Category Archives: Games

Geek Item of the Week: Campaign Coins

Is tracking your cash loot on paper just too boring for your RPG sessions? Then you can drop $70 on a set of copper, silver, gold & platinum gaming coins at Campaign Coins. You can buy smaller packs by metal … Continue reading

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My other toon

My other LoTRO toon is Doppelwulf, a human (from Dale) Lore Master (think wizard/magic user) who is currently at level 20.

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Doppelrod – Level 38 Elf Guardian

My level 38 Mirkwood Elf Guardian in LoTRO just got a cool helmet called Balanthol so now he looks like a medieval Jason or something. It’s too bad that the logo comes down so far, it covers up some of … Continue reading

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LoTRO falls in the pond

Oh geez, I always laughed at my WoW-playing friends because that game had fishing. I’ve been playing LoTRO for about nine months and now I have to hang my head in shame since they just added fishing to my game … Continue reading

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LoTRO Horse Ahoy

I finally finished all the little delivery quests of taking a horse from the stable master and delivering to three different stables all across the map, then finished his little race around the property in under two minutes. All of … Continue reading

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LoTRO: Almost have a horse (finally)

I dinged 35 last night in LoTRO with my Elven Guardian (finally!) and have just over 5 gold. I already took the horse from the fields to Bree-town and am trudging back up there. Gads, I can’t wait until I … Continue reading

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Speaking of Peeps…

Speaking of Peeps my friend Darana posted a link to the Peep War game. It’s a miniature game (think D&D minis, Warhammer etc.) except you use marshmallow Peeps and jelly beans for pieces. I think I’ll download the zip file … Continue reading

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Ticket To Ride

I picked up Ticket to Ride from my local game shop to take with us to my parents’ house for vacation last week. This is an amazing game, very quick to learn but each time we played we picked up … Continue reading

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Holy crap, I actually played ClownShoes this week

I haven’t played Counterstrike in I don’t know how many years but I actually did a couple of times this week. How the hell could that happen you ask? It’s simple, really. I bought the Orange Box so that I … Continue reading

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MS throws a billion dollars at the 360

This story at Financial Times says that Microsoft will write off $1 billion on extending the warranty to three years due to hardware errors on the XBox 360. The estimated pre-tax charge of between $1.05bn-$1.15bn would cover extended warranties for … Continue reading

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Damn you Desktop Tower Defense!

Somebody recently turned me on to Desktop Tower Defense at Hand Drawn Games and now I’m addicted. It’s one of those “simple enough to learn but hard to master” games. It’s one of the best Flash-based games I’ve played and … Continue reading

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World of…

Here’s a generated image for my buddies that play World of Warcraft: If you want to make your own go here: http://worldof.leufven.se/

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Who needs XBox?

Who needs Xbox, I discovered an NES emulator that allows you to play the old 8-bit games right in your browser (via Java). Thanks again Mangoat! vNES

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Choose life, not WoW

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Angry Nintendo Nerd (thanks Mangoat!)

Thanks to Mangoat for posting the Angry Nintendo Nerd on his site. This guy does some funny reviews of old NES games in a very angry fashion.

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