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    posted @ 1/15/2010 10:00:00 AM by Vichus Smith

    Maybe you've had some time to play the MAG open beta and you're excited about the full version. Well, to whet your appetite for 256 player destruction, here are the trophies revealed. MAG is getting a full release on January 26, 2010.



    Bronze

    • Angel of Mercy – 25 enemies killed in their in incapacitated state over a career
    • Boom Town – Earn the Mortar Demolition, Total Blackout and AAA Demolition Ribbons
    • Close Call — Earn three Bomb Squad Ribbons
    • Clown Car – Awarded when a player destroys an APC or a Bunker, killing two players
    • Commandon’t – Awarded when a player kills 50 of a certain specialty: Commando
    • Coughing Killer – Killed an enemy while affect by poison gas grenades
    • Dropping Like Flies – Destroy five enemy helicopters
    • Duteous Maximus – Be on the winning faction for 10 Directive matches
    • Efficiency Engineer – Earn three Bunker Buster Ribbons
    • I Drink Your Milkshake – Awarded when a player kills 50 of a certain specialty: Field Support
    • I Got 5 On It – Kill 5 enemies with a single Strategic Strike, excluding Poison Gas Barrage
    • In Your Face – Earn five Combat Melee Ribbons
    • Jack of One Trade – Awarded when a player reaches the bottom tier of a skill tree
    • Junkyard Jockey – Earn three Mr. Badwrench Ribbons
    • Lil Buddy – Earn two Purple Sidekick Ribbons
    • Mia Culpa – Kill 50 enemies in a turret over a career
    • Out of Scope – Awarded when a player kills 50 of a certain specialty: Sniper
    • Screeching Halt – Awarded when a player kills 50 of a certain specialty: Rapid Assault
    • Target Practice – Awarded when a player shoots down 25 paratroopers over a career
    • The Harder They Fall – Awarded when a player kills 50 of a certain specialty: Direct Action

    Silver

    • A Whole Lotta Hurt – Earn five Combat Machine Gun Ribbons and five Combat Fragger Ribbons
    • Baby Need a Bandage? – Earn 5 Silver Cross Ribbons and 5 Golden Cross Ribbons
    • Chest Candy – Awarded when a player has earned one of every ribbon
    • Devil Dog – Earn 5 Combat Assault Ribbons and 5 Combat Sidearm Ribbons
    • Double Trouble – Earn the Golden Cross Medal and the Grim Reaper Medal
    • Hammer of the Gods – Called in 50 cluster bombs or mortar barrages
    • Headhunter – Earn 5 Silver Bullet Ribbons, the Longshot Ribbon and the Sniper Master Specialist Medal
    • Precious Cargo – Destroy 20 Escort Vehicles over a career
    • Silent But Deadly – Awarded when a player kills 25 enemies with Poison Gas over a career
    • Steamroller – Have a 3-to-1 Kill-to-Death Ratio in any match
    • Take Me to Your Leader – Earn 1 win as a squad leader
    • The Streaker – Earn the Streaker Medal
    • Triple Threat – Earn 5 Silver Cross Ribbons, 5 Master Engineer Ribbons and the Grim Reaper Medal

    Gold

    • Commandant in Chief – Awarded when a player reaches level 60 with a Raven character
    • Eager Beaver – Awarded when a player has earned one of each medal
    • Prima Noyan – Awarded when a player reaches level 60 with a S.V.E.R. character
    • Sergeant Major – Awarded when a player reaches level 60 with a Valor character

    Platinum

    • Massive Action Gamer – Won All Trophies

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    Final Fantasy XIV- It's beta sign-up time!

    posted @ 12/16/2009 08:21:00 PM by Vichus Smith
    Behold, the portal to your dreams:




    Now is the time to sign up for the Final Fantasy XIV beta! If you're a Squeenix maniac, if you crave Final Fantasy RPGs, then why are you reading this? Go here and become one of the chosen few! Sorry, kids, you've gotta be 18+ to apply :(

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    APB Open Beta: Get your Cops n' Robbers on!

    posted @ 9/08/2009 11:55:00 AM by Vichus Smith
    If you love MMORPGS and you like the price point of $FREE, you may want to sign up for the APB demo. What sets apart APB from other MMOs is that it involves the enforcers taking on the criminals in a persistent, open online world, reminiscent of Grand Theft Auto.




    APB's got a lot of style going for it, and it looks like the character customization can go as wild as you want it to. The images for APB seem heavily biased towards the criminals; where are images of the cops? Who will play the cops if they're just in dress blues? APB also has its own music editor, so you can enjoy your own custoom music as you frag. More details to come, so watch this space. Or, hell, sign up for the open beta right now and you can see for yourself!

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    Is the Gun Mightier Than the Sword?

    posted @ 9/10/2007 06:42:00 PM by Douceswild

    Would you trade in your level 70 epic two-handed sword for a high-ranking blaster with burst-rounds? NC Soft gives you the opportunity to do so in their sci-fi furturistic mmorpg, Tabula Rasa.

    I ha€™ve been playing the Tabula Rasa beta for a few weeks and I have to say that it's a bit refreshing to take a break from swords and shields and pick up guns and mow down mobs in a planetary battle for the survival of the human race. A similar setting was tried in 2001 with Anarchy Online, but that online game appealed to a certain type of gamer. I think Tabula Rasa is similar-fated.

