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Introducing the Rift Database
Our friends over at ZAM have just released their Rift database. While we know some of you don't play Rift, those of you who do play Trion's new MMORPG will appreciate the effort that ZAM has put into building this database--it's just like Wowhead, only for Rift! It has everything you've come to expect from a good database like achievements, loot, artifacts, talent trees, and quests. There's even more content on the way. So check it out and support them in their endeavor to document everything in the massive world of Telara!
http://rift.zam.com/story.html?story=25603
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BFF Report - Everquest ONE (yes, 1)
I decided this week to go back and check out one of the original MMORPGs that helped shape the games that we play today. I think we've all heard the term "WoW-Clone" but did you know that alot of what WoW started out with was inspired by games like DAoC, Everquest, etc? Or even better.. have you ever known someone to complain about the "grind" in WoW? Well...
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BFF Report - Cataclysm 4.1 - Zul'Gurub
Oh look, Blizzard is rehashing old content again.. or are they? I know that ZG is a "kind of a big deal" and the fact that its back is right up there on the "bigdealness" scale, so I decided to throw together a nice dungeon guide for those that are looking forward to it.. and for the noobs that can't not stand in things that kill you for some reason..
Since it's dropping prettydangcloseto raid quality gear, will those of you who aren't raiding yet focus on farming up ZG and ZA, or will you just skip it and get right to 10/25s?
Overall, how do you guys think it compares to OG ZG?
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ZAM's RIFT Launch Day Guide
There's games other than WoW -
WHAT?
Yeah, that's right! Other companies indeed dare foray into the seemingly Blizzard-dominated World of Warcr- I mean massively multiplayer online universe, and sometimes they actually get stuff right! This latest example of stuff being done right comes from
Trion Worlds
with
RIFT
, a new fantasy MMO that looks
pretty damn awesome
. Haven't heard anything about it? Well it's time to step out from under that rock, get out of that instance, stop farming those herbs and check out some of the badass features and content RIFT is promising. Will it succeed? You should be the judge. It's okay, we won't tell WoW you're cheating on it.
Rift is launching on March 1st, and our friends at ZAM have been working their butts off on their snazzy
RIFT site
and have recently posted an equally awesome
RIFT Launch Day Guide
which I definitely recommend checking out! We'll all be rolling on the Wolfsbane shard, Defiant side so feel free to come stalk us! <3
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BFF Report - Battlestar Galactica Online
Since you more than likely can't play WoW at work, let me show you a possible time-sink alternative.. assuming you can get the unity engine installed on your corporate workstation, that is. Battlestar Galactica Online may not be the first browser based MMO, but it is easily the best looking and definitely the most basedonaTVseries'esque game playable in your Netscape (or whatever fancy browser you kids use nowadays) browser. Let's take a gander at it...
So, which of your all-time favorite games would you like to see a browser port of?
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BFF Report - RIFT - It Has Dungeons - Just like WoW (again)!!
So this week I got a chance to put together a nice little dungeon guide for a handful of the first few instances in RIFT. I was pretty impressed with how they compared with pre-cata lowbie instances, but until my group has to defeat a slobbering biped who takes shelter in a bubbling cauldron, I'm not quite sold...
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ZAM's RIFT Launch Giveaway Featuring SteelSeries
In honor of the upcoming launch of Trion's latest MMO
RIFT
,
ZAM
is hosting an
awesome giveaway
featuring tons of snazzy
SteelSeries
products!
This international giveaway sports more than $1,000 worth of prizes from SteelSeries, including a
Siberia V2 Headset
,
Xai Laser Mouse
,
9HD Surface
,
Shift Keyboard
,
Shift MMO Gaming Keyset
and [url=
http://steelseries.com/us/products/other/steelseries-scope?utm_source=Zam&ut
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BFF Report - StarCraft 2 - Custom Maps
If you own StarCraft 2 and are looking for a multiplayer experience that doesn't require a bajillion actions per minute, or if you are just bad, I think I've found the custom maps you've been waiting for. Outside of Left2Die needing a major difficulty buff, this is a pretty solid set of custom maps from Blizz... now sup with the DOTA mod I played at Blizzcon huh??
True story: Played a game of Starjeweled last night with Draknorr (president of ZAM) on my team and he is SO BAD OMG GET CARRIED MOAR
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BFF Report - RIFT - It Has PvP.. Just like WoW!!
If you've ever been in an MMO beta, you know that everyone in it is terrible at PvP. It's not that the terrible players from current games are looking for a new MMO (although it seems like it at times), it's that players are simply testing out different facets of gameplay.
"Oh look, I can kill people!"
*keyboard turns*
*clicks auto-attack*
*holds S until passes out*
It's the equivalent of someone grabbing the flag, running out the tunnel, making a 90 degree left and going right up the ramp. THIS IS EVERY GAME IVE PLAYED.
So, consider this a PSA for
non-PvP'ers
who are looking into getting into RIFT..
and PvP'ing
:|
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RIFT: Planes of Telara Coverage on ZAM
So I know there are a number of you out there who are excited for
RIFT: Planes of Telara
. If you're not familiar with it already, we just happen to have a
BFF Report
on the subject!
So naturally, because this game looks awesome, we've got a ton of coverage up on our new ZAM Rift site. We have a brand new
Soul Calculator
(inspired, of course, by our
own work
), an upcoming
database
, and to round it out we're giving away
VIP beta keys
to get people into the closed Rift beta events!
