Category Archives: Games

Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, problems launching, problems playing, and windows 7

This drove me completely freaking crazy for the past few days. Hopefully my pain can help somebody else. After dealing with the incredible disappointment of Elemental, Stardock’s newest game (a subject I will probably go into further detail on the … Continue reading

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CBS bot for Magic Online (mtgo) publicly proven guilty!

Score one for the good guys I’d like to thank everybody on the forums who helped out in the investigation, and I hope this can be a lesson to greedy bot authors everywhere.

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CardBoosterShop Bot (CBSBot) for Magic Online (mtgo) has an account-stealing backdoor!

HUGE UPDATE: Read my updated article and wotc’s official statement. Great work, wotc, for your willingness to investigate this matter, and thanks to everybody who helped prove this scam.

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Postal 2 vs. GTA: Vice City

It’s a long time coming for me, but I’ve finally gotten around to really playing one of the 3D Grand Theft Auto games recently. Steam may have its annoyances, but as I pointed out in my middle-class piracy articles, the … Continue reading

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Twilight of the Arnor — Unhappy Campers

I just finished talking about my first full game of GC2:TotA, and how much I enjoy all the new content. Critics seem to agree – Metacritic shows a 95% average rating for this expansion, and gamerankings shows an average of … Continue reading

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Galactic Civilizations 2: Twilight of the Arnor – Second Impressions

Well… it only took me about a month to finish my first game of the official version of TotA, which isn’t terrible considering (a) I have very little spare time, (b) I chose to play on the new map size, … Continue reading

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Twilight of the Arnor officially released!

All right, I’m a couple days late, but one of my all-time favorite games, Galactic Civilizations 2, has just released what I believe to be the most impressive expansion pack ever, Twilight of the Arnor. I’ve played with the beta … Continue reading

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