    Do I think it's a good game? Based on the beta, it'€™s decent. I enjoyed grabing my guns and racing to secure a drop point being attacked by aliens. The numerous fetch quests didn'€™t seem as redundant while trying to survive an ambush set by an invading species. Will this mmorpg be better than World of Warcraft? Let'€™s not get carried away. From what I'€™ve played so far, the game is a LONG way from being as detailed and jaw-dropping as WoW. The final version is slated for an October 2nd, 2007 release. Give it a try if you'€™re looking for something different in your online gaming.

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    Turbine’s Preciousssss LOTRO Beta

    posted @ 4/07/2007 03:45:00 PM by Douceswild
    Are you a Lord of the Rings fan? Did you ever wish you could live the lore of Middle-Earth? Have you dreamed of fighting alongside Gandalf and Legolas? Well jump on Shadowfax and hold on tight because we’re riding into Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, the open beta

    INSTALLATION:
    I’ll start out by saying this: If you’re running Windows Vista on your pc then you’re in for an aggravating, but still enjoyable, experience. Ninjasistah talked about her plight getting the beta installed on Windows Vista on March 25, 2007 podcast so I’ll just sum up her troubles. Due to the fact that Vista is so paranoid, you won’t be able to install the patches without running the launcher as the administrator. You do this by right-clicking on the game’s launcher and selecting “Run as administrator”. Once that’s done you should be in business after about thirty minutes of installation and another hour and a half of patches. The beta weighs in at a bit over 6gigs. So put on some anime or grab your favorite manga and make yourself comfortable because you won’t be playing immediately.

    CHARACTER CREATION:
    The character creation is decent but not detailed enough in my opinion. You’re able to choose between humans, elves, dwarves, and hobbits. You can tweak the appearance but it doesn’t really matter. The options are few so it’s not uncommon to see another toon that looks like yours in the game. You can change the facial features such as the eyes, mouth, and hair. It’s not as detailed as I would’ve liked it to be, but I wasn’t too disappointed. You can also adjust the build of your character giving you a built toon or thin one. Once you name your character, you’ll begin your journey into Middle-Earth.
    The classes to pick from are great. You have the option of being a Captain or Guardian which are your standard paladins and tanks. The Champion class is your all-out damage dealers. If you prefer sneaking around and using trickery and stealth to get the job done, then the Burglar class will suit you. Hunters are your beastmasters and archery experts. Minstrels use the power of song to increase or decrease stats as well as heal comrades. Last but not least are the Lore-masters. Spell-casting is their specialty. So all you Gandalf and Harry Potter fans can get your Hogwarts on.

    GAMEPLAY:
    I was sold on the game as soon as I was given control of my character. Each race has its own continuous storylines. The initial tutorial wasn’t, “Hey you, go kill 10 pigs and come back to me.” The game started out with my elvan city being attacked by invaders seeking some sort of stone that I just finished hiding. A comrade tells me pick up a weapon from a dead body and head to the front gates to help hold the lines. When I get there, there’s this huge creature with a club beating on the gate. I’m not sure what it is but, I’ve seen it on one of the LOTOR movies. I’m ordered to cut through town to another area in order to flank the invaders. There are orcs and rogue dwarves in my path which are to be used to demonstrate the combat system. Once I battle my way to the other side of the gate then…I won’t spoil the intro for you, but keep in mind that all of this action is taking place in the tutorial!
    The majority of the quests are chained meaning that one quest may lead to another. So you may start out killing wolves in the forest and end up raiding a goblin-infested cave to complete the chain. The quests and combat styles are similar to World of Warcraft, but more interesting and engrossing in my opinion. The battle animations are detailed and wonderful and the battle cries and grunts your toon makes while fighting can be hilarious at times. There’s a level cap of 15 for the beta but you can still build your crafting skills, such as weaponscrafting and armorcrafting. The best part is that all pre-order beta testers can roll their characters over to the final release on April 26th.

    GRAPHICS:
    The game’s environment is extremely gorgeous, but I’d expect nothing less from anything dealing with Lord of the Rings. Flowing grass, rippling water, and weather effects will blow your mind as you run through the Shire. I’m running the beta on a low-end Nvidia PCI-E graphics card. That’s another good thing about this game. It doesn’t require a beefed-up system. The system requirements aren’t as demanding as other games such as Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.

    CONS:
    It’s only fair that I mention the cons of the game, but the one gripe that I have is not really the game’s fault. Although the developers of the game, Turbine, claim it to be Vista-friendly, the beta isn’t even close to that, unless you’re operating with at least 1.5gigs of RAM. I was running a Vista machine with 1gig of RAM and I got occasional and aggravating lag and long load times because Vista is such a resource hog. I thought it might have been the unstable beta servers that couldn’t handle the swarm of testers, but after some research on the game’s message boards, I found out Vista takes up 512mb of my RAM for itself, leaving the remaining 512mb to handle the game. Trust me when I say that as of the beta stage, that’s not enough. If I get into a crowded town, the lag is almost unbearable with just a 1gig system. Turbine has been working on this and hopefully it will be fixed by the final release. A friend of mine is running the beta on XP and it runs smoothly because XP doesn’t require as much resources as Vista. I upgraded my system to 2gigs of RAM and now the game is almost flawless. There is very minimal lag if any at all and loading times are almost non-existent now

    THE WRAP-UP:
    The game still has a few bugs that need to be worked out before the full release, but as far as I can tell from the beta, they won’t have much to fix. Other then the slight memory leak and a few quests needing some fixes, this game is awesome in all aspects. It was so good that I decided to suspend my World of Warcraft account to focus on LOTRO. Keep checking here for my full review of the game in May. Seeing as how I’m a big Lord of the Rings fan, I’ll try not to be biased.

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