions. For details on what snazzy prizes you get which each purchase check out their pre-order website: here.

For full details of the Launch announcement, check out the press release after the jump!

Dec 21 2010

RIFT: Beta 2

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So over the weekend I happened to get invited back for Round Two of the RIFT: Planes of Telara beta test—and I'm so glad I did.

Again, I'm under NDA, so I've not been able to take screenshots, videos, or anything else, nor can I talk about it yet, but I can say this: I really enjoyed myself.

There are so many things I'd love to talk about, like what Souls I played this time, a dungeon run I took part in, but alas... i cannot.

I will say this: When the game is launched, I will likely be there. In fact, I plan to pre-order this baby.

Dec 2 2010

i got into beta!

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so, today i got notice that i've been accepted into the RIFT beta event coming up this weekend. i'm not going to lie. i'm very excited.

i've read the NDA and can't find anything in it about me revealing i've been selected, so here i am talking about it. however, any other information about my experiences will not be public. sorry folks. once beta is done, and the game has launched, i might be permitted to write a review about my experiences. i will say this, i plan to play a nightblade. i loves me some rogue action.

i'll be taking plenty of screenshots, and likely some videos, and will post those if/when allowed. again, i need to read the NDA again for the 5th time to be sure. legaleese can be so hard to understand sometimes.

i'm excited. day one will be a nightmare i'm sure as the thousands of players who are trying to login, create toons, and get started bombard the servers.

me? i'll be waiting until late after work to give it a go. after all, i do have all weekend.

Nov 29 2010

i'm back in WoW?

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i hadn't expected to go back to WoW anytime soon, but alas, over the weekend it happened.

it all started when my husband asked to game together. up to this point, he and i have been playing Champions Online together, but for some reason he decided he wanted something new. he also wanted to play something our roommate might also enjoy. and so, he chose to give WoW another go.

we all signed up for trial accounts, to just see how she would do, and see if we wanted to re-sub our accounts. after a couple hours of downloading, patching, etc. we were all in game and ready to go... only—whoops! trial accounts are not allowed to group! how shitty!

we decided to play on anyways. we gave our roomate the chance to create her character first, so she could choose which class/race she most wanted to play and we would create complimentary characters to help her get started. having played every class in the game, i was pretty flexible to what i would end up with. i was very pleased when she had decided to play a dwarf hunter as it would do a couple things for her:

make it easy to solo
be cute enough to be fun
give her a cute little pet to follow her around and do her dirty work for her.
have a low enough margin of entry to get her used to playing.

as i sat down to create my account, i originally decided on priest since the hubby wanted to play a warrior. fine. i've played priests, no prob. however what i wasn't expecting, and had had no idea of, but dwarves can not be shamans! now shaman, next to rogue, happen to be my favorite class in the game. so i was really stoked to roll my dwarf shammy. but my fun didn't stop there. i've always enjoyed the dwarves, and when i rolled my main shaman years ago, i really wanted him to be a dwarf, but since it wasn't an option, i never could. but now, thanks to the character race change feature of blizzard's my main shaman is now transformed to a dwarf. i'm very excited.

i have no idea how long WoW will hold my attention. cataclysm is right around the corner, and i'm setup to upgrade to it, so we'll see. for the time being, its fun. i'm discontinuing my subscriptions to Champions and we'll see what happens next.