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Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Magicka: Wizard Wars early access


Paradox Interactive is going to be bringing its multi-player PvP arena (essentially a MOBA like LOL OR DOTA 2) title to Steam's Early Access. Apparently players who purchase one of the three tiered packages will get access to the game's Alpha which will include various digital perks like additional robes, Alpha invites, Paradox games, and the ability to name an in-game imp for the strongest supporters. The developers as is the norm with access to alpha's are looking to work with the community to build out the game's features with the help of player feedback.


For more info check out this trailer



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-Eric Higgins

Kingdom Hearts 3 Gameplay footage


This video was shown at the recent japan expo. its of course brought to you by disney and we can not wait so enjoy its beauty.

-Eric Higgins

Pokemon X and Y game breaking bug


Attention all pokemon trainers there is multiple reports of a game breaking bug in pokemon x and y. this bug is said to specifically be in effect in Lumiose city. This problem, is apparently rendering player's files irreversibly corrupt, it seems to happen after saving in the city. when you try to load again you will not be able to work the game. 

Right now there is no fix for this (that i know of) im sure that we will hear of this being fixed soon, but for no DO NOT save in Lumiose city go somewhere else that way you can continue on your magical adventure with your pokemon :)

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-Eric Higgins

League of Legends team builder



Do you hate it when you get someone who will call a lane and then curse you if you try to help or will threaten to AFK if they cant get a certain champion then we have good news for you riot is going to be beta testing a system in the near future where you pick your champion/role first then matches you with a team that needs that role or with champions that will compliment yours well making for a more balanced team. 

The new queue, known as Team Builder, was revealed in a forum post by lead social systems designer Jeffrey Lin. "An ideal champ select is one where all five players get their preferred role and feel like they’re all on the same page for the upcoming match," Lin wrote. "The current matchmaking does a good job of matching up players of similar overall skill levels, but doesn’t have any way to know what a player’s intentions for a given game are. Sometimes things work out perfectly and everyone gets the champion and role they wanted without a hitch. But if multiple players are looking to play the same role or lane, a consensus has to be built in a relatively short period of time. That’s time that could be used to get to know each other, agree on a strategy and build confidence that it’s going to be a fun match."

He also said that they will bring out a smarter matchmaking system that will take your experience into account such as playing a champ for the first time or certain role for the first time. 

so its great news and sounds fun. cant wait to try it out. if you want to check out the original post the head over here: http://forums.euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=13575345&posted=1#post13575345


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-Eric Higgins

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

A New Beginning

Hey guys its Eric here,
I just wanted to do a quick update to let ye know the state of the blog and the podcast. We have been busy me in particular as i have just moved so nothing was getting done by us. now however im all settled and nearly ready to get back to doing what we love doing.

 A few things to address first is i realize that the streams of the podcast's are currently down, that is all my doing the service i was using cost some money to bring that to you guys and i couldn't afford it anymore and im sorry for that, instead i will be making the stream's available on youtube. i will try to make them somewhat video based if i can so it'll give you guys something to watch. I'm arranging this as i type this so hopefully the streams will be done in the next week or so. i would like to point out that this has not and will not affect our download's so you can still grab them over in the downloads section.

Second is laziness, i myself have been lazy since the start of the blog about bringing you news, i will do my absolute best from now on to remedy this and i might have a few extra surprises for you all once ive figured out how to arranged them.

so with that i say this is a new start, i will try to update the visuals of the site if i can (not sure if i can manage it just yet but i will do my best) we will try to bring you more news and we will  keep bringing you the podcast. stick with us, let us know how you feel about this and all gaming we would love to hear from you all. thank you for your support.

keep on gaming

-Eric