Here's all the info:
ZAM's RIFT site
VIP key giveaway
Soul Tree calculator
Go check it out! Remember, the Soul Calculator is still in beta so there may be a bug or two.
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BFF Report - DCUO (part 2)
So many hoops have been jumped through to make this episode happen, but it was well worth it. Admittedly, superhero games are not very appealing to me, but I do love playing vicariously through the eyes of some rather iconic hero figures: Gizmo Duck, Commander Planet, Black Dyna..wait, what??
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BFF Report - RIFT!
RIFT RIFT RIFT OMG RIFT OMGGGGGFFFUUUUUUUU-
That's pretty much been all I've been hearing these past couple of months. So, of course, I had to try it for myself...
This week's episode covers more of the general functions and mechanics of the game as I was playing through beta 3 & 4, and I try to do a bit of comparing against some
slightly
more popular MMOs...
So.. ARE YOU TOTALLY RIFTING BROz? Or do you think this game won't be able to live up to the hype (inb4 'nvr herd of riftLOL')?
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BFF Report - DC Universe Online
I got to play this game back at E3, and the PVP was ssiiickkk. It felt like playing Unreal Tournament (and for good reasons), but with superhero capabilities. Unfortunately, due to some weird beta quirks, I wasn't able to get involved in the gameplay aspects of the game.
The good news: John Smedley, CEO of Sony Online Entertainment, watched the show and wants to hook me up with some gametime when it goes live since beta go rough towards the end there (as they tend to do). Next week I'm going to be covering RIFT (which Im
live streaming today
from 10-4pm PST), but after that I'm open to suggestions.. Would you guys be interested in a follow up episode to cover gameplay mechanics and pvp in DCUO?
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Legendary - The WoW Video Podcast - LOLbarad
No, seriously.. lawl@this entire fiasco over the holidays with Tol Barad. On top of that we've also been slipped a small tidbit of exclusive TITAN information that may require aluminium foil headwear, and then there's this "issue" with heroics being too hard?? Good lawd.
Two big things in the episode..
1. What kind of changes would
you
recommend for Tol Barad?
C. Are heroics really
that
hard?!?
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BFF Report - Top 5 Most Controversial Games of 2010
While you guys were out having a good time with the Loot King, I was running all over the MMO-verse keeping up with the latest it had to offer. By proxy, I was also absorbing all the crazy crap that some of these developers do and figured it would be fitting to package it all up nicely into one big fat.. er.. fony report.
Any shockers?
p.s. A message from Darnell
regarding Tol Barad
.. he doesn't sound too happy.
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ZAM Jumps Into StarCraft II, Vindictus, Torchlight
The ZAM family is growing!
We've added three new websites to the ZAM Network:
SC2Ranks.com
,
VindictusDB
, and
TorchlightArmory.com
!
We're really excited about these new additions to our lineup, so I hope that if you play any of these games you'll take a moment to go and check them out!
The full announcement is here:
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=24387
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BFF Report - Cataclysm - Life After 80 (part 2)
Woooo! I'm glad I got this out of the way, now I can go back to taking full advantage of the ridiculous leveling speed available right now and crank out some alts. Are you guys ready for the release? Whats the final verdict.. Reroll? Race change? PVE or rated BGs?
Also, don't forget to check out our Cataclysm release party over at
GameBreaker.TV
. If you haven't already heard.. Ill be hitting the streets of San Francisco outside of the local Gamestop and Lore will be getting fed freaking grapes over at Best Buy, bastard.
Oh, and we will be giving away stuff, again.
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Thottbot Merged with Wowhead Framework
We just received this announcement from ZAM and I wanted to pass it along to you guys since some of you are probably wondering about Thottbot's future.
In a review of our World of Warcraft community sites,
ZAM Network
has decided to make some changes to the
Thottbot.com
site.
While
Wowhead will remain unaffected
, Thottbot will be sharing some of the Wowhead technology platform. A key goal was to improve the data available to the Thottbot community while retaining the Thottbot styling, navigation and community.
The following changes will occur to
thottbot.com
:
Thottbot will load its database information from Wowhead's database.
Thottbot will load its comment, screenshot, and video information from Wowhead's database.
Thottbot's blogs and forum have been closed. We will be setting up a Thottbot-specific forum on Wowhead for discussion specific to that site.
Thottbot user accounts are being deactivated. Unfortunately most of the accounts on Thottbot had no email addresses associated with them and Wowhead's technology requires an email address to register an account.
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BFF Report - Cataclysm - Life After 80
Servers are down and when they come back up, you'll all be enjoying the freshly Norris'd landscape of Azeroth. In the meantime, why not start planning your post-80 leveling experience? Need some help? WELL I JUST HAPPEN TO HAVE SOMETHIN' FOR THAT!
What's the first thing you plan on doing when servers come up?
And if you're from the future, what's the first thing you did when servers came up?
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ZAM Discusses Cataclysm with WoW's Lead Content Designer Cory Stockton!
Togikagi at
ZAM
recently had an opportunity to interview World of Warcraft's Lead Content Designer
Cory Stockton
and ask him detailed questions about the upcoming Cataclysm expansion! Stockton reflects on the decision to allow goblin and worgen race-changes at launch, Deathwing and the Elemental Invasion, the Darkmoon Faire and more! Check it out!
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=24183
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