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Archive of : 2008

Spy’s Stabbing My Sentry

Wolf showing us how to melee a level 3 sentry during one of our tests. Wow.

Enabling Console in Team Fortress 2

Most people who have played a Valve game before know how to enable their console. But their are many people trying out first-person shooters for the first time in Team Fortress 2. Below are instructions on how to enable console. Start Team Fortress 2. Click on “Options” from the...

Flame On!

Seyon and I enjoy Team Fortress 2 a lot. So much that we go beyond playing the game and begin to explore the realm of Screwing Around. Empty servers become playgrounds where we test oddities in game mechanics, rocket-jumping, Engineer buildings, ubers, Spy abilities, Scout accesses, achievements, etc. Yesterday...

Disabling Win Music for Day of Defeat: Source

We recently started playing Day of Defeat: Source. It’s an enjoyable game with one major problem: at the end of every round, a sound clip plays representing the winning team. This sound is blaringly loud. This is not a problem, you think to yourself, I’ll just go turn down...

Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One Impressions

Giant robots, hobos, and mimes, Oh my. Penny Arcade fans may recognize these three bad evilnesses from the well-known webcomic, but to any other crowd these words should never be brought together without some kind of jam-retardant… bee suit. Yeah. I first heard about this game from the PA...

Age of Conan Final Impressions: Part 3

There were group quests and particularly hard regular quests that were just too difficult if you were solo or played with a small group. If you waited until you leveled up about five or ten levels though, you could do the quests. Well, Funcom decided that the best way to...

Age of Conan Final Impressions: Part 2

In the Part 1, we discussed the good of Age of Conan (AoC). It was a short article. This one will discuss some of the bad of AoC. This article will be much longer. I played this game on a PvE server. PvP on a RPG doesn’t appeal to...

Age of Conan Final Impressions: Part 1

From when I first heard about Age of Conan (AoC), I really thought it had a lot of promise. As I started following it, I wasn’t truly sure what was going to separate it from all other MMORPGs. The mature element would surely draw some of the crowd that...