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Lord of the Rings Online (LotRO) has now been out for over a year, and Wolfshead wrote up solid commentary on the game’s status. We won’t delve into the review as a whole because we haven’t played LotRO, and have no plans to either. Nonetheless, we’ll take some time to comment on one of [...]

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We just caught the minimum system specifications (MSS) for Mythic’s upcoming Warhammer: Age of Reckoning (WAR) title over at The Greenskin, and were a bit dismayed at the differences between WAR’s MSS and those suggested for World of Warcraft (WoW). While The Greenskin’s Snafzg claims that WAR’s requirements “don’t appear to be much higher” than [...]

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A few months back, we commented on the slow baby-steps the computer industry is taking to green consumer computers, which comes across as one-part morality and one-part bandwagon-hopping at best. Take Dell’s Studio Hybrid PC for example, which was last reported to have an external bamboo casing as a sign of how green it [...]

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The iPhone Dev Team, a group of hackers who have made it their mission to jailbreak and unlock iPhones, announced that version 2.0 of their iPhone-freeing application PwnageTool, would be released on Sunday. Fortunately for us on the west coast of the United States, this meant Saturday night. As soon we discovered the tool’s availability, [...]

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Modern history tells us that Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson designed Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), and first published the game in 1974. Ignoring its geeky stereotypes for a moment, D&D is chiefly remembered for its use of polyhedral dice, which were used to resolve in-game event through chance-mechanics. In the basic game, a 20-sided [...]

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